how does ....

[spin cycle]

one of these ..

replace something like this?

 

[Nearly]

Thirty of them might, running continously and filling in their own wind speed record sheets.

 

[Devil's advocate]

one of these ..

replace something like this?

It dosn't.

Buy maybe a swarm of 10 drones could. Working at high speed & low water volumes (thats not legal either).

I hope Drones are legalised soon. Get a contractor in then to spray a water logged field without making a mess.

I would have liked one this year for late fungicide & slug pellets on Brussel Sprouts.

 

[delilah]

I'm guessing it comes into its own when programmed to only spot spray rather than blanket cover the whole crop ?

 

[spin cycle]

I'm guessing it comes into its own when programmed to only spot spray rather than blanket cover the whole crop ?

but how does a drone ever carry enough payload to do a significant area?

unless

but look at the drift

 

[DrWazzock]

I'm guessing it comes into its own when programmed to only spot spray rather than blanket cover the whole crop ?

You can do that with a normal 24 m wide sprayer by shutting individual nozzles on and off as required. Well you can’t on mine but can on one that costs eleventy thousand pounds.
Most of this high tech stuff is “looking for a job” or create work in my opinion.

 

[DrWazzock]

but how does a drone ever carry enough payload to do a significant area?

unless

but look at the drift

I remember the days of aerial spraying with the yellow biplane around here. Very impressive how he could fly under the eiectric wires. That got banned because the public didn’t like it. Can’t see killer drones being much more popular. Complete waste of time.

 

[delilah]

Who says it has to do a significant area ? Ever evolving agronomy and technology will allow the worst 1% of a field to be identified and nipped in the bud, as it were.

 

[spin cycle]

I remember the days of aerial spraying with the yellow biplane around here. Very impressive how he could fly under the eiectric wires. That got banned because the public didn’t like it. Can’t see killer drones being much more popular. Complete waste of time.

can you imagine if it went wrong....went into a garden and sprayed....i dunno .....an oap's pussy

 

[Devil's advocate]

I remember the days of aerial spraying with the yellow biplane around here. Very impressive how he could fly under the eiectric wires. That got banned because the public didn’t like it. Can’t see killer drones being much more popular. Complete waste of time.

Would be more helpful to have sprays, that work of course.

 

[DrWazzock]

Who says it has to do a significant area ? Ever evolving agronomy and technology will allow the worst 1% of a field to be identified and nipped in the bud, as it were.

I digging out Buck thistles the other day and it did occur to me that an autonomous robotic spot sprayer might be able to do it. But why can’t it just run on tracks on wheels? What’s the point of making it airborne?

 

[farmerm]

Thirty of them might, running continously and filling in their own wind speed record sheets.

Thirty of them will make the self propelled 4 wheeler look cheap though....

 

[DrWazzock]

Would be more helpful to have sprays, that work of course.

Exactly.

 

[Devil's advocate]

can you imagine if it went wrong....went into a garden and sprayed....i dunno .....an oap's pussy

If we go to War with Russia can be repurposed for war of course.

If we go to war with China, really stuffed, because that is where they are built.

 

[delilah]

I digging out Buck thistles the other day and it did occur to me that an autonomous robotic spot sprayer might be able to do it. But why can’t it just run on tracks on wheels? What’s the point of making it airborne?

Less likely to be nicked/ fiddled about with ? Guess you would watch it from the sofa and zoom it up in the air if a ne'er do well appeared ?

 

[spin cycle]

Who says it has to do a significant area ? Ever evolving agronomy and technology will allow the worst 1% of a field to be identified and nipped in the bud, as it were.

so you've got a 25 acre field (quite small by arable standards).....thats 100,000 m2.....1% is 1000m2.....10th/ha.....100l /ha.....so 10l required.....a drone can barely carry itself never mind 10kg

 

[DrWazzock]

I struggle to remember to plug my phone in to the charger and can’t remember passwords. Dealing with 20 drones would be the stuff of nightmares. Imagine cleaning them all out between crops or blocked nozzles. What about powders and crap that is difficult to dissolve?

 

[delilah]

so you've got a 25 acre field (quite small by arable standards).....thats 100,000 m2.....1% is 1000m2.....10th/ha.....100l /ha.....so 10l required.....a drone can barely carry itself never mind 10kg

Spoiler alert: chemistry is evolving same as all technology.

 

[Still Farming]

Has HSE Given permission for application of pesticides by drones yet then??

 

[farmerm]

so you've got a 25 acre field (quite small by arable standards).....thats 100,000 m2.....1% is 1000m2.....10th/ha.....100l /ha.....so 10l required.....a drone can barely carry itself never mind 10kg

What is the payload or a US Reaper drone.... can carry 215Kg for 12 hours is the official claim I think. Anything is possible, for a price.