Can't express the importance enough
07-27-2006 | 10:50 PM
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Typical Buck
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Can't express the importance enough
Guys and Gals,
For your sake and your families sake PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE wear a safety harness when you are in a tree stand. THANK GOD I had one on wednesday or I wouldn't have been able to type this to you. I was stepping from sticks onto the stand and I lost my footing and fell. Thank God again that I was wearing one and had attached it to the tree. I walked away with only a scratch. It was the first time I had ever fallen and I have climbed several hundred stands.We all think we are invincible and maybe even get a little too comfortableat timesbut it only takes that one time to never be able to do what we love to do. I want to see you all have a safe season and be able to tell us your stories and arrive home safely.
Have a great upcoming season and may it be prosperous for you in all of your endevours., Pat Ely
For your sake and your families sake PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE wear a safety harness when you are in a tree stand. THANK GOD I had one on wednesday or I wouldn't have been able to type this to you. I was stepping from sticks onto the stand and I lost my footing and fell. Thank God again that I was wearing one and had attached it to the tree. I walked away with only a scratch. It was the first time I had ever fallen and I have climbed several hundred stands.We all think we are invincible and maybe even get a little too comfortableat timesbut it only takes that one time to never be able to do what we love to do. I want to see you all have a safe season and be able to tell us your stories and arrive home safely.
Have a great upcoming season and may it be prosperous for you in all of your endevours., Pat Ely
07-28-2006 | 08:16 PM
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RE: Can't express the importance enough
Excellent advise, I still have friends that won't wear em, and I can't believe it. And one goes 30ft high. I think I read the statistics once that 30% of all advid stand hunters will fall out in thier life, and 8% of those 30% will have crippling injuries or possibly death. Talk about ending your season.
Glad to hear you ok.
Glad to hear you ok.
07-30-2006 | 04:39 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Can't express the importance enough
Im glad to hear that your ok.
I believe that posts like this, although unfortunate that they happen are great reminders to all that safety first is the way to hunt.
I believe that posts like this, although unfortunate that they happen are great reminders to all that safety first is the way to hunt.
08-01-2006 | 12:35 AM
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Typical Buck
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RE: Can't express the importance enough
Alot of my freinds will not wear them either. They say it takes a wuss to wear one! Maybe so, but we'll see who the wuss is when they bounce off the ground. I can't stress enought how important it is to wear the harness.
08-02-2006 | 12:23 PM
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Glad to hear your ok. after many years of various injuries at home and work,I've learned how to work safer, so when I got my climber it came with a full body harness . I use it every time I go up it may make me a "woos" but this is one "woos" that is going to WALK home to my wife and kids not go to a hospital for a wheel chair or worse
08-12-2006 | 03:01 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Can't express the importance enough
Yea One ofmy friends at my school fell out of his deerstand last year andis paralyzed from the waist down. he laid out there for 4 hrs before someone came to check on him. but he's planning on coming back again this year.
