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Southern Missouri | After going through what we have on the earlier models that they claimed 32 ft swath on that wound up being considerably less , would truly have to see a couple burn down applications this early spring to make a claim on swath width , we’re hoping to be 30 as they are saying 40 is possible, 30 would be a big increase for us , and that would be at 40 mph and the newer stuff makes much smoother turns that older software , that plays into acres per hour , the wind has so much to do with it all , since the days of the t40 most pumping systems have been able to get up to output needed at rated speed , 3 gallon is pretty much the norm for us , what I really wonder is where we’d be today if the Ceres size drone would of been what all of us would of started with 3 or 4 years ago . Acres are really gonna be interesting as at 3 gallon and 40 gallon tank they’re gonna do 13 acres per fill , running two of them means after first send off and return you’ve done 26 acres , takeoff and return total for us been being about 8 minutes complete time , 26 acres every 8 minutes gonna get drone production up there with the big boys .As far as linking with the deere mapping, those maps need to be really really up to date reliable when you’re sending a spray drone out there , someone puts up a new pole or guide wire and you have a serious issue that can only be blamed on the map being out of date , if we’re not positive on the mapping, we’ll make a fresh one , girl that does our forward mapping is pretty fast , it’s much easier than carrying the spray drones around of course, she can park two miles away from location needing mapped and it only takes a jiffy , we have learned to be very cautious on mapping, new guide wires are very very rough on a drone that doesn’t know it’s there ahead of time and they are pretty hard for any system to see in time , btdt
Edited by sloughclub 11/22/2025 10:18
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