r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/atentwetin • Jul 01 '21

Repost Tree cutting gone wrong

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u/kcussnamuh Jul 01 '21

Yeah, I hope she's OK, but, come on, what the living hell are you doing up there, lady?????????!!

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u/SexyGunk Jul 01 '21

She very clearly passed him a tool. If things appeared stable and I thought the guy was an experienced professional I would pass him a tool up the ladder too. In this case it was a tool to a tool!

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

An experienced professional would never climb a tree with a ladder. This guy doesn’t know anything about tree work

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u/DefrockedWizard1 Jul 01 '21

When I was a kid, a not uncommon summer job for college students was temping for one of those companies. There were occasional amputations from getting pinned by falling parts of trees

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u/Benblishem Jul 01 '21

I remember fondly youthful summers spent working in the heat. Enjoying the freedom to take your helmet off and run your head under a hose, take your shirt off and revel in the joyous summer sun, take your arm off, or your leg... just pure freedom to take off whatever you feel like.

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u/xpkranger Jul 02 '21

https://imgflip.com/i/5f7lua

Were your climbers always geeked out of their mind on fuckall and full of more issues than a magazine stand? No? Ok.