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?
I agree, except I’d be using a drop system on my drone, so there’d be no need to really fly down unless something goes incredibly wrong. I’m hoping I wouldn’t even need to fly through any branches as well. I’d definitely do it on the calmest day possible, of course.
The issue I have with the arborist sling is that I’d need to practice a lot to be able to hit my target, along with what you mentioned.
Correct on the practice. Ive spent way too much time looking like a dolt under my tree trying a bean bag toss, sling shots, etc. All of the methods require a lot of technique and patience. I consider myself pretty tenacious so ive wasted 10s of hours on this project and I regretted it.
In the end I did end up using a drone, I got extremely lucky and used a fishing reel attatched to a rod I hammered into the ground. Soon as I got it over the branch it for jammed up with fishing line as I assumed and I reached down and closed the reel bell. Then I slowly lowered it down to earth.
I got lucky that the weight of the drone was enough and the fishing line didn’t snag.