Drone for cleaning roof gutter?

Sysmod

Any suggestion for a drone strong enough to hold a trowel to carry say 0.5 - 1 Kg muck and the precision to drive along a gutter to clean it out?

25ft is too high for me to reach by ladder and tradesmen don't come when called.

Graham

This isn't aviation & aircraft related but there's this non-flying gutter robot:

http://www.irobot.ie/home-robots/gutter-cleaning

You will need to climb a ladder to drop it in place initially though.

Sysmod

Gosh, that looks cute. But I couldn't reach the gutter to put it in in the first place.

I think I may have overreached myself thinking of a drone when in fact an extendable pole might be enough, although the longest I have seen advertised is a Gardena at only 3.9m, c. 12 feet. I'll ask again in DIY, sorry for the mispost.

Graham

Sysmod wrote: »

Gosh, that looks cute. But I couldn't reach the gutter to put it in in the first place.

I think I may have overreached myself thinking of a drone when in fact an extendable pole might be enough, although the longest I have seen advertised is a Gardena at only 3.9m, c. 12 feet. I'll ask again in DIY, sorry for the mispost.

I'm not sure you did mis-post, I've no idea where drone related discussion would go. My response was definitely not aviation related though

martinsvi

none of the drones out there for consumer market can carry much load. Get a decent ladder, google is your friend, there are some companies out there who will rent ladder out for as little as 12-14 euros per day

Sysmod

Thanks martinsyl but no way am I going up a ladder that high.
Apart from anything else, it can only be leaned against the wall under the gutter and that still leaves a high gap, no place to be working without hands if I need two to hold the cleaning tool.

I take the point about the drone's capacity. I'll look around for more extensible pole ideas.

Thanks
P

martinsvi

perhaps you can hire a scissor lift or something similar - http://www.loxam.ie/fleet/electric-scissors

I've no idea what they cost, but I can't imagine them being too expensive

Pat Dunne

Graham wrote: »

This isn't aviation & aircraft related but there's this non-flying gutter robot:

http://www.irobot.ie/home-robots/gutter-cleaning

You will need to climb a ladder to drop it in place initially though.

Sure that yoke wouldn't even get around the corners

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