Chopper Jack

Blkvoodoo

Blkvoodoo

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So, up the road from my folks is a hightension power line run. Every few years the power company has to trim the trees away from the lines, when I was growing up, they would have a company like Asplund come in and clear cut and trim, now, between times when they just need to trim back the side tress, they do this.

here is some video my dad took last year and last week of them trimming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srlJNqRh-a0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8QJs-kt3jM

Sure would like to see that in person, just to see how much fun that pilot is actually having, it has to a pretty intesnse ride !!!
 
that seems kind of scary! The thought of getting tangled in something or a blade getting stuck on something it can't quite handle would not allow me to get in that thing!

Pretty amazing tool though!
 
I would imagine the pilot of the copter doesnt make minimum wage to operate that saw

It almost seems to simple to be practicle but, it seems to work:popcorn:
 
yeah, no kidding. my guess is that the pilot is nervous as hell! you know what happens if the wind catches him and knocks him into those lines!!!
 
naa prolly cool as a cucumber, some old crusty guy with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Who talks the whole time about how at least no one is shooting at him while he is flying..
 
Wow, if a gust of wind came up and blew it into the power lines, crispy critter.
 
The line holding the saw is insulated. There is an emergency brakaway. You would have to hit more than one line to get an arc.
 
Just imagine sitting on your back deck and seeing an emergency break away of this thing coming at ya.
 
THATS PRETTY WILD.
Have you ever seen a tract of land heli-logged before?

Thats cool as shit, basically old time loggers cut tree down with a chain saw then rig it to a helicopter grapple which flies it miles aay to a "loading dock" for limbing and loading onto a trailer.

As timber prices plummet it is much less popular, but still done occasionally in very mountainous terrain.
 
bfeller said:
Have you ever seen the videos of the lineman working on those lines from the side of the helicopter?
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I have seen them do that type of work on the high tensions in the Raleigh area by Crossroads. Takes some big ones!
 
Not really..as long as you dont get between 2 phases and become an arc point.

A single line would need a path to ground.
 
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