Tundy, house and beetle build thread...and exploring.

No time like the present.

Under millions of stars, coyotes in the distance.

 

"Good sized greenhouse so i can grow my own fruits and veggies"

 

Haha i ain't got time fo that shit.

 

No finished picture, but the decked is in. It's pretty nice, a little taller than i expected but that's good, more taller stuff can fit in there.

Time consuming install, but well built. I'll get it loaded up and test it out.

In other news, DeWalt 60v stuff is very nice. Who needs corded anything any longer!

Cargo rack is shipped and on it's way, seat covers still holding up nice and starting to conform to the seat better. I'll get better pictures one of these days. Picking up endless work, sucks but at least it'll pay off when I can buy my property and start that project!

Allstate and the lender are finally done screwing around. I get to send them one last chunk of money and be done with it.

 

Now you'll be able to help me install mine.

 

Hiked my first 14er today. Mount Sherman at 14,035.

 

Just like us humans, the elevation and resulting lack of air pressure make us work ineffienciently, a supercharger will the O2 pressure levels back close to sea level and you can enjoy the power and mpg gains that brings too.

 

Seeking sponsors and/or donations.

 

If I ever find any, I will let you know.

 

Hey Brandon, you had a Mavic drone right?

Wondering after you trip if you thought it was worth the cost? Ie doing it all again is a drone worth having?

 

Yeah, had the Mavic Pro.

It was an awesome drone with a lot of sweet features and I did get some sweet video with it. If i knew I was going to use it again, I would buy the same one due to it's very compact size.

But my biggest thing was not having the drive to take that video or pictures and do much with them. I had go pros in the past that hot awesome stuff but i never wanted to sit behind a computer for a few hours to then put the video together with music, etc. That was the first downside.

Second, even though it's relatively easy to get it up and running, it still takes time and when i was by myself, moving video would've been awesome and the tracking worked pretty well, but you can't pay much attention to driving when your trying to get good video for the drone. It saved itself twice with obstacle avoidance when it was following me and i forgot about trees.

So if you'll actually use the footage, it's worth it. And you can still get plenty of awesome footage even if it's not while you're moving.

 

Just signed another offer for 5 acres... C'mon sellers! I wanna start building and hoarding materials.

 

@Triggerhappy has one me and @lobsterbait got to play with jakes one day when we went shooting its super easy to use. If i had the money i get one but kind or blew it on a bumper lol

 

Nice I been playing around with that one steel building company you sent me. I used the layout you posted in my build page came out to 31k for the building its got me thinking.

 

Heck yeah... Because that's everything engineered, cut, packaged up and delivered to you! Can go from bare slab to having a building in a week.

 

That's what I want to get srna. We have a few smaller quads and one bigger (but cheaper) one. They're awesome, and good practice although the mavic basically flies itself.

 

Yeah there's nothing to flying it.

Only thing I learned real quick is to adjust the settings for the conditions.

While on the Oregon Trail, it was set to "return to home" for low battery or signal loss. That's great except I was driving and it was following. It decided to attempt to fly back and landed in a field of sage brush. Took 30 minutes to find it in the middle of the desert.

Another thing is the Android app was kinda buggy.. sometimes the app would turn off while you're flying and you'd have to start it up again and hope to reconnect.

 

The app for fpv?

 

The DJI app that you have to install on your phone or tablet.

It would be flying then phone would just go back to the home screen. I'd have to open the app and wait for it to connect to see it again.

You could still see the basic info on the controller screen as well as the turn to home button. But not a good feeling when it would do that!