Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: All right, guys, welcome back to the Drone on show. Today we have Tron. I'm excited to hear how you got into this industry. Every time I see a young guy, I'm like, I got to know, cuz it's pretty crazy. And I. I say it all the time on the podcast and on the videos. Is the. The age group that's doing this. So how did you get into this?
[00:00:19] Speaker B: So I went to Mississippi State and graduated. So you would have been in December of 23. So I've only been out two years, but when I was there, they had some. There was a class to get your 107.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: So I took that class. And even before I passed the test, it's actually a funny story, because I was saving up. I was saving up money to buy my now wife a ring to propose to her.
[00:00:44] Speaker C: Don't tell me you used that money to buy a drone.
[00:00:45] Speaker B: Well, I asked her. I asked her and she said I could, so.
So I bought the drone and then I started doing. Because I saw your deer stuff.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:00:55] Speaker B: So I started. When I saw your deer stuff, I started doing deer, you know, recover. I bought a 3T and started baby drone. Yeah. So I started that way. And then I was still in school as I was doing work, you know.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: So I was mostly doing the deer survey stuff, but then I started recoveries and everything.
[00:01:12] Speaker A: But that's cool. So. So how's the recovery done for you?
[00:01:15] Speaker B: So it's done. Good.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: Make a living on it down there or not really.
[00:01:20] Speaker B: We have a lot of.
We have a lot of dog guys.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: And in Alabama. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: What part?
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Tuscaloosa. So I'm like central. Central Alabama. Yeah.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: Are there big deer down there, like, antler wise?
[00:01:34] Speaker B: It depends on where you're at. It's real spotty. They actually, like, reintroduced a lot of deer back in the. I think it was 80s or 90s maybe.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:01:43] Speaker B: So a lot of, you know, Minnesota deer, I believe. So there's different parts of the state, like, if you look at our rut map.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: One part of the state will be November, and then another part will be January.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: What. And that's because of different genetics, really.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: And then, like, the high fences, you know, they'll bring in northern deer.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:02:00] Speaker B: And they start.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: That one farm we flew to Alabama for. Was that a high fence? I don't remember.
[00:02:06] Speaker C: 3,000 acre.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: But we. We. He hired us to come, obviously, count his deer, and by the time we got there, it all had to start greening.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: When we couldn't get it done for him.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: So it was about the march or so.
[00:02:18] Speaker C: Yeah, it was like end of January or end of February, maybe early March.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we were trying to beat it, but it was just. I told them we're just going to have to reschedule. But then obviously guys like yourself started doing it, and so we didn't do it, which is fine. I'm okay with not traveling all the time. So you started with thermal drones and then you transitioned into spray drones?
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah, so I actually majored in agriculture science at Mississippi State, but then I. They call them.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: What does that mean? I'm sorry, I'm. I'm ex. Amish boy. Went to eighth grade. So what?
[00:02:52] Speaker B: So agriculture science, it's a really broad degree.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:56] Speaker B: Like, I did anything from soils to chemicals to plants. You know, a lot of people, you can go in there and focus on one of those and major in that. But I did the whole umbrella. Wow. So I.
[00:03:09] Speaker A: So you got to be, like, super smart to do that one.
[00:03:11] Speaker C: Well, do you learn a little bit of a lot?
[00:03:13] Speaker B: A little bit of a lot. That's basically what it is.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: So. Okay.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I wanted to, you know, kind of dive in, get my feet wet on everything.
So it worked out really good. I learned a lot.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: What does that degree allow you to do once you. Once you have it? Yeah, you go through school and then you come out.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: So a lot of guys that I graduated with, they went to, you know, like Helena Ag or nutrient Ag, and they're either doing fertilizer stuff or selling chemicals and stuff like that.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: But since I got the thermal drone and started going, I was like, I might as well do the ag stuff, too. So.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: So you did it on your own? Yeah, like, completely.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: I thought maybe with your school background, you were working for a co op or something like that, and they.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: As you go.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Okay, so let's dive into that. So you're doing the thermal drone, and you look into. What spray drone did you start with?
[00:04:10] Speaker B: So I started with a T10.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: What?
[00:04:12] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:13] Speaker C: When did you start?
[00:04:14] Speaker A: You said two years ago.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it would have been. It would have been the summer of 23.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: So why. Why'd you go with a T10? Because a T40 was available at that time.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: So I started with a T10 just because I had a friend of mine that was actually an investor in the company.
[00:04:30] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: And he was like, let's buy this T. He saw it on Facebook.
Yeah, it was used T. So he was like, this one.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: Tell me how that went, because I've never Used anything older than a T40.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: It was a good drone. I mean, it's still. I've never. It's never been crashed, dude.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: Guys, that's impressive. A T10 is a DJI. Yep.
Drone, that is. How many years old is that unit now?
[00:04:53] Speaker B: It's got to be. I think it came out in 21 or 22.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Dude, that is an old unit and it's still flying.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah, why not? Sitting in my shop.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Okay, so you started with a T10. How many acres did you cover with it?
[00:05:06] Speaker B: I don't know. On the acreage wise, how big was that tank? Like, two and a half gallons.
And most of the work I had starting out was some forestry work, so it was at least 5 gallons to the acre. Oh, dude, I was spraying.
I was filling up all the time. It was crazy.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: That's gotta be brutal.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that was crazy.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: Awesome, though, because, like, the experience that you got with that size of a drone and then being able to step it up to a T50 or whatever. Dude, that's so cool. Okay, so you buy a T10.
How do you get work?
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Like, so it started mostly word of mouth. And I still get a lot of word of mouth stuff.
And I've been blessed with, you know, God has just brought the right amount of people, the right people in.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: Let's go. Yeah, let's go.
[00:05:54] Speaker B: I've got clients now that, you know, they use me. Like, they'll do habitat work or something, and they'll use me for their stuff, like, contract me out.
It keeps me busy.
[00:06:05] Speaker C: So.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: So did you upgrade now?
[00:06:09] Speaker B: Yeah, so I've got the 40 and the 50 now. I actually got the 40 not long after the T10.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: Because I was still waiting on my end number for the 40 while I was in school. Like, I was doing all the paperwork and everything while I was in school still.
[00:06:24] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:06:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: So.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: So you.
You spray quite a bit of acres with the T10. Got your T40. Yeah. Did that allow you to do even more acres or was it just you didn't have to fill your T10 as often?
[00:06:37] Speaker B: No, it definitely let me spray more.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:41] Speaker B: But the thing with where I'm at is, like, you can't really go off acreage because, you know, it's a lot
[00:06:47] Speaker C: of not big acres.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:49] Speaker C: Like, not getting a bunch done.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Like a 15, 20 acre site prep that I'm spraying versus.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: So do you charge by the acre or do you charge by the job?
[00:06:58] Speaker B: It just depends.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: So, yeah, because me and Jay were just talking about that, you Know, I. For some reason, I think in the future, because there's going to be so many custom applicators that I think you'll charge by the job.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Because if you just do by the acre, it's like if you have to
[00:07:17] Speaker B: drive three hours ago.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:07:19] Speaker B: And that's all. You know, it all factors into that because I have people ask me all the time what I'm charging. I'm like, well, it depends.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: You know, it's. So what I'm spraying. What. How far it is. You know, everything.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: So what's most of the work you're doing?
[00:07:32] Speaker B: It's mostly for forestry stuff and, you know, like, some wildlife and then aquatic.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Okay, what does forestry stuff mean? Like, what do you spray on a forest?
[00:07:42] Speaker C: So are you doing, like, cutovers?
[00:07:44] Speaker B: So, yeah, so cutovers. And then you're doing kudzu. I don't know if y' all heard of kudzu.
[00:07:51] Speaker C: It's big vines.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Alabama's got a bunch of invasive stuff.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Okay, so. So is that what you're spraying for? Mostly when you. When you say cutovers for the people that are. Listen, that. That don't know, including myself, I don't know. So forestry, they come in, they cut the trees, and then you come in right away and spray.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: So normally it's. They'll come in and cut the trees, and then you'll wait a year.
[00:08:14] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: So you let it. Let it green up.
[00:08:16] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: And then you'll come in there and kill everything.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: Every, like, trees, grass, everything. Okay. Burn down, basically.
[00:08:23] Speaker B: And then some people go in there and burn it off. Like, I do prescribe burning, too.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: Oh, your business does?
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: You go, that's such a good idea. So. So how. Let's talk about that. How do you. How do you burn by yourself? That sounds dangerous.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: Yeah. You have to.
I don't know, it's. It's tough sometimes. You gotta have help there, you know? But then, like, some tracks, I can look at it and say, yeah, I can do this on my own, or.
Because vice versa.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: That, to me, that did do a prescribed burn. That. That takes some expertise. You got to know the wind, humidity, all that. Yeah.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Yep. So, yeah, I went and got my burn manager license.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: Oh, I was just gonna ask you, is there something.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: It's fun, man.
[00:09:07] Speaker C: Oh, Mike does it here and there a little bit, and it's like, dude,
[00:09:10] Speaker A: I wouldn't do this here. I may or may not have forgotten my burn one time, and it was over on the neighbors, and he's like, I had to put it out. I was like, sorry.
[00:09:18] Speaker B: Yeah, no, gets out. You know it's gonna get out. It's just a matter of how long it takes you to get it put, you know, get it put out.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. So since you were doing this burn stuff, could you use the drone in any way to try to control it?
[00:09:35] Speaker B: I don't know about control it, but, you know, they got drones that. So they have little fireballs.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: They usually throw them out of the helicopter. Yeah, they got those. But they're expensive.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: I know. I was looking at one, I was like, geez, we got to figure out how to make that not as expensive.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know why they're so expensive.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: I mean, it's American built. Yeah.
[00:09:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:53] Speaker A: So, yeah, that's probably why.
Sorry. Yeah.
So what does it take to get your burn license?
[00:10:04] Speaker B: You have to go take like a. It was either a three or four day class.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Okay.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: All day.
[00:10:10] Speaker C: Do you actually go out and burn stuff or they just basically have a class where they walk you through it?
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Well, that's more like they walk you through it. They don't really do any burning.
[00:10:19] Speaker C: Hands on anything.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Yeah, but I've grown up doing it. I mean, you know, mostly for wildlife stuff.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: It's. It's big down in Alabama. Like, if you're burning for wildlife, it's. It's good.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: So I know up, especially in the Midwest and everywhere where it's real windy, it's hard to burn up there just because it can get away from you a lot easier.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: So you would go in, spray a burn down, what we would call kill everything, then you burn it off.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Now what don't. You don't have to burn it off, but it cleans it. You know, like if you have a planting crew coming in there to come and plant it and what junk?
[00:10:53] Speaker A: What are they planning planting?
[00:10:55] Speaker B: Mostly pine.
[00:10:56] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
Oh, okay. So now they're replanting. Not like food plot stuff.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: No, no.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: Because if you. If you went in there, you know, depending on what you're spraying, like, some of that stuff has got a residual in it.
So, you know, you have to know all that too, because if you're planting hardwood, you can't spray a mazar because it'll kill your hardwood.
[00:11:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: You know.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:16] Speaker B: So it's.
It all depends on what they're planting back, basically.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: That's so cool. See, I like chatting about this because that's literally not something that we do. No, it's not.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: Right.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: In Ohio, they don't cut trees to that extent where it's like, clear the whole thing, spray the whole thing and replant it. No. Why do you think that is? It doesn't grow faster.
[00:11:37] Speaker C: Remember we did spray a job, a couple actually last summer where they did come in and replant. They planted like 40, 000 trees.
[00:11:43] Speaker A: Yeah. But remember that was like, what is that? They. They cut a bunch of trees. It's a forestry company and they want to give back. And so they literally. It was a field. It's a big, wide open field. Remember, Landon really is happy about that because it was perfect beef cattle running grounds and then we're planting trees in it.
[00:12:00] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: Remember that job? It's like shocks anyhow, but they're trying to give it back. Yeah, I. I do that. Remember that now.
[00:12:07] Speaker C: But there's not much going on.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Like.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:09] Speaker C: In North Carolina, they do a lot of the cut pines and then replant pines.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: I know on some of it the government's like, you know, paying you to replant back for pollution stuff.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Okay. Be green. Save the earth.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, if you cut a certain amount, you got to replant a certain. Yeah, like that. Yeah.
[00:12:29] Speaker A: You had said earlier you also do aquatic stuff.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: What would that look like?
[00:12:34] Speaker C: Is that invasive stuff?
[00:12:35] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of invasive. Know you get some of your. Your natives that you can spray, like your lily pads and stuff like that. It's just in Alabama, it's so warm all the time. It's just weeds everywhere.
[00:12:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, it never, never gets really cold enough to really kill everything off.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: So.
[00:12:53] Speaker A: So you would be what a landowner calls and he has a five acre pond and he's like, it's getting overgrown or it's like. Yeah, I.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: Too many weeds in there.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: I have no idea. Just.
[00:13:03] Speaker B: Yeah. So most of it is private. Guys with ponds, you know, like, want to fish out of it. Like I did a lot last year that had water highest, highest synth. I can't ever say it.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: That's all right.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: It's basically like, sometimes it's basically a lily pad.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Okay. Okay.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: But it'll like one guy, it took his whole lake over and he had a 20 acre lake. Wow. And you know, with the aquatic stuff, you have to go in there and be careful because if you spray the whole thing once it starts dying, it'll pull all that oxygen out of the water, so it'll kill all the fish and everything.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: I. I did that, but I just did what they told me to do, and I told them it's probably going to kill A fish. And they were a little shocked at how many fish it killed.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: But they are so sick and tired of the lily pads that they do not care. It's like, we have to kill these lily pads. It's not working. We got to do a granular application of something like a 2,4D of some kind of granule. Because what we're saying. And you can maybe help me out on this. It's a. They want to spray a tribune and then I forget the other one.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: It.
[00:14:09] Speaker A: Dude, you spray it in one day. That whole freaking leaf is like shriveled up, but I feel like it's burning it.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Like it's literally getting a complete kill on it.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Not actually going into the roots.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Some of that stuff. I mean, you know your paraquats and diquats, you know, you spray it and it's almost dead. It's dead the next day. Especially if it's hot. Because I do a lot of, you know, row crop stuff. Spraying morning glories. Oh, yeah, yeah. And it's, you know, you'll go in there when the corn's ready to pick and you'll go in there and spray it with. I like spraying dyequat, but it'll be dead the next day.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Wow. Wow.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: But you can spray daquat. It's got an aquatic label too. So you can spray it. Like I've sprayed it on ponds before.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Okay. Have you. Have you ever done any granular stuff on ponds where you're spreading instead of spraying?
[00:14:56] Speaker B: No, I haven't done granular yet.
Just fertilize?
Yeah.
[00:15:02] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:03] Speaker A: So you start this business, is it able to support you and your family? Yeah. In one and a half years. Is that what you said? Two years.
[00:15:12] Speaker B: Two years. Yep.
[00:15:13] Speaker A: How many.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: How many months out of the year can you spray in Alabama?
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Let's see. I'll probably start in April and go through September. October. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So it's a long.
Yeah.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: And. And then after that, the hunting season comes in.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: Dude, start deer.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: You're doing what we're doing? Yep.
[00:15:32] Speaker C: Like.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:15:33] Speaker A: See, it just goes hand in hand. It's like do thermal and then do spraying.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: And then I do my burning too, which that starts like. I'm about to start those a lot. I'll do some of those in September, October, and then I'll do most of them in February. May.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: Or February and March.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: What type of do you use? A trailer. A truck. A side by side.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: So I've got. I've got a 20 foot trailer that I custom Built and it's got a half enclosure, half open, and it's, it's, you know, it's a little big for what I do, but it, it works good. It's. I wouldn't want to go any bigger.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: But because.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: Because you can't get into the place,
[00:16:13] Speaker B: Some of the spots is tough. Tough. Yeah, yeah. Cuz like. Like one job I did this year, it was a. It was a site prep spraying. And the logging company came in there and there was a big creek and I couldn't get across the creek because they put the bridge out. They put a bridge in to get their equipment across and then they pulled it back out.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:30] Speaker B: And so I was having to. I could see the drone like up. I was on a hill, but I was having to go over the trees and get down there. And it was. I mean it was a 100 acres right there. So it was, you know, it was getting far out there.
[00:16:42] Speaker C: But you have a double deck trailer
[00:16:43] Speaker B: or just a. Yeah, yeah. So I don't do a whole lot of landing on the top. Yeah. Because like If I'm doing AG, our fields are maybe 15, 20 acres on average. So it's like for me to load up, get up top. Like, I don't have the. You know where you all have the batteries in the trailer? Yeah, mine's just down in the bottom. So I'd have to carry them up every time.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: What kind of generator system are you running?
[00:17:07] Speaker B: I got one of the north stars.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:17:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: So running a C 10,000 or C 8,000.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: 10,000.
[00:17:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: Yeah, it works good. I got four batteries that I rotate, so.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. For the, the T50, that works. If you end up getting yourself a T100, there's almost no way that you can supercharge those batteries off of A C to C12000. Now if you don't care, if you run out of battery, you can still charge them on a C10000. But it's going to take you about 13 minutes to charge a battery.
[00:17:38] Speaker C: Yeah, you need three phase to supercharge them with a C12000. Or you can just get a D. DJI generator.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Yep. Did you ever look into a DJI generator? Not really interested.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I did a little bit, but they were literally out of the price range when I started.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah, no, that's all good.
It's good to hear. You know, why people wouldn't run it.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: So it was. Price range is the main why why you're not running it. A lot of guys say it's Sound, So that's interesting.
[00:18:04] Speaker B: Sound don't bother me. Well, that closed, like, you know, with it being closed, I can get inside. Like, I got a TV in there. I'll have people.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: I don't have.
[00:18:14] Speaker B: I don't have air conditioned. That's the only thing I don't have. But I have a TV in there. You know, if the clients are there, they can sit there.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: I plug into the controller.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: You know, nice jamming music in there. So. Yeah.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that is cool.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: Does your wife go with you?
[00:18:28] Speaker B: Nah, she don't go much.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: No.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: No.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: Do you have children?
[00:18:31] Speaker B: No, no, just a dog.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we start with a dog and then ease into children maybe.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:37] Speaker A: So.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: So we got married in May of 24, so be two years in May. Okay. Y.
[00:18:44] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Y. So. Hmm.
[00:18:47] Speaker A: I just. I. I find it interesting that nobody really guided you into doing this business. Did you find it online or. Or what. What made you be like, I want to do spray drones? Was it also the videos from drone deer or.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: Yes. And just having the school in behind it, basically.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: Okay, so you learned about spray drones in school?
[00:19:09] Speaker B: Well, I didn't learn about spray drones. I learned more of the chemicals and.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:14] Speaker B: Soils and stuff.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: That's what I'm trying to figure out. I'm trying to figure out, when did you. When were you like, oh, I could have a business doing spray drones.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: It would have been while I was in school, about to graduate, when I started, you know, starting to get the in number and everything for the drone.
[00:19:29] Speaker A: Yeah, the T40.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: What I'm saying is, what gave you the idea of a spray drone? Did. Did somebody market a material to you, and we're like, hey, here's this equipment, just like drone deer recovery.
Did you start thermal drones because you've seen the content, or did you start thermal drones off of your own idea?
[00:19:45] Speaker B: I saw. I started it because I saw y' all first doing it, and then I think y' all are mainly pushing the recovery then.
[00:19:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:52] Speaker B: So then I. We have a farm down there, so I started studying the. The deer survey stuff.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: Okay, so. So you're probably really into the stuff that Derek is doing right now. Whitetail research.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: YouTube channel.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Yeah. So I do. I mean, I. I've surveyed over150,000 acres. Deer surveyed.
[00:20:10] Speaker C: Oh, what kind of drone are you using now?
[00:20:11] Speaker B: You said you started with 3T, so I started with 3T, got the 30T, and I'm still running the 30T. I like the 30T.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: But I also got a 4T.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: You go.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So.
[00:20:21] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: Nice. What's. What's your business, like the thermal side
[00:20:24] Speaker B: called TA drone service T. Yeah, it's all. It's all.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: Are you online to, like, check it out?
[00:20:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Tik Tok and everything? Not as big as you, but.
[00:20:33] Speaker A: Well, Tik Tok.
Tik Tok for me went from 120,000 to zero because they banned my account.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that'll do it to you.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. Do you get work through social media at all?
[00:20:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I get. Yeah, a little bit.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Some of my. Some of my better clients actually came from social media.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. It is pretty crazy.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: Yeah. How that works.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: Cool people. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: So Derek's content is obviously blowing up because he's, like, visually showing what deer are doing. Yeah. And you were doing it probably at the same time as he was storing up all his footage. And you see that come out and you're like, yep, I. I've seen them do that.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Yeah. And, man, you learn so much when you can sit there, especially surveying the acreage that I've done. I mean, you learn so much about a deer, and, you know, there's.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: There's guys, if you hear that thing in the background, that's a guide riding around in a. Just a floor sweeper thing, cleaning up. So.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Yeah. But yeah, man, I mean, you learn so much about a deer. Especially, like, for me, we have a high fence back home, so, you know, in a controlled environment, we don't do the breeding and stuff like that. We just have it fenced in where, no, the neighbors can't shoot them.
[00:21:49] Speaker C: You know how many acres?
[00:21:51] Speaker B: It's 350.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: But basically what I did while I was in school is I'd go down there and fly that place every month during the winter when I could see.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: And the first two times, I counted 50. So that's a deer for every seven acres, which is healthy.
[00:22:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: And then the last time, I counted 47, and we killed two does, and one of the bucks was moving it, moving around on me because I didn't see him. So you take that data. That's three flights right there. And missed one deer.
[00:22:22] Speaker C: That's freaking.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: Wow, that is impressive.
[00:22:24] Speaker C: Okay. What part of the year can you actually find deer?
[00:22:28] Speaker B: So this year, it depends on the frost. When we get the first frost. Like, this year, I could start first, second week of December, but last year it was like Christmas before I could start.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Because there was so many leaves on.
[00:22:41] Speaker C: And then you can go till, what, March Yeah.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: First, second, second week of March. Yep.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: So do you do any thermal stuff in the summer, like. Like looking at fields at all, or.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: No, it's mostly spraying there.
[00:22:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:56] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. The down south, I get a lot of dms. Like, in your area in Florida. Be like, would this work in Florida? I'm like.
I mean, I've flown in Florida. Right. Like, you can see things, but don't.
[00:23:12] Speaker C: You're not gonna see everything.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Don't expect to be like what you see on the videos because.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: Yeah, because once you start getting below Tuscaloosa, you get a lot more of that green privet hedge, which we have a lot of that too, but you'll get. Forget what they call it. It's like a bushy type deal, but it's an evergreen, so it stays all year. And, man, the woods are just infested with it.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: Where you're at, do you have Spanish moss hanging from the trees?
[00:23:37] Speaker B: Not where I'm at, but it's a little south. You get some. That stuff's beautiful.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: I remember that's what kind of was affecting us when we were wanting to do that survey, is that Spanish moss was hanging down and it was grained up.
And although the tree didn't have full foliage yet, you couldn't see.
[00:23:55] Speaker C: See through a lot of the underbrush had also started green enough at that point, so you couldn't see to the ground. I mean, you could in certain areas, but it wasn't going to be accurate.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And then once you do find them, I mean, you got to sit there to be. To be able to identify what it is. I mean, you sit there and go around it three times trying to find a spot.
[00:24:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Do you have hogs there?
[00:24:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
There's not as many as you would think.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:24:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Like alpha, which is good. Yeah, it's good.
[00:24:22] Speaker A: Those boogers can tear up a field in a heartbeat.
[00:24:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. There's a lot less than people think they are, based off of my surveys. They just tear up that much.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Okay. Oh, so. So it looks like there's a lot more.
[00:24:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:33] Speaker C: Makes sense.
[00:24:34] Speaker A: Yeah. That's interesting. So how long did it take you to pay off your equipment, your spray drone equipment?
[00:24:42] Speaker B: Well, with the adding and stuff, you know, and I just bought a house, so that's factored in there. So I still. I still got some that I got to pay off, you know, but that's mainly because I spent that money for a house.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: So you don't have the numbers. Like, if you could, based on what you sprayed if you would have been able to take that money and use it just to pay off your equipment, not. Not to live.
[00:25:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: Would you have had enough to pay it off, you think?
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Yeah, probably.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: That's awesome. Yeah. Because a lot of times guys are asking me like, how long does it take? And that's a broad question, Right.
It's going to depend on your acres, on the jobs or whatever you're doing.
But I don't know that there's a business that you can buy this type of equipment and pay it off this fast.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's.
[00:25:28] Speaker C: It's hard.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: I mean, look, dude, you just told me you started with a baby drone, a Mavic 3T. You bought a 30T and you brought a 4T. You're making money somewhere.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: That's impressive.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: Good for you, dude. It's not easy though, too, right? Like guys saying you're just gonna go fly whenever you want.
[00:25:46] Speaker B: No, that's not how it works, man.
[00:25:47] Speaker A: Tell us how hard. How hard?
[00:25:50] Speaker B: The amount of times this time of year when I'm deer surveying. The amount of times I get home at 3am will blow your mind.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: That's all?
[00:25:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: Yeah, you gotta grind y.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: And it's, you know, most of it's two, three hour. Some, some's even further. Drive, you know, like some of my stuff, I'm staying overnight away from home. So it's definitely tough work, you know.
[00:26:13] Speaker C: What time of the day do you normally do your deer surveys?
[00:26:16] Speaker B: So I do a lot of mine at night because that's a lot harder too. Yeah. Because I can't plan out.
I've got too much work to plan out for. Cloudy days.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: Oh, that's good.
[00:26:26] Speaker B: You know, so it's, you know, I use that spotlight a lot on that thing.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: So. So what drone, do you like flying better now? 30t 4t, baby drone, man, I like them all. Yeah.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: But I don't know. I've stuck to that 30T.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Yeah. I think the 4T, the light on it, I got the. The Al one.
[00:26:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:47] Speaker B: And it's just not as bright as the one on the 32.
[00:26:49] Speaker A: 100%. Yeah, it's a. It's a 30 watt light. And you're 60 if you have the JZ T. 60, that's a 60 watt light. So it's double the brightness.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And it's, you know, you don't have to get quite as low.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:00] Speaker B: So makes it a little easier for me.
[00:27:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: So you haven't gotten to fly the 4TD?
[00:27:06] Speaker B: No, I hadn't flown that one.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: What do you think of the connection between the 30T and the, the 4T? Like, have you been able to see a difference?
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So the thermal, the infrared is definitely a lot clearer.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: A lot clearer. But the, the zoom, it's about the same.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: But the thermal, like I've seen some guys posting videos, you know, where it's real open with the deer out of velvet and the thermal is showing the antlers and, you know, with the 32,
[00:27:33] Speaker A: you ain't doing that. Yeah.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: So. Yeah.
[00:27:35] Speaker C: What about the connection from the drone to the remote? Like how the distance and that type of thing.
[00:27:39] Speaker B: 4T goes a lot further.
[00:27:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: The 30T has the, you know, you can't. Yeah.
[00:27:44] Speaker C: Make them better.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cool. It's good information for folks that might be listening that are looking at getting a thermal drone, either 30t or 4t, because oftentimes they're just listening to me, what I'm saying and getting it right. Right from you. And you're doing a thermal drone business. Clearly you've been successful just hearing what, what you like about one model over the other.
[00:28:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's. It's cool to get to see, you know, get to try the new ones every year. So.
[00:28:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep.
[00:28:12] Speaker C: You're gonna get the 4 TD next year.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Heck, I may get it this year.
[00:28:16] Speaker C: I would be curious to hear what you think from the 30, 30 T to the 4 TD.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: What it's very comparable to. How much difference is the 4T to the 4TD?
[00:28:24] Speaker C: The 4TD flies faster.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: IP radent. It's IP rated. Those are the biggest things. And the connectivity is slightly better. I don't know how, but it is slightly better. But as far as the, the zoom and the, the light cameras are all the same. They're all the same. Yeah. I would like to figure out if there's a brighter light. We do have some in right now. Jay z makes a 40 watt light. The Al one is a 30 watt light, but I don't know if it's going to be that big of a difference.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: Going from a 40 watt to 30.
[00:28:55] Speaker C: And the quality of the, the DJI AL1, we have had like almost zero
[00:29:00] Speaker A: issues with them, really. With, with the actual light itself. Yeah. And. And it's actually waterproof. You can literally fly in the rain with your Spotlight. Technically your 30T, if you have a JC T60, you can't do that.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: Which, yeah, I found mine in, you know, mist and rain with the light, but not.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: We have to.
[00:29:18] Speaker C: And honestly, we haven't had any issues with it, but.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: And the thing is, though, at night, if you're flying and it's raining and you turn that light on. Mine focuses on the rain. Have y' all had that issue?
[00:29:29] Speaker C: Sometimes you have to use a manual zoom.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. If it's. If it's heavy, it's gonna focus on that.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So.
[00:29:35] Speaker A: Well, that you probably don't have a big problem with this, but if you're flying in snow. Yeah. Your manual focus. Yeah. It's guaranteed going to focus on the snow.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: I've never flown in the snow.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: What's the biggest buck you found? Oh, man.
Well.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: Well, not the high fences as big as bark. Oh, the high fence is probably 300
[00:29:57] Speaker A: inches, two and a half year old. So. So guys are calling you out to find a deer that they shot in a high fence because they literally can't track it down and it's in a fence.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Or, you know, it's so good with the drone, because if somebody shoots something and not sure about the shot, I always tell everybody before you go in there and start trying to find it, in case he's still alive and is okay, you can at least get the drone out there and see where he's hit and how bad it is.
[00:30:26] Speaker A: Yeah, 100%.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: Because if you go in there, like, I know y' all have the same issue, but go in there and the deer is going to be okay. But they go in there and start pushing him, I mean, he could end up three miles away.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: 100%. Yep.
[00:30:38] Speaker C: 100% all the time.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:40] Speaker B: So we.
[00:30:42] Speaker A: We're trying to get people just. Just call us before you even, like, start pushing them.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: Because dog gone it. When I'm out there for an hour and a half trying to find a de I would have found in 10 minutes, it starts getting a little annoying.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: Yeah. There was one this year that I found.
They went and looked for it, couldn't find it. Had a dog go look for it, and it made a huge loop, and there was a main road at the bottom. Made a huge loop. And, you know, the dog lost it. He said he lost it at the road, but the guy was like, I don't think that dog was very good. Because he thought the deer went this way.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: But the deer actually did come around and crossed the road, so the guy had to call the dog off. And so I came the next day and was looking all around where he was thinking. Yeah. And I actually found. On the neighbor, he said he heard another shot that same afternoon, and I saw A bunch of buzzards on the thermal. And I started looking, and there was a doe that they had already eaten, and I was still picking it up like maggots and already still picking it up, still warm. And so we knew that wasn't it because he shot a buck. And it's like, man, you sure that dog wasn't on it? Yes, Yesterday. I mean, it could have been. I pick up the drone. This was two hours after I've been flying.
[00:31:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:57] Speaker B: I pick up the drone. He's 50 yards from the truck.
[00:32:02] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:32:03] Speaker B: Other side of the road.
[00:32:03] Speaker A: Oh, well, he found him.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: It was a stud, too. It was a stud.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: No, but all that time you were focusing.
[00:32:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:11] Speaker B: If I would have picked up. If I would have picked up and turned around this way, I would have saw him. That's literally what I did. Yeah, it was crazy.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: It's crazy how you found him.
[00:32:20] Speaker C: A lot of times the hunters think they're in this area, but they're not
[00:32:24] Speaker B: even around that area. No, no, it was. It's fun, though. It's. It's cool to have stuff. Experiences like that. So.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: So the recovery, how much of that has helped you get spray drone jobs or. Not really.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it's definitely got me some because, you know, I'll go look for a deer and say, yeah, I spray, too. And then they're like, oh, well, I got a pond, or, okay, yeah. Or I got food plots I want to spray or, you know, anything.
[00:32:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: So.
[00:32:50] Speaker A: Well, I wasn't sure yet if you're able to build your business on that or.
[00:32:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, if you get a job and you're doing other stuff, like, even the burning, like, I'll go. And if it's a big landowner that, you know, needs. Needs to burn, I'll say, you know, I do burn into. And they'll say, well, how much you charge? And there we go.
[00:33:10] Speaker A: Now you brought that up. Makes me think, like, you charge to burn people's land. How do you do that? Like, how do you. How do you charge based on that?
[00:33:18] Speaker B: It just depends on what you're doing.
[00:33:19] Speaker A: Like, if you're doing a. I. I'm calling you. It's. It's one year after they cut 40 acres of trees, and I want it completely burned down. I provide the chemicals for you.
I just need it sprayed really good. So it's in trees. It's hard to get there. You're gonna fly about 1500ft to get there.
[00:33:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So you're saying like a per acre price for the spraying?
[00:33:42] Speaker A: Yeah, that or whatever.
[00:33:43] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it all. It all depends.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: I mean, 500 bucks.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: I mean, it's Thousand bucks. It depends on how many acres it is.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: 40 acres.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: 40 acres. So I don't know if you're wanting to spray and burn down everything. You know, it depends on your chemical and stuff like that, so.
[00:33:59] Speaker A: No, no, I. I gave you the scenario. I call you. It's 40 acres. I provide the chemical. You just come.
[00:34:05] Speaker B: Okay. Come spray it.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: It's 1500ft to get to the field. You can't get there.
[00:34:09] Speaker B: You could do 20 or $30 an acre.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: Okay. All right. Now, that same piece that you just sprayed, once it dies, I want you to come burn it.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Burn it. The burning is about $30 an acre. 30, 35.
[00:34:24] Speaker A: That's awesome. Yeah. I wasn't sure if. If, like. Do people usually not share their prices or.
[00:34:29] Speaker B: No, I don't. It's.
[00:34:30] Speaker A: No, it's just so.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: It's so different. And I forgot you said you pry the chemicals, so that's. That's what it is. But, yeah, you know, I mean, if it's five minutes from the house, you know, I don't have to charge as much, but if it's two hours.
[00:34:42] Speaker A: Yep. Yep. That's.
[00:34:43] Speaker C: Would you. Would you prefer burning it or spraying it?
[00:34:46] Speaker B: I prefer doing both.
[00:34:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:34:50] Speaker A: So I like it. Yeah, but that's cool.
[00:34:54] Speaker B: It's. I don't know.
[00:34:55] Speaker A: The burning. Oh, dude, that feels like a rush to me. Like. I don't know. I just like burning stuff.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: Well, we burned one last year, and me and my buddy look back, and there's a fire. Tornado going up. It's caused the ceiling.
I about peed myself.
[00:35:11] Speaker A: What'd you do?
Did the wind pick up or what happened?
[00:35:14] Speaker B: The wind picked up, and it just started swirling, so we just watched it.
[00:35:19] Speaker C: There's not much you got to do at that point.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: No.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: She's like, all right.
Hope. Hope the fire lane works.
But I've got a buddy of mine that he'll go in there and cut the fire lanes with a dozer.
[00:35:30] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: And then, you know, we'll go in there and burn it. He helps me sometimes, so.
[00:35:33] Speaker C: Nice.
[00:35:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it's cool.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: That sounds so fun.
[00:35:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:37] Speaker A: Burning. Yeah.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: I. I really enjoy what I do, so.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Has a fire ever got out of control?
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Not for me. I mean, I've had it. Get over the fire lane.
[00:35:46] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: But normally I can go in there with a blower and blow it out.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: Or like a leaf blower. Yeah.
[00:35:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:52] Speaker C: How wide do you guys make the
[00:35:53] Speaker B: fire Lanes, they're about. I forget what size his blade is. I think it's like eight feet, maybe.
[00:35:59] Speaker A: Okay, so. So basically one.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: Yeah, one. One pass with a dozer.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:36:03] Speaker B: And it works good.
[00:36:04] Speaker C: But you're just basically exposing all the dirt.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Yep. Okay. And it keeps it from crawling across.
[00:36:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:10] Speaker B: And you'll, you know, depending on which way the wind's going, like, if it's going this way, you'd start down here and let it back in there against the wind.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:36:17] Speaker B: And then you'll go around, burn slower.
[00:36:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
What is too windy? I'm sure every scenario is different. Right. If it blows, it's going to hit this green field and it'll be fine.
[00:36:27] Speaker B: It depends on humidity levels and stuff.
[00:36:31] Speaker A: So that has more of a factor to it.
[00:36:33] Speaker B: You think humidity has a lot. Because you can't go out there and light like, you know, grass will burn just about anytime, but if the humidity's high, you can't even get grass to go. Oh, yeah, yeah. So if it's a high humidity, you know, you can get away with higher winds because your chances of it jumping.
[00:36:49] Speaker A: See, this sounds real interesting. Yeah, I'd love to hear that. It's like humidity. So you check the. You literally check it on your phone. Or do you have like a tester thing?
[00:36:58] Speaker B: So you can get a tester. But I usually just look on the phone because it'll give you like the. The daily lowest, you know, humidity level. And I like it to be in the upper 30s, low 40s.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: Are most burns done in the morning or in the evening.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: Most of the time you start at like 10 o'. Clock.
[00:37:14] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:37:15] Speaker B: Nine, 10 o'. Clock. Whenever the humidity starts to drop from the morning, dew's got to get off the ground.
[00:37:21] Speaker A: I see.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: And then you start. You start burning it.
[00:37:24] Speaker C: Huh.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: Dude, I'm learning something. I didn't even know that's. I didn't know that's a business is burning.
[00:37:29] Speaker C: Yeah, it wouldn't be in our area.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: Yeah, but that's why we did look at that drone, though. We were like, okay, there's millions of acres burn every year prescribed. Yeah, that could be a business. Like, that would probably be pretty handy for you if you'd have a drone that just goes. Drops the fireball.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: It'd be a lot better than handling that drip torch all day.
[00:37:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Because I'll put. When I burn, I'll put six, seven miles in. Yeah.
[00:37:54] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: And what most of us like this.
Wow.
[00:37:58] Speaker A: Huh?
[00:37:59] Speaker B: I get my workout in, then it gets me ready for turkey season.
Everybody.
[00:38:05] Speaker A: Yeah. You like shooting turkeys in the face?
[00:38:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:38:08] Speaker A: Okay, with a gun or do you like doing it archery?
[00:38:10] Speaker B: I'm with a gun. I can't shoot a bow good enough.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: Yeah. So I'm with a gun.
So if you got any. If you got any turkeys up there, you need him.
[00:38:18] Speaker C: Oh, wait, we got some.
[00:38:19] Speaker A: We got turkeys. Honestly, like, I'm not a turkey hunter because I just. I don't actually know what it takes to hunt turkeys, but Brayden Price took me turkey hunting and it was like, oh, here they come. Boom. And we shot.
[00:38:32] Speaker B: It was easy. Yeah, yeah. See the Alabama birds? We got all these Alabama rednecks going out here calling at them from everywhere. So it's like they're all smart down there.
I went to Kentucky last year and it was too easy. Oh, yeah, yeah, it was too easy.
[00:38:47] Speaker C: That's probably how it was up at our place.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: Cuz nobody's ever really made that. No. And we have big old gobblers coming in like.
Like head fully straight out.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: That's awesome. Yeah, man, I love that crap.
[00:39:01] Speaker A: What.
What's one of the coolest deer recovery stories that come to your mind when somebody asks you that? Like something that's like, memorable, that you probably won't forget how the recovery went down.
[00:39:14] Speaker B: Probably that one that was by the truck.
[00:39:17] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:39:17] Speaker B: That's a good story. And then I don't know most. The other one had been pretty simple. Oh, yeah, Yeah. I. I think that there was one that I had that somebody shot and we ended up finding it like two days later.
[00:39:30] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: Yeah. But it ended up dying later. Is one of my close, close friends.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: So it wouldn't. It wasn't dead right away.
[00:39:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So it wasn't dead. And I didn't. Couldn't find it because they were in there looking for it.
[00:39:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:43] Speaker B: Pushed him way off. And then he ended up coming back to where we had flown after. Oh, yeah, after.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:51] Speaker B: And then we found him again, so. And he was there at that time.
[00:39:54] Speaker A: Nice.
So. So he like, basically moved out of the area, but then came back into the area where. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, that. That happens.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: It is wild to think how many deer are being recovered using drones now. Oh, it's just insane.
[00:40:10] Speaker C: It's probably. You're probably killing a lot less deer in the past couple years because of drones.
Because they're actually finding them.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Yeah, potentially.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:19] Speaker C: And in the past, you wouldn't find the deer. You'd go out and shoot another one.
[00:40:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah.
But you know the thing with the drones is too. I mean, you've got some of those people that are against it because they know some of the people are going to find them before the deer are shot.
[00:40:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: And that's. You gotta. People gotta respect deer more than that. I mean, it is such a blessing to go hunt a whitetail deer. So you gotta. I mean, you just can't. It's just disrespectful towards an animal, you know.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: So would those rules apply in a high fence or not really?
[00:40:51] Speaker B: Yeah, so they will.
There's some that, you know, can get different permits because they have to go in there and shoot so many does and stuff that might be covered. I don't know. Okay. I don't think it would be. I doubt it would be. But mainly it would be just for a knock the herd down type deal.
[00:41:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:10] Speaker B: If it, if it was allowed.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:12] Speaker A: So a lot of guys that start a spray drone business later down the road, they actually end up selling spray drones because somebody sees you operate and then they'll be like, hey, I'd like one.
[00:41:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:25] Speaker A: Have you, have you thought about selling spray drones?
[00:41:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I actually do already.
[00:41:29] Speaker A: Oh, you do already?
[00:41:29] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:41:30] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: What's that process look like? Guys talk to you and be like, I want to buy one.
[00:41:36] Speaker B: Yeah. And I hadn't done it long. I've only been doing it like two months.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:41:40] Speaker B: So I've only sold a few thermals, so.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: Oh, you sell thermal drones?
[00:41:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I sell thermals. And. And the spray drones, where are you
[00:41:47] Speaker A: sourcing your thermal drones from?
[00:41:50] Speaker B: I get those.
I go through best way. Okay. So. Yeah.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. Nice.
[00:41:55] Speaker B: So they reach.
[00:41:55] Speaker A: So you're. You're a best way dealer is what.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: Yeah. Is what I would be. Yeah. Considered.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: So they seen your content and they wanted you to sell. Oh, good for you, dude.
[00:42:05] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Yeah. So your content has also helped you make more money elsewhere.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: Yeah. See?
[00:42:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And I hope to, you know, I'd like to sell a few more. It'd be cool to sell a few more. So. But I just like, I like helping everybody out, you know, I'll have people, I'm sure you do too. But the ones that have bought from me, they'll FaceTime me and be like, how do I start this thing?
So it's, it's fun. I like, it's all been, you know, people that I know that have bought from me. That's cool. So I.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: But it's another source. Right? Like you not only provide the service now, you sell the equipment and you you know, you burn the land, there's just. You just got to keep adding things. That is so cool.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: And then I do, you know, some wildlife consulting stuff, too, on this. On the side. I don't do a whole lot of
[00:42:54] Speaker A: that, but what does that mean, wildlife consulting?
[00:42:56] Speaker B: Like, I'll.
On my deer survey, you know, I'll go to the property, fly it, and as I'm riding through it to, you know, navigate the property for flying, I'll look at the habitat and say, you know, this needs to be burned, or, oh, it'd be good if you could thin this timber to get more browse for the deer and the turkeys.
[00:43:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:43:15] Speaker B: Yeah. So I took a wildlife, like a focus area wildlife class at Mississippi State, too.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:43:22] Speaker B: Yeah. So you.
[00:43:23] Speaker C: All kinds of things. Yeah.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: You are, well, diverse.
[00:43:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
But I enjoy it all. Like, it's awesome. Yeah. I love it. And I. When I wake up every morning, I love going to work because I love it.
It's got, you know, you got to enjoy it for. To. To, you know, put 110 in it.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:43:42] Speaker C: If you're going to do something long term, you got to enjoy it.
[00:43:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: What?
Thinking back, just the last year, with your drone business in general, spray drones and thermal drones, what was a challenge or an obstacle that you had to figure out how to overcome?
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Oh, this is a good one. So the first year I started spraying, when I got my T40, you know, I was telling y', all, it crashed on me. Well, the T40, literally, I was fertilizing, and it was flying fine. I did. It was only like a five. A five acre little duck hole, and I did four acres just fine. I started on the last one, and it just went right.
[00:44:18] Speaker A: Nosed over.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: Just nosed over right in the ground.
[00:44:21] Speaker C: Did it give you any type of error?
[00:44:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:22] Speaker C: Was it like a battery issue?
[00:44:24] Speaker B: No. I don't know. They never told me. So I sent it, you know, I sent it back to dji. I was using a different dealer then when I started, they were just a small, like, out of Birmingham. I don't even think they sell spray drones over here. They're good friends of mine, but they. They sent it back, and DJI warrantied it and everything. But during that time, that was my first spray season.
So three months, I didn't have a drone. I had the money, so I had jobs that I was gonna do with the T40 that I had to do with the T10.
So the first three months, I learned, and then I went, bought a T50, and by the Time my end number came back to start spraying two days before I got my T40 back.
So the first spray season was, like, completely butchered just from that T40? Yep.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: Shoot.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that sucks. But you did not have to pay out of pocket to fix the T40.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: Nope. Second time I did. Oh, so the second time.
[00:45:21] Speaker A: Tell me about the second time.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: That was this year. So the T50 I might have flown into a power line on accident. Okay. That was on me. I'll take the credit.
[00:45:30] Speaker C: All three of us that are sitting here have done that.
[00:45:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So power line got me with the T50, and I started spraying with the T40. And I was doing some row crop stuff.
I can't remember what I was spraying, but that thing, one of the arms snapped in half, fell out of the sky. What I'm telling you. I guess when it crashed last year.
[00:45:49] Speaker C: Yeah. I was gonna ask you, did they replace that arm or is that an arm?
[00:45:52] Speaker A: That happened on the.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: I thought they did.
[00:45:54] Speaker C: You thought they did?
[00:45:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think they did.
[00:45:56] Speaker A: Oh, so maybe had a hairline fracture or something?
[00:45:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Yep. So. And I had to pay out of pocket on that one. They didn't warranty it again. Oh, and that.
[00:46:05] Speaker A: What'd that cost you?
[00:46:07] Speaker B: Four grand, probably. Yeah.
I mean, it tore it up, like. Because when that. It was one of the front arms. When it broke, that thing came around and the blade just hit it and just. I mean, the.
You know, the little module in the front. I forget what you call that.
[00:46:21] Speaker C: Esc.
[00:46:22] Speaker B: No, not the esc. In. Inside the drone.
[00:46:25] Speaker C: Oh, the aerial electronics.
[00:46:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. It just destroyed that thing.
And, you know, those ain't cheap at all.
[00:46:32] Speaker C: It's like, the most expensive part on
[00:46:34] Speaker A: the drone, seeing a drone of that size, like, go down. It's. You can't even explain it.
[00:46:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I was. My dad was there with me that day.
[00:46:43] Speaker A: I mean, he's seen his go.
[00:46:46] Speaker C: Oh, it's not a good feeling.
If you do it long enough, it probably will happen at some point.
[00:46:52] Speaker B: Well, I tell everybody, if you don't crash it, you're not. You're not spraying enough. You're not. You're not.
[00:46:57] Speaker C: You're not going hard enough.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Yeah. Yep. You're not trying.
That's true.
[00:47:02] Speaker B: You got to. You can't be afraid to crash it because it's going to crash, dude.
[00:47:07] Speaker A: Yeah. I could not say it any better myself.
[00:47:10] Speaker B: It's going to crash.
[00:47:11] Speaker C: To go out there and get stuff done, you have to.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: You have to rip, and you got to keep Moving.
[00:47:16] Speaker C: Got to keep.
[00:47:17] Speaker B: I think when a. When a drone crashes, it's still cheaper than if your tractor.
[00:47:22] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: If you got a tractor and that thing messes up, there ain't no telling what it's going to cost. Yeah.
[00:47:27] Speaker A: You know, 100%. So now I want to hear about your 50 in the power line. Did it hang there or did it fall down?
[00:47:34] Speaker B: No. So that was actually a really small job. Of course, when you hit a power line, it's a small job.
When everything goes bad, it's those. Those small jobs, the big ones are always fine. It's the small one. But I was looking at it. It was probably from me to that one right there.
[00:47:49] Speaker A: Oh, boy.
[00:47:50] Speaker B: I look up and I turn the dang radar. I turned it off. Don't know why.
And my depth perception of that power line was messed up. And I went up. I was trying to get to my right altitude.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: Oh, no. So you were physically pushing it up into it.
[00:48:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it was 110% my fault.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Oh, shock.
[00:48:12] Speaker B: I hadn't done it again. So I had to go back and actually, I had to go back and spray that spot with the T40. So I made sure I got off the power.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Oh, because you didn't get the job done. So you went back.
[00:48:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I had to go back because I didn't have the T40 with me that day.
[00:48:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
My first drone I put in the power line, it hung there.
It literally, like, ran in, it flipped over, and then that's where it was.
[00:48:39] Speaker B: How'd you get it off?
[00:48:40] Speaker A: Power company.
[00:48:41] Speaker B: Oh, they did.
[00:48:42] Speaker A: They were there so fast, it was shocking. But they said, well, basically, they showed up to get it out. I was like, that was. I was still on the trailer trying to get the field spray because I was like, this is not going to do me any good walking down there. So I was like, the heck with it. One drone's down. I'll just keep running the second drone.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:59] Speaker A: And I didn't make it off the trailer. Power company next to me, I was like, that's fascinating. Like, yeah, we have to come check this out. Because somebody said the drone took out the power, and we've never even heard of such a thing. Oh, my gosh. They. They basically showed up because they wanted to see what the world. There's a drone that cut the power.
[00:49:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:15] Speaker A: And so he. It was brutal. He drove up to the corn. Beep, beep. Running right down through the corn.
Went up there, got a hold of it, laid it on the ground. See you later. Have a good Day I was like, okay, that's crazy.
Felt bad for the farmer he had, you know, they ran through his corn, but it wasn't that much.
[00:49:37] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: Anyhow, mine hung in there. You never actually hung one up?
[00:49:41] Speaker C: No, I never hung one up.
[00:49:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:42] Speaker C: I've got lucky a couple times. A lot of times.
[00:49:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:45] Speaker C: I did hit a power line similar to what you did. I was watching it and the prop,
[00:49:52] Speaker B: and that's what happened.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: Broke one prop and I was fast
[00:49:55] Speaker C: enough to move it away. Got it back to the trailer, change propellers kept on going.
[00:49:59] Speaker A: Was that not with you?
[00:49:59] Speaker C: You weren't with me that day.
[00:50:02] Speaker A: Not on film.
[00:50:03] Speaker C: That same day I ended up hitting a tree.
[00:50:06] Speaker A: No, you weren't with me. No.
[00:50:08] Speaker C: Same day I hit a dead tree. I was going around the tree to
[00:50:10] Speaker B: get a rough today, didn't you?
[00:50:12] Speaker C: Oh, it was a bad day. Broke every propeller like it was. I was way back in the back 40 and I did not have good connection.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:20] Speaker C: I was going around this tree a little too fast and come around.
[00:50:23] Speaker A: Radar off.
[00:50:24] Speaker C: Probably dead tree, like. Yeah, hit the tree. Drone goes down, Breaks every propeller on the drone. But that's the only thing that happened.
Then the other power line. This was the next year.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: The other power line stories are coming out on this podcast. I didn't even know how many power lines you hit.
3.
[00:50:42] Speaker C: Oh, you know, I'd flew under that dang power line like seven or eight times.
The last I was doing the boundary route. The last freaking pass, it comes up and it sees the power pole and, like, the power line was kind of at an angle and it sees the power pole and it's kind of underneath
[00:50:57] Speaker A: the power line and it goes up,
[00:50:59] Speaker C: like, because it sees an obstacle, it's going up over the power line or a power pole. Goes up right into the power line. Wasn't fast enough to stop it.
[00:51:05] Speaker A: No. Did you ever fly any other drones other than DJI?
[00:51:09] Speaker B: I flew like, when I was taking that 107 class, you know, they'd go out there and teach us the basics and everything. I don't remember what those drones were. They were cheap.
[00:51:17] Speaker A: Okay, so not other spray drones.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: No, not other spray drones. I've just been dji.
[00:51:22] Speaker C: What made you get a DJI spray drone?
[00:51:24] Speaker B: The software. Better.
[00:51:26] Speaker A: User friendly.
[00:51:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just I guess since I started with the three T, you know, I wanted to keep it all in one that I was, you know.
[00:51:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:51:36] Speaker A: Are you one of those guys that got offended when I called your Mavic 3T a baby drone?
[00:51:40] Speaker B: No. No.
[00:51:41] Speaker A: Okay. Good.
[00:51:42] Speaker B: Cuz that's all I could afford then.
Hey, at least I got one.
[00:51:47] Speaker C: You got to start somewhere.
[00:51:49] Speaker A: Dude, it was so crazy how many people like DM me and they're like, they're pissed off that we're calling a baby drone. It's just a baby. It's okay. It's not that, like, the baby won't grow up.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: Heck, I had. I had a guy buy that 3t from me this year, and he actually went to Auburn, but he's been using it finding deer. So you got a light on it and it. I mean, it's a good drone.
[00:52:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I have one. I just don't fly it.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But when you got the 4T, it's
[00:52:15] Speaker C: like, yeah, no, you don't want to use.
[00:52:17] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I tell guys is like, you don't actually know how good the other ones are until you have it. Like, just the controller. I mean, you got to tell me that the controller is much better on the 30t and the 4t than it is on the. It just feels like you're like you can't see nothing.
[00:52:34] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's hard. Especially when you go from this to this.
I mean, that's the. The T10 controller was like that.
[00:52:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: It's a smaller. Yeah, it's basically the 3T controller. Yeah. A little different, but it's, you know, that small screen and the camera quality on it is not good.
So it's hard to.
[00:52:54] Speaker A: Like the FPV, you're saying?
[00:52:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:52:55] Speaker A: On the T10.
[00:52:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Because I was, you know, I was spraying some stuff and hit. Hit branches because I couldn't see them.
[00:53:03] Speaker C: So that's a nice thing. On the. Yeah, like the 50 and the 60 and the 100. The FPV is so darn good. It's insane.
[00:53:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:10] Speaker A: Could you be a spray drone applicator and not have an FPV camera? Not.
[00:53:16] Speaker B: Not what I'm spraying. So on those site prep stuff, you know, it's a whole different story.
So in my area, you can't cut the dead trees.
So if there's a dead tree, you have to. They have to leave it because of
[00:53:31] Speaker C: the owls of the bats or something?
[00:53:32] Speaker B: No, it's because it'll come back and land on top of the machine. It's like a safety hazard. Yeah. And so when I'm spraying out, I'll talk about it in my presentation on Wednesday. But I mean, I'm flying, you know, slower, so my route spacing is a lot different versus when I'm spraying ag. But I'll be going and there'll be a 30 foot tall snag that I have to pick up and go over while spraying.
[00:53:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:54:00] Speaker B: And you got to make sure you keep that same output because if you, you know, if you go up, if you pause that.
[00:54:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:54:06] Speaker B: Like the route and then you start spraying in. In the automatic, you know, if you map it out and start spraying, it's going to put out what it's supposed to put out at full speed.
You know what I'm saying?
[00:54:17] Speaker A: Yeah. So basically you pause it, you hop over here and then you hit resume.
[00:54:23] Speaker B: You got to keep spraying up over the tree.
So you either got to. You either got to unpause it early and keep spraying, like manually start spraying and pick up and go over that tree. Because most of the time it's not. Sometimes a T50 will pick it up and go over it.
[00:54:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:54:38] Speaker B: But a lot of times and what I'm spraying, it doesn't pick it up.
[00:54:41] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: So I have to do it manual.
[00:54:43] Speaker A: So it would just. It would run into it.
[00:54:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:46] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:54:47] Speaker B: 100%.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:54:49] Speaker B: So I'm.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: Yeah, because like when the, when the T100, you send it toward a dead tree, it. It'll see it and it'll slow its pumps down. Yeah. Because it's slowing down, then it's climbing.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: Yeah. It has the right output. But on the T50, if you have to pause it to get around that tree, if you are going 5ft per second, but you're supposed to be going 25, it's going to be putting out at 25 the output once you hit resume. Yeah, well, no, no, no, not resume. This is manual.
[00:55:17] Speaker C: When you just press.
[00:55:18] Speaker A: Oh, you just press it manually.
Oh, yeah, I get it now.
[00:55:22] Speaker B: Sorry, sorry.
[00:55:23] Speaker A: I get it now.
[00:55:23] Speaker B: Yeah, 100%.
[00:55:25] Speaker A: You know, it's putting out what at max flow would be, which would just be a little heavy in that area.
[00:55:33] Speaker B: But with some of that chemical, if you do too heavy, them trees won't grow back. Oh, and you'd be over the label.
[00:55:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:55:40] Speaker B: So you have to. You have to be really careful about that.
[00:55:43] Speaker C: So you wouldn't actually go in there. Map that as an obstacle.
[00:55:46] Speaker B: I have done some jobs where I've done that though. Like I did one last year that they went in there and left some of the pine trees, but it was. There wasn't a whole lot left. So what I did was I went in there and mapped around each one and let the drone fly around them. And then after it I would go and either Fly over them and spray to kill everything.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:05] Speaker B: Or if I could get low enough, spray it right there.
[00:56:08] Speaker C: So if you don't boundary those out, you're just on the sticks manually, like watching.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And those trees were 80ft tall.
[00:56:16] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:56:16] Speaker B: So it wasn't. That drone was not going over those.
[00:56:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Huh.
[00:56:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:20] Speaker A: That is cool. Sounds like some interesting stuff.
[00:56:23] Speaker B: Oh, we do it. We do it crazy down there in Bama.
Nothing's easy down there. You'll be swatting mosquitoes the whole time, too, down in the swamp. Yeah.
[00:56:37] Speaker A: Yeah, that's cool.
[00:56:38] Speaker B: But yes, it's cool. A lot of different stuff.
[00:56:41] Speaker A: Thanks so much for sharing. Coming on. I think it's so cool you're into thermal and into spraying burning there. Not a whole lot that you're not doing with inside the agricultural industry.
Doing deer management stuff. I love it.
[00:56:55] Speaker B: How old.
[00:56:56] Speaker A: How old are you?
[00:56:57] Speaker B: 24.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: 24 years old.
[00:56:58] Speaker B: Dude, that's.
[00:56:58] Speaker C: That's awesome.
[00:56:59] Speaker A: You. You. Oh, my gosh. In 10 years, you're going to be a long way.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: I hope so. We'll see the Lord. Good Lord willing.
[00:57:06] Speaker A: Amen. Yeah.
Tell us where people can find you.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: So I'm on. Most of my stuff's on Tik Tok. I've got a Facebook, Instagram, but most of my. I don't. I don't post consistently.
[00:57:19] Speaker A: And what just your name?
[00:57:20] Speaker B: Taft Drone Service.
[00:57:21] Speaker A: Taft Drone Service.
[00:57:22] Speaker B: T A, F T. Cool. Yep, that's me.
[00:57:25] Speaker A: All righty. There you go. Go check them out. I appreciate you guys tuning in today. We'll catch you guys on the next one.
