Anyone else concerned

[adirondack46r]

I have a couple of sets of Lone Wolf climbing sticks and I love em. But everytime I flip the steps down it crosses my mind that if I EVER slip and fall onto one of those things - and yes, I do use my safety ropes up and down the tree - but if I EVER slip and land on one of those things it will open me up like a tuna headed for market and leave several organs hanging from the tree.

Anybody else have the same irrational fear?

[BobW]

any step can to that to you  :(

[Tom Leemans]

Agreed. Being concerned is good. Taking your safety for granted is bad. It wouldn't be a bad idea to keep a boot scrubber near the bottom of the tree.

[Ray Hammond]

Rapid Rails won't!

[Roadkill]

had a pard using screw-in step slip and rip his calf.  He fell 13 feet! He called me and I was able to stauch out the bleeding and get it stablized until we got to the hospital.  It is a concern especially on damp days.I was crossing a barbed fence in August-done it a million times- and the rock I had my right foot on slipped as my left leg was ove rthe fence.  Next thing, I was hanging upside down onthe fence.  Too late for stitches by the time I got back-I hunted with teh hole in my leg for two days.  Be careful and don't ever get in a hurry.

[adirondack46r]

"Be careful and don't ever get in a hurry..."

That's great advice. Haste makes for a bowhunter in a crumpled pile at the base of a tree - at least the 2 times that I've fallen, it was my own fault for trying to race up the tree so I didn't waste that extra 5 minutes it would take to tie in on the way up.

[BobW]

Originally posted by adirondack46r:
"Be careful and don't ever get in a hurry..."
 

That about sums it up.  Got a good wife and 5 year old that are a heck of a lot more important than 5 minutes or a Cervidae.

[highpockets]

this is the reason that I always lean away from the tree when I climb.  I never hover my body close to the tree because of this very fear!