With the load released, the pilot clears the log landing and enters.

Dec 25, Helicopter to trim trees? Check out this segment on a contractor, unreachable power lines from the most unlikely of bushcutting.bar if you need to see the right m. Jun 13, This Foot Buzz Saw Hangs From a Helicopter To Trim Trees From the Sky.

Inthe inadvertent brush of a tree branch against power transmission lines. Sep 20, A viral video of an “air saw” suspended from a helicopter has left Twitter users’ heads spinning. The blade saws were first introduced in the s to clear limbs in difficult-to-reach Author: Jennifer Leman. Jun 05, The saw cuts tree limbs 8 to 10 inches in diameter. The limbs fall straight to the ground propelled by air from the helicopter rotors. Ground crews move limbs.

Sep 28, Using a helicopter carrying a dangling bar with ten spinning saws, he has been winding his way from Vermont's southeast to northwest corners- carefully cutting back tree limbs along the rail. Jan 06, Exit Full Screen.

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An Ormond Beach man who flew a helicopter for a utility company was killed when the aircraft crashed while he was clearing tree limbs. Sep 30, The helicopter guy is named Alan Stack, and he’s been a Rotor Blade pilot for 13 years. He says this is the best way to trim the trees. “There’s no equipment to get to the tops of helicopter cutting tree limbs trees like we get.

If they don’t use the helicopter to trim the branches, they have to remove the whole trees. In partial cutting operations, protection of the residual stand is an important consideration in selection of the desired felling pattern.

Yarding operations may be accomplished across roads when flaggers are posted to control vehicle traffic while flight operations are in progress.

However, in a helicopter sale, a special effort must be made to bunch felled trees so that the logs can be bundled together by the hooker to meet the target payload. Mar 06, Officials said the helicopter crashed as pilot, Johnny Kent, was towing a stem of saws under the chopper and cutting back tree limbs near power.