parachute recovery

[JesseHuffman]

10 dollars a foot is what I made on this job to climb a scrawny cottonwood tree. I was hired to retrieve these small parachutes that were intentionaly flown into a small cottonwood grove. It was an interesting day and I got to see a part of AZ thet I never had before.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=climberdad#p/u

 

[easyphloem]

nothing about this makes sense to me.


but I might be coming down with the swine flu.



SZ

 

[JesseHuffman]

your tax dollar hard at work SZ.
does it ever make sense?

It was a prototype being designed for the military to deploy small payloads with a very small ram air chute (aprox. 2 to 3 feet in diameter).They were static relased at 3000 feet and designed to use GPS to guide temselves into the cottonwood grove. 3 out of 8 hit the grove. 1 out of those 3 got hung up.
4 trucks, 10 guys, g.p.s. toys, lap tops, Heli for 8 hours,photographers/cameramen, and an arborist....and all to get the thing hung up 25 feet in the air.

crazy

 

[UrbanTC]

Damn!!! You get all the fun.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

How did you get that gig? Did they offer doughnuts too?

 

[Gerald_Beranek]

It's been a secret government project until now.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

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It's been a secret government project until now.

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LOL!

 

[treedimensional]

So was that $10/ft to the cannister or the TOP of the chute? AND, DID you use your tape measure or their HI-TECH one?

Hey at least they hired an arborist to do the climbing. No one got killed AND the tree was standing after the gizmo was retrieved!!!