I didn’t have an accident, per se, but I did suffer an out-of-mind experience when I was about 17-18. I was climbing a really noisy(thick, very flakey bark) pine tree in my Ol’man climber. This was and afternoon hunt on a very still, quiet November afternoon. I’d gotten about 15 feet up when I realized my foot section was too loose and angled down at the front. Rather than bookity-bookity back to the ground and readjust, which would have taken 3 minutes, I decided to just carefully pull the pin and do it in the tree. I did have the foresight to secure the top section at least. I pulled the pin and off the bottom came. I spent the better part of a half hour wrestling with that floor section to get it reattached to the tree. And made a LOT of noise in the process. Lucky I was in peak shape at that time. My hernia would blow my guts right out of my sides if I had to do it today.
