Originally Posted by Mojotex

I must be missing something .... I don't follow "Valentine's" logic. And I am not trying to be argumentative, but. I agree, a bunch of us are sorely out of shape. Me included. But how does that = do not need a safety harness? Firsthand examples ... One of my best friends, J. Underwood, who is a health nut, gym hog , running fool. Not an ounce of fat on him ... 6' and maybe 170#. Former scholarship baseball player. Two seasons ago he was up in a tree, in his climber and lost his balance after being hit by a falling limb that he was trying to dislodge, and was knocked out backwards. He fell "only" about 15'. He was not using a harness. He had one !!! He suffered a double compound fracture of his lower right leg, a severely dislocated right ankle, 4 broken ribs and a severely bruised shoulder. He was lucky to have tumbled into a brush pile or it could have been worse. Had he been using his harness, he would have been whacked by the limb all right, but never hit the ground. My younger brother at age 27, who was a stud at the time ... 5'8", 185# of rock hard muscle, with shoulders and neck like an NFL linebacker ... fell about 10' from a cheaply made wooden ladder that collapsed due to a rotten ladder leg , and rolled down a 45' steep bank. He shattered #3 vertebrae! Was in a halo for months and has never recovered fully. Doc said that it is a miracle that he was not paralyzed from the shoulders down. Ironically I had given him a full body harness that very Christmas. It was still in the bag. So, tell me again that if one is in shape ... no need for a harness ????