Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Dude, like did you see the Helio big drone? Every freaking part on there is Hobby Wing. Even the arms.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know. You think Hobby wing makes that spray? Boom.
I feel like that's probably something that they made themselves.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, and the tank is 3D printed.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: But it has a seam right in.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: The middle of it. But, but it's, it's a prototype. It's a prototype.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: Oh, it is.
[00:00:26] Speaker C: The whole drone.
[00:00:27] Speaker A: Yep. It's not even been like released public.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I did see there was.
[00:00:32] Speaker C: I mean their last big drone was a total disaster.
Like they had a big one that was but an 18 gallon one, something like that. And the sales guy told me do not.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: That's what that guy just said too.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: Yeah, he was like, do not do that.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: That's when he told me in July they're gonna have that one, the one he was using then.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: Alrighty guys. Well, you just heard us there. Welcome back to the drone on show.
These next few episodes, that's actually going to be a lot of episodes. We're going to be sitting down with folks here at the drone conference in. We are in Kansas City, Missouri.
[00:01:09] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: That's crazy to think that there's a Kansas City, Kansas City and then there's a Kansas City, Missouri. So we're actually in Missouri and I got to make sure that I. Oh, it's right on. My wife, I don't know if she needs something.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: It's all a part of the same city. Yeah.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: So we just got here. It was a 12 hour drive yesterday. We had to beat this big old winter storm. And Dennis, you're, you're saying that you don't even think it's going to be a big deal, huh?
[00:01:37] Speaker C: Well, it hasn't been so far. I think it's definitely going to be overblown.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Oh yeah, yeah. Well, did you see the ice that's down south?
Like is it going on? I haven't been on my, you know, social media.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: I think there's a lot of ice going through Texas and heading up toward, like up towards the northeast.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: So much for those windmills, right?
[00:01:55] Speaker B: Oh, those signs are gonna be.
[00:01:57] Speaker A: Last time there was an ice storm, dude, take drones in there and de ice them.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. With a big sprayer on it. Yeah, yeah, that'd be sweet.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Cuz the flight cart, remember there was this bracket you could get on the bottom of a flight cart. It, it has a sprayer. Boom. And it goes out and it, it. Yeah, deices stuff.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: We actually have Some come for the T100. That goes on the bottom of it.
That sprays down for solar panels. Solar panels?
[00:02:22] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Solar panel, Yep. So we're going to be talking with a bunch of different folks here at this event. We're going to. You know, it might be guys that are in the industry already spraying. It might be new guys. It. Manufacturers of drones, manufacturers of trailers. Who knows actually who we are going to be talking to. There's a few new drones here that we. Or UAVs that we haven't seen. So it'll be interesting. It'll be an interesting time. You've never been here, Dennis?
[00:02:48] Speaker C: Nope.
[00:02:49] Speaker A: What. What are you thinking? Some of your first thoughts.
[00:02:51] Speaker C: And our neighbors are noisy, but I.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: Think they might be doing it on purpose because they see us on the podcast.
[00:02:59] Speaker C: We used our ladder without permission.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's what it was.
[00:03:04] Speaker C: Yeah. So I. This is still too early for me to judge, but I think I'm going to enjoy it. I'm going to at least go enjoy going around asking questions on everybody's, you know, thoughts and opinions on things or maybe pick up a few good nuggets.
[00:03:19] Speaker A: It's pretty crazy to think this event, when me and Jay first went, I think it was three years ago when we first went to the event, it was so small. Like, right now, like, we're set up kind of like it'd be an expo on this side, but then there's, like, these training classes and stuff at the show, but. But it's turning into an expo where, you know, and that's what it probably should be. Open it up to the public, like, get people interested in coming and seeing applicators, new equipment, whatever it might be. That's what I feel like at the show. This year is way more of an expo view than what it has the first year. It was just a couple booths set.
[00:04:00] Speaker B: Up, like, in a hallway. There was like, I don't know, maybe 10, maybe. Maybe not that many, literally.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: But just like a table.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Yeah, just like a table with a couple of drones sitting on the tables now. It's like a huge building. I mean, looks like. I don't know how many vendors are in here, but there's a lot.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: There's guys, trailers parked in here. There's trucks parked in here. Yeah, it's huge. It's way bigger than it was.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Drones, all kinds of different.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: Different drones. Yeah. I've seen three different drones just sitting here. I've never seen before, but.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: But we can say a lot of that was because of the whole. Oh, that show ban, like, if that wouldn't have gone through, there probably be, you know, two big players. DJI xag.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: You know, Helio's always been there wanting to, you know, want to dabble into the game, but I just don't know how much dabbling they do.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah. I'd actually be curious to hear how many drones they sell.
[00:04:50] Speaker C: I wonder if they're going to be offended that you call them dabblers.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: Well, I. Well, I feel that way. I mean, we can have them on and we. We can chat and see. See how they're doing, but for the most part, if you look at how long they've been around, they got very little market share. And, you know, why is that? Why is it that they have not been able to produce either enough equipment or is it because it breaks?
[00:05:17] Speaker B: I would say it's probably largely due to price.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: I mean, you get a drone, one drone with eight batteries. It's way more expensive than a DJI drone. Yeah.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: And then we just. We were just chatting with our neighbor guy over here, and, you know, that's all he's ever flown the way it sounds.
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: And he loves it. That's literally the first person ever heard, honestly.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: The first person ever.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: But it's also the one he said he likes, is the. The latest one that they have. And that might be the first one because he not. Who was not about to brag.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: Wait, so. So he's been using for three years? That's what he said. And you're saying now, just now, after three years, he might like this one?
[00:05:56] Speaker C: Well, he was definitely not bragging on the ones before. He said he had a lot of problems. But the one that they come out, that came out last summer, that one supposedly, you know, well, he said was definitely a lot better, but, you know.
[00:06:09] Speaker B: He has nothing to compare it to because I don't think he's ever used anything.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: I know. I wonder that too.
[00:06:12] Speaker B: Like.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I wonder if I go and get that drone. Mike, you should go and buy me that drone. Let me use it for a while just to see how.
[00:06:20] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
If it's the drone that has that huge screen. Did you see how big the screen is?
[00:06:26] Speaker C: No.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: On the remote, it literally is the size of, like, a laptop. Oh, yeah, the. The remote. Yeah.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: So I just.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: I don't know. And I don't know if that's the.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: One they had down at that show in Columbus.
[00:06:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I saw it.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:38] Speaker C: But.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: Does that still have a boom on it, like A Lego?
[00:06:45] Speaker C: I don't think, man. I don't remember. There's a picture of it and. No, it's got like four nozzles on each arm.
[00:06:50] Speaker A: Oh, I see.
Oh, so you have to change the tips.
[00:06:55] Speaker C: Oh, probably.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Yeah. So they're not atomizers.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Yeah, they're not atoms. Okay. Same thing on their booms.
[00:07:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: They don't have the atomizers on there. They're just different tips.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: Wonder why that is, huh? What is Landon trying to point to?
Oh, she just want to make sure that we got carpet. So Landon took the phone call that I hung. Karen, I did not, like hang up on you. I just put my phone down. I apologize. Wife.
Why you laughing?
[00:07:24] Speaker C: I bet she'll totally accept that.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Jay, what are you eyeballing?
[00:07:31] Speaker B: I don't know if I'm just looking over there.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Oh, okay. I thought you were checking out that trailer with that hot box. So this is.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Well, that's what I was checking. Yeah, I was checking it out.
[00:07:40] Speaker A: There's a trailer sitting across of us that has this little. Looks like a phone booth, maybe on steroids.
With.
What is that? There's an. There's. There's an AC unit on top that looks like it goes on an rv.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's probably an RV AC unit blown down.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: So we're just kind of analyzing it and trying to figure out, you know, for the operations that we do. Would that be practical?
[00:08:05] Speaker C: I know a few times where it would have felt really nice to be in air conditioning.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Yeah. But can you imagine going in and out?
[00:08:12] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: Maybe those Helios. You don't have to go in and out. Yes, they just do.
[00:08:18] Speaker C: I'm sure of that.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: If you want to get done, you have to go in and out.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: I mean.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:31] Speaker A: I didn't mean it like that.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: But.
[00:08:36] Speaker C: Every freaking time.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: I mean, you took it the wrong way.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: We're talking about the tag on trailer, but.
Yep.
[00:08:48] Speaker C: This is gonna take a lot of editing right here.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: Leave it in.
[00:08:56] Speaker C: Geez.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: We did not say anything wrong, like, just leave it in.
[00:09:00] Speaker C: Definitely not.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I think that's a cool idea.
[00:09:03] Speaker B: I. I don't know how.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I just don't know. I'm looking at the platform. Platform is low, dude. There's definitely corn that would go past like your. Your drone would be taking off up.
[00:09:15] Speaker C: So here's the problem that I'm seeing with this trailer right now. Like, I like the idea of being able to be inside there in the air conditioning, but you're not up high enough. But problem number one with most of these boxes Is because the ceiling has to be above your head. That means that's how tall your trailer.
[00:09:30] Speaker A: Is going to be.
[00:09:30] Speaker C: So maybe design a box that you can.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: The only way.
[00:09:34] Speaker C: The only way that I would want one, because dropping down even five feet lower than the trailer is like, okay, the deck's, what, 10ft? Maybe a little more on the new 8 trailer. And that I would. There is no way I want to drop five feet down like you would. Your visual, like, would be so much worse. And, you know, whatever. You don't necessarily need it all the time. Maybe it would. I don't know. I guess I haven't tried it enough. I. I don't know. Maybe I love it.
But the. The rails on there would not work for the drones we fly.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: No, would not work.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: I feel like his deck might not be big enough.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: You come in there at. With some speed.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: Well, I'm for sure with drones that have, like, the octacopter, where there's motors on the bottom and motors on top, there's not enough clearance there. But, hey, you know, I mean, I have.
[00:10:26] Speaker C: I had a 2x4 on the side of mine, and I hit it with the prop.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: Why.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: Why were you doing that?
[00:10:31] Speaker C: Yeah, it was in the way.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: Was it that windy or what was going on?
[00:10:38] Speaker C: No, no, no. I think what I did is it was pretty low to the trail.
Pushed it back a little bit, and it just simply tilted that far that it hit it. But that. That was on a T50. And if you look, the front props on a T50 are pretty low when that thing's flying.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: Like, it tilts a little bit. And so when you don't make maneuvers when you're a foot above your trailer, like, push it up, then move it back, then down.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: Because I pushed it back, and it just tilted far enough to where I'd hit.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: Dennis, you were saying you've been to this convention before, 10 years ago, this convention center?
[00:11:13] Speaker C: The convention center.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. This convention center here in Kansas city, Missouri. Yeah. 10 years ago. We're driving out here.
You said you would have never thought that you're coming out here for this type of convention.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: Yeah. No. Spray drones. 10 years ago. I don't know if they even existed. Not in the United States. Where were the. For when were the first spray drones?
[00:11:38] Speaker A: Oh, they were around, but nobody was talking about it like. Like it is now.
[00:11:42] Speaker C: They weren't never.
[00:11:43] Speaker A: It is just crazy to think about it. And, like, that gentleman over there that builds that trailer, you know, he's a young fella. He's 31 years old. And we are talking about it and everybody in this building right now. If we would have told our grandpas that one day we are going to get paid to fly uavs drones over corn fields and bean fields and get paid for it, they would have all flipping laughed. Now, now we're paying to come to a show like this to show other people what our booth is or what our product is. So we can sell either drones, trailers, software, you name it, in this industry. It didn't exist. And it's something that is changing people's lives. It's just crazy.
[00:12:30] Speaker C: Flying drones over field. They would have thought you were talking about flying the little bee.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: Oh, the fields.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:37] Speaker C: Very confusing.
No, Definitely never would have thought that I'd be involved in this. Like, dude, it's not very long ago you're the first person I ever heard talking about a spray drone. I did not know they exist. And I saw a video somewhere.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: What?
[00:12:56] Speaker C: No, dude, maybe I had heard of. I. I don't think so. Most certainly the first time I've ever seen one.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Just became really known in the last like two years.
[00:13:08] Speaker C: Yeah. So to the average person, there's a ton of people who still do not know like that. Ask me what I do for like farmer people.
[00:13:15] Speaker A: You think farmer people?
[00:13:16] Speaker C: Not so much. Most farmers, I think know about it, but the. I'm just talking the average person in general. You tell them what you do and they're like, what? Like most people don't.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:30] Speaker C: It's still pretty new.
[00:13:31] Speaker A: The first. The first drone thing that I seen that would spray was probably 10 years ago, but it was a little helicopter.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: Little Yamaha.
[00:13:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I. We talked to Taylor about it. Are you saying Yamaha? Because that's what he said. Because I don't remember what.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: No, I think I've seen a video a long time. Well, I don't know if I've seen it a long time ago, but it was an older video.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Of a little Yamaha. I mean, just looked like a little, tiny little thing.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: Helicopter. Like a real little helicopter?
Yep, yep.
[00:13:58] Speaker C: But remote control.
[00:14:00] Speaker A: Remote control, Yep. Spraying with a spray boom. Spray boom. Yep. Spraying in California vineyards, I think. Yep. And now we have that huge T100 sitting behind you with 26 gallons. It's like.
[00:14:12] Speaker C: So why didn't that. Why didn't the helicopter thing, a remote control helicopter, become a thing?
[00:14:18] Speaker A: Well, it. It helped evolve.
It evolved into place.
[00:14:23] Speaker C: Okay. We. A drone works well.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: I Just don't think that we had the motor like the end. Maybe the motors weren't engineered yet and all the flight controllers like to keep it in hover. I don't know. I mean, that was manual flight.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: Yeah. I think that thing was probably super expensive to build.
[00:14:41] Speaker C: Probably.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: Could have probably a gas engine, right?
[00:14:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was gas engine. Yep, I'm sure it was. I mean, 10 times, 20 times the cost of what these drones are now.
[00:14:51] Speaker C: Yeah. And that wouldn't make much sense.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: No.
Yeah, no, I don't. I don't know how much that thing carried.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I would guess maybe a gallon. Maybe a gallon and a half. Oh, yeah.
Landon, you were at the spray drone conference last year looking at this. Doesn't it feel like it literally like is 10 times bigger? Yeah, probably.
[00:15:15] Speaker B: Oh yeah, dude.
[00:15:16] Speaker A: There was. In terms of space, like just look at all the people that are here. There's. There's three rows of booths.
[00:15:22] Speaker B: This is like an expo now.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: It is literally like an expo.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: It's not like it was.
[00:15:26] Speaker C: See, that's what I was expecting though. I mean, this is kind of what I was expecting. I thought this is very much an expo for.
[00:15:33] Speaker A: But what's going to be weird, Dennis, is you're gonna sit here and there's nobody. Like there's not hardly anybody walking around or. That's how it was last year. That's how it was last year. Right. So you would be at your booth and then everybody leaves and then they go into a class or whatever.
[00:15:50] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:15:51] Speaker A: And then they all come back.
[00:15:52] Speaker C: Because it was pretty much just people here that. At a booth here.
[00:15:56] Speaker A: But that's what I'm saying. I still think that's what we're going to experience here. Because people. This is not open necessarily to the general public. It costs a thousand friggin dollars to get into this thing.
[00:16:07] Speaker C: Okay. For anybody.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Really?
[00:16:10] Speaker A: It's like a thousand dollars to.
[00:16:12] Speaker C: Oh, well, that's why not a lot of people are here. This is very obvious.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: Well, yeah, look, look it up for me, Lana, Just so I.
Speaking out of my backside, but like, I'm serious. Okay, but because it's a convention where it's like they're providing the food and then classes. You can go to classes. But you know that. That can hinder us in some way because this is not open.
It's open to the public, but. Right, right. Who the same hill is going to.
[00:16:38] Speaker C: It's open, but it's literally the people.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: That are in the industry are going to be here.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:16:42] Speaker C: Designed for business owners. People who own businesses that are in this industry are the only people that.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: So it's called the Spray Drone and Users Conference. So what it really is, is for people. Farmer buys a piece of equipment, he wants to know what the best practices are for him operating his spray drone. He would come here and he'd go into a class and learn that, you know, we've did this data testing and my swath is best at this and the droplets at that. And like that. He would come here to learn. That's what it was for. Yeah, it's not that because Farmer John, if he bought this, you know, I don't think he's going to come pay $1,000 to come to this convention to learn those things.
That's just me. That's how I feel. I could be wrong, but that's what it's turned into.
[00:17:29] Speaker C: They can just.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: Is it a thousand bucks?
Twelve hundred dollars?
[00:17:34] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not cheap.
[00:17:35] Speaker A: So. So there's not going to be like, you know, there's not going to be more than maybe a thousand to twelve hundred people here.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: Yeah, like at an expo, you have tens of thousands of people walking through that have no interest in your product.
[00:17:47] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: That's not how it is here.
[00:17:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Like they're seriously interested people that are already. They probably already have drones. Like, so you're not necessarily going to sell them drones, you know, like they're here to learn.
And then the people that are retailers like us are here to, yo, I.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Don'T know, promote, whatever.
[00:18:03] Speaker C: Well, and see what other drones are out there. What's. What. What's the newest thing in the industry, what has potential of going somewhere in a few years.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: But like I was saying, that's not what this show was set up for, is to be a visual thing. And then it turned into this, what we're doing right now, visual like this is who we are. So before everybody came, but they weren't doing booths to show this is my business in the industry.
Then slowly it became one guy had a booth and another company had a booth and then somebody else. Well, I want to have a booth and then boost booth, booth. Because we all want to be in front of the eyes that are using the equipment. So they know, hey, you can buy parts from, you know, UA AG or you can buy a trailer, because these people are actually in the industry. But that's not what it started from.
Yeah, but we need to open it up to the public where it's like, what is it normally 10, 10, 20 bucks.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Mount Hope show is like 15 bucks. I think maybe 20.
[00:19:02] Speaker C: 15 bucks.
[00:19:04] Speaker A: You don't like that?
[00:19:05] Speaker C: I don't. Well, I don't know that there's. I don't know, because there's. If you look at other industries, let's say concrete, for example.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:19:12] Speaker C: Like you go to. They have these big concrete conventions in Vegas or whatever. They're massive and everything to do with concrete. The only people that go there are people that are in that business. You don't get a general public, oh, let's see what new design they've got to make my stamp patio. No, it's only people who own concrete pouring businesses or that are in that industry.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:19:35] Speaker C: Those are the only people that go. And they probably pay boohoo bucks for that too, I imagine.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Because there's like shot show. But then. Yeah, I, I see that slightly different because it's like that's what that show was built for. This show was not built to be what we're doing now because people are going to leave and then they're going to come back. When you go to shot show, you're walking down each aisle looking at a product that you might want to buy or put in your store or concrete you want to pour. These people, they actually didn't come to walk up and down these aisles looking at new.
[00:20:09] Speaker B: They didn't really come to buy anything. They came to get information. It's kind of what this was meant for. Best practices.
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:20:16] Speaker C: Steal each other's secrets, stuff like that.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: No, not like.
[00:20:20] Speaker B: Steve Lee is a professor at the university. I forget what it is, but yeah, he tests a lot of different things. And there's other people that do the same thing. And then they have panels talking about what, you know, what this company does, how this works. No, that's kind of what this was for.
[00:20:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, I like just as an applicator coming and learning about, you know, different methods that I could use or how they designed a certain drone or.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: Why that guy just had to start that vacuum. Now I can hear that noise gate. Because the vacuum or the, the, you know, our software is trying to eliminate the doggone vacuum in the background. And now you can hear that buzzing. So just hang, hang with us, guys. As we're dealing with a vacuum in the background.
I'm glad we kind of got on that. He's over there vacuuming their big old carpet. It's probably going to be 10 minutes. Maybe we should just pause and hop back on when We. When they're done. But that's what I'm saying, Dennis, is we are set up as an expo. People are gonna come, then they're all gonna leave, and then there's nobody for like an hour or more.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: Like there's nobody in the booth.
[00:21:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Literally nobody. That's how it was.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: It might be different this year. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the industry has grown a lot in the last year. Yeah. Might be different.
Yeah.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: So it's, so, it's interesting. You know, the industry is so new, it's so fresh. It is growing super fast, though. It's just, you can't slow it down. You know, the FCC tried slowing it down because they don't want China drones flying over us. That's not going to work.
These things are still going to continue coming into the country.
Let's just address the people. It's been a while since I've been on the podcast talking about it. You know, the whole fcc, it's. Every doggone foreign drone is technically banned.
[00:22:08] Speaker B: Every new, Every new model.
[00:22:10] Speaker A: Every new model. Yep. Thanks for clarifying. So every new model. But there's still hundreds and thousands of drones coming into the country to keep up the, with the demand. Because the demand is just through the roof.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: Yeah. And the models that we have now that are approved, we can keep using. And those models are pretty darn good.
The latest models, like the T100 is like such a drastic improvement from what we've had two years ago.
[00:22:36] Speaker A: So huge.
[00:22:37] Speaker C: And I, I think it'll, it's good enough that if this is all we ever had that the industry would keep going.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:46] Speaker C: Keep growing and keep growing even if we wouldn't improve from what we've got now.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. The T100. Obviously we're bragging on the thing now, but we, we have, we have no experience with it really, other than doing some test fields here and running 120 acre field. But it's not gone through a season.
[00:23:06] Speaker C: No, but even the T50s are good enough to where people couldn't start a business, run T50s and make, make a business out of it.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: I mean, you did. Can you tell us how much. What your revenue was last year or you want to keep that on the down low?
[00:23:21] Speaker B: Let us hear it.
[00:23:22] Speaker C: No, I, I don't. I should actually go and look, but.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: I would say you don't have to be.
[00:23:27] Speaker C: 390 something thousand is what I would have brought in. But I did spend some money on Chemical and I, I paid a couple of employees over like a Secret.
So, you know, but like, if you did over eight years. Yeah. Did over 18, 000 acres and not all of this.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: How Is that with T50s?
[00:23:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:47] Speaker A: With 2T, I'd wonder what you would do with T1 hundreds.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: Oh, dude.
[00:23:52] Speaker C: Well, with enough. With enough acres, like, with enough big.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Fields, like, you could see 18, 000 acres. If they're decent acres, that couple T1 hundreds will eat that up pretty fast.
[00:24:02] Speaker C: Yeah. So. And yeah, a lot of those. Eighteen. Not.
I would say. Well, yeah, no, a lot of those acres were crappy acres.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Like.
[00:24:13] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, even in the fungicide season, stuff like, we got some crappy fields to spray, like small, nasty in the hills. Stuff like that.
[00:24:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:24] Speaker C: And. And I also did, like, stuff like, you know, wetland areas, stuff like that, where you're constantly dodging dead trees. You know, there's nothing predictable about that. So you don't rack up a lot of acres that.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: Yeah. They're not getting 50 acres an hour and that stuff.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like you. You've coached a lot of people that come to New AG already, and it feels like they're all out in the middle of nowhere, huge, giant fields, and it's like we're just drooling, wishing we could go spray some of those acres.
[00:24:55] Speaker C: Yeah. And. And they're getting training from us. Like, yeah, my training was Mike and Che handing me a remote and saying, there you go. Figure it out.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: Yeah. But like, they're getting. They're getting things that you. That you've dealt with that maybe somebody in their area would have never taught him because they never dealt with the issues that you've dealt with.
[00:25:17] Speaker C: That is true.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:18] Speaker C: Some. Some of them I'm like. I'm bitter about when they tell me. I'm like, it just go home. You need to suffer a little bit.
I can't tell you anything because it's going to make it too easy for you. Now, literally, if you. If I go buy drones, set up like a new egg set up, go and spray these flat fields that. To what these guys are spraying with the training that we provide and stuff, dude, their life is gonna be so much easier than what we dealt with even a couple years ago. I mean, it's just like a whole different. Whole different story. The challenges that. Yeah, that. Totally different. I mean, I'm sure there are still.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Challenges, but, like, I wonder if they'll ever lose connection. Like, if you're, you know, coaching them on a T100 and you had the T50, will they ever lose connection?
[00:26:09] Speaker C: Even with the T50s if you have big flat open fields you don't have.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: That was not a thing when we were starting with the T40s it was like doggone, it's right there.
[00:26:20] Speaker B: What the world.
[00:26:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Well then you had to make sure if you were going to send it somewhere in the back 40 where you couldn't see it, you had to make sure your settings were all right or oh, it wasn't coming back.
[00:26:30] Speaker C: Yeah, you. That was sketchy stuff. Let's see. There's a reason we had the electric motorbike ready to roll because I put a lot of miles on that little guy the first year. Yeah.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: You know what, we didn't really use that thing that much.
[00:26:49] Speaker C: 60S even we left it. Even Matt with his 50s, he doesn't have one and he's like, oh, I never really would have even had to use it. Now he does now.
[00:26:58] Speaker A: He went through a really bad slump on his drones.
[00:27:00] Speaker C: He probably would have used it last year a little bit.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: He was so over it.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: That can go with the, the industry. Right. Sometimes equipment just doesn't friggin work.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: I mean it's just like a tractor. You will have the sucker break down. Yeah.
[00:27:20] Speaker C: Well, especially the first tractors. Can you imagine like the challenges they had? Like it's that way with any new equipment. Yeah, but dude, it's good now. I mean. Yeah, now it's like. And you guys keep. I haven't even run anything more than T50s like on a regular basis and so it's crazy.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: I forget you, you never even ran in the T60X with like for a day or anything, did you?
[00:27:47] Speaker B: No.
[00:27:47] Speaker C: No.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: You would? Absolutely.
[00:27:49] Speaker C: Just like a small little training session, stuff like that.
[00:27:52] Speaker B: I remember when we first got the 60s, I really like the 50s. And when we first got the 60s I was like, I'll just keep using 50s.
[00:27:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:58] Speaker B: And then one day we went out and I started flying the 60 and I was like, oh my gosh, we're not using the 50s anymore.
[00:28:04] Speaker C: Well, it's because that much faster. It's just from where the drone stops spraying to come back for a fill up flying in to land it again, I'm like, wouldn't that be nice if I could fly back the trailer that fast?
[00:28:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:17] Speaker C: And now with the T1 hundreds twice as fast as what the fifties are flying back.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: That's insane.
[00:28:24] Speaker C: If you would. If they would spray the exact same way, just doubling the speed that I can fly back and land on my trailer would save me a ton of time.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: Yeah. 100.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Well, well, look at your T50s going. What is 32ft per second? So that's 22 mile an hour.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: 21.
[00:28:41] Speaker A: Yeah, 22. And now go 45 miles per hour. That's twice as fast. So if it takes you a minute to come back, it's going to take you 30 seconds to come back.
[00:28:49] Speaker C: Yeah, And a lot of times, huge. It's a lot of fields you got to fly a little bit to get to.
[00:28:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:28:55] Speaker C: And. And if you have a big field, like, it's going to run out how many times? That's quite a ways from you, like run out of liquid or.
[00:29:02] Speaker A: It should be a better applicator, Dennis, if you're letting it run empty, you know, three quarter away, like up the road.
[00:29:09] Speaker C: You try to do that math every day, all day. No, no, dude.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: Oh, I watch my controller. Actually. You're. You're flying multiple drones. See, you don have to do that with a fast drone. You fly one drone because it's fast enough, then you just watch your controller and fill it up.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: You would be way more efficient with 1T100 than you are with 2T50s.
[00:29:26] Speaker A: The debate has started. He's licking his lips. He's not convinced.
[00:29:30] Speaker C: No, I. I don't know. No, I believe it. Because of what you were spraying. You were flipping on crappy fields, getting what, 70, 80 acres in an hour?
[00:29:39] Speaker A: Yeah, well, we.
[00:29:40] Speaker C: We were two pilots, so we were only flying one drone each.
Me and Henry. T 50s, and we pull up to basically most fields. We would figure 60 acres an hour is what we can cover.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: So with two drones.
[00:29:54] Speaker C: With two drones. So 30 acres each for the T50s. So that would have been 60 acres. And like, I don't know that those fields, you could double it with a T100 just. With just one T100. Just. Because if it's small, it's kind of crappy fields.
[00:30:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:12] Speaker C: On the big ones. Oh, yeah.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: I will say on small fields, the freaking T100 takes so long to turn. It just drives me insane. It's like if they would speed that up that it would spin and turn like the T60X does, you would get a lot more done. But because it turns so doggone slow, for some reason, it's because it's so big and heavy.
[00:30:34] Speaker C: But even. Yeah. And what are you guys getting used to? Like, I. I never thought. I never gave it a thought.
[00:30:41] Speaker B: In turns is a lot faster.
[00:30:42] Speaker C: I never flew the 60s, that's. But compared to the 50s, you don't think about it.
Yeah, like, I never thought.
[00:30:49] Speaker B: I wonder if it doesn't have any, like, I bet it has something to do with it being an octocopter instead of having just four motors, like, the 60 is way more agile. Yeah.
[00:30:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:00] Speaker A: Well. And see, I wonder if that's why DJI decided, you know what, we're going to go back to the quadcopter, right?
Yeah. T1 hundreds.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll see.
[00:31:10] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know, I just, I never thought, oh, this, this 100 is a little slower or clumsy in turns.
[00:31:16] Speaker B: That's, I mean, in turn it's just slower.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Yep. Just turns.
[00:31:20] Speaker C: It's just slower than the 60. That's all you're comparing it to. But is it like, it's still probably faster than a 50.
[00:31:27] Speaker A: Probably.
[00:31:28] Speaker C: Probably just as fast. I never thought of it. Now I'm going to pay attention to it, but I never thought of it.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: Well, we got a video coming out of the three generation drones flying, like in a big field. It's just laughable. Like you literally felt like something was wrong with the 50, like if it.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: Was going so slow, like if, if.
[00:31:47] Speaker A: It wasn't put to max speed or something. It was that slow.
[00:31:50] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: Me and Jay explained it like, you know, the T50 is like, like a old worker that you have. Maybe he's not quite a grandpa, but pretty close. But he shows up. He's not super fast. He just gets his work done.
He's there. That's how a T50 feels. It just, it's not fast. It'll get it done. But when you see a T100 in the same field, it's like, okay, young guns has showed up. We're ripping. That's literally what it feels like.
[00:32:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:32:20] Speaker C: I don't doubt it.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:32:23] Speaker B: It's an impressive drone. There is no doubt.
[00:32:25] Speaker A: But so far, yeah, we just don't know a lot. You know some of the first questions right when they came up, Battery.
[00:32:31] Speaker C: Battery.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: Yeah, battery's getting hot. Huh. Where are they getting that?
[00:32:35] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:32:35] Speaker B: Because, yeah, you know, they say, oh, it comes from Brazil and it's like how many people ask you or how many people have had issues?
1, 10, 100.
[00:32:44] Speaker A: Right. Like, but yeah, you. Oh, you don't know In Brazil. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
[00:32:49] Speaker C: But the other thing is like with the 40s and 50s, I heard that stuff all the time from people like, oh, you know, you got to keep your battery even from drone guys. But they weren't flying those drones. But they, I was convinced, like keeping the batteries cool is going to be an issue. Literally never had a battery overheat. Not once. T40s, 50s, never had a battery overheat in 90 some degree weather all day long.
[00:33:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
Okay, so I will say I had one battery get hot on the T60X when I was spraying really tiny rows and it was, I was so over it that I was like the heck with. I'm going to fill it all the way to the top. That way it just runs and gets all the rows done and I don't have to come back. Well, I filled her all the way to the top and it was 100 degrees in Kentucky and it was running these little rows and it was turning a lot. Turning a lot. And the battery got hot because it was turning and carrying the load with it the whole time. So I quickly just came back to the trailer swat the battery. By that time I'd already used some of the, you know, the load that was in it. But then the next one did not get hot. Yeah, but I did. I also made a T6A battery become hot with just being an absolute ramrod flying around in manual. I did it on purpose. I filled it completely full and I was like is this battery going to fail? Put it in full and sport mode maybe. And I was full. Stick this way.
[00:34:10] Speaker B: Something that nobody would ever do to.
[00:34:12] Speaker A: See what would happen.
Oh, she fried. Yeah, she fried. Like, like it was giving me all kinds of warnings like overheating land immediately I'm like no you don't. You keep going. Like I was a ram run it literally like you could hardly touch the battery.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: I get smoked it.
[00:34:31] Speaker A: And finally I was like, I went to a 0%. Just ramrod around the Jay was looking out the shop when he's like what.
[00:34:39] Speaker B: In the heck are you doing?
[00:34:43] Speaker A: Like nobody would ever do this.
Stresses the crap out of the drone.
[00:34:49] Speaker B: Like holy smokes.
[00:34:52] Speaker C: Not normal.
[00:34:53] Speaker B: That battery was fried. Like it wouldn't work no more.
[00:34:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:59] Speaker A: I was like, you know what happens? And it's like don't do what I did.
[00:35:04] Speaker C: But pretty sure, but nobody's gonna do that except for you actually. Like who will buy a three thousand dollar battery? Like yeah, let's see if we can fry the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But hey, you know.
[00:35:16] Speaker B: Yeah, that's why we did, why you did that. Somebody was probably asking about freaking batteries overheating or something.
[00:35:21] Speaker C: He was probably just on social media too much and I don't even gonna prove these guys.
[00:35:27] Speaker A: I don't go on there.
[00:35:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: Although I did give a guy crap this morning. He just hit me at the right Time.
[00:35:33] Speaker C: Yeah. You should stay off.
It's not good.
[00:35:39] Speaker A: Yeah, no. So batteries overheating on the T100. Who flipping knows? You know, Maybe. Maybe. But then we'll just figure it out. If they get.
[00:35:48] Speaker C: Still gonna be a lot better off than flying the T50.
[00:35:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:52] Speaker C: But they're gonna be able to get.
[00:35:53] Speaker A: A lot more done. Situation.
[00:35:54] Speaker B: Like if a farmer. If a farmer dude has 50 acres, I would buy a T50.
[00:35:58] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Like. Or 100 acres or whatever. Like small stuff.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: Even if a farmer has 500 acres and he just wants to do his own dude, one T50 is going to. Yeah.
[00:36:07] Speaker A: Be plenty y. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:36:09] Speaker C: It's. So in that situation.
Applicator. Yeah. Right. And. But for an applicator who's wanting to go out there and get as many acres done as possible, that's.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: You're definitely going to want to see 100 for sure.
[00:36:21] Speaker A: So we're talking about, you know, wanting to get as many acres done as possible. I think in the future. Yes. That's where we're at right now is try to get as much done as you can. I think it's going to come down to quality job that you're going to do. And you're going to charge by the farmer. So the farmer is going to tell you, this is how many acres I have, and these are the fields. And you're going to go look at those fields. We're talking about our experience with the fields that we have around us. And you're going to go. And you're going to be like, you know, you got a little 20 back here and a five over here, and you got this. And you're going to give them a price as a whole to do the job rather than by the acre. So you're not in there ripping as fast as you can go and try to do the best job possible. I think that's where it'll go.
Not right away down the road when there's lots and lots of guys doing it. Maybe because the farmer that sees his guy show up and it's like.
And then the next guy comes and it's like.
Like blowing it down in. And he's just like going and forth and he's like, oh, I like how that guy's doing.
[00:37:21] Speaker C: Yeah. And then I think a lot of time, a lot of what's going to happen is I think it would be.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: Best if it was like that. But I don't know. It's going to be hard to train farmers to do that because they're. They're Always everything's per acre for farmers.
[00:37:33] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Maybe, maybe to get the farmers to.
[00:37:35] Speaker B: All their cost by the acre. It's, you know, that's just where I.
[00:37:39] Speaker C: See a lot of this going is there's going to be a lot of young farmers that they might farm 500 acres, but they're going to buy a couple drones because they're going to spray the four other farmers that they know that are close by. And that guy wants to do the best job. He's not necessarily rushed. Typically it's not really his business what he's doing.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: But yeah.
[00:37:58] Speaker C: So that guy might take a little bit more time. I mean try to get the absolute best application possible.
[00:38:04] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:38:05] Speaker C: And I see, I mean I think we're gonna see a lot of farmers buying these, spraying with these and just doing like Maybe they'll do 3, 000 acres a year.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: Yeah. I think more and more farmers are getting into it for sure.
[00:38:19] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. And especially younger ones. So you, you get, you get the 20 year old farmer right now he's hearing about the drones and stuff and he's like that sounds cool. Like, yeah, I want to do that. I'm going to implement that if I start taking charge of the farm here and not everybody's going to want to do it, but enough, enough of them are going to want to do it to where if you take every five farms there's one of them that's going to want to do it.
[00:38:42] Speaker A: Well, yeah, just even from the cost perspective. Yeah. You know, pulling out a tractor and a thousand gallon tank and it's cost.
[00:38:50] Speaker C: But it's the other big thing that I'm hearing from farmers is scheduling, timing. They want their stuff.
[00:38:56] Speaker B: That's probably the biggest thing.
[00:38:57] Speaker C: It is so huge because they're like, when I want to go and hire the guy to come, he's busy. And so they're like I can have my drone everything here. And the day that I see, okay, it's go time, we need to spray now they can do it themselves. And, and that is a huge benefit to a lot of farmers.
[00:39:14] Speaker A: You know another one I, I being talked about more and I just talked to a guy in Paraguay. He, I was talking to him last week and more farmers are now wanting to do variable, variable rate, variable rate because they will scan their corn and they'll figure out this little section right here, this low lying area needs more nitrogen or whatever and then they'll just fly that area that needs more nitrogen. I think that's coming maybe not for most farmers, but there's going to be those short corn guys that are wanting to get that done.
[00:39:47] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:39:48] Speaker C: But that's another thing that if a farmer has his own drone, he can, he can be doing that stuff, spreading this fertilizer and stuff like that throughout the year. Like if he's not. If it's. If it'd be my own fields. Oh man, I would. If I have my own fields, like let's say a thousand acres even that I'd be farming. I'd have a couple drones, man. I'd be doing all kinds of stuff like that.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: Yeah. And extra things too.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:40:13] Speaker C: Well, yeah. And it's not like. Yeah.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: And it's not something that a custom applicator wants to go out and deal with. Like you don't want to go out.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Here and deal with this little two acre, five acres back here.
[00:40:21] Speaker C: If a farmer wants me to do that, I have to charge him too much. It doesn't make sense for him to do that. But if I am the farmer, then, then I'm gonna, I'm gonna do that.
Wait, I would think so anyway.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I think. Yeah. In the next three years, those are the people that are buying most of the drones.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:40] Speaker A: Right now.
I think right now most of the people that are buying drones are entrepreneurs that want to have a spray drone business. But in the next three years, the majority of the drones that are sold are being sold to farms themselves.
[00:40:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I would agree.
[00:40:55] Speaker C: Yeah. But I think there's always going to be room for the applicator business.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: I think so too.
[00:41:01] Speaker C: Just an egg. I think it's going to. With there. It's crazy how many things that I've sprayed you good that I've never. That I never thought I would be spraying with a drone. Like, you know, forestry and stuff like that. Like, and like the wetland, like invasive species in wetland areas, things like that. That it is just simply the best way to spray it there. There's a lot of us.
[00:41:26] Speaker B: Is the only way to spray it.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:28] Speaker B: We spray wetlands too. That.
[00:41:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: That lady was like, we could do 10 people.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: 8 or 10 people. They could do like 5 acres a day or something like that.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: And they were like walking backwards with dye. Walking through the chemical.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Walking through the chemicals in the United.
[00:41:41] Speaker A: States of America, I mean.
[00:41:43] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:41:43] Speaker B: And we went in there with a drone and within like an hour or two, we had 50 acres coming.
[00:41:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:47] Speaker C: So I, I see it. The, the over the next five years, we're going to be spraying things with drone and spreading stuff or whatever with drones. That. That we're not even thinking of 100%.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: I say that often times in the new ag videos. It's like, guys, I'm just showing you what I'm using it for. Yeah, but you live in a part of the United States that I don't even think about. And you're going to do something with it that I'm not thinking about.
[00:42:16] Speaker B: Yeah, 100%.
[00:42:18] Speaker A: Totally.
[00:42:18] Speaker C: What things?
[00:42:18] Speaker A: There's a guy that is probably going to be at this show. He's from South America. He uses his to feed fish out in the ocean. Yeah. Like, so they grow salmon out there. And then I think he goes out there for like two or three weeks and that's all he's doing is feeding the fish with his Dr. T. 50s.
[00:42:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. I seen. I seen a picture. I don't know, somewhere on Facebook I think of him flying drones on the.
[00:42:40] Speaker A: Off of a big feeding fish. You don't want to hear. Hear a crazy one. I. I really want to get this guy on the podcast. He's an applicator in New Zealand.
He went to an island that is infested with rats and they went there and spread rat bait with two T1 hundreds.
I. I've got to show you this. Like this, this.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:43:05] Speaker C: That's one I never thought about. Yeah, we're gonna spread rat bait for those things.
[00:43:08] Speaker A: Yeah, but like, think about that. That's wild.
[00:43:11] Speaker B: Well, we spread slug bait with them.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:14] Speaker B: What was that two years ago that we did that? I guess that was pretty nifty. I never knew there was a thing like that.
[00:43:18] Speaker C: But Rat Bay, it's a whole nother thing.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah. See if I can find it. Can you find it, Landon? Why it was.
Man, I hope I can find it.
[00:43:30] Speaker B: Island infested with rats. Was it like, like people living on it or it was just a.
[00:43:36] Speaker C: You couldn't do that, just.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: No, no. Definitely not.
[00:43:38] Speaker C: People leaving like pets and stuff with you.
[00:43:41] Speaker A: You.
[00:43:42] Speaker C: You wouldn't do it over New York City shocks.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: I should have saved that somewhere.
[00:43:48] Speaker C: Very bad idea.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Flying through the subway tunnel.
[00:43:51] Speaker C: A lot of debt. Pigeons and dogs and cats around.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: Yeah. That probably wouldn't be the best shocks.
[00:43:57] Speaker A: I can't find it right now to show you guys, but I'll find it at some point. But yeah, that's what he was doing. T1 hundreds. They. They put it on this like it took him about two. I think it was two days to sail. Is that what you call when you go with a boat? Yeah, they had like this big boat that they'd Sail there with the T100 scene. Sent me pictures of them, like, hovering outside of the. The boat. No. Going to the island.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: That's cool.
[00:44:23] Speaker A: That's crazy. Yeah, that's just something I know about because they DM me.
[00:44:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:28] Speaker A: Like.
[00:44:28] Speaker B: Oh, there's. Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff like that.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: Yeah, there's stuff going on that we don't, you know, even know about.
And the big thing that I bring up on these drones that, you know, people don't talk about is heavy lift stuff, transportation. It will be one of the biggest things that it'll do in certain parts of the country.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Mountainous terrain.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:44:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:44:50] Speaker A: Well, like that example, the guy taking the crawdads, like, they harvest the crawdads and then they put them in side by sides and then they drive them to the farm to, like, clean them and harvest them. Like, dude, you could pick up bundles of crawdads and take them to the farm super fast. Yeah, that's coming.
[00:45:11] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be super cool, actually.
[00:45:12] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff and you wouldn't. Yeah, I don't know how. I guess, how they do it necessarily, but you wouldn't even have to bring the crawdads into. Into shore. I don't know how they're harvesting them, but you could literally harvest the suckers out in wherever they're getting.
[00:45:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I think they, like, swamp them.
[00:45:27] Speaker B: Up somehow and then lift them right out of the swamp and haul them at the farm.
[00:45:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:32] Speaker B: Don't know how.
[00:45:33] Speaker A: I'm gonna see if I can find this guy that sent me those pictures.
[00:45:37] Speaker C: I'm just wondering in 10 years from now, if we look back and we listen to this, how clueless we're gonna seem.
[00:45:44] Speaker B: Oh, very clueless.
[00:45:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:46] Speaker C: I think.
[00:45:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:47] Speaker C: I mean, we didn't even know from.
[00:45:48] Speaker B: Where we're at now to where we were at two years ago.
[00:45:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:51] Speaker B: Three years ago.
[00:45:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:45:53] Speaker A: Pretty crazy, huh? Yeah, it will be crazy. I don't think I. I was sent a DM with a. A chainsaw mounted to the drone, and the drone would go up and cut the branch. I don't think that's going to be a thing, though.
[00:46:07] Speaker C: Well, they deal with the helicopters, too.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: It was. Yeah, I know.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I've seen that.
[00:46:11] Speaker C: Yeah, they do the big saw blades with helicopters to cut the trees along the side of the roads. You've seen those? Yeah.
[00:46:20] Speaker A: I don't know if the drone will get big enough.
[00:46:22] Speaker B: Yeah, that's gonna have to be a heavy.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: I mean, why is a blade that heavy?
[00:46:27] Speaker A: Well, I guess you can fly in R44, a remote control R44. Yeah.
[00:46:32] Speaker B: But once you get that big, why not just use a helicopter?
[00:46:34] Speaker C: Yeah, well, they. Yeah, it'll probably. Helicopters basically be remote controlled. They're just super expensive. That's. That's big a thing is once you go into diesel powered or, you know, gas powered engine stuff is expensive.
[00:46:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:46:49] Speaker B: I just seen a helicopter the other day flying stuff from the ground up to a huge telephone tower. It's like, dude, a T100 could do that. Oh, like, absolutely.
It's coming, I think a couple years.
[00:47:02] Speaker A: Well, it's like the one guy that we sold a trailer to in Arizona, he wanted to fly irrigation pipe in the copper mines out there.
[00:47:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah? Yeah.
[00:47:15] Speaker A: Like there's. There's this irrigation pipe that they hang down over the mountains after reclaiming or something. And there's a helicopter literally flying these. Just plastic.
[00:47:26] Speaker B: Really light. Yeah.
[00:47:27] Speaker A: And it's like, holy smokes. And they're using a bell. A bell is a turbo helicopter, like a jet engine helicopter just to fly these little plastic things up there. Why wouldn't you use a drone?
[00:47:39] Speaker C: Just haven't thought of it yet.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: Yeah, they will.
[00:47:42] Speaker C: Helicopter pilots.
[00:47:44] Speaker B: Think about that. It's costing a couple thousand bucks an hour.
[00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: You can get the T100.
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:47:52] Speaker B: It costs you, I mean, next to nothing.
[00:47:54] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah. Guys, leave your comments. What do you think will be some of the things that drones will do that we're not thinking about right now? Just leave it in the comments if you're watching on YouTube. Yeah, so we're just. Just a, you know, a hangout session here with myself, Jason and Dennis as we're getting ready for this drone conference that we're at. It could be interesting. We'll see. We will see how it goes. The FAA usually is at this event.
That's all we got for guys today.
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