Well you can always fly another one into it and knock it out.!!! Or see If a helo guy with a tennis ball on a rope can jar it loose.

Sorry to hear the tree is gone... I hope you plant a sapling in its place so many years into the future somebody else will be able to strand a plane ther
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I could have waited a little while as they are clearing the rest of the trees there to expand the premises for the business...

No trees[]..............,no oxygen[]..............,no internal combustion engines[][]...........,no power plants[]...........,no batteries[]............,no electric flight[]............,no radio control[],..............only free flight and rubber bands again[]

Have an RC Heli friend attach a hook to his heli...

Here is another way of doing it

http://www.rcindia.org/chatter-zone/...e-from-a-tree/

The video is in "Reply #7".

A very entertaining thread?? What is the condition of the plane? Good that no one will have to worry about a branch LZ ever again.

Thanks Anwar for posting the link.

The plane was retrieved successfully. Apart from small scratches and scuffs the plane is still airworthy. But watch out.. the cannon can hurl the potato 100s of feet above and makes a very loud bang!

-Ismail

This thread reminds me of a funny story.

My Dad and Iwere messing around on a 4th of July weekend a number of years ago flying a park flyer around the yard and he hung it up in the highest tree in on the 40acres of property. We tried using one of the bows with fishing line and a partial draw but neither of us could get the right shot at the branches the plane was hung up in. we worked and worked and worked at it for near to 2 hrs and finally had to call no joy. So we went into the shop and puzzled it out over a couple of beers. Iwas lookin around and there was a Marlin Model 60 .22 rifle that was used for the occasional squirrel that tries to nest up in the shop by tearing apart the insulation. Now remeber its 4th of July at my parents house on 40 acres.. we go out to the back and while he uses binos for spotting my hits, I start shooting branches.. again, this takes a while and we burned a little more than 100 rounds and no less than 8 branches to get this plane out of the tree. While we were doing this.. one of the closer neighbors calls the house and tells my mom that the kids from a nearby trailer court were lighting firecrackers on the back part of the land. My mother said, "oh no, its just Crag and Kirby shooting an airplane out of a tree that Crag got stuck". The woman who called, who had known my Dad since long before I was born replied, "he's never going to grow out of being a kid is he?" We still bray like jack*****es when that story is recalled.

I would also like to add that we were shooting in a safe direction and the adjacent property was all forest service land that had no development and there was no danger of any shots carrying into someone's back yard to hit some kid. Ethics in proper firearm safety were practiced.

definetly more cowbell

This m,ight sound a bit nuts but if you willing to climb a bit its possible. An old special forces trick is to tie the laces of your shoelaces together with enough distance between them to go around the trunk about 2/3 of the way also use a short rope around the tree with one end in each hand. You can inchworm your way up holdinding with your legs while you raise the rope in your hands. Then use the upper rope to hold you in place while you inch your feet up. If your in descent shape its doable.Good luck. Gary

just call these guys....make sure ya got beer and red meat for em.


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