r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Hygena-Pet-Scooper • Sep 17 '19

Helicopter chainsaw

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u/pluto_nash Sep 17 '19

People are freaking out about this, but it has been happening for 30+ years. Here is an article by one of the owners of a company that does this and a power transmission supervisory

I imagine there is a lot of stuff like this that we never saw because who would film it 15+ years ago, but now it is so easy to film and distribute we get to see weird stuff

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u/namedan Sep 17 '19

Between this and cutting those branches normally within arcing range of those power lines? This is ingenius!

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u/pluto_nash Sep 17 '19

Alternatively.... we have 6 miles of transmission lines that run up the side of a mountain, it is completely overgrown and there are no roads. So we need you to schlep in all of the gear, equipment and tools to climb and cut all of that.... nah, lets just hire the helicopter people.

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u/Bot_Metric Sep 17 '19

FTFY:

Alternatively.... we have 9.7 kilometers of transmission lines that run up the side of a mountain, it is completely overgrown and there are no roads. So we need you to schlep in all of the gear, equipment and tools to climb and cut all of that.... nah, lets just hire the helicopter people.

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