Yes I have personally done it myself in Kerala State India. There is lot of ants which can bite , but not poisonous. Usually when we put up a small smoke fire u

Yes I have personally done it myself in Kerala State India. There is lot of ants which can bite , but not poisonous. Usually when we put up a small smoke fire under the tree , the ants will scram. After reaching a branch , someone will throw a rope up and I tie the rope around the jackfruit and wrap it around a branch sort of acting as a pully system. Once the person in the ground has got a good grip on the rope. I cut the fruit and the person on the ground slowly releases the rope bringing the fruit down slowly. This is useful especially when the fruit is very ripe as it likely to smash into pieces on impact. The rope trick is employed widely in Kerala to harvest this gigantic fruit from the jackfruit tree.