Some Finnish people have built a drone-mounted chainsaw and one can ask what could possibly go wrong? It reminds somehow of the Mantrid Drones if anyone recall those. The drone is capable of sawing fir branches and icicles. So it can actually be of use.
Youtube Clip of the #killerdrone.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday April 21 2016, @04:56PM
There's a dying branch over the house and if I could fly up there and cut it off 3-6 inches at a time I could get it down safely.
(Score: 2) by rigrig on Thursday April 21 2016, @05:46PM
safely
Did you misread the bit where it says "Drone-Mounted Chainsaw"?
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday April 21 2016, @06:14PM
Compared to ropes and pulleys and me hanging on to a tree by one hand and a chainsaw in the other cutting a rotting branch in front of me, I'd have to say safety is a relative term here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 21 2016, @06:59PM
Seems to me that your branch would come down more safely as chips (not 6"/150mm "logs") -- time for the drone mounted wood chipper. My new invention starts at the end of the branch and grinds toward the trunk of the tree until the user (hopefully) stops it.
Once it's done, the user can sweep up the chips for mulch around the base of the tree...