Hellicopters and powerlines

[sudsandbuds]

hey all,

I live in a non legal state for starters. i have a nice crop goin on maybe around 20 girls. thing is, my patch is a 200-300 yards from a main stretch of powerlines and right next to that is a thruway. i usually see choppers flying very low but they always just fly right by. what would be the cause for all the chopper traffic? this is my 3rd yr and i face this nerve racking problem every year

Thanks

 

[Midnight]

Those remote power lines are checked all the time by the power company for maintenance purposes. Check out this video.

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[40AmpstoFreedom]

I moved from two different houses due to Year+ paranoia at both cuz of choppers...

House #1 = Railroad tracks
House #2 = Powerlines

that is how I learned my lesson on this issue.

They use the power lines and railroad tracks as landmarkers for flying around imo. It is like their 'air highway' imo. Especially if you are in an area with a naval base...also the electric companies fly by all the time using scanners looking for heat spots on the lines where they might be damaged and leaking electricity...

Don't let it rack your nerves...Your nerves will get you in-trouble! I caused my self far more paranoia and risk by moving so much for what turned out to be no good reason...

First house I had 3 chopper incidents within a year of people being chased by cops in the neighborhood. One dude was tackled in my front yard with the chopper light right on him LOL....I was venting out the side of my house into an air conditioner unit that blew the air straight up (allowed it to blend in cuz its all hot air from the Central AC unit outside.). Had 2k watts in tents in one room at the time...Nothing ever happened. Had a nice GF from the midwest at the time who wasn't used to seeing a bunch of gigantic white cops tackle and man handle little black guys...I was in a decent neighborhood too lol...She would flip out she thought the South was a warzone, lol. When we would go up North I would almost get us killed with habit of locking the doors when you leave and closing the garages 24/7...Apparently you don't do that shit in the upper midwest cuz of the cold and a seemingly much better culture. Everyones garage doors were open 24/7 and they leave their cars unlocked majority of the time which always threw me for a loop.

Shit, I had 2 swat team members at the same house on the other side of my back yard fence running a dog up and down that caused me to chop 3/4 of a grow I had going at the time and nothing ever happened...(I am guessing I just happened to walk in my back yard when the cops were looking for someone running down the RR tracks?). K9 unit sat there forever but nothin ever happened. Had lawyer on tap and everything lol...

Relax, and if you live in a police state where the cop choppers are in the air almost on a daily basis move out of that state /shrug. Florida was fuckin wild...

P.S. I would not be growing outdoors anywhere near powerlines or railroad tracks...I would not grow again where you are growing.

 

[ajc0k]

^^Wow.
Helicopters fly by my house every day and every night.. Your definitely right about the railroads and power lines as some form of navigation, it's the same for me, however a lot of the time it's news or army helicopters..It's never worried me until one started flying back and forth side to side over my house really really low for a good 5 min during the day time with 4000 watts in a poorly insulated room about a month ago Needless to say it was chop day anyway, i ripped those ballast plugs out and i went rambo with a hack saw on root balls and stalks..

 

[guest121295]

Noticed this thread and I've had similar experiences with powerlines, major roadways and choppers/low flying aircraft.The choppers that fly low over the lines are usually heat scanning the transformers and wires.They do find weed because foolish people plant it there, of which in the past I have been one..and found out the hard way but I was young and figured all that 5ft brush would be great cover...then 9/11 went down and they started sending weed choppers around from a local Air Force base and scared the shit out of me regularly.I guess they ran out of money because they havn't shown up this year and my state decided to give up on the fight against weed unless they can catch you selling it, even then your looking at 6 months probation, even for 6lbs or so.Regardless watch out for powerlines they are ALL trouble, damn maintenence crews!~

 

[rootfingers]

Had my last place right across the street from mega power lines and had helicopter flight all day. Looked into it and there happened to be a helicopter flight school a few miles north.

Actually I came to view the power lines as a defense against LE IR scans due to my close proximity to them and the fact they were so big I'm not sure how safe it would be for the coppers to fly very near them. Not sure my reasoning stands up to reality in this case but never had problems either way.

 

[mtbazz]

Those remote power lines are checked all the time by the power company for maintenance purposes. Check out this video.

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oh man..that video is too much...hope those guys get hazard pay!

 

[ion]

for what its worth.....powerlines could be a good thing.

kind of like planting in an obvious place because...obviously, nobody in their right mind would grow there. so you grow there.

big power lines can be found out in the middle of nowhere, have roads under them, and usually have forest around them, okay?

so dont plant under them, plant near them. blend them in.....you could plant one every 20-30 feet for a few thousand feet.....stagger your patterns so there is no pattern.

 

[Still Invisible]

The choppers probably aren't looking for plants, and lets face it, unless there are a lot in one patch they probably wont stand out that much. Don't assume that all chopper pilots spend all their time scanning the ground underneath them, I would say most don't take much notice of what they are flying over. And I think a lot of them if they saw some plants wouldn't bother to tell leo, it's just extra effort for them.
I had leo fly past 50 yards away, just above treetop height, while I was standing in the middle of one of my sites watering. They never saw anything.
I only lost one to choppers and that was a fire dept. chopper; a fire went through the forest during the night and the next morning I was out at the site beating out flames around the grow and when I went back to the fire trail a heard a chopper coming; I crouched down in a patch of bushes that the fire missed and a fire dept. chopper came looming out of the smoke, flying really low.
It hovered almost overhead for about a minute then flew towards my grow and hovered over my grow for a while, and then flew off.
Five days later when I went back to check on the plants they had been pulled up.
The pricks even took my shovel.