WHAT A MAD MORNING A GREAT RESULT
A massive thanks to @clinkadink without whom this would not have been possible.
It has been a learning exercise (see below).
Thank you guys for all of your helpful and uplifting suggestions, I would like to add a few based on today’s experience.
Plan A - The heavy metal thing on a long rope… aka “Swinging the lead”. A great idea in principle, would have worked first time if the drone had been at 14m… I really don’t think that was right, My guess that it was significantly higher.
More weight needed.
Plan B Swing the lead +
Plus a dough hook… yes you read that right. The idea being that this is like a one pronged grappling hook. Extra weight + extra effort = extra height… further distance = less control (sorry mate… I hope it didn’t hurt). Gaffer tape is beyond excellent. The adhesive strenght turned this simple device into a two adult rope swing!
Plan C (hang on to your seats) the Proboscis
A meaty Mavic with a piece of 20mm conduit designed to push the Mini SE out of its lodgings. ‘Pokemon’ didn’t quite deliver.
Plan D “Air-tree Rescue”
This has to be seen to be believed and I can’t overstate the courageous flying skills of @clinkadink.
On attempt 3, the rope was successfully deployed over the evil branch from hell and using one of the methods from above “Shakey shakey shake shake” the drone fell… to the next branch down…
Where finally the combination of swinging the lead (minus the now stuck-in-the-tree dough hook) and pokey pokey got the drone out.
Incredble?
Not as incredible as that when a fully charged battery was put into the drone… it only worked… as though nothing had happened.
Brilliant!!
Lessons…
- DJI Quick Shots are crap and must be avoided… learn to fly instead
- You should always have a weight and a rope in your car no matter how suspicious it looks
- Duck Tape is indispensable
Thanks again… the best possible result