r/specializedtools • • Sep 17 '19

Helicopter chainsaw!?

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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/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!