I live in Western Washington, and we have very tall (130ft+) Douglas fir everywhere. I have a few on my property and I’m coming up with a plan to hang a node relatively high up.

I have two options to do this safely. I can either use an arborist sling to shoot a rope maybe 60ft or so up, and then pull a heavier rope with the node up. Or, I could drop some fishing line and a weight from my drone and do the same thing, except possibly even higher up.

Has anyone done something like this? Am I overthinking this, or missing something?

  • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Thanks. To answer this:

    • 3 small solar panels, using this case.
    • I plan on leaving the rope or fishing line attached so I can bring it back down if needed
    • Luckily it’s in a forest on my property, and the branch it would be on is more likely to kill someone, but it’s good to consider either way
    • It’ll definitely have an affect, although I’m not sure how much. Maybe I can choose a part of the branch with little foliage?
    • They definitely will
    • I plan on resin coating the case and using silicone around the panels. We do get a ton of rain here, but hopefully it wouldn’t matter too much if it died from rain since it’ll be relatively cheap