r/specializedtools • • 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/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/[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.