[TheForge] Brainstorming -- Trouble with trees (OT)

[Bob Ehrenberger]

They must of had some kind of fail safe or they wouldn't have taken the 
risk.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Brainstorming -- Trouble with trees (OT)


Eeek!

I can just see that chain getting caught and yanking the copter down
into the trees!  I certainly HOPE they had some redundant fail-safes
on that rig!

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at centurytel.net> 
wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> A couple years ago we were at my daughters's house when we saw the power
> company trimming the trees along the high tension lines. They were useing 
> a
> helicopter with a 20 or 30 foot chain looped down form it, kind of like a
> chain saw without the bar. They got the chain moving and just flew real
> slow along the right-a-way cutting off all the limbs that hung over the
> line. I have no idea what they did if they got the chain stuck, it might
> have been designed to release if ran in reverse.
>
> There is also the electric chain saw on the end of a long pole that some 
> of
> the trimming services use.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
> ---Original message ---
>
> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:40:37 -0500
> From: Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Brainstorming -- Trouble with trees (OT)
>
> That certainly clarifies the problem and focuses attention!
>
> Now, does ANYONE care to discuss my harebrained scheme for a limb & tree
> lopper?
>
>
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-- 
Bruce
NJ



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