Originally posted by pinball
I had a similar experience. We took an old baseball, and put a screweye into it. We tied a long string (chalk line type) to it. I am 50 years old, my body builder friend is 40. Neither of us could get the ball any where near the plane, but my 20 y.o. son had no trouble. In fact, he was able to hit the plane several times, but the idea is to throw the ball over the limb. If you miss, untie the string from the ball, don't try to pull the ball back out of the tree. Once you get the string over the limb, you use the string to pull a heavier rope over the limb. Once that's done, you put one person on each end and shake the limb like hell. It took us four hours. I estimate the plane was about 70 feet up, but since the tree was on a hill, we had a bit of an advantage by throwing from the uphill side. Good luck!
what happens when the plane falls out from 70 feet up? Do you try to catch it???