How old?
1. Too young to care, a couple years ago this would be the YOLO group
2. Young and foolhardy
3. Somewhat careful but still like to “see what happens”
4. Age that would like to “see what happens” but concerned about the overall costs
5. Old enough to know better, but…….
6. Old enough to care that you keep all of your body intact
7. Old enough to thoroughly think through the risks before acting
8. Retired
9. Too old to worry about it anymore
10. What was the question?
Probably 5 for the most part. My dad is similar, however. He decided that, he himself, without any decent power tools, and just a bow saw should cut down a very large branch (around 2 feet in diameter, maybe more) off the willow tree in our back yard. I, being the responsible, intelligent, and lazy person I am, decided to help him out, with the most impressively stupid moment being when he ran out of steam to cut through the rest of the branch's base, resulting in me climbing up the ladder with a pickaxe, substituting as a regular axe, and bring the rest of the branch down.
This branch happened to be above our wooden carport, which has a roof made of some weird cardboard-ish fibreglass something or rather (it's really the consistency of very strong, thick cardboard as of this point, but still cardboard). The branch of course fell on it, and didn't go straight through, it wasn't big enough for that, but still managed to puncture a few fist sized holes into the roof.
So afterwards, me, my dad, and our neighbor, who wasn't notified that we were doing this, but didn't mind helping along with what ended up on her property anyways, cut down most of the smaller stuff until we were left with a massive chunk of log on the carport roof that was too annoying to get through by hand. It stood there for a few days before one of my dad's coworkers came by with a chainsaw and sliced it into movable chunks.
This of course left our yard a massive mess, which was cleaned up over the course of a couple days. At least I saved some of the chunks of wood, which ended up going to craigslist for whoever wanted it, for use in our electric smoker. As it turns out, Willow is a really nice wood for smoking, and sort of tastes like chocolate and coffee.
Reading back through this extended ramble, perhaps I belong in category 10, but for what it's worth, and to answer the question, I am 16.