Deviated: My Mavic is sleeping 100ft up in a tree tonight

Zapiture · Feb 4, 2018

On holiday, tomorrow is my birthday, and my drone is stuck up a HUGE eucalyptus tree.

Tomorrow I’m spending my birthday retrieving my bird.

ANY advice welcome.

Youser · Feb 4, 2018

How did it get up there?

sonof40 · Feb 4, 2018

Make sure it stays your birthday and not the other one. Be careful.

JimmyHillsChin · Feb 4, 2018

Ask for an extendable ladder for your birthday?

Cut.Aussie · Feb 4, 2018

I used a Trex550 helix once to get someone’s Drone out of a tree, lots of power to lift a drone

dvarapala · Feb 4, 2018

Zapiture said:
ANY advice welcome.

Hire a professional tree trimming guy to climb up the tree and retrieve your Mavic. These guys climb tall trees every day and know how to do it safely and efficiently.

hryzec · Feb 5, 2018

Get to you shorts, cut the rope and bound it around the root of the tree and youselv and climb it like a pro. Make sure some fishermans with net will catch you and your bird on the way back. Just joking... A professional climber would probably do the job.

FuzLogix · Feb 5, 2018

Zapiture said:
On holiday, tomorrow is my birthday, and my drone is stuck up a HUGE eucalyptus tree.

Tomorrow I’m spending my birthday retrieving my bird.

ANY advice welcome.

I just googled HUGE eucalyptus tree.

Good luck.....

Tommytucka · Feb 5, 2018

Pay somebody to get it back, some things are priceless... like your life

MichiganMavic · Feb 5, 2018

How do you even see it that high? I’d say use another drone, but likely it’ll get stuck too [emoji15].

dbyantis · Feb 5, 2018

Agreed, arborist!

nikkolaa · Feb 5, 2018

Did you tried shaking it? [emoji4]

FuzLogix · Feb 5, 2018

I'll just leave this here:

dvarapala · Feb 5, 2018

nikkolaa said:
Did you tried shaking it? [emoji4]

Or maybe call the Jolly Green Giant to come over and reach up into the tree?

Zapiture · Feb 5, 2018

FuzLogix said:
I just googled HUGE eucalyptus tree.

Good luck.....

Ok, now that’s HUGE!

Zapiture · Feb 5, 2018

So here is the good news: my bird is safe and sound. Alls well, got loggers to help. Just when all was set for the rescue the Mavic miraculously fell right at our feet. Don’t ever say prayers don’t work. Had very little shut eye last night. Here is a clip of the episode.

royster · Feb 5, 2018

If local Arborist not available, had good luck with local rock climbing school,
Local rock climbers have done so many retrevals, they have rates posted!
Averaging $100.00/drone

kcabpilot · Feb 5, 2018

There’s a YouTube video of some guys retrieving a Mavic from a tree with another Mavic. Of course there’s the chance of getting both of them stuck but then you could split the cost of getting them back lol.