Did something very similar once they asked me to trim branch off tree in the school field. Put ladder up against it. Thought piece piss this compared to what I normally did. Trimmed end off this big branch but what I didn’t consider was once the weight was removed off the end the branch sprung up. I had the ladder hanging on by about an inch. No one noticed and I shimmied down pretty quick. Would looked right plum if that ladder had gone and I face planted in school Field