This guy and his 200t...damn

Few years ago I watched a TV program (like AxMen, but it wasn't) about this helicopter logging outfit in Canada. They'd send a crew of climbers out ahead of time who'd top all the trees they wanted, then on harvest day, they'd bypass cut all the trees at the base and leave them standing. Helicopter, flown by a female, had a dangling grapple that she'd grab the stick with, snap it off and fly it to the LZ. CRAZY cool!

Anyway, all the climbers were using 200T's with a 16" bar, but topping these ginormus trees, just like in the video above. Then they'd throw a grappling hook over to the next tree, pull themselves across, and top the next tree. Throw grappling hook, repeat.

And the pilot wasn't some horribly hard-core masculine chick, just seemed like your everyday neighbor or younger sister. Incredible flying skills, cool and calm nerves, but admitted she had to be tough enough to fend off the advances of a camp full of horny loggers out in the middle of nowhere.

Wish I could find that program again!
 
Helicopters I was near in Northern CA had an explosive charge on cable to get loose of load in an emergency.

That's the only thing that would make sense in situation you described here.
 
Oh, just watched the vid. Skyline logging is what I elected to do rather than Heli logging when I first started out in the woods. Fun stuff for an 18 year old kid. They pushed the boundaries too hard for my liking with joking around all day and drinking till late. Then in to work early in the morning. I chose to leave, 6 weeks later they crushed two choker setters, killing one and disabling the other.

That's what had me off to find similar out door work that could be done around safer people - tree work with a family operation.

Treebing, not sure what was in his backpack but if it was me I would have 'get down rope', water etc.
 
Yeah fun to see him in the equipment. He was operating a "Yarder", the trolly like device/winch is called a "Sky Car." Sky Car is a remote controlled winch which would be most often under the control of the "Rigging Slinger" out in the woods where he can direct the chocker set ups on the logs and do the lifts in a way that makes sense.

Guy near me got run over by his own D8 early in his career and they had to remove his leg. He was back to work in 6 weeks and worked a long independent business career thereafter. Bought a house and property, raised a family. They forgot to tell those guys they were disabled and could only live off the govt dole.(sarcasm)
 
Jeff said:
Few years ago I watched a TV program (like AxMen, but it wasn't) about this helicopter logging outfit in Canada. They'd send a crew of climbers out ahead of time who'd top all the trees they wanted, then on harvest day, they'd bypass cut all the trees at the base and leave them standing. Helicopter, flown by a female, had a dangling grapple that she'd grab the stick with, snap it off and fly it to the LZ. CRAZY cool!

Anyway, all the climbers were using 200T's with a 16" bar, but topping these ginormus trees, just like in the video above. Then they'd throw a grappling hook over to the next tree, pull themselves across, and top the next tree. Throw grappling hook, repeat.

And the pilot wasn't some horribly hard-core masculine chick, just seemed like your everyday neighbor or younger sister. Incredible flying skills, cool and calm nerves, but admitted she had to be tough enough to fend off the advances of a camp full of horny loggers out in the middle of nowhere.

Wish I could find that program again!
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i had the full season but deleted it form my computer....https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7092918/Heli-Loggers_-_Complete_Season_1
 
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