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Anyone hang nodes in tall trees? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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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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[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes and no - Doug firs do tend to sometimes drop limbs in wind storms, especially the weaker, thinner branches. It's not that they drop all branches though, it's sort of luck of the draw.