[TowerTalk] [Bulk] Re: Steady Hand On The Stick Wow!!!!!

[Grant Saviers]

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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