beastmaster
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I started work for a great company, and couldn't be happier. Were vary diverse and it gives me the chance to do different things besides just trees. One of the other things we do is plane recovery. The first one we had to rappel down a rock face after being helicoptered to the top of a rocky mountain top. After rappeling down to the wreck I had to remove a 50ft pine that the plane had got wedged under. The pine was on a ledge, on a 80 percent slop 6000 ft. up.(the tallest tree I've ever climbed 6050 ft. Way cool, and yes I am kind of high siding. Now for the Worst job ever. Yesterday we were helicoptered to a rocky mountain top 11,000ft, We rappled down 250ft down a rocky slide 75 percent grade. The wreckage was like an accordion. The SAR team had been there the week before recovering the body's. At that time there had been snow on the ground. To make a long story short and admitting the grizzly details, beside the plane we recoverd 150lbs of what was once 4 people. I wasn't in the military or anything to prepare me for the sights we saw. I am happy I could maybe help the familys and I love the thrill of the whole thing, but never have I done a more horrible job.