Legal Fire Hydrant Water Access! Vortex advantage AG
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- In this video, we will give you a quick demo on how to access from a fire hydrant good quality water for spray applications from your city or county municipality. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on how we did it.
super fast refill. nice! its always glad to see the mothership :D. best regards from chile
Thanks brother!! Getting busy up here. How are things down there? My cell is 81 76593211. I respond better with text.
Nice setup. Could you tell me more about the clamps used to hold the drone down. Thank you and keep posting
Hey there thank you for the kind comments. I love the community in the drone agricultural sector. Everyone has been very thoughtful and complementary. Regarding the clamps, I used to strap the drone down. I actually got the idea from someone else in the community and have provided a link here on Amazon. a.co/d/bWBNPCA.
The one thing I would say, could improve them, is somehow getting rid of the metal on metal contact between the landing gear and the buckle. When you strap them down, there are two positions you can use over the landing gear. One is tight, and the other one stretches the rubber strap further, and gets it tighter. I would suggest using that tighter setting on the strap if you were drone is higher up off the floor or something. I don’t know that I would trust these if my drone were sitting on the back of a flatbed truck or something like that, but inside a trailer, they were great, and I’ve never had them come off. they have slid off the base of the buckle front or back, but the buckle did not come undone. That’s because the metal on metal allows it to slide more so than it would if there were some rubber in there somehow. I thought about cutting a 6” piece of 1 inch hose and then cutting it down the length of it, opening it up and gluing it to the bottom of my landing gear as to provide a nonslip skid type thing. That would definitely solve the problem of it. Sliding off the buckle. The Lang actually rests on top of the buckle unit. would be better in my opinion if there were two separate pieces to the buckle and the lager directly on the surface but that’s not how they’re made.
Thank you. We are running a different drone. It's the Hylio AG-272. Trying to get our storage/tender trailer finished up. I do enjoy your videos. Everything well thought out. Thanks again. Neil
@neilflanagan202 awesome sounds like you’re well on your way to getting something going if you’re not already. We initially put a deposit down on two Hylio AG230’s but changed our mind and decided to run DJI. Nothing against the folks down Hylio, they were very nice and I’m sure we do great things. I just hated having to give up the efficiency. We saw the 272 in action down there when we visited a thing is a beast. Might be a handful getting in and out of a trailer moving from field to field but if you can make that process efficient you should be good. Maybe create some sort of dolly That you can scoop it up once the arms are in their upward stowed position.
Super cool setup! How much do you charge per acre?
Thank you! It really depends on what we’re doing. A lot of the acres we have been working our range or pasture work, which can be a lot slower going and more complicated with many obstacles and varying terrain. Also access to the pastures can be difficult so those will all cost more. The field crops like corn and wheat are in that $15/acre range. Range and pasture $15-$20/acre depending on difficulty. You in the biz? Or a producer?
@@VortexAdvantageAg thanks for the info. We are producers.
Maybe a dumb question: how do you price out the chemical? Or do producers provide you with what they want sprayed ?
@austinporter1546 not a stupid question at all, and you will see that there are all kinds of answers to that question. We personally like to pass along savings to our customers, but need to make some margin on the product we spray if I’m going to handle the logistics of getting it on the job. I would say the margins are between 10 and 20% on the product. That can also be used as wiggle room for negotiating on larger jobs. Ultimately you want your full application fee and the product margin is a bonus. That’s how I look at it anyways.
You really do everything to the 9's. Is it better to go "all in" like this or try and start small until you gain traction?
It really depends on your position. I went all in because I believed this was the industry I wanted to not only get into but scale a business up and go back with it. You could certainly do both, but it comes down to whatever you’re comfortable with financially. We definitely invested a lot upfront, but have big plans to back that up.