In other words, because nothing bad has ever happened to you in a tree nothing ever will. Sorry, but that is like saying that you will never make a mistake becauseyou haven't made one so far. I don't know, maybe you don't wear a seatbelt in your car or truck eitherbecause you can't believe you will ever get in an accident. Just sounds blockheaded to me.

Believe me when I say that I understand being blockheaded. I can be pretty blockheaded myself. But whenever I consider decisions like this I always ask myself what the penalty is for guessing wrong. In this case, the penalty can be pretty severe, not only for for me, but for the people who depend on me. So I repeat, if you don't wear a safety device every moment you are going up or down or in a tree, you are asking for a world of trouble. You have to be right every time to prove me wrong. I only have to be right once to prove you wrong. I would hate to find out some day that I was right on this.