Drone spraying

[SwampCat]

Another thing - drone guy said next time he came - I would t need to be there to show him what to do. He said he would spray and I could fish

Yep.....and I am still grumbling about spending $800 for my 50 gallon UTV sprayer. lol Seems like a good application for a Co-Op or perhaps a large farmer or group of farmers......with a tech head. Tho.....I think many of us could learn to do this (according to a video I just watched). Great to have under some circumstances like wet fields.

drone guy I used said he had about worked to death during July. We got ten inches of rain and he spent a lot of time spraying ag - which he doesnt usually do - just because standard wheel driven sprayers could work the fields.

I would guess Oct through Feb pretty dead

 

[Electrodigical]

This is kind of cool stuff if you have time to kill.

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[SwampCat]

Drone did a great job in the open field - not a single missed strip

 

[SwampCat]

Mile long two track. Even got up under some of the trees without damage to them

 

[Hoytvectrix]

Looks good. I take it that you didn't care what happened to those trees?

 

[SwampCat]

This was a one acre food plot back in the woods I could not access yet because of a creek. Drone was able to get about 150 yards from the operator and still receive from the controller through mature woods. 3/4 ft tall giant ragweed and marsh elder. Looks like even low growing vegetation was impacted.

 

[SwampCat]

Looks good. I take it that you didn't care what happened to those trees?

No - honey locust. They will probably come back stronger.

 

[Mortenson]

What chemicals and how many gallons per acre was he putting down? Looks pretty slick. Around here the drones seem to shine in applying fungicides, where it only takes 1.5-2 gallons per acre to be effective. 10 gal tanks on the few I've seen. Spray 5 acres then refill and swap batteries. I've never heard of herbicides being applied with crop dusters in this part of the world. If you see an air tractor working a field here, it's doing fungicide.

 

[Telemark]

I have seen more crop dusters than ever this year

Same. I saw three planes in Northern Ohio while driving the turnpike.

 

[SwampCat]

What chemicals and how many gallons per acre was he putting down? Looks pretty slick. Around here the drones seem to shine in applying fungicides, where it only takes 1.5-2 gallons per acre to be effective. 10 gal tanks on the few I've seen. Spray 5 acres then refill and swap batteries. I've never heard of herbicides being applied with crop dusters in this part of the world. If you see an air tractor working a field here, it's doing fungicide.

He was applying 2.5 qts gly per acre and about 1.5 qts 24d. About 1 gal of chemical and 4 gal water per acre. He said the 4 gal of water was higher than normal due to the thick stem count. 12 gallon tank so he was doing about 2 acres per tank. Come in, refill tank, swap batteries, and head back out. A lot of aerial spraying with herbicide here. They defoliate those trees in the far back right half of picture every other year where my land backs up to row crop.