PROGRAM INFORMATION
Duration
16 hours · 2 days
Overview
The Hunter / Tree Stand Rescue course from The Weinel Group provides emergency response personnel with the knowledge and skills to size up and mitigate incidents involving hunters and outdoor enthusiasts who find themselves in precarious situations in trees. Regardless of whether your victim is 10’ or 100’ off the ground, this two-day, 16-hour course will provide responders with a basic skill set for handling the majority of tree incidents in your response areas.
Skills will include size up of trees, access into trees, patient assessment and packaging, and victim removal methods utilizing minimally equipped kits. Students will integrate tools and equipment they may already be familiar with and some new tool options they have not seen before.
Our instructors’ goal is to provide some of the most versatile equipment layouts that can be carried for the widest array of response risks. This course will focus heavily on the small team organization (2-3 personnel) utilizing a non-traditional approach to access elevated positions within trees.
Day 1 Skills
- Tree size-up and assessment
- Tree stand and patient assessment
- Equipment overview
- Climbing spurs
- Low-point anchorage
- Rope ascending and descending
- Hauling systems
Day 2 Skills
- High-point anchorage construction
- Patient packaging devices and techniques
- Patient lowering options
- Real-time scenario stations
Equipment
Bring your full-body harness, rescue helmet, and gloves if available. Harness and helmet kits for up to 8 students are available for students without their own equipment. Gloves are not provided.
What to include in your application
Describe the tree-stand rescue scenarios your team expects to encounter and the rescue equipment currently available. Review the listed equipment and practical skills with our team when arranging the class.
Planning your training
Use the application below to tell us your team size, training location, preferred dates, and the course or service you need. Include any relevant experience, current equipment, and site-specific requirements so our team can discuss a suitable program with you.
Before you book
Our team will confirm availability, pricing, prerequisites, equipment requirements, and any applicable certification or evaluation arrangements. Sending an application starts that discussion; it does not reserve a place or confirm a booking.