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Folks: My wife’s best friend’s mother fell out of her treestand last night. Fractured pelvis and spine. I am withholding details. She was air evac to UT Hospital. I refuse to hunt in those damn things. Use those harnesses. Keep them rigged right, clean, changed, serviced, whatever one is suppose to do. Familiarity breeds complacency. Complacency breeds tragedy. | ||
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So sorry to hear. Safety first. ~Ann   | |||
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That's terrible. Prayers for a quick recovery. Guns and hunting | |||
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Yea , that’s bad news for sure .. I fell out once when my homemade one collapsed It’s not good There was a local guy here that died from a tree stand fall Wish her a speedy recovery DRSS Chapuis 9.3 x 74 R RSM. 416 Rigby RSM 375 H&H | |||
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When I hunted Kansas a few years back, the guide wanted me to crawl up in one that was obviously dicey. I refused and still hunted. He was not happy. | |||
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I no longer use tree stands. I have spent many many hours in them when younger. I took a fall when trying to cut a limb about 10 feet being in my 20's and great physical shape. Most likely save me from harm. I now sit in pop up ground blinds a lot of times with a propane heater. At times not caring if I shoot another deer or not. A former coworker all most died when his home made stand gave away and he hit the ground. At 71yoa. Took him close to 3 years to mostly recover. Be very careful and use a harness. | |||
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Was it a climber? Those are definitely dangerous. I still use them but I try to always use the safety harness. I hope she recovers . | |||
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Hope she is on her way to recovery Been using ground blind for years due to having close calls on those damn things | |||
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Prayers for a swift and complete recovery. DRSS | |||
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A climber is two pieces. There is a bottom/base piece for your feet and the upper piece you set on. Each piece has V shaped metal w teeth cut into the V. You use the two pieces to cline, scuttle up the tree. There are no extra steps holding the two pieces of the climbing stand to the tree. Simply the friction of the teeth and one loop that goes around the tree for both parts. Think Summit. We went and saw her yesterday. The Good needs she is not paralyzed and got internal bleeding to stop, and surgery was a success. | |||
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Damn. I use Summit. | |||
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I did done third party contract brief writing for a firm that sued Summit. The entire frame broke at the welds. The guy broke his leg. Overall his damages were limited. | |||
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This reminded me of when I fell from a big Ponderosa Pine while hanging a tree stand on an elk hunt. I fell straight backward from about 12’ up, landing flat on my back. A couple seconds later the tree stand landed on me. I was alone in a remote spot, so very lucky that the only thing wounded was my pride. Glad to read that her surgery was successful. She’ll have a long road to recovery. | |||
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This reminded me of when I fell from a big Ponderosa Pine while hanging a tree stand on an elk hunt. I fell straight backward from about 12’ up, landing flat on my back. A couple seconds later the tree stand landed on me. I was alone in a remote spot, so very lucky that the only thing wounded was my pride. Learned a painful lesson to not hang tree stands in Ponderosa Pines. Glad to read that her surgery was successful. She’ll have a long road to recovery. | |||
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Remember the original Baker tree stands? You'd shift your weight a bit and the thing would slide down to the ground. Suicidal! | |||
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I hope she recovers well and gets back to hunting if she wishes. For me, I hate stand hunting. I am scared of heights and I am not a patient bushwhacker. | |||
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She is certainly going hunting again. She told her husband to go pull the card from the trail camera to see if the buck came through that day. | |||
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Sound like she was fortunate. Spinal fractures and pelvic fractures are dangerous. Good to hear it hasn’t made her change her desires, although those tree stands are dangerous. I prefer ground blinds or a tower blind… I guess I’m a little afraid of heights that way. | |||
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Hope she recovers quickly. I look back on my last 50 years of hunting and just am amazed that it's never happened to me. I remember climbing my way up trees while pulling up and nailing in 2x4 steps in order to get higher and then nailing boards across two limbs to create the seat. Only thing we thought was dangerous was when we tested out the seat. "Catch me if it breaks" was common. Some of those stands reached up to 30 feet. Now If my feet leave the ground, I'm in a harness. | |||
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That's scary. back in '07 my pops wasn't hunting, but removing a ladder stand when it shifted and he fell off, breaking his pelvis into 6 pieces when his hip went through it. Survived damn near freezing to death before he was found, a big surgery to put humpty dumpty back together, then luckily survived a few blood clots. i still love tree stands but i use a lifeline now so i'm hooked up from the first step to the top. I keep thinking though I should just build a 4' platform to get a little height and put a ground blind on top, seems safer. Good luck to your friend, hope she is back at it soon! | |||
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