Drone recovery in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

[Mark Andrews]

Can anyone help please? I was flying my drone at the Aquadrome in Rickmansworth on Monday and stupidly got it caught high up in a tree. I'm guessing it's about 30m up.

[Steven P]

Rocks? Knock it down?

[Mark Andrews]

I tried rocks etc but couldn't throw high enough, to give a better idea of where exactly it is here's a better photo (with drone circled in red). I'm not expecting a freebie but would be really grateful if anyone can help, and know I would need to pay for time and effort. 

[gdh]

Do you know anyone with a bigger drone to hook it out? I caught mine in a tree before and felled the tree (drone survived) but it's not the best option. 😉

[Rob D]

That's a pretty good climb - how about offer a price to get it down so folks know where they stand?

 

If it were me I'd want £80 notes - by the time you drive there, get your gear out and get up and down and packed away, back home looking at 2 hours I would estimate.

 

Just my take on it...

[openspaceman]

17 minutes ago, Rob D said:

That's a pretty good climb - how about offer a price to get it down so folks know where they stand?

 

If it were me I'd want £80 notes - by the time you drive there, get your gear out and get up and down and packed away, back home looking at 2 hours I would estimate.

 

Just my take on it...

I was lucky (or unlucky maybe) to get a bottle of scotch the few times the local aero  modellers (WDMAC now disbanded) asked me to retrieve a model, never asked for ought.

[peds]

If I were local to you I'd do it for free, but I'd call in a favour if I ever needed some drone footage.

[Witterings]

This thread brings back memories of 12 odd years ago ... learning to fly an RC plane, not that experienced and took my eyes off it for a couple of seconds to adjust the controller and ended way up in a tree.

 

I drove to the local fire station where they were drilling on a practice tower and when I asked if there was any chance they could help ... the manager / team lead laughed me out of the place (in the most demeaning way) even though I protested that in Trumpton they rescued cats from trees 😂 - I was so embarrassed I'd even asked from his response.

 

I then thought maybe tree surgeon so googled to see what I could find ... the 1st person that answered the phone was a lovely lady .... probably about my age or a few years younger ... who was probably the wife of "the main man".

It was a Friday afternoon and as I explained my dilema she obviously envisaged this old git with a new toy getting it stuck up a tree and literally I could hear she was actually crying with laughter as this vision obviously went through her mind ... alas though they couldn't help until the following week.

 

Next call I made, the dad answered the phone, again a lovely old boy who said he couldn't do the tree work himself any more but had run the business for many years but now just took and booked the work / did quotes and his son ran the team now but they were on a job that would probably finish early and could run by in about an hour.

His lad put on his climbing gear was up the tree in a flash whilst the couple of guys working with him (I guess for them) wandered over to watch and he had it down in no time at all.

I asked him how much he wanted and he point blank refused to take a payment .... in the end I insisted he take £20 and said even if you don't want it yourself buy the guys a couple of beers on a Friday afternnon or stick it in the bacon sarnie pot for the following week so he did.

 

I also gave him my address and he came round the following day and quoted me to reduce an Ash tree which he did a couple of weeks later.

 

I so wish I hadn't lost his number, lovely guy (so was his dad), incredibly professional and did a superb job with our tree.

 

To the OP .... fishing weight with fishing line attached as a leader (may be all you need depending how strong the line is) and a thicker rope behind it if the lines not that strong and a catapult .... shoot the leader over the branch, pull it until the stronger line comes through and then yank / shake it out? 

[JaySmith]

Your best bet if you had no luck from this thread is to have a look online/social media for local firms and phone around some of them to see if they can help. All the guys on here are spread all round the country so you may not get anybody close by. If I were local to you (Kent) I’d get it down for you. A firm I worked for used to do ‘cat rescues’ and that was a decent little earner for the business as the boss charged tree surgery rates

[PeteB]

You could probably knock it out with a set of live line rods to be fair!