Holland, Indiana (SW IN) | PennsylvaniaFarmKid - 10/13/2025 12:06
I’m set up with one drone and I can do 150 acres in a day pretty easily, but I rarely do a field bigger than 15 acres here in Pa, so moving eats a lot of my time, I can do 30-40 acres/hr in a decent field and I need to mix a batch every 50 acres. I’m not sure how much your wanting to do for yourself but if your not doing a ridiculous amount of acres you can build your own trailer cheap, I put about 4,000$ into a flatbed trailer we already had and it worked great this summer, but like I said I’m in smaller fields and not doing crazy acre number so that’s a factor too, and you’ll want to count on 3-5000 yearly on insurance I would say. It all depends what your looking for, but my experience is that you can get yourself setup to do a lot of work on a pretty tight budget
Everything Pennsylvanaia said ---PLUS you will probably not be sitting in AC in August
And It's not nearly as easy as it looks --
-My SIL does ours (about 40 years old) Spends a lot of time on the net just seeing what's going on
You will crash your drone probably more than one time a year
You need to be able to handle adversity with out giving up
--IT'S hot then
With trailer diesel generator and our labor building trailer we're $55K with 4 battries and T40
Add rethinking our cost probably closer to $80K
Dan
Edited by Dan Loehr 10/19/2025 21:03
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What would I be getting into?
