Buying a drone
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Topic: Buying a drone
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: Buying a drone
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 4:50pm
| Been thinking about buying a big one. Any recommendations? One to take pictures of flea markets, festivals, farm steads, etc. I am broke down this week, darn lower back is giving me a real hard time. I dug out my 10's unit and it wouldn't recharge. Had to make a trip to squallmart and pick up a new one. Darn elcheapo shuts off every 15 minutes instead of 1/2 hour like the other 2 I had. Hardly able to stand up. Chiropractor did acupuncture and attempted to pop it. Will head back to him on Monday. |
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 4:57pm
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gee used to make tens units...40-45 years ago, wished I'd kept ONE of them.....sigh... I'm kinda 'missing' stuff between L3-L4-L5 so I KNOW first hand about 'lower back pain'.... Laying on a hard wooden floor helps, forces you to relax so 'stuff' readjusts a bit. It's trying to find teh uninterrupted time to relax though...seems someone always needs me for somethin..... 25 days until Spring so get better FAST !! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 5:09pm
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I've been thinking I'd like to have a drone too. I'd like to have something with infrared capability on the camera though. There are lots of them out there and priced all over the place, and I'm no help at all in figuring out a good one. Hope the chiro can get you back in order soon. I spent most of last summer and fall laid up because I tried to line up the 3 point disc to my tractor last spring and actually crushed one of those t bones down low. I'll be taking time to go get a pry bar from now on. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 5:41pm
| The first thing that would happen to one Id see would be brought down with a 12 gauge shotgun , I work construction and they fly them around ,, yeah that's |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 5:48pm
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I like the guy who flew his above the intruder, dropped a fishnet on it ! FREE drone !!! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 5:49pm
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CT, do what I did ,converted all my 3pt stuff to Snap-Coupler !!! OK, I have a 5' rototiller and a landscape rake BUT it's made MY life simpler...well , a bit.. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 6:07pm
All the tools I use now are 3 point, and my current go to tractor is red and gray(230 Massey) one that never hand snap couple  I have in mind , a simple tool to make, to line up that last 1/2 to 3/4 inch on the lift arms, just need to put it together.------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 6:17pm
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I am lost here. I too would like a drone to follow the planter, sprayer, truck loading, and combine. The Tens unit makes the body feel good for a little while, not unlike a glass of brandy. Now the sore back,,,,,,, I know first hand how bad life can suck!!! when the back gives trouble. So, good luck with the drone, Tens unit, and the sore back. ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 6:26pm
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I got the shots a couple months back. First time in a long time I haven't had pain in my back nor sciatica pains in my leg. I've been so happy!! I use my utility/farm jack for assisting with three point hook up.
------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 7:32pm
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Tom, maybe try this if you haven't, 10-15 minutes each time... lay
on floor and set your legs on a chair against a wall. Rest and try
relaxing then try pushing against the chair with your feet... Relax
again then set your hands on your legs and push against your legs with
your hands to stretch your back and wiggle sometimes. I would post more than a pic like this if some wouldn't go biten their palms with just their thoughts....    Then there is the cat stretch... Just do it like a cat when it gets up from a nap... Arch your back, then extend your hands forward and legs backwards and stretch each appendage and get up and go to work.  Here's a simaler pic of it... Hope some of this helps, it did for me 20 years ago.  ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 7:55pm
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I'm kinda like ole Doug,,,long as you keep your drone over "your" property then you ain't gonna have to go buy you another one. Well Chit Jc,,if you talkin bout ole Joe's palms,,,,not to worry,,,I gots callus's a mile deep on em by now,,,,, ,,,I realy gots to watch it tho,,when you post something like that,,I gots to be careful of hurtin my teeth,,,,,,, By the way,,,I'm likin thet special white towel under her neck,,,,don't you,,?? It helps keep her UMMMm,,,,,, chest from fallin down too much,,,,
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 9:04pm
| i'm with Doug on this, there is a "NO DRONE ZONE" above my property. if I see one, it'll have sum bullet holes in it. Tom...I have done the same things as JC describes, and it does help. did it until I found out I had trouble getting back up on my feet again. I now have a lift chair, and when I sit in it and lower it down and out flat, my back usually always pops and things are better afterwards. I still have my tens unit, it makes things feel better for a little while. hope you find some relief |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 10:06pm
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SIL bought his son one two years ago. Took it out of the box, took it outside, launched it and never seen it again! ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2020 at 11:00pm
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I been thinking about a drone for scouting deer in season. It'd be great if I could figure out a way to drive them too! Just sit in the lawn chair and one person drive the drone and the other guy holding the gun! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2020 at 1:07am
| Guys thanks for the back advice, but if I was to get down on the floor, I'd never get back up. Oldest son will be here tomorrow. He's gonna help me set my inversion table back up then he said he'd put the single phase conversion box on my wheel balancer. I wanted to go to a sale today. The Goodyear dealer was selling out. Old boy has Alzheimer's real bad. But shucks, I couldn't hardly walk. I'm sitting here tonight, old gals heart is acting up again, beating 190 per minute. Might have to run her into the ER again. They had to give her a jump start 3 times last year. She has little green pills to control that, but she refuses to take them. Oh well it usually takes about 1/2 hour to settle down, if it don't slow down by then it's off on a hundred mile round trip. Hope the coffee at the horsepistol is better than last time we were there. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2020 at 1:14am
| Looks like about $1000.00 bucks will buy a decent unit with a Hasselblad camera attached. It has a range of 3-4 miles depending on which battery is in it. There is a drone website on another farming site. Looks like a lot of info there. The things they are using them for is amazing. They can even take good enough pictures to do population counts in corn. Looks like a lot of crop insurance company's are using them to assess crop damage too. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2020 at 9:57am
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So far in the last 3 years I have bagged 3 of them damn spies! --- Don't know where they came from ---don't care! ---- IF you got one,--keep it over your own property! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: ocharry
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2020 at 10:37am
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hey tom,,,i was gona suggest a inversion table,,,but you already got one i see i love mine ,,when my back gets me down i get on the thing when i get up in the morn for about 10 mins. and at noon for about 10 mins. and then just before bed for 10 min. usually takes about a week to work things out,,,little every day,,,heck couple weeks ago i couldnt hardly walk,,,,and i'll be danged if i know what i did,,,but ol upside down got me straightened out,,,,dang sure wasnt no gittin on a tractor,,,,heck i could hardly get in a dang car some times i get on it just because,,,mine stays set up all the time,,,i got it so it lets me down to about 20* or so,,not straight down,,, i will say i love the thing,,,i always thought it was a gimick....but now i am a believer,,,prolly one of the best things i have ever bought ocharry |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2020 at 9:00pm
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BIL has a drone and two features it has is auto home. Push one button and it will drive itself back to where it took off from and land. Other neat feature is when the battery gets low it will auto return home before the battery dies on you. Maybe they all have that but I thought that was pretty neat. For Christmas I bought the grandson three little drones just for inside the house. No camera on these little thinks. They are about the size of a grapefruit in diameter but look like a UFO. Charge them up, then just toss them and they will start up and hover inside the house on their own. If they get too close to something they will move away. They run about 6 minutes on a charge. He loved them and best part they were only $10 each. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:10pm
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I got a DJI Mavic pro and like it . the new one is Mavic pro 2. realisticly about 20 minutes fly time . I've flew to another farm about a mile away but hurried home, has a lot of features I'm not smart enough to use. Sorry about your back, I had back problems for years. Mine is self inflicted, dirt bikes and motocross. ------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |