People across the USA are buying drones by the dozen these days, particularly during the holiday season. If you’re one of the more fortunate folks, you probably received a drone or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a gift. While you can’t help yourself from testing its capabilities, you need to be careful when you fly it in your backyard or garden. If you have many trees there, your drone may get stuck in the branches. You won’t have any other option but to summon Drone retrieval specialists to bring it down.
The problem
As soon as a UAV touches even the twigs and leaves of a tree, one or more of its rotors can slow down, which, in turn, will make you lose control. Within a few moments, the flying machine can veer off course and get tangled in the leaves and branches of your tree. If lady luck isn’t on your side, it may fall from the tree and sustain irreparable damages.
Start with the remote
Before you consider using a ladder to reach the top and get the UAV down or call an expert to help you, try to wiggle the controller a bit. Fortune may just favor you and dislodge it or drop it on a branch that’s within your reach. You may also consider shaking the lower branches gently to see if you can get the drone free. However, if none of these tricks work, you’ll need a new plan.
Get a pole
According to tree trimming and removal arborists, you should be able to get your UAV down from a tree with a long pole. Of course, the UAV has to be fairly close to the ground for this trick to work. Arborists providing UAV retrieval services managed to help most of their clients in the past by using pole saws or pole pruners.
Final words
If the drone gets stuck much higher, an individual in an aerial lift should be able to grab the device with his/her hands or pry it down with a pole.
