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Article: Power company takes on seasonal tree trimming: One flying saw covers more ground and cuts more limbs than up to 40 ax-wielding people.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Byline: Tim Thornton
Dec. 22--It came with an eruption of noise, an insistent, oscillating whirring and whumping that shook the air.
An automated voice on the phone had warned something like this might happen in the area, but this wasn't just in the area. This was practically in the back yard, right where the power company's right of way meets the railroad's right of way at the top of a hill that used to hold a colonial fort.
The tri-colored flying machine -- covered in broad stripes of blue and white and yellow -- moved just above the treetops, a mobile wind storm skimming slowly across the valley floor and partway up the other side.
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