https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/helicopter-prunes-trees-with-giant-chainsaw/vi-BB18Mu3D
Wonder if I can rent that at Home Depot?
rdamonWonder if I can rent that at Home Depot?
Then only weeks until the first horror script with revenge-of-the-social-misfit-nerds hits the slushpile! I am almost tempted to start writing it now to surf the inevitable wave of commentary...
We may have just written the script for the next Saw movie!
MC, would you need one like this when you were a Roadmaster?
I'm not sure I'd want to be standing there filming this unless I could run fast.
York1 John
James Bond managed to dodge one in one of those movies...
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I hope that vid was shot with a telephoto lens! I wouldn't want to be any closer than 200 yards to the thing!
I don't run as fast as I used to!
Surprised the railraods haven't developed a Jordan Spreader with vertical chain saws on the full extended wings - with the chain saws standing vertically 30 to 40 FEET to do that job.
Using the saw just suspended from the helicopter doesn't appear to be very stable or controlable.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
diningcar MC, would you need one like this when you were a Roadmaster?
Saw one of those helicopter borne flying mayhem multiple radial saws work in Alabama. No thanks. (The cleanup is still a bear, especially where rubber tired vehicles can't go)
Plenty of times out surveying when a crap-on-line removal device would have been handy.
BaltACDSurprised the railraods haven't developed a Jordan Spreader with vertical chain saws on the full extended wings - with the chain saws standing vertically 30 to 40 FEET to do that job.
They kinda do:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mjscanlonphotography/27725115587
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zugmannThey kinda do:
We have a Gradall with what I refer to as the "mother of all weed whackers" at the end of the boom...
The NS brushcutters are neat. They have an arm on each side and two operator stations. So they can do both sides at once if they want to.
rdamon https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/helicopter-prunes-trees-with-giant-chainsaw/vi-BB18Mu3D Wonder if I can rent that at Home Depot?
How do I get in touch with this outfit? I have some neighbors that have allowed their trees to overgrow my property.
I showed that video to my brother, who has 7000+ rotary wing hours (along with 15,000 fixed wing). He said no thanks. You have to really be hurting for money to do that job. Low, slow, reduced power and not enough altitude to do an autorotation if the engine quits. Then you add to it the giant chain saw that you're falling towards.
PS--My brother spent years flying to offshore oil rigs and landing ship pilots onto tankers in the Persian Gulf. So it's not like he didn't do risky things.
I vaguely remember some YouTube videos from I think one of the former USSR countries where they were flying a similar device to trim trees. It was not a "chain saw" per se, but a long blade like structure with multiple counterrotating circular saw blades of 20 or 30 inch diameters.
I figured they could get away with it since they didn't have OSHA to contend with.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Sure wish I had had that beast when building farm fence thru a swamp as a teenager.
Wow! I wouldn't of believed it if I hadn't seen it!
No, not the contraption being used. That someone actually is cutting back trees. I wish some of our wooded areas looked as good as that spot before the overgrown weed wacker got to it.
Jeff
rdamon We may have just written the script for the next Saw movie!
Actually they use one of those to come after James Bond in a James Bond movie, sawing apart the warehouse he is in. Forget the name of the movie though, it was relatively recent and starred Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
JPS1 The NS self-propelled brush cutters *(w/ Brown Brontosaurus workheads) are built in their own work equipment shops? rdamon https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/helicopter-prunes-trees-with-giant-chainsaw/vi-BB18Mu3D Wonder if I can rent that at Home Depot? How do I get in touch with this outfit? I have some neighbors that have allowed their trees to overgrow my property.
The NS self-propelled brush cutters *(w/ Brown Brontosaurus workheads) are built in their own work equipment shops?
CSX used the helicopter version to clear trees around the line poles in areas that were hard for maintainers to reach on foot. The falling branches took out the wires and the maintainers had to get into the hard to reach areas anyway.
Since the line poles are gone they don't do much trimming until a tree lands on the track.
Mark Vinski
The Southeast has had double the rain as usual since mid November.. Tree growth has expoded with many tree growing so much that limbs are hanging down for lack of strength. If we get a bad winter storm the tracks and roads are going to be one tree cemetery. Clean up will be weeks.
Have spent most of this summer just clearing the many branches on my property that hung down so low that hit me when on the mower.
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