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I do not want this job. Swing a what appears to be a 40 foot long metal saw dangling from a helicopter just feet away from high voltage power lines! "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | ||
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| Tenacious Tempestuous with Integrity |
That takes some amazing skill and courage! I am not a pilot or have any knowledge of flying a helicopter, but that looks like it takes nerves and balls of BIG cold steel! | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
I think I remember seeing one of those in a James Bond movie! Talk about lethal. ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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They do that near my home every couple of years. Pretty neat to see them flying with it. | |||
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Something smoked at the end. Looked like the drive box. He may have hit something the saws couldn't cut through? Looks like a dead tree where maybe the wood had seasoned. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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This is how they trim the right of way up in Dahlonega. They trimmed the trees at the airport all the time with one. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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It easily cuts a Z8 in half. | |||
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They do the powerlines here in the Yoop with saw equipped helos. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
I heard them going along our roads this week. When you compare the speed or how many cuts the do, it's probably much less dangerous that putting a worker up there on a rope or in a bucket truck. They can also access lines that are on very difficult terrain at the same speed as when they're on a highway, which the manual method can't. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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That seemed inevitable, didn't it? And how are the blades kept square to the desired cut line? Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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The World is Not Enough.... good movie.... Won't be long drones will be doing the work, easily programmed to follow a specific set of GPS directions, wait until you see 50 or 100 of these take off and fly around! | |||
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| A man's got to know his limitations  |
I am curious about the saws. How are they powered? "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley | |||
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So many variables, other than that, a good way to cut mid-level branches. | |||
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The perpendiculator is disconnected to provide parallel pruning. Probably. Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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| A man's got to know his limitations |
This site here https://www.heli-dunn.com/heli-saw and the patent documentation here https://patents.google.com/pat...ssignee=t+scott+dunn told me what I needed to know. "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock "If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley | |||
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Pretty sure I need one of those.  .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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How much would they charge to trim the hedge in front of my house? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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