Anyone done helicopter tree work?

[Island Lescure]

Just looking for ideas as to how to achieve this:

 

15 largish, approx 1m dia 15metre+, trees to be removed from river edge without letting anything go into the river. The land they are on cannot be accessed due to landslide and opposite bank of river cannot be used.

 

The idea presented to us now is to install a forestry tractor above the landslide, circa 100m away. The slope is about 15-25%. Then rig stuff down onto the land at base of trees and pull everything up with the tractor cable. As you can imagine, many trees are leaning over the water. All these trees moved with the landslide; see article for details

We have to go back to see if this is even possible and to inspect the trees as they may be unstable.

 

When we looked at the job we thought to drop them in the river and pull them out from the farmer's field on the other side...

 

Now I am wondering if we can use a helicopter to make things quick and painless... But I have never done this before so, does anyone know:

If one can hire them for this in the UK and who to contact?

how much they can lift?

general idea of how much per day?

 

Cheers,

 

Island

[Olliebradbury]

[Olliebradbury]

Sorry, I thought the photo quality might be good enough to read, apparently not

[Suffolk-Matt]

general idea of how much per day?

 

Id be surprised if you got any price of less than £10k

 

EDIT - Based the above on offshore work in a previous life, that was a Lynx, lifted a fair amount

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Edited September 7, 2016 by Suffolk-Matt

[Olliebradbury]

That article talks about a WLL of kg1000 at €27/minute

[aspenarb]

Why not load them onto a barge? Between pontoons and barge you can move 20ton of chip and chogs at a time.

 

Bob

 

[eggsarascal]

Why not load them onto a barge? Between pontoons and barge you can move 20ton of chip and chogs at a time.

 

Bob

 

 

You could also use a Narrow Boat if you haven't got a Barge.

[aspenarb]

You could also use a Narrow Boat if you haven't got a Barge.

 

iTs oN tHe bArGe lIst egG:001_tt2:

 

bOd

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Why not load them onto a barge? Between pontoons and barge you can move 20ton of chip and chogs at a time.

 

Bob

 

 

It's bloody blue! You've got a barge as well!!??!!

 

This would look good in blue!

 

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[Island Lescure]

Why not load them onto a barge? Between pontoons and barge you can move 20ton of chip and chogs at a time.

 

 

We will have a pontoon for the other trees that need to be removed (ones standing in the middle of the river) so it is an option, but the river is shallow and not very wide. We will look at that option again when we go there to re-evaluate.