I guess I'm the only one who doesn't use a throwline for every climb

I was up in a 70 foot red oak in Omaha last Tuesday, setting my line the old way with a weight bag. A guy from the crew below kept yelling at me to use a throwline for the TIP, said I was wasting time. Then my bag got hung up on a dead branch, and the whole thing came crashing down through a client's flower bed. Cost me $50 to replace the plants and I lost an hour. I still think throwlines are overkill for simple trees, but has anyone else had a weight bag disaster like that?

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lily_schmidt537d ago

Actually, Omaha is a pretty flat city, not a hilly one.

riley8607d ago

My dad drove us through Omaha on a family vacation back in 2005 and I distinctly remember him complaining about how flat everything was the whole way through. He kept saying it felt like driving across a pool table with corn on the sides. I guess I never thought about it much because I was just a kid staring out the window at all that nothing. But now that you mention it, I can see how someone who lives there would get tired of correcting folks who picture hills. Me, I grew up in a place with actual mountains so anything flat just seems wrong to me. I guess I should apologize to any Omahans Ive offended over the years for calling it boring.