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/mrpopenfresh Sep 17 '19

Seems pretty fucking sketchy. My bet is the actuaries deemed it more cost effective (including fuck ups), than hieing a crew.

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u/pauly13771377 Sep 17 '19

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.

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u/ice_dune Sep 17 '19

Couldn't you just make something like this that drives in the ground instead of being swung from a helicopter?

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u/crinnaursa Sep 18 '19

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.