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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!



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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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I think I remember seeing one of those in a James Bond movie! Talk about lethal.


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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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Posts: 16099 | Location: St. Charles, MO, USA | Registered: September 22, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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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.




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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.


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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.


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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
This is how they trim the right of way up in Dahlonega. They trimmed the trees at the airport all the time with one.


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.


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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.


That seemed inevitable, didn't it? And how are the blades kept square to the desired cut line?




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I think I remember seeing one of those in a James Bond movie! Talk about lethal.


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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I am curious about the saws. How are they powered?



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So many variables, other than that, a good way to cut mid-level branches.
 
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And how are the blades kept square to the desired cut line?


The perpendiculator is disconnected to provide parallel pruning. Probably.





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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.



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Pretty sure I need one of those. Smile



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How much would they charge to trim the hedge in front of my house?



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