http://www.highterra.com/mp4/GradeLot.mp4&apos ;">Site Grading video with Surveyor
[mp4] http://www.highterra.com/mp4/GradeLot.mp4 [/mp4]
What kind of drone, and camera?
Nate The Surveyor, post: 330028, member: 291 wrote: What kind of drone, and camera?
I don't know the details of the drone and camera. It's sort of a low resolution which keeps the file size smaller.
The drone belongs to one of the contractors guys. It's my property we are rough grading so you can guess who the guy with the GPS backpack is.
LRDay, post: 330077, member: 571 wrote: I don't know the details of the drone and camera. It's sort of a low resolution which keeps the file size smaller.
The drone belongs to one of the contractors guys. It's my property we are rough grading so you can guess who the guy with the GPS backpack is.
Nice property. What is the grading project's goal?
Witnessed a little shock yesterday when hoofing on my favorite jogging path. Some guy wheeled a Pelican suitcase next to the Bay, calibrated and initialized his $4000 drone (gyro stabilized HDTV with pilot view at the controller) for some sailboat on the bay coverage, but ran into a "no fly zone" on his controller error message. He couldn't even rev up the props. He was shocked because he'd been collecting major coverage of sailboat races in Southern California. Turns out the latest drone software update deactivates usage within 5 miles of an airport worldwide which meant a 60 mile diameter no fly zone around San Diego. Kinda cripples your investment, don't you think?
If you're thinking drone usage in your neck of the woods, think again. High end drones will prevent you from using it in vast interesting areas.
https://www.mapbox.com/drone/no-fly/
Brad Ott, post: 330316, member: 197 wrote: Nice property. What is the grading project's goal?
I'm going to set up a small precast concrete plant. It needs to be almost level for a rubber tired gantry crane to move around on site. This was where I grew up, my dad's dairy farm. It had been out of the family for about 40 years. I bought it back 3 years ago after a foreclosure. It was a gigantic mess which I've finally about cleaned up. We hauled off over 50 sidedump loads of concrete and I have burned several big piles of junk. The big pile in the video is barnyard topsoil that I screened. Sure makes potatoes grow.
The site is on the highway and has all utilities including natural gas. I need to annex into the city to avoid some county zoning that won't let me develop as industrial. Getting the site graded was a big step. We moved about 4000 yards in about 10 hours. I had topo'd and calc'd a grade. I did have a couple of 2% slope areas. I just set a few stakes with flagging tied at grade and then "staked out a line" with the GPS and directed them where to dump and spread. Plenty good for the first rough grading.