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I took these pics 4/28 and 4/29 from the rest area just south of Route 20A
and just east of Honeoye. They show a logging operation in which a large yellow
helicopter spent several days airlifting bundles of logs out of the Mill Creek
gully and dumping them right beside the rest area. A round trip to pick up and
deliver the logs took only a few minutes. After the copter released the logs
from its dangling cable, a crew on the ground moved in with a big
"grabber" machine to retrieve and stack the logs and bundle the pickup
cables for eventual re-delivery into the gully where they'd be used to lift more
logs. John Street
I took these photos on 4/26 of the same operation. They actually worked from
Saturday through Wednesday hauling logs with the helicopter. The company that
did this job is Carson Helicopters out of Pennsylvania, the helicopter they use
is a Sikorsky S51 capable of lifting loads up to 10,000 lbs. More information
about them can be found on their web site at http://www.carsonhelicopters.com/
This was quite an event for Honeoye,
when I was at the rest area on Saturday there was a crowd of spectators I would
estimate at 50 to 75 people the whole day. The last five pictures were taken
Sunday May 4th and show the remaining pile of logs. They had already hauled away
quite a few trailer loads by the time I took these, but it will give some idea
of the number of logs hauled out by the helicopter in 3-1/2 days. Dave
Beckwith
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