Saved By My Harness!!!

[Burnsie]

David, glad you are OK.  I never go in my tree without my harness, but I really like Tippit's set up and think I will be taking my son's and my safety to the next level.

[grouseshooter002]

David,
    Glad to hear you are OK and thank you for being one of the ones that use their harnesses instead of letting them hang in the garage. I need to show my son this post so maybe he will get the idea because he won't listen to me.
     Tippit, if you learn to make a prussic knot you will save yourself a lot of money.

Regards,
Grouse

[Bow man]

Originally posted by Whip:
Sure glad to know that you are an intelligent hunter!  And so happy to hear that you are fine.  
Listen up people - learn the easy way - it can happen to anyone, anytime you climb a tree.  Follow David's excellent example!!    

Glad you weren't hurt

[NoCams]

Wow, Gorilla Silverback..... I have been wanting to buy one of those for my deep woods hunts due to the light weight. Doesn't mean they are more likely to break than others I guess, most are all made in China any how.

[John Scifres]

I'm glad for your happy ending David.  I keep this story of an unhappy (sorta) ending to a fall around to keep me wearing my safety gear.

 Why you should wear your harness!  

Before:

 

After:

 

[Bill Kissner]

What a devastating story John. Every hunter that utilizes tree stands should read it. We all know someone that has fallen and the consequences should be pounded into our heads.

[buckeyebowhunter]

Glad you werent hurt. Why are stand companies using these cables to make hang on stands? I have heard numerous stories about the cables snapping. Why not just use some sort of metal strap? Like some of the old loc-ons?

[uglyjake]

Thank you for the alert.  Most all think " it will not happen to me", my stand is good and I am safe.  Everyone please be safe.

[59Alaskan]

thank you for sharing, and more importantly, thank you for wearing your harness!!

[KSdan]

Glad you are okay.  I do not trust those cables.  I replace mine with rope- quiet and can not fail.

[rraming]

 
Pays to be smart!

[MountainTool21]

David
I applaud you wearing your safety equipment. Too many hunters get hurt by thinking that falling out of their treestand can't happen to them. IT DOES! In a blink of an eye you will have fallen 2-3 feet. Again, great heads up. This serves as a positive reminder for all of us who construct and hunt from treestands.
Andrew

[jax]

But how to you get the line up the tree . Seems you cud only do it using a climbing stand

[stujay]

Appreciate the warning. Glad you're okay.

[KellyG]

Glad to hear you were not hurt.

[ishiwannabe]

Glad you are ok my friend!

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Glad all is well and we are not reading of a debilitating accident..

I do have a request for more info.. Did the cable it's self break? Or did it pull out of the ferrule..
Top or bottom.

Sorry for being nit picky but  I really try to understand "Why" things fail and not that they just did.


I'll guess that the lower ferrule let loose, which I will say was probably for rust or corrosion???

[Huntrdfk]

Ken, the cable itself snapped clean right in the middle.

David

[beetlebailey1977]

Just two weeks ago I had a friend fall from a older lock on type stand that failed.  He did not have time to hook up his harness....he stepped on to the stand it failed and he fell.  He broke a vertebrae and was not paralized but he has a tough painful road to recovery.

[tippit]

Grouse,
I actually carry Two Prusik loops in my pocket for an emergency.  Have you tried descending 15 feet down your safety line with two prusiks.  Prusiks are much easier to climb a rope than descend a rope.  It is very hard work and if you don't have use of both arms nearly impossible.  The GriGri takes One Finger above my head on the cam lever to allow a slow controlled descend.  For under a hundred dollars, I'll take that option any time and hopefully I don't ever have to use it.  I only posted my system as an option.  My son (a mountain search & rescue ranger on Mt McKinley during the spring climbing season) set it up for me as an easy & safe option for an Old Man.  Actually Ervin, I see we were born the same year...not saying you're an Old Man but certainly eligible for Medicare like me  

Stupidly in the 70-80's as a younger man I only used a rope around my belly attached to a tree...never fell so I thought I was safe!  What ever system you use, I suggest trying a self rescue before you actually need to...tippit