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Anyone hang nodes in tall trees? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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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?

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[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have wasted a lot of time on this topic.

Drones are a crap shoot, the higher you get the more the weight of the fishing line drag and cross wind will mess with you. Flying through the branches then, more importantly, flying DOWN is impossible without the fishing line getting caught in the rotors. If you use a drone consider it a consumable.

Ive tried aggressive sling shots but its a ratio of the weight of what youre shooting relative to the drag of fishing line. Use too much weight then it won't fly high. Use too little and then you dont have enough to pull your line down the other side of the branch back down to earth.

Ive considered using a crossbow but lost interest.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

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.