fordmantpw
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The DJI Phantom has a 25 minute flight time. With it's horizontal speed of 20+ MPH, it's quite doable.
Drone view of the neighborhood from last weekend.
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The DJI Phantom has a 25 minute flight time. With it's horizontal speed of 20+ MPH, it's quite doable.
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1) Many drones not in the toy category advertise 20 minutes or more flight time. Ten minutes at 20 mph would easily take the drone to its controllable limit of a mile or so with plenty of time to hover/harass etc.
2) not every cattle operation is King Ranch size. Lots of very small operations in MA VT NH and RI. For example. Easy to fly a drone all the way around the perimeter in 20 min based on typical quad copter speeds.
3) Do you naysayers have any reason or data at all to support your doubt that cattle were harassed?
fordmantpw
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Maybe footage from their own drone? :laughing:
buckeyefarmer
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Cool pic.
Would loved to have had a quad to chase our cows back in when they got out. Matter of fact it would be great to use one to check on the cows.
Would loved to have had a quad to chase our cows back in when they got out. Matter of fact it would be great to use one to check on the cows.
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That's the spirit! :thumbsup:
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The level of ignorance regarding farm size by certain posters is rather stunning. Oh wait, the poster who claims all cattle farms are too big to fly a drone over lives in the middle of a city where the last dairy/beef farm operation closed sometime before he was born.
Here are a few figures from the US Dept of Agriculture: Of all US farms with livestock (1.3 million), about 50% are categorized as rural residence farms with 98% of those having farm income of less than $100,000/yr. Indeed, 75% of those rural residence farms had income of less than $10,000/yr. The majority of farms with livestock were farms with pastured livestock types and few other livestock (54 percent). Just how big do you think a typical owner operated beef or dairy residence farm that earns less then $10,000/yr is???
Doing a bit of math with these numbers from USDA gives us just under 500,000 small scale rural residence farms with livestock of which about 250,000 had pastured livestock. The median farm size (all farms) in the US is under 180 acres. That is about a quarter of a square mile. Assuming a quarter mile per side, most of these rural residence farms with livestock are actually EASILY overflown by a drone with 10-20 minutes of flight time.
I'm kinda doubting that city boy is going to apologize for impugning your integrity however.
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