Quite a story Grant.
The vastly redesigned SkyCrane is manufactured today by Erickson, an old
Oregon company headquartered in Portland, but with its operational end down
in southern Oregon at Central Point - http://ericksonaviation.com/. Being an
OR company they get lots of coverage by the local OR news outlets.
Interesting to see videos of some of the things they lift, move and do and
how international in scope they are with jobs going on worldwide.
Now, if I could just win the lottery so I can put up some 200 foot towers
and better antennas hiring the SkyCrane of course. . . . .!
Wonder (didn't look it up) if the huge OH8X 80 M array was lifted by
helicopter.
Don W7WLL
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Saviers
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 7:59 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] [Bulk] Re: Steady Hand On The Stick Wow!!!!!
One more off topic
Hurricane Gloria put about 25 sailboats way into the marsh in my home
port of Marion, MA. In the old days, they would dredge to the boat and
float it out in the dredged canal. A definite no-no now. My yard hired
a logging SkyCrane from OR ($50k transcontinental flight) and hoisted
all of them (20k lb max so some had to be stripped) onto land if there
was a hull breach or back into the harbor. It took 3 hours to recover
all the boats! Quite a sight with a 40' sailboat with its mast slung
under it. My sailboat was safely moored + anchored and my further
inland TH7DX survived ok.
Grant KZ1W
On 9/25/2015 6:35 AM, Kevin Kidd wrote:
A Sky-Crane was setting HVAC units on a nearby factory using what appeared
to be an overly long cable. We got really concerned when the chopper
started wobbling and gyrating around and quickly dropped below the tree
line. Being first resopnders at the time, my assistant & I jumped in my
service truck and raced around to the parking lot that they were using to
stage the units and equipment.
When we arrived, we found a perfect circle of cable neatly layed out in
concentric coils with a large helo sitting in the middle of the rings.
The
pilot was sitting in the door with his sandwich and coffee. It was lunch
time and he was just rolling up his cable... We stopped and talked for a
minute and the pilot told us that he got "rescued" almost every time he
wound up cable like that.
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