injured during bow failure

[hova]

use a tillering tree. studies have shown over the years, a tillering tree reduces risk of pregnancy by 98%.


wait a second...


-hov

[Lee Slikkers]

Hova...      

Wish someone would have shared that statistic with me 12 years ago    

[Ray Borbon]

Had a couple of bows fail on me. Not injured. Doesn't mean you won't be. Each time it happened I had already suspected a failure was coming due to cracks. I would just eyeball things as you go and wouldn't dwell on anything like that until you start seeing reason to. Best of luck on your build.

[Loren Holland]

Bloody nose, knot on my head, couple of small cuts...i still use a tree over a bathroom scale and occasionally get nervous...i had a buddy weld me a metal tree and will wall mount it (someday)
when i look back on the broke ones, everyone was a learning point, and my fault for overstressing

[Bowjunkie]

Roy, remember the walnut bow at my place way back when? That thing sounded like a shotgun when it let go. Nuthin' a little duct tape and a few wood screws won't fix  

Living Waters, I've learned not to leave my bows laying around strung where that might happen, and never to allow someone else to draw my bows as a general rule.

I passed a braced osage selfbow around a small circle of folks once(and only once), before I could stop him, one guy yanked it back past his ear. It held. But I learned a valuable lesson. 'People are ignorant about wooden bows. Don't trust them... EVER'

[**DONOTDELETE**]

when in doubt, wearing the proper safety gear helps anxiety levels.

[Roy from Pa]

LOL Kirk:)

Ya Jeff I remember the blow up:)

[Living_waters]

Bowjunkie that was my learning lesson, I was just demonstrating never dreamed he would just pick up one of the bows and pull it. There were 15 kids there I was giving the demonstration to and not one of them thought it was OK to just grab one when no one was looking. Even at my shop I don't let anyone handle a strung bow, except for two I have just for that reason. They are light poundage, one white oak and one hickory, both are tillered to infinity..

Kirkll If you look at my bow bench you will notice I went with the auto darkening model. I am a bit of a klutz and the auto darkening don't have the flip up window that could get caught on the string and jerk the bow out of my hand and smack me in the face. LOL
   

Seriously the cable system on the wall is the only safe way to tiller. After some playing with it (changing pully, and going to a wire cable) it is pretty accurate using my hand scale. I intentionally mounted it where I could not get my face over it, even when pegging to hold draw I am no where near the limb.