So, better than sharknado?
Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
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Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#42It is a dangerous experiment. Luckily it only hurt a snowman. :)
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#43If anyone is interested in some more drone chainsaw action, they should check out when Jamie from Mythbusters attempted to make one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe9IDx3vCs
He was unable to get it to work effectively or safely, though his drone was not as heavy-duty as the one from this thread.
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#44Combine this with a vulnerability that allows you to take over a professional drone and it could get messy.
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Rodd...
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens? Once we figure out how to digitally accept kangaroo pelts as payment.
Cool, so we'll just continue pirating your content and bypassing your filters at record levels then :-)
That's actually a most generous and humane service you provide the world. Seriously.
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#46This is something I often thought about, for the purposes of tree pruning. What if you could point a laser-like LED beam to the location you want cut on a 55ft-high pine tree, and have the drone-chainsaw cut that exact location? That would beat using cranes or bucket lifts to hoist a person with their chainsaw way up in the air. (Of course the ground would still have to be cleared of people, as a branch would be fall…
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Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#47If anyone is interested in some more drone chainsaw action, they should check out when Jamie from Mythbusters attempted to make one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe9IDx3vCs He was unable to get it to work effectively or safely, though his drone was not as heavy-duty as the one from this thread.
Could this video be fake, though? Hitting the snowmen in that speed should seriously alter the movement of the drone. And can you get enough force to actually cut through a branch from a drone?
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#48As someone who has personally used a chainsaw for many years I saw that video with interest but realized quickly it's faked. It takes a substantial amount of force on a chainsaw to keep it cutting. A real chain saw is a relatively heavy device. I see no evidence in that video that the chainsaw is in fact cutting anything while only under the forces afforded by the drone. Every cutting shot is from closeup and I did n…
I also believe some scenes are faked - at 1:30 the chainsaw is turned sideways instantly, a maneuver which should not be possible with the gimbal setup they are using, and especially not without moving the center of mass way of balance.
Fun video nonetheless! :)
EDIT: Although, at 1:54 the rest of the copter can be seen after the cutting. Strange that they would not include any outside view of the cutting or even the chainsaw in a sideways position though.
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#49If anyone is interested in some more drone chainsaw action, they should check out when Jamie from Mythbusters attempted to make one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe9IDx3vCs He was unable to get it to work effectively or safely, though his drone was not as heavy-duty as the one from this thread.
Could this video be fake, though? Hitting the snowmen in that speed should seriously alter the movement of the drone. And can you get enough force to actually cut through a branch from a drone?
Based on the video from Jamie, I would say yes, it is probably a fake. But that's just my thought.
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#50As someone who has personally used a chainsaw for many years I saw that video with interest but realized quickly it's faked. It takes a substantial amount of force on a chainsaw to keep it cutting. A real chain saw is a relatively heavy device. I see no evidence in that video that the chainsaw is in fact cutting anything while only under the forces afforded by the drone. Every cutting shot is from closeup and I did n…
That is a pretty substantial drone they are using - it looks like the kind that can carry RED ONE cameras, which are about the same weight as the light weight chainsaw they used in the video. Regarding the amount of force required to cut things: they are only cutting snow and small tree branches. I think you are being overly paranoid here.
And balloons. If this was fake, I'd imagine they would have made it more impressive.