Hydro company here used the skycrane.You could feel it thumping your chest from a long ways away.
That thing was huge and it picked up big power line towers whole and carried them back in the boonies for installation and brought the defective ones back to the Railroad to be loaded.
The skycrane the power company used here that time was out of Atlanta if I remember corectly and was manned by 3 or man crew.The pilot was ex US military.They said the one in use was the same one that put the spire on top of the CN Tower in Toronto.
I used to fly nuisance beaver surveys for the railroad every spring to identify dangerous water inland from the track.It was a long day at 13 hours.
Had to land for a few minutes every few hours to refuel the small chopper.It was uncomfortable spending that long in a small helecopter but you could see everything including the mile boards at the track.
I remember one year flying back cross country to North Bay from Timmins in a blizzard after completing the survey.The little choppers tail was straight out near 90 degrees from our direction of travels as the wind blew it that way,we flew the whole way sideways.

That should have scared the snot out of him. He was completely set up for dynamic rollover. I will have to dig some of my pictures out. You couldn't pay me enough to fly in a Robinson. The 500's were always fun and "Snappy". I am not as old as White to fly in Bell 47's. I had a Llama in MT and CO one summer and really liked it. I compared it to a 3/4 ton chevy truck. Not pretty, not fast but just a workhorse.

Great topic...Super photos.

my One ride in one was Expensive...middle of the night flight . Rural Wisconsin to Abbott N.W. I ĥad a

stroke. and was Lifeflighted. All that $$$ And no memory of the ride. It saved my Life though