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Need to trim that hedge?

pretty cool video :applause:

2 things occorred to me.

1) there are a few guys at hovercontrol who could probably do surgery with that thing.

2) it would never work in say, south carolina, where kudzu is king.

i was wondering, what poers the saw? a separate engine or does the heli power it?
 
I think a separate engine powers the saw. I know someone who has a cabin in the mountains of Virginia and he has seen the same operation for clearing away trees from the transmission lines.
 
Some has written below the video:

"... the saw unit has its own horizontally opposed engine in the box at the top of the chassis and that box is connected to the belly hook with a pipe, not a flexible line. The anchor point has a U-joint, a release and the pilot can control the swivel, so he can run the saw in a direction that is different than the chopper is pointed. This is so he can cut along a line in a strong crosswind. "

Although you can't really tell if it referes to the saw in the video or the one's he seen.

Mike
 
I think I saw something like that in a James Bond movie (I think). The bad guys carved up a wharf with it, I thought it was just some sort of movie gimick. I wonder what sort of endorsment it is on the 'chopper (Sling mounted chain saw ?)
 
some things one can just count on, like the sunrise, or, death and taxes.

so too, did i know that was coming, and was waiting for it :costumes:
 
That's got to be the world's biggest "chainsaw". Skilled or not, I wouldn't want to be the pilot. Besides, how in h3ll would you get the training to do it? Amazing to say the least. Hats off to him.
 
Those power line pilots are something else, they work inches away from high voltage power lines :medals:
 
"The world is not enough" James Bond movie starred Pierce Brosnan. That chopper hacked through everything in sight.
 
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