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Be careful out there, a hunter pulled a 1 ton boulder down on himself crushing his leg and trapping him. Luckily they had a PLB, alpine rescue and fire brigade chopperd in to move boulder with hydraulic rams.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/13111...over-two-hours
very unusual accident,that is for sure.VERY lucky they had a PLB.
Crush syndrome also a risk after that long trapped?
I was thinking about that exact sort of scenario on Saturday when I crossed a couple of big boulder fields.
Easy to imagine happening to yourself.
I wondercif they had an inreach or mobile coverage to explain so they brought the hydraulic equipment first trip. Maybe a couple of car jacks would have been enough ?
Lucky they had a PLB and didn't have to resort to using a swiss army knife. re movie "127 hours"
Yeah, I need to stop putting off getting a PLB.
After the Kaikoura earthquake there was a lot of big loose rocks that you needed to negotiate around/ over on the creeks, riverbeds slips and gorges . My dog pushed over a small 100kg rock onto my leg knee height trapped me for 5min. But the worst 2 was the random rock slides in the gorges and a 500kg rock land between me and the dog. I was thinking of getting a helmet but it's not going to save me from a decent size rock hitting me. I always carry a inreach and a PLB just in case.
Pretty much still in Queenstown up Wye creek I'd say they would have had cellphone coverageQuote:
Originally Posted by Bagheera
the paramedics got there and stabilized patient...and THEN pilot/pilots went and got firecrew with equipment according to article.....
My dog dislodged a log about 6ft long by 2ft round above and 10ft behind me one day ,took me out just below the knees,lucky it didn’t get a lot of time to build up speed..backpack saved me from cracking my head..look on the dogs face was priceless..
You can hire them for not much from a lot of places, in case you didn't want to drop the $400..Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve123
I'd drop the $400 but would need two.Quote:
Originally Posted by HG Man
Wife would keep taking it trail running or adventure racing.
assumably you at home when wifey is off doing this stuff..so 1 will do for now LOL.
you buy her one..and she buys you one and that way you dont feel bad about forking out $$$$ as its a gift for your nearest and dearest.
I've got one with an expired battery if you want it. Might be cheaper to buy a new battery for it than buying a whole unit new ?
PM me if you want and I'll give you the details on it
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Originally Posted by Steve123
+1 for the PLB, even when you don’t use it, it is useful, gives you a few less things to worry about so you can concentrate on hunting. My partner and I have one each, neither has ever been used but I feel like we have both had our moneys worth from them. For a long time we shared but I got her one for her birthday a few years back. She is much more willing to do solo trips now or to participate in partial trips that she has to walk in or out of alone.
Never saw that movie, but my dad worked in the Welsh mines when he was a kid leading the horses hauling the coal carts - they'd go blind in the dark and get a bit crotchety sometimes and he had one arm a bit 'buckled' after a horse grabbed hold and proved reluctant to let go. He told me they had axes in those mines for when/if a miner got his arm or leg trapped - they didn't bother with the niceties of digging, they just the victim and themselves out before any more came down.Quote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
He never saw it happen, but there were guys in his village who had a leg or arm gone courtesy of those axes.
I've often wondered if they bothered getting the horses out when it turned to shit ?
10 year battery life equates to the cheapest insurance out there I reckonQuote:
Originally Posted by Steve123
I don't think you can get one with a 10 year battery anymore since KTI left the marketQuote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
Yeah that's a real bummer. I wonder if anyone could find out the battery manufacturer so we could source another 1 for when the 10 years is up.
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Originally Posted by Happy Jack
Been wondering that as I have one that is at 7 years old nowQuote:
Originally Posted by rugerman