How little can I spend on a drone that I can use to check and see when my gutters need to be cleaned? The highest part of the house can be reached with a 28' extension ladder.
Options? Specific suggestions?
(This should be fun)
How little can I spend on a drone that I can use to check and see when my gutters need to be cleaned? The highest part of the house can be reached with a 28' extension ladder.
Options? Specific suggestions?
(This should be fun)
Yeah, drag out the ladder anyway, you'll need it to retrieve the drone.
Find one that will clean the inspect the gutters then, if necessary, CLEAN them too. If it works well let us know what one you bought. ;-)
Mount one of this on a pole and inspect with your cell phone
Was that English?
I think he should just stick with emoticons.
LOL! Ditto to that. Neighbor kids are always coming over.... can we go in your back yard and get our "drone."
I agree it would be fun. Check out the quadcopters at the neighborhood RC hobby shop and fasten your cell camera to it? I have heard vibration can be a problem.
If I'm going to need a ladder to retrieve the drone, I sure don't want to send my cell phone up with it. ;-)
we go in your back yard and get our "drone."
neighborhood RC hobby shop and fasten your cell camera to it? I have heard vibration can be a problem.
Get a quadcopter for $60 and one of those $10 prepaid cell phones. Don't activate the phone - just start the video when you're ready to go and view it later. Cheap "drones" start at $500.
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Find one that will inspect the gutters then, if necessary, CLEAN them too. If it works well let us know what one you bought. ;-)
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go in your back yard and get our "drone."
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Well, I guess that's just a matter of semantics.
Technically, a quadcopter *is* a drone...
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Is a quadcopter a drone? Or a UAV?
Technically, yes ? quadcopters are both drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). But they differ significantly from what most people think of when th ey hear the word drone. A drone, or an unmanned aerial vehicle (or UAS ? ? unmanned aerial system), is simply an aircraft without a human pilot on boa rd it. One could make the case that a quadcopter like the Walkera Ladybird is hardly an ?aircraft? given its small size, but technically it is. As you move towards the larger quadcopters, such as the DJI Phantom or the professional grade videography models, it is easier to conceive of these quads as aircraft.
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It's been done, but it won't work for my situation. I see how they can be used to clean out dry leaves, but once things get wet and the tree debris begins to turn to mush, this technique will either 1) not work at all, or
2) make a real mess.
we go in your back yard and get our "drone."
neighborhood RC hobby shop and fasten your cell camera to it? I have heard vibration can be a problem.
Don't activate the phone - just start the video when you're ready to go and view it later. Cheap "drones" start at $500.
Well, I guess that's just a matter of semantics.
Technically, a quadcopter *is* a drone...
Stolen without permission from:
Is a quadcopter a drone? Or a UAV?
Technically, yes ? quadcopters are both drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). But they differ significantly from what most people think of when they hear the word drone. A drone, or an unmanned aerial vehicle (or UAS ? unmanned aerial system), is simply an aircraft without a human pilot on board it. One could make the case that a quadcopter like the Walkera Ladybird is hardly an ?aircraft? given its small size, but technically it is. As you move towards the larger quadcopters, such as the DJI Phantom or the professional grade videography models, it is easier to conceive of these
quads as aircraft.
*** End Stolen Text ***For scoping out the roof, what about a helium balloon? Can't get much lower cost than that.
see when my gutters need to be cleaned? The highest part of the house can be reached with a 28' extension ladder.
necessary, CLEAN them too. If it works well let us know what
them too. If it works well let us know what one you
What connecting a water hose to a downspout, sealing all the others and floating the leaves out?
we go in your back yard and get our "drone."
neighborhood RC hobby shop and fasten your cell camera to it? I have heard vibration can be a problem.
Don't activate the phone - just start the video when you're ready to go and view it later. Cheap "drones" start at $500.
Well, I guess that's just a matter of semantics.
Technically, a quadcopter *is* a drone...
Stolen without permission from:
Is a quadcopter a drone? Or a UAV?
Technically, yes ? quadcopters are both drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). But they differ significantly from what most people think of when they hear the word drone. A drone, or an unmanned aerial vehicle (or UAS ? unmanned aerial system), is simply an aircraft without a human pilot on board it. One could make the case that a quadcopter like the Walkera Ladybird is hardly an ?aircraft? given its small size, but technically it is. As you move towards the larger quadcopters, such as the DJI Phantom or the professional grade videography models, it is easier to conceive of these
quads as aircraft.
*** End Stolen Text ***For scoping out the roof, what about a helium balloon? Can't get much lower cost than that.
Or just attaching a camera to a few lengths of conduit. Although, that eliminates the justification to get a drone.... LOL
Spot on. 4-5 months ago I tied a water bottle to a rope to lasso the damn thing off the roof. If you take my approach, be sure to catch it on the way down. Hard landings are not liked.
I'll just buy a rescue drone. ;-)
How did the drone end up needing to be lassoed?
Is this micky?
It won't float the solids out and if it did it would make a huge mess.
Unless you live in a heavily treed area and have to clean your gutters
2-3 times a year, you don't know how much stuff can build up in the bottom of a gutter.If I wait too long to clean them, the maple seeds (helicopters) will germinate in the muck and begin to grow. Sometimes in the fall I have to run warm water in the hose to melt the ice in the gutters before I can clean them.
(Let's keep gutter guards out of this discussion. They are worth a thread of their own.)
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