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

submitted 1 week 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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[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

When I did it I used an FPV drone flown LOS, in acro mode with the arm angle turned off. Once I was over the branch, I just killed the motors and let it hang upside down. Once it settled, I armed it, and "flew" it straight back to the ground, using the rotors to pull the rope over the branch. It worked a treat 👌