God I hate trees

[PayLoad]

 

[messedupryan]

damnit.

 

[K'Tesh]

I'm at work, so I can't a copy&paste. but do a search for Robin Hood recovery.

[EDIT] I'm at home now... Here's the link:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/threads/treed-rockets-robin-hood-recovery-and-some-warnings.158736/

 

[tim cubbedge]

Didn’t that happen a few weeks ago?

 

[PayLoad]

Same.....@#$%^&.........Tree

 

[GalantVR41062]

I was waiting for the cat to go by the door way again. Move the launch pad to the left 15' next launch.

 

[tim cubbedge]

get a sling shot or a shot gun or a chain saw. You will prevail!

 

[Titan II]

Same picture.

 

[skaffgeorge04]

If you don't live in PA you should consider yourself lucky.There's nothing but trees here.Damn things are voracious too, I swear I can hear them growling sometimes.You can blame William Penn for that, he said to leave one acre in three in trees.I wish I had a buck for every one I put in a tree, I'd be doing pretty well.

 

[Blast it Tom!]

I could echo you there,@skaffgeorge04! If you can get a clear 1000' in both directions anywhere in SW PA, you are one luck fellow.

 

[skaffgeorge04]

Well, we're in the Northeast and believe me it's even worse up here.The only open space is usually on the farms but the local farmers aren't too keen on people flying rockets off their fields.Besides that there's really no place left to go.I haven't flown around here going on 35 years now.I'm looking at the Lancaster County area because that's where my brother lives, there's no point to be looking around here anymore.And I don't have a car so that makes things even more difficult

 

[Cape Byron]

Mate, trees are a part of life and a part of rocketry. I do most of my proto testing in an area on the farm most people would say is "Stupidly small" for what I need in terms of 100% reliable recovery. But hey, enough people cut down rainforest in this area for their own gain and I don't want to be part of 'Them'.

Flying in a treed area requires a lot of looking at the winds aloft, thinking 'streamers' not 'parachutes', and careful motor selection. It's all part of the fun.

Loss is a part of the hobby. If I have a rocket I won't fly for fear of losing it, it isn't a rocket, it's yet another dust collector.

Just my $0.02, but if my rocket ends up seven stories in the air and totally unrecoverable (see notes on Gooney Vostok kit prototype,) I'm grateful for the amazing flight, despite the loss.

 

[shockie]

Send a tree climbing 6 to 8 yr old up that tree...problem solved

 

[teepot]

You got it down once you can get it down again.

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

Dude, that's like 3 poles zip tied together with a nail at the end easy rescue. The apex of a monkey pod tree, that's hard.

 

[rbeckey]

Always surrounded by RETs. I am always downsizing chutes in kits. Cutting spill holes. Reefing lines. Fortunately the place I fly usually has high grass and the soil is never really dry and hard. I can afford a higher decent rate.

I also build a little heavy knowing that's the local condition. Substitute lite ply for fins. Or paper them. Good fillets. Through the body tube if possible. Finish epoxy on balsa NCs and other balsa parts to harden them. Very careful motor selection.

If I don't get it on the ground ASAP its gone.

 

[user 13]

A chainsaw, Problem solved.

Just saying.

 

[MoreCowbell]

Umm, what are these "trees" that you speak of?



And those are not trees on the horizon..they are folks retrieving a rocket.

 

[Arpak]

Umm, what are these "trees" that you speak of?

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And those are not trees on the horizon..they are folks retrieving a rocket.

What a desolate wasteland. Coords?

 

[MoreCowbell]

Northeast Colorado--Wyoming is right over the horizon. A fabulous place to fly (standing 20K AGL waiver, windows to 35K), but if you want shade, you better bring it with you. I will take it over the salt flats in Utah any day. Now THAT is desolate.

 

[teepot]

The club flies off a dry lake bed and I fly midpower across the street from our house. The only trees around here are the ones people planted. Now if the wind is from the north I don't fly at home because there are about 60 tress on our property.

 

[KenECoyote]

Send a tree climbing 6 to 8 yr old up that tree...problem solved

Please don't even joke about that...my neighbor's brother died after climbing a tree to get a friend's RC plane out if it. Rockets and rc planes are replaceable... people not so much.

 

[KenECoyote]

How many feet up is it? I once got one about 35-40' out by using multiple roof snow rake sections (I had two rakes), a broomstick, hook, duct tape and a ladder. I inserted sections from underneath as I raised it up since when it's that long it can fold/bend on you.
Of course stay away from the power lines!

 

[RalPh8]

Get a duck decoy retrieval tool. It extends out forty feet. Duck hunters use them to retrieve decoys on a lake.

if you need even more reach use it in combination with a ladder

 

[cwbullet]

It is best to avoid the trees.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Umm, what are these "trees" that you speak of?

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And those are not trees on the horizon..they are folks retrieving a rocket.

Yeah, it's hard to hang a rocket out of reach on a stalk of wheat...

 

[K'Tesh]

Yeah, it's hard to hang a rocket out of reach on a stalk of wheat...

Try corn

 

[rocketman328]

Get a duck decoy retrieval tool. It extends out forty feet. Duck hunters use them to retrieve decoys on a lake.

if you need even more reach use it in combination with a ladder

Can't seem to find anything over 18 feet?

 

[Bowman]

Try corn

I have walked right under the shock cord in tall corn.
Just by chance I picked-up the faint smell of burnt BP and started looking up in the area.
The rocket was strung across 18 feet of corn.
I found it by smell because I sure couldn't see it!

 

[Bowman]

Get a duck decoy retrieval tool. It extends out forty feet. Duck hunters use them to retrieve decoys on a lake.

if you need even more reach use it in combination with a ladder

Try a bow rigged for fishing. Sacrifice a parachute, it's likely torn anyhow.
Just make sure any bystanders know you're not hunting illegally.
I almost got my wires crossed with county FPD police once
They got a call about a guy in the preserve with a bow.
That took some explaining, and the tree was too high for success anyhow.
Fishing arrows don't fly too high and towing the line didn't help.
But it's worth a shot if you can do it safely and legally.