We used to have a task on the Wessex in NI to erect telegraph/power cable poles.
Workmen would position pole alongside hole, heli would lift other end of pole to put it in hole - only a specialised usl I spose, but it didn't really go anywhere or even leave the ground...
... all went well until someone attached the lanyard about a third of the way down the pole rather than the end ..... geometry unavoidably put pole into rotor disk!!