stackyFACTSLugging heavy timber down a muddy hillside is for peasants. In the modern commercial farming industry, highly skilled pilots use massive helicopters outfitted with grabbing hooks to snatch bundled Christmas trees from steep farm slopes and aggressively drop them onto waiting trucks like claw machines.
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