Chainsaw hangs from helicopter to trim trees

Blades clear trees to create new bike path

[@pensfan-vk3bo]

Got one of these flying around my house right now. Didn't know what it was till I found this video really cool.

[@mollym.1205]

Yep I just saw one and it’s been around all morning, crazy to see

[@pershorty]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while!

[@anthonytheriault7401]

NOW THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE!

[@lordemarsh6804]

Why not have a camera looking down so that the pilot can see it in a screen inside the cockpit than having to stick his head out

[@MaxwellHill-mk5pi]

Looks shabby and risky

[@fork8815]

this is the most American thing ever

[@ptl79]

Why not put them on the train car and just drive?

[@blessyoubecky5609]

That is a very logical question! Seems like there would be much more torque with a locomotive, but then, I could be wrong.

[@kylebrown8891]

I wouldn’t call it a chainsaw more like a decacircularsaw on a rope

[@lasseomatic]

Put this on a drone.

[@imho2278]

These trees will recover and grow back. Bite the bullet and bulldoze everything 50m out from each side of the railway. Already done under some high voltage lines.

[@alexspera3116]

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[@ShawnLH88]

or just get nice actual cutting done with two saws on either side of a train car that moves along for perfect NICE CUTTING with uniform look the saw blades are just flailing around doing a shitty, but acceptable job

[@stangable5564]

Shawn it’s actually used primarily to trim trees near power lines in remote areas.

[@jrey6186]

@@stangable5564 there you go, lets add live power lines to the mix, next round's on me!

[@blharubin]

Was the pilot on mushrooms?

[@edfrye5358]

Looks like something you would see on a James Bond movie........oh, wait.........!

[@bullowner7157]

Rip to the pilot

[@jrey6186]

Zero precision - flailing saw blades nice - looks like this idea was hatched last night at the local watering hole - cheers!

[@henrytheparanoidcat]

What about the quality of the cutting? This is brutal, seems to have no regard for the health of the tree! What about cutting to growth points? Preventing unnecessary scar damage that can lead to disease? Obviously no an arborist!!!

[@proxy7578]

if the tree lives, great! if the tree dies, who cares. 139 acres of trees are cut down each minute, just be thankful that they're not chopping the trees down completely.

[@w0mbatina]

oh cry me a river dude.

[@charlottecreamer5942]

Absolutely agree. Something like this was done to a property I'm renting now that abuts the Trans-Canada trail in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, and it's nothing short of a massacre. Frankly, it looks like the inmates of a lunatic asylum were set loose with chainsaws and told to do whatever they wanted with them. I've never seen such destruction along a trail. The remaining trees have gaping wounds right to their core and clearly will not survive. Apple trees over a hundred years old were demolished, leaving behind two to three feet of jagged trunk sticking out of the ground. The absolute worst cutting job I've ever seen in my life, and whoever's responsible should be held to account. I checked out KZbin to see if other people have witnessed the same kind of destruction along trails, and this video comes pretty close to showing what I'm talking about. And of course it all comes down to $$$. Shame on the people doing this, the people promoting it, and those defending it. You treat other people as you want to be treated, but you also treat the land and the creatures living on it the same. If you don't, it will come back to you, particularly if you know better but do it anyway for $$$ or the sake of convenience.

[@jeffc7486]

Do you yell at tornadoes and fires?