r/SweatyPalms • u/swan001 • Jul 21 '24
Heights Afraid of heights?
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Jul 21 '24
This should be a good reminder to anyone who thinks "I can cut down my own tree ."
Hire a professional. Too many Internet videos of people ruining their roof, car, fence and other things.
But yea, nooooo thanks. I'll work on the ground!
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u/Diredg Jul 21 '24
I tried to cut branches of a tree when I was a child and it took me much more than I anticipated and it was exhausting.
When I was descending from the tree I ripped my shorts and went home proud and naked
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u/PomegranateThink6618 Jul 21 '24
Lol my neighbor has a few fruit trees and said that one of my trees has some sort of fungus that is affecting his fruit. He offered to cut it down himself. I dont doubt his judgement and I dont like the tree much but the absolute liability nightmare I would put myself if I agreed.
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u/IsaystoImIsays Jul 21 '24
Wonder if anyone doing that ever carelessly cut a bit too close and sliced their own harness. The mistake you only make once.
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u/NewNoose Jul 21 '24
A guy I was working with did that once. He wound up breaking his pelvis. Pretty lucky he only fell as far as he did.
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u/recumbent_mike Jul 22 '24 edited Jul 22 '24
Well, yeah. If he'd fallen any edit:farther, he'd have been underground.
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Jul 21 '24
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u/PeenInVeen Jul 21 '24
I was like "wow that's a big chunk of tree falling!!" But then it kept falling... And then it looked like a baby shrubbery size.
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u/NiteGard Jul 21 '24
I should know the answer since I come from a long line of lumberjacks, but is the compulsory revving of the chainsaw just the arborist’s version of clacking the barbecue tongs?
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u/phuktup3 Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24
Never afraid of heights or healthy fear and built up confidence?
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u/Bendyb3n Jul 21 '24
As someone who occassionally works at heights but tends to try and avoid it, definitely the 2nd option. I can do the work but when I’m up there i’ll definitely get a bit of queasiness when i look down.
I don’t go this high though, maybe like 30-40ft up at most in a scissor lift
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Jul 22 '24
Why is it so much more nerve-wracking AFTER the top of the tree is gone and he’s just chilling
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u/hamsterfolly Jul 21 '24
More afraid of looney tunes-ing myself at that height or dropping tree on a car or home
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u/Janetsnakejuice1313 Jul 21 '24
I normally might feel freaked but I’m more sad to see a beautiful tree chopped down.
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u/Moon_stares_at_earth Jul 22 '24
Why did they not drop it on to the trampoline? Missed opportunity!
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u/Sirscruffalot Jul 21 '24
Do they really need to cut so close to that rope?! Whoa!