Help me please to dispose of a black bin bag

theonlywayisup

Section62 said:

jonnydeppiwish! said:

Drain rods are a good call!

Unfortunately not.  As per ThisIsWeird's post suggesting the exercise is videoed, drain rods are designed to be flexible to go round bends, and are relatively heavy....  getting a 12m string of rods to go 12m vertically up in the air would be an amazing feat if you do manage to perform it though.

(Long bamboo canes are more rigid and weigh less)

Are drain rods the same as my chimney rods?  I thought they were, but I can categorically say my chimney rods would do the trick.  Not heavy, and we've had them take a cowl off the top of a chimney that was on the top of a three storey house chimney.  We weren't cleaning the chimney but the cowl had an old birds nest and it needed 'knocking off'.  Total success.  

ThisIsWeird

theonlywayisup said:

Are drain rods the same as my chimney rods?  I thought they were, but I can categorically say my chimney rods would do the trick.  Not heavy, and we've had them take a cowl off the top of a chimney that was on the top of a three storey house chimney.  We weren't cleaning the chimney but the cowl had an old birds nest and it needed 'knocking off'.  Total success.  

Good point. If you were to first construct a 11.5m chimney, terminating just under the bag. Otherwise - at 12m in length - you will almost certainly discover the irony of your username

Brie

ask the local firefighters if the want to do a ladder demo?  

(I find firefighters very helpful with odd situations.  Best was when neighbours managed to lock themselves out of their house leaving their baby inside.  Couldn't get a locksmith out as they didn't have their wallets so couldn't prepay.  The dad who was youngish but had had a stroke so not great mobility was trying to get a ladder high enough to be able to leap from the ladder to an open balcony window.  I called the fire department who were having a slow day and were glad of an excuse to go for a jolly.)

plumb1_2

Brie said:

ask the local firefighters if the want to do a ladder demo?  

(I find firefighters very helpful with odd situations.  Best was when neighbours managed to lock themselves out of their house leaving their baby inside.  Couldn't get a locksmith out as they didn't have their wallets so couldn't prepay.  The dad who was youngish but had had a stroke so not great mobility was trying to get a ladder high enough to be able to leap from the ladder to an open balcony window.  I called the fire department who were having a slow day and were glad of an excuse to go for a jolly.)

They must have been feed up playing snooker.

kipsterno1

Just watching Glastonbury and some of the flag poles people are waving look like they would reach.

ThisIsWeird

At last. A reason to go to G'bury :-)

stuart45

Is it noisy enough to waste a 12 bore cartridge on it?

prowla

A grappling iron and a mortar.

theoretica

Tree surgeons etc sometimes use hand catapults to launch throwing lines.  But you would need to choose what was on the end quite cleverly to damage the bag but not get stuck in the tree.

YoungBlueEyes

Nip to the shops and buy some fish. Catapult fish into the bag. Tie a length of rope to a cat's tail. Sling cat up to bag. Wait for cat to start eating the fish and yank the whole shabang down.

However, using a small child would probably result in fewer scratches.