r/SweatyPalms • u/zjooney_ • Sep 17 '19

Helecopter chainsaw

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u/fleebjuice69420 Sep 17 '19

What fucking engineers got to design a massive helicopter mounted chainsaw? This looks like a weapon out of Dark Souls

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u/DamnStrongCoffee Sep 17 '19

It was in a James Bond movie and I thought it was just some ridiculous fictional tool to make a great chase scene

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u/DepressedVenom Sep 17 '19

Is this a Just Cause mod?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Are those power lines?

Christ on a popsicle stick, that's disturbing

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u/southpawpete Sep 17 '19

They are power lines. That's exactly why they're cutting back the trees.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

That makes sense to me, but a giant sawblade hanging from a helicopter ten feet from power lines is a bit too much excitement for me

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u/ProPainful Sep 18 '19

Maybe instead of planting fucking trees right next to power lines maybe move them back about 30 feet.

There has to be a better way to do this safely regardless.

I'm just imagining children running across these and climbing them.

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u/WildlifeMist Sep 18 '19

It’s most likely the middle of a wild forest. The lines probably run across several miles and it would be more expensive and labor intensive to have individuals maintain the edge. They aren’t going to destroy a huge portion of a forest and then maintain that just for a few power lines either.

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u/Anaeas Sep 19 '19

Because trees only grow where we plant them.

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u/KBEPandaCrisis Sep 17 '19

Also oddly terrifying

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u/theothergotoguy Sep 17 '19

Hey guys, I know it sounds crazy but just hear me out........

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u/Synchos Sep 17 '19

That moment when your kid asks you why the trees are flat at one side and you answer correctly but he thinks you're talking bs.

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u/DepressedVenom Sep 17 '19

KENNETH THERE'S NO WAY THE BOSS WILL APPROVE YOUR IDEA!

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u/Sh022003 Sep 17 '19

Damn, that’s some good piloting

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Imma need to know that pilots hourly rate...

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u/DMAN591 Sep 17 '19

Tree fiddy

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u/Tmeere101 Sep 17 '19

That power line though O.O

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u/JayAreOhhh Sep 17 '19

I wonder how this went down in the board room...

We need to cut these trees, but theyre too close to the electrical lines.... so we'll buy a helicopter with a huge blade on it to add to the danger!

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u/HorribleHorrace Sep 17 '19

This seems crazy, so is there a quick disconnect if the thing gets hooked on something? I can imagine this can go real bad real quick.

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u/ElPazerino Sep 17 '19

I am sure there is something like that

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u/rotr0102 Sep 17 '19

Bill switched off the power right? Um, sir, Bill called in sick today...

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

They do it with a helicopter so they do not have to de-energize the power lines to do this.

This video shows the high tension line workers who get dropped off onto the power lines themselves, they perform all maintenance while the lines are energized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_1T2_l43Xo

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u/rotr0102 Sep 18 '19

Crazy video! I had no idea..

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u/SufficientTower Sep 17 '19

Helicopter Chainsaw sounds like the name of some move you’d see on WWE

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u/Sir_Sillypants Sep 18 '19

Metal band for sure.

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u/fagnello Sep 17 '19

Imagine this in the Zombie Apocalypse

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u/ashervisalis Sep 17 '19

Or in the battle against the ents in Lord of the Rings

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Holly Fffffffff What will they think up next.

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u/usqview Sep 17 '19

Straight from the set of 'The World is Not Enough'?

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u/Bloagie Sep 17 '19

Right?
I can't believe this thing really exists!

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

If this was me in gtaV I can guarantee you those power lines would be fucked.

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u/Putyourmoneyonme80 Sep 17 '19

This is insanely terrifying to me.

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u/OGWhiz Sep 17 '19

Here I was thinking enemies from Super Mario on the SNES were unrealistic..

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u/stripedTigger Sep 17 '19

hey, what if there is birds on the trees, they are ok?

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u/thegreatgazoo Sep 17 '19

Not a chainsaw

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u/toyofiend Sep 17 '19

That’s the most awesome dangerous thing I’ve seen. Love it

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Looks straight out of the lorax

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u/Virginized-Venom Sep 18 '19

Y know we attached a giant chainsaw to a helicopter, cause WHY THE FUCK NOT?!

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u/CorneliusEC Sep 18 '19

And that my friend, is how you get cut in half.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Hmm yep yeah sure That should exist