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Safety Harness
#1560316
12/13/15 09:55 AM
12/13/15 09:55 AM
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Posts: 3,851
North Bama
demp17
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OP
10 point
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Posts: 3,851
North Bama
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Wear one it saved my brothers life yesterday morning. My mother called yesterday at 7am frantically telling me to get to him as quick as possible that he was hanging by his harness but can't get back to tree and my dad was going to try to help. Well I jump up and start that way and my brother calls me saying he was able to swing back to tree and get down safely. Climbed back up to see what went wrong and the summit lockon dumped him straight over the front. It came out of its bracket somehow and dumped him straight over. Every loop on his safety harness snapped as he fell but kept him safe. This is the pic I woke up too  Could have been bad, tree stand is 25'up and there is nothing but rocks under it.
Last edited by demp17; 12/13/15 10:02 AM.
We are not perfect, only forgiven!!!
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560365
12/13/15 10:33 AM
12/13/15 10:33 AM
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Brierfield
Beadlescomb
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Loc ons are nothing but death traps. Glad this story had a happy ending
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560375
12/13/15 10:41 AM
12/13/15 10:41 AM
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Posts: 8,037
Tuscaloosa, Al, USA
Big Buck Video
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Posts: 8,037
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Glad he is ok.
Everyone should wear one any time they leave the ground.
�Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to
the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep
and bear Arms shall not be infringed.�
-Justice Scalia, June 26, 2008
NRA Life Member
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560380
12/13/15 10:46 AM
12/13/15 10:46 AM
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Posts: 11,187
Central Alabama
Cuz-Pat
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Booner
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Central Alabama
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So glad to hear a great ending to your brothers story. Thankful that he is safe. 
Cuz-Pat
Patton's European Mounts
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560470
12/13/15 11:54 AM
12/13/15 11:54 AM
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Posts: 9,993
Hampton Cove
foldemup
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Just Damn! Thank God he had it on!
If you want to always win, never play anyone better than you!
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: foldemup]
#1560478
12/13/15 12:02 PM
12/13/15 12:02 PM
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Posts: 3,024
Near Deland, Florida
EDSKI
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Near Deland, Florida
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Best Christmas gift my wife ever gave me was a top-notch safety harness. I've never had a full fall but there are a couple of times when my climber shifted or slipped on a hardwood tree and I was very glad I was well tied on to a tree.
Without your 2nd amendment rights you have no 1st amendment rights.
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: James]
#1560601
12/13/15 01:38 PM
12/13/15 01:38 PM
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Posts: 10,076
Northport, Al.
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Northport, Al.
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Glad he's ok! Hope the hell he didn't take a selfie though? What else is a fella going to do while hanging from a tree, waiting on help? The way I joke, I'd probably need proof of a picture for someone to come get me. Praise the Lord he's ok. Great Christmas present he got early!! God Bless, David B.
Premium member #8925
Team Rack Addicts
2016 Aldeer Deer Champions
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560604
12/13/15 01:41 PM
12/13/15 01:41 PM
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Northport, Al.
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Every loop on his safety harness snapped as he fell but kept him safe.
Aren't the loops supposed to break to slow down the jolt of the fall? God Bless, David B.
Premium member #8925
Team Rack Addicts
2016 Aldeer Deer Champions
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560620
12/13/15 01:50 PM
12/13/15 01:50 PM
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North Bama
demp17
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Loops are supposed to break so they did their job..he took the pic and sent it while hanging there. He was waiting on me and my dad then said he thought he could swing over to tree but it was tough because he fell straight forward. You won't find a more athletic person than him and he said there was no time to react he just grabbed his harness and braced himself and it was a whole lot harder to to get tree than he thought. After about 5 minutes of trying he finally got to tree and had to unsnap harness and climb down. I hung that stand 3 weeks ago and hunted out of it with no problem.
Last edited by demp17; 12/13/15 01:51 PM.
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560628
12/13/15 01:56 PM
12/13/15 01:56 PM
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Posts: 20,321
Northport, AL
GomerPyle
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You won't find a more athletic person than him...and it was a whole lot harder to to get tree than he thought. That's what a lot of people don't realize. And it's why I switched to a rock climbing harness. I am FAR from "athletic" so I know it'd be nearly impossible for me to self rescue in a traditional harness. I need every advantage possible.
There are 3 certainties in an uncertain world:
1. All Politicians Are Liars
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
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12/13/15 02:59 PM
12/13/15 02:59 PM
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Posts: 4,674
Madison, AL
wmd
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Glad you are all right brother! That is some scary stuff.
"Any way you look at it, most of the problems facing baboons can be expressed in two words: other baboons" -
D.L. Cheney and R.M. Seyfarth
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Re: Safety Harness
[Re: demp17]
#1560772
12/13/15 03:39 PM
12/13/15 03:39 PM
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Posts: 6,621
Mobile,AL
jsh1904
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If that was quail man he would have a beer in the other hand
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