Crazy Video: Harvesting Christmas Trees from a Helicopter

Ever wonder how your Christmas tree made it from the farm to the store front? In the case of the trees in the videos below, the process involved some pretty intense helicopter work. In the first video, pilot Dan Clark uses a Bell 2063B JetRanger to get the job done rather swiftly — to say the least — at Noble Mountain Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon.

To get a more up-close view of what this type of festive flying looks like from the cockpit, check out this second video.

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