OH !!! and another great show !!!

Those are some of the most impressive helicopter operators!

great to see an expert at work.thanks for taking the time to film it for us.

Man that's impressive to watch,

Gator made trailer ! you can't beat them !!!

That is cool

Helicopter longline is always fascinating to me. You should look up helicopter Christmas tree flying in Oregon. These pilots can fly like you wouldn’t believe out here.

Those pilots who do this kind of work are on another level compared to normal helicopter pilots. Same for the people who work on the power lines. Great video Jimmy.

I saw that helicopter hovering while headed to the Joe today! Thought about stopping and checking it out and I wish I would have now! I do believe that we have found the perfect outfit to take on all of your cell tower jobs. Over the years of working around heavy equipment operators I have found that there are operators that can operate equipment, then there are those that can put the machine on like a shirt and it moves with them just like a well fitted shirt. This guy doesn't just operate the helicopter, the helicopter is that well fitting shirt and it does everything asked of it without thinking. It's great to watch those guys work! Great video Jimmy, and a lot of those outfits like that have really great guys working with them that are a real class act and are happy to talk shop to the right kind of interested guys.

Bad vantage point .....good vid......

iv seen helicopter do water pick-up and drop-off just impressive

Talk about a " Sky Crane" When Auto Zone built there new Distribution Center here in Ocala Florida, They used a Modified Black Hawk as there Sky Crane to set the AC units on the roof of the Distribution Center. I am assuming that there was not a carne with a long enough reach to get to the center of the building. Now I had never seen that done before and that was the site to see. Thanks for sharing this video.

That’s really great video. The helicopter pilot is amazing “”” WOW “””

Now I been around a few chopper pilots..an that dude has hands of silk!! He an the chopper are sinked as one. An you could see the wind in the tree limbs movement an It dang sure is not this dude's first rodeo!! AN my hats off to these high tension operator/ workers.. one miss calculation one slip an it's lights out for them o.o even though the chopper is technically insulated. When they hook the spark/static hook from the line to the leg of the chopper you can see a charge dissipate to the chopper...0.0 it's unbelievable!!! An like wise when they mount the high tension line same result.. was explain to me the wind flowing thro the rotors create a static electricity. I was a lineman for 1 1/2 years but I couldn't take the height.. was ok on 60 footers but the 90 ~120 footers I would freeze up... although I love your Crane videos this was cool to watch ;-)

Very Cool! That’s the kind of task that certainly warrants a ‘time-motion’ study. Every move, perfectly choreographed bcz every move is costing big bucks! I’m sure before they left the yard that morning, they double, no triple, no quadrupled, no quintuple checked the check-list. Looked like towards the end there that pilot was really puttin’ the spurs to that chopper. Probably starting to run low on fuel.

Thank you for sharing...n I could watch them all day too...I love helicopters especially the bell 222.

That was a very cool video. That pilot’s skills are amazing. I sure don’t understand how helicopters work. He doesn’t seem to have to rev up the engine when it lifts off. It just goes up like an elevator.

The way he the pilot would swing the bits out away from directly under him, and then followed them down on their natural arc as they swung around toward the ground spot was beautifuly smooth.

Awesome video Jimmy. I'M like you I can watch something like this all day now I would not want to be one of the guys up on top of the power poles working and climb from the pole to the helicopter no surrey I would like to be in the helicopter I have been in one and thats on my bucket list before I die. LOL I have been up in small and medium size planes and love flying. Thanks so much for sharing. Stay Safe. Stay Healthy!

Thank you.

Jimmy, thanks for sharing. They used a helicopter to change the lights at Lambeau Field to LED a few years ago. I wish I could have watched by my schedule didn’t allow. But like you mentioned I could watch this all day!

You need to talk to Taranto to see if they will build a helicopter.

Like you said that is some skills nice video Jimmy

A few years ago I was working in northern Cali on the railroad. There was a helicopter carrying linemen off the ground to the massive overhead lines. They were watching us work, and we were watching them. Their work was much cooler. The helicopter pilot was showing off also. Lol!

Great stuff. I watched a crew a few years ago just east of Riverside Rd doing change outs.

It takes a special skill set to do that line of work, just like it takes a special skill set for your line of work. Thank you Jimmy for sharing these videos with us. From Georgetown Kentucky...

That is what's called the proverbial "Sky Crane" I think. enjoyed the video

That’s heli cool! LOL! Especially the end!

From someone in the ski industry, look up how they put ski lifts in with a helicopter

Not a lot of capacity, but amazing tip height and many miles of lifting radius. Not to mention no worries about being a path to ground. Have you seen them drop the guys in chainmail suits to crawl along live high voltage lines for maintenance?

Great video Jimmy. I don't do heights. I'm glad there people that will. Have a good day my friend

You realize that while he is flying that machine and doing all the precision work at each end, he isn't sitting back in the seat and looking out the window? He is twisted way to the left, leaning about half way out the left door, and looking straight down. Try driving a car straight down the road while you have the left window rolled down and you are leaning out to watch the line go by beside the car. That is about what he is doing.

glad to see your still doing videos hope you and the family are doing ok

Nice to see another type of "crane" work also, Jimmy! I've worked a bit with heli-lifters and they are incredibly skilled and have a lot of pilot hours experience before they start this type of jobs.

Check the heliportable drilling vids on youtube I use to do it nothing like catching 1300 lbs. drill under a heli !! Great vid !!!

When I first started watching the video I had a feeling that was Air2. A few years back I had considered trying to hire on with those guys as a helicopter lineman. But settling down and getting married and starting a family made me reconsider due to the amount of travel those guys do. So now I’m a distribution lineman and get to sleep in my own bed every night

Power lines are tuff it not all ways easy to find out how much power it is..

If you want to see some very cool sky crane footage just Google Erickson Sky crane . They also have a KZfaq channel .

Did you get to talk to them at all or were they too busy/unfriendly?

Looks like the Air Rotors boys. Know a few. Ask Spider about "the tingles". A lot of ex military pilots..,easy work, nobody is shooting at you.

I am trying to decide on being a crane operator or a helicopter pilot I know crane operator is a much cheaper course in Ontario Canada at least

Sir Jimmie !! Guessing that they are using a nylon sling to prevent a spark from the cable under the ""HELO"" ??? Great video & THANKS !!! Waiting for more of your videos !!! ""KEEP IT SAFE ""!!!

That's a Hughes 500

What town was that in, I saw those trucks at an extended stay hotel in kansas city for about 6 months.

Looked like a drone in the background on the first flight picking people up. Potentially dangerous if so the way he was baking up.

So, you never had a chance to talk to them???

I have a friend who trims trees near power lines. I’m trying to get video of helicopter with hanging chainsaw!

obviously the time taken to do the job justified the cost to be done by helicopter rather than using a crane Jimmy.

Tadano, sorry. Stupid autocorrect.

Was that a drone or buzzard @ 19: 51 ?

Tell Ron I said hi and am still unemployed and seeking employment.

Take a ride with a lineman on a helicopter: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtOGZNemuqqRYGw.html