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Anyone hang nodes in tall trees? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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I live in Western Washington, and we have very tall (130ft+) Douglas fir everywhere. I have a few on my property and I'm coming up with a plan to hang a node relatively high up.

I have two options to do this safely. I can either use an arborist sling to shoot a rope maybe 60ft or so up, and then pull a heavier rope with the node up. Or, I could drop some fishing line and a weight from my drone and do the same thing, except possibly even higher up.

Has anyone done something like this? Am I overthinking this, or missing something?

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[–] clif@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm not smart so I climbed the tree as high as I could, strapped a fiberglass pole with a pulley to the trunk for extra height, then hoisted the node up via the pulley.

It "worked" but I didn't fully clear the canopy so the solar charging was not great. Controlling the position/angle of solar cells is difficult when hoisting a node