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Post by Don Sims on Nov 5, 2023 15:16:54 GMT -6
Been on the road a lot without net access. What have you been doing? Building, flying, keeping out of trouble?
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Post by wildflyer on Nov 5, 2023 21:21:02 GMT -6
Still trying to get my Twisted Hobby Revo P3 biplane down from a tree where I parked it on Sept 3.
It is about 65' up and 12' out a 4" branch.
My friend is an experienced tree climber with equipment, yet when he saw it, he said he would need a upper canopy anchor. What ever that is.
The plane being 12' out on a branch that will not support his weight, means he has to climb up above the plane, anchor this thing around the tree, then he can use that to get out to the plane.
I have tried a slingshot with a strong fishing line and a 1/2" nut. But trying to shoot straight up is an entirely different thing than shooting at a can on the ground.
I made a Tennis ball cannon using a piece of 2 1/2" plastic electrical conduit and a Co2 fire extinguisher. It will shoot the ball and line high enough, but is hard to aim.
It should be fun if we get snow here this winter.
Trying to clean off my bench to get back to work on my Smoothie XL that I am building from plans I bought from Balsa USA
Sorry guys, this one will be powered with a 35cc gas engine I won at a raffle for $10
I do have a big 160 electric motor that could fly it also.
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Post by Don Sims on Nov 6, 2023 5:49:39 GMT -6
Neighbor has 10 foot sections of fairly rigid PVC pipe next to his shop. Both of us use them to rescue from plane eating trees. We use the branches to guide the pipes, one of us lifts on a ladder and the other adds pipes. Works for us but can take days of trying....  Our other two methods is a 12ga shotgun blast to the offending branch and a bow and arrow with fishing string tied through a drilled hole in the bottom of the arrow. And the fishing pole held by the other guy. |
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Post by wildflyer on Nov 7, 2023 12:59:08 GMT -6
Our club has push pipes stashed under the club house, but it is too high and there are no branches to guide the pipe. This is a very dense forest and the trees just have top foliage. the lower branches have died.
You don't dare use those to help your climb.
It tried my bow but could not pull it back, aiming straight up, and we can not get a sideways shot at it.
I could blow the branch off with my 300 Weatherby Magnum, but we can't even fly any piston engines at this field so I think the noise would raise hell.
I pushed a 96" Senior Telemaster out of one tree with the push pipes after I free climbed 40 feet the tree then had to push it out the side, it was a big bushy thing. (I was 69 at that time)
This is about the 5th or 6th plane I have stuck in a tree. I guess I am getting better at it, this one is really stuck. Although we did land one at 156 feet in a fir tree, the wind blew it out over night. I measured that with a laser tool.
Landed one in the very top branches of a huge bushy tree at my daughter's place, couple of month's later it made a better landing by itself than I do trying to guide it in sometimes.
I think the extra stuff my climber friend needs will be here in a few weeks, then we need to wait for a break in the weather.
I will take pictures of the event.
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Post by Don Sims on Nov 9, 2023 5:22:43 GMT -6
My favorite get a plane out of a tree show was when some guys tied a string to a quad and attached a treble hook to the string. They got the plane with the treble hook but the quad didn't have enough power to pull it out of the tree. They ended up with the plane and quad stuck.
A bucket truck was able to drive out there and they got both down with it.
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