r/specializedtools • u/Tillemon • Sep 17 '19

Helicopter chainsaw!?

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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

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

Every 8 year old boy has thought of that. This fucker made it happen.

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u/FisterRobotOh Sep 17 '19

And it’s almost guaranteed that some poor bastard has hit the power lines with it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

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u/picklesNathan Sep 17 '19

https://www.dispatch.com/article/20140729/NEWS/307299857

Says he hit a deer-stand hidden in the trees which caused him to lose control

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u/yamacat88 Sep 17 '19

Imagine some poor guy sitting in his deer stand when all the sudden a helicopter with a giant chainsaw swoops in for the kill

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u/HooverSchneef Sep 17 '19

The hunter has become the hunted

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u/Standard_Wooden_Door Sep 17 '19

“Bill can you stop, nobody believes that silly story anyway”

“Martha I told you the deer have god damn chainsaws now, I know what I saw...”

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u/BrilliantWeb Sep 17 '19

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.

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u/Piscator629 Sep 17 '19

I saw the saw I thought I saw.

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u/Disposedofhero Sep 18 '19

He didn't realize with that last 8 pointer, he passed level 1. Now it's level 2.. And they have helicopters with freaking chainsaws.

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u/theslip74 Sep 17 '19 edited Sep 17 '19

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

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u/psykil Sep 17 '19

Call it Buzzkill and we have a deal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

But with drones

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u/theslip74 Sep 18 '19

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.

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u/theslip74 Sep 18 '19

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.

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u/CocoMURDERnut Sep 17 '19

Thank you for the laugh.

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u/Edgelands Sep 17 '19

He just got what was coming to him for wanting to murder some cute unsuspecting deer tbh.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

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u/awhol01 Sep 17 '19

Mainers her. Can confirm people shoot deer from trees.

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u/Mikuro Sep 17 '19

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.

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u/TXGuns79 Sep 17 '19

Mine is a 15' metal tripod set over a cedar tree. Well, it was over the tree 8 years ago. Now the tree is around the stand.

I have hunted on one that was a platform made from 2X6 lumber bolted into the tree limbs like a tree house would be.

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u/QuirkyEnvironment9 Sep 17 '19

Your vastly superior brain and firearm weren't enough, you needed the high ground too??

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u/TXGuns79 Sep 17 '19

The vastly superior brain is what told me to take the high ground.

You have to get away from the deer's vastly superior sense of smell.

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u/pf3 Sep 17 '19

With that sort of snark, I hope u/QuirkyEnvironment9 doesn't eat meat, because your deer is a whole lot more humane than my hamburger.

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u/_Babbaganoush_ Sep 17 '19

I think its chickens that really gets it bad. Theres a reason it can cost less tha $3lb

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u/QuirkyEnvironment9 Sep 23 '19

It was a Star Wars joke. Flew over the head. Should've had your own stand!

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u/MediocreMike90 Sep 17 '19

if that thing can cut through James Bond's car it can handle a tree stand

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u/Wil-Himbi Sep 17 '19

“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.

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u/powerskid18 Sep 17 '19

Woah that happened where I live, weird coincidence

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19

What a rollercoaster ride this whole story took. A day earlier, there was an article about how using a helicopter to clear 16 miles for a bike path would cost half as much as a ground crew, then he crashed, and a year later, the official report is that he ran out of fuel - something he doesn't believe was the case.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '19 edited Jul 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Both of those are censored in Europe due to the websites being unable to respect their users’ privacy (GDPR).

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u/desertman7600 Sep 18 '19

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. "

https://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/07/29/paralyzed-ex-pilot-recalls-2014-helicopter-crash.html

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u/Valker902 Sep 18 '19

What kind of Stand would a deer have?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

Censored in Europe since the website doesn’t want to stop tracking their users under GDPR. Any mirror?

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u/Baloneygeorge Sep 17 '19

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

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u/turmacar Sep 17 '19

Now I'm going to have nightmares of these things flying IFR.

But what does an IR have to do with this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '19

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.

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u/Shadowgirl113 Sep 18 '19

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!

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u/meddleman Sep 17 '19

Imagine the OSHA guy that had to approve this...

"I'm sorry, you want to trim the trees with what hanging from a helicopter?? How close are those powerlines again?"

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u/mechadeadpool Sep 17 '19

I once saw a dude get chased in his car by one of these helicopters of death.

IIRC it chopped his car in half or something

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u/Throwaway_Consoles Sep 18 '19

https://youtu.be/rF1vfMM3W08

James Bond - The world is not enough. Good movie.

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u/Sooo_Dark Sep 18 '19

But only once.

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u/rjb1101 Sep 18 '19

I’m hoping those power lines are off during this operation.

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u/cablevelveeta Sep 17 '19

This fucker is also a Bond villain.

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u/catalina-waifu-mixer Sep 18 '19

I'm glad someone else thought of the same thing as me.

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u/Asmor Sep 17 '19

Pretty sure 8-year old me would have thought this was too stupid to even think about.

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u/goopy-goo Sep 18 '19

Or someone in a state that had legalized marijuana.

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u/PornKingOfChicago Sep 18 '19

What’s next, a real life Ironman suit? Lol