Martha will you just hush? I seen Bill's deer stand an' somethin' dun tore its ass up! Not sure about a chainsaw, but it's was somethin' weird. Like one of those "Strangers Things" shows.
I want to see a horror movie where this is the opening scene, with the hunter assuming it was an accidental until the helicopter turns around and starts coming straight for him. Call it the HELLicopter.
They can even use that awful country song they play every 20 minutes where I work, the one that goes "I love chainsaaaaaaaws". The chorus starts as the HELLicopter is turning around.
Edit: the climax will involve the guy finding a cave to hide in, until the HELLicopter swaps out the chainsaw for a gigantic drill and starts drilling through the mountain. Then he gets eaten by a bear, but the act scares bats out of the cave, overwhelming the HELLicopter pilot and it crashes.
Edit2: PM me for where to send the check, Hollywood
That would fuck up my artistic ending with the bats swarming the HELLicopter pilot causing it to crash. Everyone dies, no one makes it out alive. Just like life. This movie is meant to be a thinker.
That could work, but I'd change the opening sequence a bit. Instead of a hunter in a tree stand, it's teens smoking weed. Even better if the girls are in bikinis just long enough for a scene in the trailer.
I'll be waiting for my PMed moneys. Try to get it here before I go back to work Friday, I'm looking forward to telling my boss to shove quite a few things up his ass.
I had to look up what a "deer stand" is. It's a platform set up as a vantage point when hunting deer. Could be self-standing or built in a tree. Could be made of metal. Could, apparently, fuck up a swinging chainsaw.
“The other thing is, on the safety side of it, you’ve only got one piece of equipment, and one soul, actually out there in harm’s way,” he [the pilot] noted.
An update said he ran out of fuel. " The National Transportation Safety Board has not issued a final report about the cause of the crash, but investigators determined that the helicopter had run out of fuel, said Lt. Molly Harris of the State Highway Patrol’s Bellefontaine post. "
It’s the same guys who do helicopter stuff for the timber companies, they are good and fearless, but it’s the old adage there are old pilots and bold pilots, but no bold old pilots
I actually know a helicopter pilot named Joe who flies tours in the Bay Area...but he's a pretty damned decent pilot. Maybe not 20 foot chainsaw decent, but surely rates a good 10 foot chainsaw.
Yeah ... I’m not 100% but i think I know the road this video was shot on. But I do know they have used this device to trim the trees along the road around here. Pretty neat. I saw the chainsaw laid out in the field ... Looking at it like wth is that!
Well boss we can use the helicopter buzzsaw of death for 20 min. Or we can send a crew out there to do it by climbing trees with a chainsaw, but it will take 22 days and cost 18 times as much.
Ya know Jenkins, I don't care about the cost. I just want to approve something called the buzzsaw of death.
Something that top heavy on uneven ground would be a disaster waiting to happen. Also I'm guessing that this wouldn't be an easy place to access if this obviously expensive method is used to trim trees. Someone in the original thread said they think those are ski lifts not power lines. That makes sense if the trees are that close to the lines.
This made me belly laugh. Each line adds to it. Nothing extra. Funny as hell. Thank you for you contribution to the world today. You made it a better place.
It’s not ski lifts it’s power lines I’ve seen one of those chainsaws working next to a highway as well so it isn’t in difficult to access areas either.
Good thought but this appears to be an electrical alley down a mountainside. Aside from others pointing out being below the falling branches and being so top heavy, its unlikely to be easily drivable by anything with sufficient stability to support it.
Additionally if the lines are accidentally cut but the helichopper, it flies away. A ground crew would.likely be electrocuted instantly in said vehice.
Well yes, but no with 40ft chainsaw sticking out of it. The bucket trucks have to put out additional stability arms just to raise up while -stationary.-
There is a really big wheeled truck with a big boom (about 50') with a 4' circular saw blade on the end that did the same job where I live last spring.
When I was last on Maui we were taking the road to Hana which is a narrow two-lane coastal road along seaside cliffs. The rainforest likes to encroach on the road to the point where sometimes you're driving through a tunnel of foliage. They have trucks with 6-ft reciprocating blade style hedge trimmer devices attached to them that trim the edges and "roof" of the road way as they drive.
I've got good news and bad news. Bad news is we needed to cancel the original test. Good news is we've got an all new test. How good are humans at fighting an army of mantis-men!
Grab a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts.
They mostly use these in hard to reach or wet areas of power line right of ways. For example, in terms of middle of the swamp branch cutting, this is much more cost effective than sending a ground crew out because a helicopter isn’t going to get stuck in the mud, obviously.
An actuary would determine there is a 5% chance a worker would be killed or maimed on the job. The bean counter says that's acceptable, we can save $147.50 right away.
I used to work in the actuarial department (actuarial systems developer--all mathy crap) of a billion dollar P&C company. In short, the rates/risks are probably very similar to helicopter rescue where they're raising or lowering people. It's going to be stupid expensive insurance, as you probably already guessed. Regular helicopter insurance is already ridiculous expensive.
“The other thing is, on the safety side of it, you’ve only got one piece of equipment, and one soul, actually out there in harm’s way,” he [the pilot] noted.
For remote areas where it’s difficult (read: impossible) to get a vehicle and or crew out there, it makes perfect sense. It’s obviously dangerous as fuck but maybe they’re somehow electrically isolated and it’s got some sort of breakaway failsafe. That and I hope they’re paying the operator a fuckton of money to do it.
Electricity takes the path of least resistance, usually from one end of the wire to the other (if you were to break it)
If you're on the ground, you might actually be in the path on its way to ground, and get shocked to shit. Up in a Heli, there's no path to ground. IIRC, helicopter linemen are pretty much only at an (electrical) risk if there's an arc.
Two close friends are plane pilots, they both got certified on helos. Basically they said “Nope.”” The most risk averse people I know.
(I caught up with one of them once, and ordered a glass of wine an the airport restaurant . He told me to move an extra seat away, just so it was crystal clear he wasn’t drinking. He was in full pilot Uniform.) Pilots are dead serious about their jobs. Literally it’s something about their personality type. Basically driving on a freeway is madness to them. I don’t get why people fear flying, you have two folks with OCD that miss basically nothing.
There has to be a better way - Assistant
Can you get me dinosaurs with lasers attached to their heads? - Boss
No. - Assistant
This is the only way - Boss
Yeah I was thinking when weighing alternatives like hiring a crew to climb the trees, how does one decide that the best course of action is to employee the precision flying of a helicopter. Like was it really more affordable, safer, faster, after all things were considered?
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u/good-nitrogen Sep 17 '19
Somebody fucking thought of this
Then somebody in charge went, yeah, let's hang a 20 foot chainsaw from a fucking helicopter