Using bucket as work platform.

[TomKioti]

I guess then mabye THATS where you need to live. And all of you that lovit need too follow.

 

[AchingBack]

Not flip-flops?

No! rback, flipflops are what John Kerry wears when riding his Harley. I was wearing a pair of chefs shoes.

 

[patrick_g]

I think would have first run an extension cord out to the base of the tree to power the same canopener used to regularly open her cat food can (or not if you use pull top.) Anyway her ears are well attuned to the resonant freq of a food can being opened and would have made for a powerful urge to climb down. Especially if you had access to her babbies and put them at the base of the tree in a box mewing and begging for mommy that may have been an irresistable tableu to ignore. Failing that I would figure that the cat was trying to commit suicide and this, the second attempt, was definite confirmation and who was I to interfere with her free will.

Patrick

 

[Ken_CT]

Has anyone ever seen cat bones in a tree?

 

[Egon]

I thought there was a movie some time ago that showed a qick simple way to get a cat out of a tree.

 

[patrick_g]

Egon, What movie, what method?

And Ken I just love it. Come to think of it I have nbever seen a cat starve in a tree.

Pat

 

[Egon]

I think it may have been one of the police academy movies???

 

[WALT]

I have been following this thread off & on. While getting the Christmas tree today at a local cut your own tree farm. The owner related a twist to this topic.
He was stringing lights on some of his 20' fir trees with 2 helpers. He was operating his JD 4510 as a lift, with a pallet as the platform on pallet forks.
The two helpers were on the platform at full height stringing lights, when the owner was called away from the tractor. Both helpers continued stringing the lights. At this point, the helpers 10 y/o son climbs on the tractor, and grabs the loader joystick. The platform dropped 4' as the hollering started. Fortunately the only injury was to the feelings of the 10 y/o son as the owner corrected his behavior.

As he told the story, I stated my reaction, which is that tractors & 10 y/o kids are not a good combination, nor are folks of any age who are unfamiliar with the equipment at hand.

In this case, no mechanical failure occurred, just the curiosity of a 10 y/o kid.
The failure was that the owner neglected to insure the safety of the helpers depending on him. I imagine that if this technique is used in the future, he will lower the work platform/loader to the ground, prior to leaving the tractor seat.

In a side note, when I arrived to cut down the Christmas tree with chain saw in hand, he stated that due to liability issues, I could only use a hand saw.
"Safety First" I guess.......

WALT

 

[rback33]

I thought there was a movie some time ago that showed a qick simple way to get a cat out of a tree.

Last time I did it I just used the chainsaw. I wanted the tree down anyway.

 

[BTDT]

I remember an old 580 Case backhoe/loader that was at a rental facility I worked at. It had a piece that would drop down between the end of the cylinder and the end of the cylinder rod where it attatched to the loader arm, so when you needed to work around front of tractor, changing oil, etc, this would keep loader from falling. Pretty neat idea, wonder why new units haven't adopted this.