A little off topic I know, but sometimes we become a little complacent as my
brother in law did.
Yesterday morning he took it upon himself to do a 'quick' trim on some
trees, he had no helper and didn't anchor his ladder properly, he's tucked
up in his hospital bed now with two broken legs, broken arm, fractured
collar bone, various bruises and very dented pride. Looks like his 'quick'
trim will take a little longer than he thought!

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Shan (Ireland)
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"shannie" wrote in message
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A little off topic I know, but sometimes we become a little complacent as
my
brother in law did.
Yesterday morning he took it upon himself to do a 'quick' trim on some
trees, he had no helper and didn't anchor his ladder properly, he's tucked
up in his hospital bed now with two broken legs, broken arm, fractured
collar bone, various bruises and very dented pride. Looks like his 'quick'
trim will take a little longer than he thought!

--

Shan (Ireland)
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I'm reminded of my daughter's boyfriend who saw the next door neighbour with
an electric hedge trimmer, and talked her into (reluctantly) lending it to
them so they could also have some light into the house. Anyway, after
promising to be careful with it, it took him only two minutes to cut the
wire off about 3 feet from the trimmer!

He then taped it back together with insulating tape, and was surprised to
find the neighbour was not happy!

Anyway, wish your brother-in-law a speedy recovery and tell him we're not
laughing and nobody made any irish jokes :-))

I'm reminded of my daughter's boyfriend who saw the next door neighbour
with
an electric hedge trimmer, and talked her into (reluctantly) lending it to
them so they could also have some light into the house. Anyway, after
promising to be careful with it, it took him only two minutes to cut the
wire off about 3 feet from the trimmer!

oh oh...lucky lad, could have been a lot worse!

He then taped it back together with insulating tape, and was surprised to
find the neighbour was not happy!

I can imagine she was a mite peeved.

Anyway, wish your brother-in-law a speedy recovery and tell him we're not
laughing and nobody made any irish jokes :-))

lol...go ahead, we did!!..

Shan

"shannie" wrote in message ...

A little off topic I know, but sometimes we become a little complacent as my
brother in law did.
Yesterday morning he took it upon himself to do a 'quick' trim on some
trees, he had no helper and didn't anchor his ladder properly, he's tucked
up in his hospital bed now with two broken legs, broken arm, fractured
collar bone, various bruises and very dented pride. Looks like his 'quick'
trim will take a little longer than he thought!

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Sorry about your brother in law but it makes tree surgeons look like good value doesn't it?
If you think you need a ladder you need a tree surgeon. They are equipped and trained to work safely in trees.
Working on trees from a ladder is a bad idea for several reasons - you now know one of them.
I didn't really want to make this sound like a lecture but I've seen so many people needlessly hurt in this way. I know
we learn by our mistakes but you don't get too many second chances if you're up a tree.

Rod

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A little off topic I know, but sometimes we become a little complacent as my
brother in law did.
Yesterday morning he took it upon himself to do a 'quick' trim on some
trees, he had no helper and didn't anchor his ladder properly, he's tucked
up in his hospital bed now with two broken legs, broken arm, fractured
collar bone, various bruises and very dented pride. Looks like his 'quick'
trim will take a little longer than he thought!

--
Sorry about your brother in law but it makes tree surgeons look like good value
doesn't it?
If you think you need a ladder you need a tree surgeon. They are equipped and
trained to work safely in trees.
Working on trees from a ladder is a bad idea for several reasons - you now know
one of them.
I didn't really want to make this sound like a lecture but I've seen so many
people needlessly hurt in this way. I know
we learn by our mistakes but you don't get too many second chances if you're up
a tree.

Rod


I am afraid that when it is just 'us', we do take risks, but when you
are on public land and the public might 'just' make a claim if
'everything', or even when 'anything' goes belly up, then you think
twice.

As I explained earlier, we are clearing this 'Open Space' to turn it
back into a recreational area. we have to be 101% careful because of the
public :-( we have some dead trees to take out. The tree surgeons will
be back :-))

Mike

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"Rod" wrote in message
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"shannie" wrote in message
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A little off topic I know, but sometimes we become a little complacent
as my
brother in law did.
Yesterday morning he took it upon himself to do a 'quick' trim on some
trees, he had no helper and didn't anchor his ladder properly, he's
tucked
up in his hospital bed now with two broken legs, broken arm, fractured
collar bone, various bruises and very dented pride. Looks like his
'quick'
trim will take a little longer than he thought!

--
Sorry about your brother in law but it makes tree surgeons look like good
value doesn't it?
If you think you need a ladder you need a tree surgeon. They are equipped
and trained to work safely in trees.
Working on trees from a ladder is a bad idea for several reasons - you now
know one of them.
I didn't really want to make this sound like a lecture but I've seen so
many people needlessly hurt in this way. I know
we learn by our mistakes but you don't get too many second chances if
you're up a tree.

Rod

Doesn't sound like a lecture at all Rod, these are my sentiments exactly!
Sometimes people simply don't think things through, even the smallest task
can be dangerous if concentration or knowhow is lacking. The fork through
the wellie, the shears/secauteurs lopping off a fingernail or worse! the
mower kicking up the unseen stone, accidents happen so easily there's no
need to tempt fate by climbing a ladder and trying to do something in a
hurry when you haven't a clue what your at. His lesson is well and truely
learned and the job has to be finished by a tree surgeon now, so he didn't
save anything in the end!!

Shan

Sometimes people simply don't think things through, even the smallest task
can be dangerous if concentration or knowhow is lacking. The fork through
the wellie, the shears/secauteurs lopping off a fingernail or worse! the
mower kicking up the unseen stone, accidents happen so easily
Shan


A number of years ago, for a Summer job I was cutting a lot of hedges for a
farmer with an electric trimmer. I'd been doing the job for days - probably
a mile of hedges done. In one moment of lapsed concentration the blade swept
straight into my thigh. The same accident happened to my father another
year. I wonder how many people have stuffed an electric hedgecutter blade
into their leg - I'd guess quite a few?
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Drakanthus.


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"Drakanthus" wrote in message A number of years ago, for a Summer job I was cutting a lot of
hedges for a
farmer with an electric trimmer. I'd been doing the job for days - probably
a mile of hedges done. In one moment of lapsed concentration the blade swept
straight into my thigh. The same accident happened to my father another
year. I wonder how many people have stuffed an electric hedgecutter blade
into their leg - I'd guess quite a few?
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In my case it was the thumb of the free hand as I lowered the machine.(luckily I still have a full set of digits etc.)
That's why good ones now have a kind of dead stop system - even electric now stop dead the instant you release the
trigger.

Rod