A good portion of our structural repair work is on Huey's. Here are some pictures of a couple UH-1B's and a UH-1F that we maintain structurally for a logging operator. We also do their paint jobs. All of them over 50 and going strong. They have a very nice facility in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana.

More information at http://www.rrconner.com

Very nice Rich. Are you guys running upgraded engines in them? Or still running ones with the old style T nozzles?

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Where's the logging? All I see are some nice paint jobs.

B model was the gunship before the 540 rotor system brought the Charlie model and then the Cobra. The Mike model had the 540 rotor system and the extra fuel of the Cobra but had the fat body of the early Huey I flew them in a Missouri Guard assault helicopter company but didn't know why not just use the Cobra. Everything else, starting with the D model, had the longer body.

A to C had the Lycoming T53-L9 at 900 shp. D had T53-L11, and H had T53-L13.

Man I sure would like to play with one of those! Never flown a 204/205.

Those are 204's or 205's?

Very nice Rich. Are you guys running upgraded engines in them? Or still running ones with the old style T nozzles?

The B models have a tailboom plug (extension) and typically use the Dash 13 with 1400 Horsepower, while the F is running the -703 with 1800 HP. Both have incredible performance.

Where's the logging? All I see are some nice paint jobs.

Here is a link to their video "Logging in the 21st Century"

Not to take anything away from the pilot's skill set in doing that amazing flying (poetry in motion, they heli logged near my place once a few years back and I got a close up view ) but the ground crews, the riggers, are equally skilled in their own way. And at risk! As a crane guy myself who also flies, it messes with my head when I see this.....thinking of a aircraft as a crane, with one hell of a radius of operation even though not much of a load chart (though a lot more then seems possible, damn, I've picked enough trees to know how heavy they can be), helicopter logging has to be in the top 5 of the most bad ass aviation there is. Not counting military aviation, at least no one is shooting at the loggers.

Thanks for the interesting and informative video Rich. Keep them flying.

Very nice. The upgraded T53s are great! We just did an engine/rotor head swap on an ex military UH-1H/205 at school. Then a run up and dynamic balance. What a great helicopter.
Thanks for sharing your pictures and video.

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courierguy wrote:....helicopter logging has to be in the top 5 of the most bad ass aviation there is. Not counting military aviation, at least no one is shooting at the loggers.

Thank God that the tree-huggers are also anti-gun!

Fantastic video!

REALLY informative video on forestry management that all should see. We are dealing with the results of forest neglect in NM as well and hopefully folks can get educated better through tools like this where they can see the results of appropriate management versus the long standing neglect. The money it costs to get a forest healthy is cheaper than large scale fire fighting efforts, but its a hard sell. Another dynamic is that it costs more to get wood resource to market than the wood is worth in the forest. But if we do nothing it is all unhealthy and wasted. Good video and good job R&R Conner.

DeltaRomeo wrote:REALLY informative video on forestry management that all should see. We are dealing with the results of forest neglect in NM as well and hopefully folks can get educated better through tools like this where they can see the results of appropriate management versus the long standing neglect. The money it costs to get a forest healthy is cheaper than large scale fire fighting efforts, but its a hard sell. Another dynamic is that it costs more to get wood resource to market than the wood is worth in the forest. But if we do nothing it is all unhealthy and wasted. Good video and good job R&R Conner.

I agree DR, very well stated.

My buddy is chief pilot for a local company that does a lot of heli logging. He was telling me the blades for their heavy lift machine are worth $1m.

Kind of makes an MT prop seem like a deal.

Hey Richpiney is that an ADC filter on the firewall I see in one of the pictures? We used to run one in a 206 but couldn't find any replacement filters anymore so we switched back to a Facet. Do you know if ADC is still in business?

Hey Richpiney is that an ADC filter on the firewall I see in one of the pictures? We used to run one in a 206 but couldn't find any replacement filters anymore so we switched back to a Facet. Do you know if ADC is still in business?

I'll try to find out some details next time we do structural work on one of the helicopters.

Did anyone recognize the blue helicopter from the "Lost" Series?

ADC is no longer selling parts.
I would be interested in purchasing the ADC filter that you guys pulled off.

From previous threads, you could try
Oberg Filters: obergfilters.com
in Arlington WA for parts.
Apparently they made ADC parts

HTH


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I remember the chief Pilot, Bart, from ax-men. He died in while flying logs in Oregon. September 16 2013

I watched the Garlick accident kill a choker crewmember north of Darby. I grew up in logging, and knew someone who was in a wheelchair from a heli logging accident, and knew of another family that lost a son my age in another near McCall. As an older teen, I made as much hauling ass on a on a gyp crew in a 12 hour day as the heli crew made in a 10 hour day, and it was worth the extra work.