What Next:)

[Graham Lawrie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Viwwetf0gU

[Derek]

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.

[pvolcko]

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.