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Climber on my crew asked why I never check the tie in point before cutting, and it hit hard
Honestly, I was spiking a dead oak in Madison last Thursday and this new guy on my crew asked why I always clip in below the union before I start cutting, and I realized I had been doing it out of habit for 12 years without really thinking about why. He pointed out that if the top has rot you could be tied into a stem that fails when the piece goes, and now I rig a separate anchor above the cut every single time. Has anyone else had a greenhorn point out something you were doing on autopilot for years?
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wren30710d ago
Did you ever go back and watch how many times you got lucky before that kid said something? I had a guy ask me why I never looked up when I was running a saw on a spar and it bugged me for a week. What worked for me was making the new guy the check. Now whoever I'm training has to call out my tie in and my cut plan before I fire up, and if they miss it I buy lunch. It feels dumb at first but it keeps me honest and it gets them in the habit too. Costs me about two sandwiches a month and it already caught a bad limb I would have missed. Green horns see what we stop seeing.
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