Rocket Recovery Team:
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Through thick woods, tall trees, sharp shrubs, poisonous plants, deep creeks, tall fences, loud neighbors, lousy weather, and large insects, our motto is -
" No Rocket Left Behind "
Lost & Found Page
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Members - Rocket Hound, Eagle Eye, William Tell, Tracker, Tree Climber
Steps for rocket recovery.
Rocket locating (best to use a GPS or RF transmitter system) -
1. Watch rocket all the way down. Best if someone is taking a video.
Mark an unique landscape feature on where the rocket went in the trees.
Set up a GPS line from observation point to landscape feature.
2. Draw on a paper map the center line with a couple of other lines a
couple of degrees on each side.
3. If possible, start at the point where the line goes into the trees
and keep going down that path. Might need to take clearing equipment -
hedges, trimmers, etc. to make a path.
4. Otherwise, start from a convenient side or back point and move into
the center line.
5. Keep marking off on the map the areas that you have searched until
you find the rocket.
Rocket tree recovery -
1. Once found, then use poles and ladders, as shown here, to get the
rocket down. The equipment here can go up to 60'.
2. If the rocket is very high then we have a friend of the Club tree climber who has recovered several rockets from 50' on up. See - Sep. 3, 2011
Equipment used:
Location:
GPS -
Map printouts
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Binoculars -
Rocket recovery:
45' pole -
17' pole extension -
20' ladder -
Bow and arrow
to shoot a line over the cords
Scrub clearing:
Hedge trimmer
- electric
Hedge
clippers - manual
Pruner -
manual
Pole pruner -
manual
Other:
Bug spray -
Way up there!
With Team Mascot "Retriever"
Where is it?
One rocket recovered
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Rocket recovery - Jul. 25, 2010:
Red rocket high in a tree
Zoomed
in
Coming down
Almost down.
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