Topband: Fwd: Re: Drone and pulley

[Grant Saviers]

The are a number of drone remote releases available.  Given the small 
payload capacity of cheap drones the weight is critical for everything - 
line + release + sinker.  The polyethylene woven fishing line has 
amazing strength and low weight.  I use it for my tennis ball launcher 
to top 120' straight up shots.

Grant KZ1W

On 11/27/2018 14:21 PM, WW3S wrote:
> There are some amazing drone videos on K3LR website
> 
> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Nov 27, 2018, at 5:11 PM, terry burge <ki7m at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting about the drones. I want to get one or maybe have someone who runs them take a video of my tower and place. High quality video that is. If you ever watch youtube/Andrew Caramata doing his property management/excavation stuff you will be amazed by how long his video are and the distances he flies with his drone. He even has a video where he takes it apart and does a repair on the camera mount system to get it to run smoothly. I'm a real fan of this youtube videos about the arborist/tree climbing pruning and tree removing (don't know exactly what to call it). Ace Tree out of VK land has some awesome videos. I could use someone around here like that but the one quote I got was over $1000.
>>
>> With the drone I would think if you can come up with a mechanism to release the rope/fish line you could use a fishing weight about 1 to 1.5 oz and run you line over a tree and drop it. That would keep you from tangling up your drone coming down again.
>>
>> Most of all they really can do some tremendous video with the drone!
>>
>> Terry
>> KI7M
>>
>>
>>> ---------- Original Message ----------
>>> From: Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com>
>>> To: Tree <tree at kkn.net>, topband at contesting.com
>>> Date: November 27, 2018 at 1:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Topband: Drone and pulley
>>>
>>> Oooh! Thanks! I didn't think of that.
>>>
>>> 73, Mike
>>> www.w0btu.com
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 2:43 PM Tree <tree at kkn.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Trying to picture how you bring a line down from the top of a tree with a
>>>> drone...  without it getting snagged.  Guess you need a weight of some kind
>>>> to pull the rope down and away from the propellers.
>>>>
>>>> Tree N6TR
>>>>
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