tree falling over when you in it..
 

i often wonder while sitting in my treestand,if anyone has ever been in a treestand when the tree falls over.i sometime climb trees with v,and it windy. i think if this tree spilts i'm screwed. has this ever happen to anyone?

Nope, but I have a feeling one day it will.

I hunt swamps on occasion, and all there is to climb is half dead pines. This year, I seen a tree almost hit me falling down. Anymore on a day with wind over 20MPH, I stay low.

Good rule of thumb. You never know!!

When I went out Saturday, it was cold but not too breezy in the morning. By 10 am, the wind started picking up - probably 20 mph, and the tree was swaying ALOT. I got down and stalked on the ground.

never happened to me but I have had a few trees fall close to me while hunting. If one does fall i hope i can get my safety vest off before it crushes me!

Was never in the tree when it went over , but years ago while deer hunting I got caught in the woods during a wind storm with gusts of wind up to 120 mph . We had to find a clearing and wait it out , then when I got home the roof had blown off my house . Not one of my better days .

I hunted a stand in a big dead pine for years. Left one evening and it was fine, came back in the AM and it was on the ground. Wasn't windy that night either. I stumbled around a bit until it got light enough to see what had happened.

I have been in my treestand and watched a tree fall not far away and watched another tree fall while hanging a stand. I have also walked into my stand one windy day only to find the trail blocked by a freshly fallen tree when I walked out for lunch. Now I am careful when I hang my stand to do it in a healthy looking tree with only healthy looking trees nearby. I would hate to get cleaned off my tree by a falling dead tree. :D

I was camping in a state park once and went hiking. The next day we went back on the same trail and a huge tree had fallen across it! Makes you think!

I had a tree fall near my stand this year but was not in the woods when it happened.
i've had branches fall near me when i was hunting. usuaully i get out of the woods when it is to windy and i hear the trees moaning with limbs coming down.

I have a feeling that you won't find too many folks who have actually experienced such a thing, because I would surmise that most of those who have been in a tree stand when the tree fell did not live to tell the tale. The few times I've been in a tree stand, I always made sure I picked a sturdy and healthy tree that's rooted in solid ground.

Mike

I have actually thought about this. Just another one of those MANY things (some silly) that we think about while on stand I guess. I do believe it would be one of those things that you'll only experience once! :s2: One time a few years ago, I watched a BIG dead oak fall right across the trail I was walking down.

About 2 years ago, my buddy asked me to go and pick up his treestand, it had been in a yellow pine for about a year. I took my quad up to where it was, and I kept walking around saying "I know that stand was right here someplace"! Then, I looked on the ground, and found his stand, smashed underneath that pine. I guess treestands are not like cats, they just don't land correctly when the tree falls.:confused2:

I've thought about this many times, especially in the last couple of years. I normally choose my tree based on location, with little regard to the actual size of the tree, and who really knows how sturdy those roots are, anyway. In the last couple years I've come down on days when I can feel significant tree movement.

Ain't it funny how we feel more and more mortal with each passing year?

Just another reason to get saved.

I walked to my stand one after noon and my tree was blown over. My ladder stand was still strapped to it and facing up toward the sky. Glad I was not in my stand the night before hahah

not yet - but before light one morning I hooked up my climber and went up a nice sized tree. Waiting there as dawn approached. And as it got light I looked up and the tree I was in was very dead.
I GENTLY got my stuff together and lowered my stand. That could have been disasterous.

same thing happened to a buddy of mine. except his didnt land facing up. the ladder was bent in half and the shooting rail and platform were driven into the ground. he was in it the night before, so id say he lucked out for sure. a good rule of thumb is to make sure u put ur stand in a LIVING tree, guess he forgot that part when he put his stand up LOL. :D

I have seen several trees blown over while being in the woods. Luckily none of them have been real close and near me enough to cause damage. LOL!

I have cut the front face or notch on a tree to fall, but it leaned the exact opposite the direction it was to fall, then did a slight back cut... and waited for the wind to do it's work. Yep!... the wind pushed the tree over in the opposite direction of the lean.

Weirdest story I heard was a guy was sitting on his front porch in the country. As he was sitting there, it was absolutely quiet and not a hint of wind. All of a sudden a large tree right in front of him started to fall on it's own! After some investigating, ants were eating away at the trunk which also had rotting roots!

iSnipe

If you weren't there when the tree fell, did it make any noise???

well i was sitting on the ridge looking down on a swampish type of thing
and i looked off to my right and watched about 5 trees fall about 450 yards away
and i sat there staring at that for 20 minutes
i came back to camp and everyone else was dumbstruck about it too we owned the land in about a 100 acre circle from where i was

the real question is: If the tree falls when you're not there, did it make any noise?:confused0024:

Once in an icestorm - a Live hemlock next to me just fell down - I quickly got out of the hemlock I was in!

Probably the worst thing that happened to me was I was in a tree on a windy day - and back in the day my stand had no seat ( baker type stand). As I had done many times in the past - I sat myself in the "Y" of the tree where it branched just above my stand. On this windy day - the trees swayed - and the two limbs moved together and absolutely compressed my pelvis! The pain was awful and I was completely STUCK until they moved apart. I was lucky there was no serious damage and never again will I sit in the fork of a major tree!

It's a good thing you weren't in your treestand on your roof that day!

120 miles an hour sounds more like a level 5 hurricane than a "windstorm"

Anywhere there are "thin soils" (soils in areas that are ledgy or rocky, or heavily stratified by clay, sandy soils etc.) can be dangerous places. Keep off of trees on hillsides in these areas and on windy days, or days just following high wind or ice damaged conditions. These situations will typically loosen up the root ball on many trees and come down soon afterward, especially already weakened trees.

This often causes the condition referred to as "summer drop" where perfectly healthy looking trees just fall over on a beautiful calm summer or fall day.

trees falling
 

NN,

I've never had a tree fall while I was in it, but several years back I went to my lock on stand and a tree had fallen over and across my stand. That stand was destroyed, don't even want to think what the outcome would have been had it happened while I was in the stand.

A similar thing happened 2 years ago. I had put up a blind to turkey hunt out of. When I went to the blind the next morning, a tree limb about 4 inches in diameter had fallen thru the top of the blind and it was standing up in my chair. Had I been in that chair I'm sure I would have been seriously hurt.

Now days when I put up a deer stand or blind, I always do it in the daylight and look around for dead trees or hanging limbs.

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