i bought a firebird commander, first plane i ever owned, and on its second flight I lost it and it went into a bunch of pines. It was resting around 100' up in a pine..I tried aluminun poles, ropes, and some more stuff I won't mention before I gave up because a tropical storm was coming. It sat up there through the tropical storm..i figured that blew it down, but it did'nt..so a buddy of mine ended up taking his climbing tree stand (for deer hunting) and climbing as high as he could, then he took a 30' aluminum pole (used as a handle for an old swimming pool vacuum) and knocked my plane out. I let it dry, recharged the battery, and it flew many more times (but never got stuck again like that).

The next time I tree'd a plane I landed my Twist 15' up in a pine (i don't have depth perception worth anything!) but got it out, undamaged, standing in the bed of my truck.

The next tree incident happened because my RX battery plug came out (!! yeah i did a preflight, but evidently not good enough) and I "lost" control...plane went down on the far end of the field. I looked for it for a couple of hours before I found it 30' up a live oak tree...which was growing in a fencerow....amongst a bunch of hedges. I tried 4,367 different things before in a fit of rage I cut the tree down with a crosscut saw (it was about 10" in diameter!)..but it got hung up in hedges and I still couldnt reach the plane. So I tied the tree to my truck with a chain and jerked the tree until I pulled it out of the hedges enough to let if fall..it finally fell low enough I could reach it. Plane sustained two holes in the covering, one in the aileron and one in the rudder. That whole endeavor, from getting to the field until I finally got the plane down took around 6 hours (including one trip back home to get a saw, chain, extension ladder, and some other things..).that was a baaaaaaaad day...