Well it has happened again for the second time this year in Michigan. We lost a hunter due to falling out of a tree stand. This second hunter like the first wasn’t wearing a safety harness.
He fell out of his tree on Saturday night and wasn’t found until the next morning. It was only a week or two ago that we had a hunter in Tuscola County fall some 30 feet from a tree stand without a safety harness and died.
We hear of this time and time again each year with people falling out of their tree stands. We always say yeah, but it won’t happen to us or I’m careful, I won’t fall. I’m hear to tell you it can happen to you!
I have put off wearing a harness, and have always made my son wear a harness when he went into a tree stand. Do as I say not as I do! But for me I’m now going to go and get a harness and start wearing it. My family doesn’t deserve the torment they would go through because I was to thoughtless to put one on. So for me I’m heading to the store and purchasing a harness!
God speed to these two gentlemen who fell.
