[AT] OT Tractor based tree pruning

[bloomis at charter.net]

I watched and videoed a crew of four men in towers, dropped there by copter, unbolt the top section which was removed by helicopter, set a new, higher top section of tower, while said crew of four are all still in the tower, Then raise the six cables. All because the towers, probably 100’ tall had the wires too low to the ground for standards of either PG&E or the government. All in howling wind and rain. My response was no f-in way. Couldn’t pay me enough to fly, let alone be one of the gents in the towers. This went on a couple of days while they worked their way down the transmission line. At least 20 miles worth. I could observe about 8 miles of the line thru the vineyards while at work.

Bradford. 

 

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I had a private pilot certificate once, and had a friend doing helicopter training at the same time. I'd say a helicopter is orders of magnitude more difficult to fly than a small airplane. In an airplane, you can prop the yoke with your knee and open a thermos and pour a cup of coffee, etc., I cannot imagine flying a helicopter and and worrying about a swinging buzzsaw below me at the same time but some folks are admittedly more talented than myself.

 

Warren

 

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 5:41 PM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> > wrote:

Several people in my age range told stories of being drafted into the US Army as teenagers, passing qualification tests, then being sent to helicopter flight school. All flunked out for various reasons. A more recent coworker, told of being accepted for the school after completing an enlistment as an air traffic controller. The Army, to my knowledge, is the only service branch that does it that way. The latter soldier had learned to fly using a training simulator.

[Warren] I have a friend who was in this business, After his Dad died when he crashed his plane, my friend survived his helicopter crash while doing just this, he gave it up. It's an extremely dangerous job.

[Roger Moffat] Forget about tractors for a moment - here’s a helicopter trimming trees..

https://gizmodo.com/this-40-foot-buzz-saw-hangs-from-a-helicopter-to-trim-t-1589026400
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