Muckit wrote: » I wonder is there an app (or will there be soon) that could give you the green/red light bar on your screen? Just place it in a holder on top of the dash in middle of cab. There's already speedometer apps that are very accurate, so I can't see how it could be beyond the bounds of possibility. Be a good young scientists project for a couple of whiz kids!
Username John wrote: » I think the GPS positioning wouldn't be accurate enough. The ones in your phone are to within a few metres now I think, but thats too much error for fertiliser apreading or spraying ... So I was told anyways, but like you say - things are always improving, so maybe soon enough...
reilig wrote: » Speaking of accurate spraying, I have rushes to spray on land which is new to me this year. Access is poor and the fields are soft in spots so I am going to do it with the quad and 100 litre sprayer. It's hard to be 100% accurate with teh quad because you are so close to the ground. Been looking at the blue spray marker that is sold in co-ops but it's very expensive for the amount that you get from 1 pack. I saw on several of the US forums that people recommend pond dye for marking grass - it is an industrial food dye which is non toxic. So I got in touch with a lad who is selling it on ebay from the Uk. He is adamant that it will do the job perfectly and that it is 100% safe for sprayer pumps and nozzels. €33 to him through ebay and he will post 250g of blue powder to me which will turn 1.5 million litres of water a nice shade of blue. 1/4 of a teaspoon in each 100l sprayer will be generous for it. Looking forward to testing this out as I will be spraying over easter. I just want it to be visible for an hour after spraying. the seller says that it should be visible for 2 weeks if there isn't too much rainfall.
case 956 wrote: » anyone have gps on thre phone for laying out paddocks?
Muckit wrote: » Going a long way from gps fertiliser spreading and spraying now, but how come they can't locate the blackbox of that plane if it's giving out a signal? I just can't understand it. Surely that would have the latest most accurate technology in it.
Greengrass1 wrote: » That sounds like good stuff. The neighbours on the hill above me will wondering what the hek I'm at and I'll be getting calls night and day 4 of them rang me last year when I disced up the silage field after we took silage to find out what I was at. Nosey beggar's
Muckit wrote: » You know l think your right. Accuracy probably wouldn't be good enough. Seen a programme on it before. The gps needs to be working off 3 satellites to be 100%accurate and phone gps is probably working off 2
Greengrass1 wrote: » Milk lorry just left the yard. Owner has a polish lad driving. I seen him coming down the road when I was down the field so I said I'd head back up and open the gate for him. Well the bollox started laying on the horn because the gate was closed. Wasn't locked now just closed. And he hadnt even reached the gate before he stated laying on the horn. So I said fcuk that I'm not being beeped at in my own place so I left it closed even though I walked passed and i could have opened it. This lad then kicked the gate open and hopped it off the wall. I don't bother with him at all because he is a sirly sort of a person and never happy. He left then and has the tanks left on.
have2flushtwice wrote: » The accuracy is there, the technology is there, but the technology is not on your phone yet. Theres nothing they cant do at this stage. If a GPS can do it, then your phone will eventually do it - ut not until we have all been milked for the GPS units first. as for the comments on the plane, my opinion is that they must know(and every keeps saying it) where it is. whoevers spy satellites have it wont share the information because they don't want other countries to know what levels of monitoring they have. slightly off topic: don't forget, the US recorded all their own calls and texts, as well as Angela Markel's phone (this came out last year). While the US operation was covert, Germany didn't know their phone was being monitored, however when they did, the US didn't know their tapping operation was being unravelled. What im trying to say is that we are only at the periphery of the available technology.
Reggie. wrote: » We are 10 years behind as in the technology available today was in use by the American military ten years ago so what they are using now we will have in ten years time
darragh_haven wrote: » you mean i'll be shooting my neighbor in a friendly fire incident soon, instead of shooting the fox i was aiming at
whelan2 wrote: » saw a fox yesterday morning walking through the yard , hadnt seen one in years
Greengrass1 wrote: » Yep seen one a week ago eating the cleanings a cow left behind in a paddock. Have a wood here that gas a family in it
whelan2 wrote: » would like to get rid of it as they could spread neospora
GrandSoftDay wrote: » Not to be smart whelan but if we got rid of everything that could possibly harbour a disease there wouldn't be much left.
Reggie. wrote: » Place is overrun with them here
