RC-Hangout

I was just about to post this. Good catch, Graham! Once again....another dangerous craft. As if the flamethrower on a quad wasn't bad enough....now we have a damn chainsaw??? Seriously guys??? WHY??? Clearly there are too many people out there with too much money and not enough common sense.

Here's a scenario for you....this guy is out flying his multi rotor, with the chainsaw on it, and an esc goes out. Now the craft goes out of control with a screaming chainsaw on it.....now what happens? With any luck, it would just crash into the ground and break into a thousand pieces. If there's no luck involved....well, here's where the imagination comes into play.

Can't say I'm not happy with the ending of this one.

This does have some practical application for limbing where a ladder can't reach. I've seen video of circular saw array setups dangling from full scale piloted helicopters used to cut back limbs from overhanging roadways and such. I think this concept is potentially very useful for a smaller scale RC setup like depicted here. But:

- I'd think a master kill switch on a separate Tx/Rx setup for failsafe would be a must.
- Ideally it would be an electric saw so it's safe until triggered to run, hopefully with the normal trigger replaced with a solid state electronic control that the Rx can run, not some hacked together servo depressing the mechanical trigger switch setup.
- Flying overhead or near people (rc pilot or otherwise) is simply moronic, even without the chainsaw involved. Throw that into the mix and its a darwin award waiting to happen.