Spa placement over a hinterland home
A 620 kg acrylic spa flown over a two-storey home into a rear deck with a 3.2 m gate and no side access.
PA-2571 · Tallai, Gold Coast hinterland · 2024-11-09
The constraint
Why this lift needed a helicopter
The only street frontage was a steep cul-de-sac with a 3.2 m side gate and no crane standing.
The rear deck sat 6 m above natural ground on a falling block.
Removing fencing and retaining to walk the spa in would have cost more than the spa.
The lift
How it was flown
- Load weight
- 620 kg
- Aircraft
- AS350
- Line length
- 30 m
- Crew
- 4
- Exclusion zone
- 40 m
- Lift cycles
- 1
- Spa was rigged on a flat pad at a nearby sports field and flown 1.1 km to the site.
- Pilot held a stable hover while ground riggers walked the load onto bearers by tag line.
- Single cycle, hook released, aircraft clear of the block in under six minutes.
The numbers
Time, cost and disruption
- Helicopter time on site
- 0.6 hrs
- Flight time
- 0.4 hrs
- Crane alternative
- 1 day · $9,800 – $13,200 (boom reach marginal)
- Road closures
- 0
On site
Photos
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