heli logging

[Arran Turner]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iae7xtEcJkU]West Coast Heli Logging - YouTube[/ame]

Watched it on youtube seems awesome (Think the music helps) ]

 

anyone had experiences of it first hand? Was once told it was the most dangerous form of tree work and can see how this can be true.

 

Arran

[DrewB]

thats pretty sad seeing those huge trees being felled...

[Paul Jenks]

Considering most of the coniferous forest was planted post first world war to make the UK self sufficient with wood it's ok to fell them, assuming the timber is being used for something.

We seriously considered using helicopters for wood removal from a garden in North Oxford. It was commercially viable and we had CAA approval for the operation, but the garden was just too small to store the wood prior to removal and the cost, £1000 per hour was only viable for a three hour extraction window. Had the company been allowed to use their Huey, with a 2 tonne lift capacity we'd have done it.

[DrewB]

Heli work is pretty common in NZ

[Mark Bolam]

Considering most of the coniferous forest was planted post first world war to make the UK self sufficient with wood it's ok to fell them, assuming the timber is being used for something.

We seriously considered using helicopters for wood removal from a garden in North Oxford. It was commercially viable and we had CAA approval for the operation, but the garden was just too small to store the wood prior to removal and the cost, £1000 per hour was only viable for a three hour extraction window. Had the company been allowed to use their Huey, with a 2 tonne lift capacity we'd have done it.

 

So a few 2-tonne lifts out of the garden should have been possible?

 

I wasn't there man, you were.

[DrewB]

How come you didn't chopper it out from still standing?