Mini 3 Pro obstacle avoidance - not!

[Etbrown4]

Ordinary tree climbers used spikes and a loop rope to scale trees. No hydraulic equipment needed.

Perhaps $10 might cover a typical climb in Brazil but in the US, I'd guess $100 as a minimum.

$600 sounds like enough to cut some trees to the ground!

 

[Bad Santa]

Ordinary tree climbers used spikes and a loop rope to scale trees. No hydraulic equipment needed.

Perhaps $10 might cover a typical climb in Brazil but in the US, I'd guess $100 as a minimum.

$600 sounds like enough to cut some trees to the ground!

It was a very densely packed Spruce, in a residential neighborhood and the drone was @35 feet up (sitting on a gnarly wasp nest)

But the tree service has a $600 minimum so it could have been 12 feet off the ground and they'd have charged the same. Though, if it was 12 feet up I would have found a way to get it myself.

 

[Etbrown4]

Surely it's frustrating to see your drone stuck at 35' but not be able to reach it.

Not every tree climber has $600 minimum. I know at least 3 which don't. Maybe next time, if there is one, you can get multiple quotes, as that price was " as high as a Georgia Pine."