Forgot Your Safety Harness: Hunt Anyway or Go Home?

Always keep some 550 cord in the bag. Tie a harness out of that or use that to reinforce my pack straps, and then us it to tie my pack to the tree and keep my pack strapped on acting like a harness. Not taking that trip back home.

 

I’m a Paramedic in a fairly busy system. I’m yet to see anyone die from a 4-6’ fall but I have seen serious brain injuries from them. Some prob wished they were dead. That being said think about it this way.....your a 6’ tall man, your 4’ off the ground. That means when u fall ur grape is really being smacked from 10’ up. Don’t be one of those stupid ones I’m unfortunate to have to pick up! Wear your harness!Sorry for the rant, just my 2cents. I’ll climb back off of my soap box now


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Glad you guys are around to help people.

 

Same here


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Trusting 550 cord to save you from a fall ha you are better off trusting your mosquito wings and flying away.
550 is not suitable for a dynamic load like that.

 

Go home for sure. Personally I wouldn't care but the wife and kids at home, that I have to provide for, would be left out to dry if I become paralyzed.
Coworkers brother just fell. He had to be air lifted to a hospital, cracked his spine, shoulder, several ribs, punctured his lung, internal bleeding.
He's going to be fine but he has a long way ahead of him.

 

This happened to me last weekend. My harness saved me. This is the second factory built stand to do this in the last 2 seasons. None of my home made fully welded stands have let me down( no pun intended) I use chain rather than aircraft cable.

 

Personally speaking I would hunt from the ground or go back and get my harness.

As for you guys that say to tie or make your own harness - I'd rather wear no harness than a rope tied around my waist.

 

You have a good point.


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I have done this before in my young days. Now, I keep a couple of those cheapo ones that came with stands in the truck shoved under the seat just for a situation like this if it happens.

 

I carry $500,000 worth of life insurance...I have people hiding my damned harness hoping I don't use it.

 

Local chief of police just took the plunge from 16 feet and broke bones in his back...if he does not have the sense to wear a harness I question if he should be carrying a gun.....

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Boys I'm sure as some of you already know I was just being facetious. I use a rock climbing harness it goes over my pants. so it's not something I could easily forget.

 

People = spouse?

 

Haha...no. I'm perpetually single. Women here have been smart enough for decades to know better than to marry a farmer.

 

I've seen my share of people die from falls from 6ft ladders too. Sometimes it's not the fall that kills you but the ventilator associated pneumonia and renal failure you get from languishing in the ICU for a month.

Good luck. I spent a good part of my life putting myself in dangerous situations but always made safety a priority.

 

Safety is always a priority, it’s about having confidence in your self and your abilities.
If I’m not comfortable doing something I won’t do it.
When guys get talked into doing something they are not comfortable with the chance for an accident goes way up.
Obviously there are a lot of guys not comfortable with hunting out if a treestand with out a harness.
Do I make it a habit to not wear a harness? No.



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Whatever you say. Good luck.

 

When a strap or cable breaks on your treestand, it's not going to care how much confidence you have in yourself and your abilities, but it'll definitely humble that self confidence and maybe even a lot of your ability for quite a while, if not for good.

 

Before you climb the tree without a safety harness - - call your wife/kids and make sure they want to take care of you the rest of your life, including wiping your butt every day.

If you decide to go up anyway - best is hope you die if you fall. Save your family years of agony.

I know someone that fell tying his pull rope to a 6' high platform. He is paralyzed from the chest down. At age 25.

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