Check out this video, in which teamwork pays off in Norway when you’re using a helicopter and a 766-gallon Bambi Bucket to fill a portable water storage tank, or “pumpkin”.
Via Bambi Bucket.
Check out this video, in which teamwork pays off in Norway when you’re using a helicopter and a 766-gallon Bambi Bucket to fill a portable water storage tank, or “pumpkin”.
Via Bambi Bucket.
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Looks like belly hook job, alot of downwash. This would never happen for the USFS, they would send you back for an extra 50′. I have filed a lot of Klump tanks or pumpkins with a long line ( up to 250 feet) and bambi bucket. It is a very effective way to have gravity fed water to pea hose lines if the pumpkin is on a ridge line. But there is no one around the bucket to stabilize the drop when it is being inserted so takes a steady hand. Very fun work.
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen on the fireline.
Only been to B.C. once on a fire assignment but remember the B.C. Forest Service helitack talking about this technique