Ideas for 16 meter long arms...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Bugger. I maidened a new toy plane and in the heat of the moment trying to get it trimmed it landed neatly at the top of a mature poplar tree.

Its about twice as high up as the house..I've tried archery, but can't get the carry with a line attached.

No chance to climb it. Its poplar.Branches fall off of their own accord, let alone climbing. The only ones that don't are the ones with planes stuck in them

The battery will be toast in 23 hours.

Any good ideas as to what will reach that high? Just need to hook a branch and tip it out really..don't care about the damage..its a prototype for a new kit and the beta model is already ordered.

Last time it took 6 weeks to shoot the airframe to bits with an air rifle..

[George]

Know any fishing blokes? A roach pole? i'm sure these are very long

[Lurch]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:05:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher mused:

[chris_doran]

IB rescuers-of-maidens-from-castles used a light thread to pull over increasingly thick ones.

Kite? Helium balloon (blagged from kids' party)?

We await upcoming thread on how to get kite/helium balloon out of poplar :-))

Chris

[Lobster]

Do you need the line attached - wouldn't a heavy, accurately-placed arrow knock the plane out?

Or - don't you have an RC helicopter and grappling hook in your collection? ;-)

David

[tony sayer]

In article , The Natural Philosopher writes

Model helicopter with a skyhook attached;?.....

[tony sayer]

In article , Lurch writes

does 72 metres tho!....

[Ian White]

Fishing poles taper too thinly at the top. Longer, thicker poles are available, at a price:

16m of any kind of pole will very hard to 'steer' from ground level, and quite dangerous if you lose control of it.

Of course, you do have the option to ignore and forget about... Plane? Tree? What tree?

[Tim Lamb]

In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

I have some extending ladders that would get you more than halfway:-)

Alternatively, employ a small boy.

regards

[The Natural Philosopher]

It would, but I am not that accurate. The toy bow I have will take a monofilament up there, but teh arrow isn't heavy enough to pull it down.

Nope.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Too dangerous.

Poplars shed branches at the slightest provocation.

I may have to try the old spanner and string trick, but this one is high..I NEARLY cleared the top..

[Stuart Weir]

2 of these can't you just attach something heavy to a rope and throw that up and over the tree. If the branches are falling off of their own accord, it wouldn't take much to break a few branches off with the rope (Cue the environmentalists)

Or hire a ladder large enough to use to knock it down as opposed to climb it

[dennis]

Make a propane/lighter fuel gun using some 3inch pipe. You should be able to fire a ball with some string attached.

[Brian Sharrock]

The dodgy word is _employ_: you'll need to have carried out a risk assesment'; ensure that the employment does not breach the Working Time Directive; obtained permsiion of the Local Education Authority to emply said _small boy_; not employ said yoof beyond Saturday noon .... [You could just buy a replacement aircraft] .... etc. etc.

[Owain]

Ground-anchored hot air or helium balloon to get you up to the height, then a horizontal poke with a pole?

Owain

[Huge]

Ask someone with a cherry-picker nicely.

[Franko]

[John Rumm]

My first thought was drain rods... but you could also try the much lighter version:

[Ian_m]

If you chop the tree down first you should be able to easily reach it un-assisted or in worse case a small step ladder.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not my trees.