This morning I got a call from the Ridgeview Valley Preview Center that an angry “bee” was flying overhead, and that I needed to check this out. As I drove onto Gravelly Run Road I spotted a helicopter through the trees with something dangling from its belly.
I stopped and took the above photograph. As the helicopter rose a strange contraption emerged from the trees as shown in the next photograph.
Watching it at work for a few minutes, it became clear that this was the local power utility company clearing the power lines from ingrown and overgrown tree branches. The contraption was a set of 10 circular saws that were slicing branches with great ease. The helicopter was working in areas that were not easily, if impossibly, accessible by a truck and crew. These power lines were on the most western edge of the Ridgeview Valley property.
Pitiur.
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