[Scott S]

Rick,

To do a major line layout you have to get the small line to the back of the unit around a block and back up to the winches to hook on to an even larger line. A 7000 foot layout would have taken a half a dozen guys a couple of days to pull around that much cable by hand all the while all of the equipment is setting idle. I figure my costs are about $600 per hour, I am sure that Browning's company is even higher. For that setting the helicopter was cheap.

I spent yesterday down over the hillside setting chokers and probably will do it again today as we are shorthanded right now. At nearly 50 years old I still run, thats just the way we do it here in the wet west.

Scott S