HeliLogging

[jamie]

Found this after looking around the Buzzboard.

here is a quote from the FAQ page

Climbers -- these young hot shots climb high trees and fall the tops so that the helicopters can swoop in and pull the remaining standing part of the tree out of the ground. This is an eco-friendly, very expensive form of logging (popular in the EU). It requires incredible muscle strength and daring to be a climber -- there are only 30 of them in the world. When you think Climbers, think “Extreme Sports.”

I've head of very little helicopter extraction and i'm sure there are more than 30 tree climbers in the world

Jamie

 

[sotc]

and very few trees that could be ripped out with a helicopter

 

[Bounce]

The helicopter doesn't actually rip the trees out of the ground. The climber makes a snap cut, which the helicopter can then break off.

 

[SkwerI]

Yes, we know that. But obviously the idiots over at the Discovery Channel don't know that, even if they are the ones airing the program. :roll:

 

[Bounce]

It makes me wonder about the documentarys and such that I have seen. If they sacrificed the facts just to make helicopter logging look cooler, what do they do with shows on Discovery?