Welp, guess I'm done.

[Dark Skies]

I am super pissed right now, so bear with any negative energy emitted by this post. Firstly, I'm a disabled vet with anxiety and depression issues. I bought a drone thinking it would be a cool hobby. I've rarely flown it because my anxiety told me something bad would happen. I left my comfort zone and took it for a flight today. Sure enough, son of a bitch, I managed to crash it into my idiot neighbors tree. I live in the country, my next door neighbor has several tall pine trees right on her side of the property line. Now it's stuck in the tree about 40 feet up. Do I have any options other than burning/cutting the tree down (which I'm seriously considering). Would a tree service company be any help. If I can't retrieve it, I'm done with this hobby - I'll concentrate on my gun and knife collections.

 

[DoubleG]

Hi...sometimes happens and, I will say, at least one time happens to everybody! Me too crashed an expensive drone colliding a tree...then I've reconsidered my flight capacities and learn to fly far enough from trees.
The recovery....depends, what drone are we talking about? Because I imagine that a company with a platform can have an huge cost compared to the drone value.

 

[Dark Skies]

Hi, thx for the reply. Honestly, it is definitely a "budget" drone , under $200 on Amazon, and you're right, if I could find a tree service company to do the job I'm sure the price would be well above that. It just pisses me off and frustrates me. The branch that it's stuck in is literally over my front yard, I feel like the tree is taunting me. As I said, due to my issues I let negative events like this really get to me, especially since I already had anxiety about flying the **** thing, then this happens and my negative thoughts are like, "Yep, we told you."

 

[phph001]

I am super pissed right now, so bear with any negative energy emitted by this post. Firstly, I'm a disabled vet with anxiety and depression issues. I bought a drone thinking it would be a cool hobby. I've rarely flown it because my anxiety told me something bad would happen. I left my comfort zone and took it for a flight today. Sure enough, son of a bitch, I managed to crash it into my idiot neighbors tree. I live in the country, my next door neighbor has several tall pine trees right on her side of the property line. Now it's stuck in the tree about 40 feet up. Do I have any options other than burning/cutting the tree down (which I'm seriously considering). Would a tree service company be any help. If I can't retrieve it, I'm done with this hobby - I'll concentrate on my gun and knife collections.

Trying to be positive. Is it stuck on a branch which can be shaken to get the drone to fall out? If so then the plan is to attach a thin string to a stone or ball and throw the ball so that the string passes over the branch. Attached to the other end of the string is a much thicker cord, which in turn is passed over the branch and brought down to ground level. You then shake the branch while 2 friends hold a net to catch the drone.