Dangnaggit!   The plan was to fly to 3,000 feet and drop this thread from a great height.

I made sure that no-one was actually on the thread at the time and managed to attach my home made harnesses successfully.   After a somewhat interesting take off run, I got airborne at just after 10 a.m. local.

The stiff breeze aloft was not unexpected, but the result was.   The wind caught the gossamer light thread (hey, come on, no one have ever posted any really heavy stuff in here) and spun it over to make into one of those para-glider chutes.

Dangling underneath, I was helplessly blown miles off course, until the whole dagnanned contraption got caught in a tree half way up the Saddleback mountains.

EMS rescued us and returned everyback to base.

And to add to my dismay, my good buddies at Civil Air Patrol have taken to poking me with wooden sticks.   Just a joke of ours for pilots who do ...er.... non-traditional aviation.

Anyway, this method of disposing of the thread is put onto hold until someone posts something really heavy in here.   Got to have some ballast.