Practical Quadcopter
A little background... I just recently moved into a new-to-us home. We are in the process of gathering up all the necessary tools to maintain the place, but all are not there yet.
Yesterday we get a line of thunderstorms moving through and I see that my gutters are overflowing. :frown: So, I go out in the pouring rain (and lightning - yeah, I know, lucky to be alive) to clear the obstruction with my 2-step stepladder. Well turns out there is more that one obstruction and I'm soaked to the skin. Also, I can't see into the gutters, the ladder is only tall enough to let me reach into them. If I can't see how am I going to clear these things in a reasonable period of time? After the rain clears it occurs to me that the perfect tool to use to inspect all the gutters is my Elev-8! Why not? It gives me an excuse to fly and serves a useful purpose.
I currently have a FlyCamOne mounted "conventionally" i.e. looking as a pilot would. This won't do for my inspection routine so I cobble up a temporary mount from a cardboard box (a red one - sorry) and head outdoors.
It worked great and I had a lot of fun. There are power lines, phone lines and cable lines that kept me from doing a continuous sweep, but I got a good look at everything. I then went up on my 2-step and cleared all those pine needles that had been blocking the water flow.
So, for a grand or so you can have a cool gutter inspection system.
Vid here:
-Russ
Yesterday we get a line of thunderstorms moving through and I see that my gutters are overflowing. :frown: So, I go out in the pouring rain (and lightning - yeah, I know, lucky to be alive) to clear the obstruction with my 2-step stepladder. Well turns out there is more that one obstruction and I'm soaked to the skin. Also, I can't see into the gutters, the ladder is only tall enough to let me reach into them. If I can't see how am I going to clear these things in a reasonable period of time? After the rain clears it occurs to me that the perfect tool to use to inspect all the gutters is my Elev-8! Why not? It gives me an excuse to fly and serves a useful purpose.
I currently have a FlyCamOne mounted "conventionally" i.e. looking as a pilot would. This won't do for my inspection routine so I cobble up a temporary mount from a cardboard box (a red one - sorry) and head outdoors.
It worked great and I had a lot of fun. There are power lines, phone lines and cable lines that kept me from doing a continuous sweep, but I got a good look at everything. I then went up on my 2-step and cleared all those pine needles that had been blocking the water flow.
So, for a grand or so you can have a cool gutter inspection system.
Vid here:
-Russ
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Comments
Thanks for sharing.
(I have a few of those "red boxes" also.
Jim
That thing is awesome.
-Russ
Might as well clean the gutters while your up there trimming.
I just had Gutter Helmet install. Should never have to clean the gutters again. (Famous last words).
Installed March so I will not see the benefit until next snow season. But with all this global warming, we should never see snow again.
Someday, I'd like to install some sort of robotic claw and use an 'copter to pick apples from our "apple tower". It have very long vertical branches so they wouldn't be in the way of the 'copter while it was picking the apples. What could go wrong?
Thanks for posting the video Russ.
That must be why we are suffering from extensive flooding right now. It's so bad my the marina where I keep my "yacht" is flooded so I can't get to it except by dinghy. Oh, the humanity!