Badass helicopter pilot.

[Puppies04]

Amazing to watch, the skill involved is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K_aEajzNA#t=37

From his viewpoint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPO9pVwoxVg

 

[highland145]

Time is $$.


Surly that's an expensive way of harvesting.

 

[Printer Bandit]

not worth risking his life for christmas trees.

 

[highland145]

not worth risking his life for christmas trees.

Looks more like play.

 

[Puppies04]

not worth risking his life for christmas trees.

Said the grinch.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Cool harvest method...but expensive. If you consider the cost of a helicopter and fuel per hour....it probably takes them 1-1.5 minutes per round trip to harvest unless parked right next to the trees they were harvesting...

It would be far cheaper to do what most lots do and use cheap manual labor to cut and load the trees with trucks and roads.

 

[highland145]

It would be far cheaper to do what most lots do and use cheap manual labor to cut and load the trees with trucks and roads.

Oregon must not be immigrant friendly.

 

[rudeguy]

now I want to play Desert Combat

 

[halik]

awesomeness

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Oregon must not be immigrant friendly.

On the contrary; upon entering the state, every immigrant is given a helicopter.

 

[Markbnj]

Cool harvest method...but expensive. If you consider the cost of a helicopter and fuel per hour....it probably takes them 1-1.5 minutes per round trip to harvest unless parked right next to the trees they were harvesting...

It would be far cheaper to do what most lots do and use cheap manual labor to cut and load the trees with trucks and roads.

I think they were round tripping faster than that, but yeah, I also wondered how this could possibly be worthwhile. But I couldn't really tell whether the load was one tree or six.

 

[PricklyPete]

I love how a video on helicopter skills devolves into a criticism of harvesting economics within a few posts on ATOT.

Desert Combat rules!

 

[Theb]

Oregon must not be immigrant friendly.

Christmas trees aren't very labor intensive so most farms are family run.

It's also out of season for immigrants. They travel south for the winter.

 

[rudeguy]

On the contrary; upon entering the state, every immigrant is given a helicopter.

LMAO

I don't know why I find that so funny.

 

[DaTT]

now I want to play Desert Combat

I loved that game. Now I do it on Battlefield 4

 

[rudeguy]

I loved that game. Now I do it on Battlefield 4

the new games all make me dizzy

 

[highland145]

On the contrary; upon entering the state, every immigrant is given a helicopter.

Sweet. Julio Cruz in for one.

I love how a video on helicopter skills devolves into a criticism of harvesting economics within a few posts on ATOT.

Money, it's what I do. And my kid spends.

 

[fjmeat]

looks dizzying.

 

[Meghan54]

That wasn't bad.

I've had better piloting, tho. Got dropped into a clearing while I was on active duty over 4 decades ago when one of my line medics couldn't deal with one of his "charges" going into heat stroke. I was 2 min. away by chopper, so got 'coptered out to the site to deal with it until the FLA showed up...pilot dropped us into a clearing I swear didn't have 1 ft of clearance anywhere around the blades or tail and he dropped in like an express elevator.

Damned near made me soil myself. But helluva ride. The kid did make it, thankfully. Was seizing when I arrived.

Did a few other flights like that during my years in the Army, every one in very tight, almost inaccessible spots, yet the pilot managed to not kill us landing.

Sorta miss that stuff.....sorta.

 

[Rudee]

This guy owns the title for Helicopter Badass.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0SN3tG4Atk

 

[rudeguy]

This guy owns the title for Helicopter Badass.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0SN3tG4Atk

youtube says this is related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaA3aQ9SPSI

 

[BUTCH1]

not worth risking his life for christmas trees.

Huh ?, "life risking" not found. This is a highly skilled person maximizing the fuel burned by the copter in moving material (in this case X-mas tree's) Jesus your dumb.

 

[Ichinisan]

I bet the video ends right when he snags the truck while trying to fly away from it.

 

[Ichinisan]

Huh ?, "life risking" not found. This is a highly skilled person maximizing the fuel burned by the copter in moving material (in this case X-mas tree's) Jesus your dumb.

You kidding? That was insanely risky...even for the best pilots.

 

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