Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

He has to tarp the underside as well, so 18 + 6 + (18-8.5 deck so 9.5) = 34' or so wide so it would be equivalent to like. 11-12'drops.

 

Actually we only have to top/side tarp these so 8' drops work but it takes 3 to do it. It's not bad at all because the top will support walking on so not much different than tarping a load of lumber.

Here's the same boxes when tarped when Saddlesore and I were taking them to Washington a couple years ago.

 

Sometimes I'm still amazed by the things a factory can do. Looking at Peterbilt's block of steel, and knowing it will become an engine block. It's pretty incredible if you think about it.

Catalina Flyer, thank you for the overhead shot of your trucks. If your pic had been a poster when I was 9 or 10, I would have hung it on my wall. I hope kids are still into cool stuff like that.

 

You still tossing that camera in the air ? Lol
Can you believe they want people to have a lic. To fly rc.

You still tossing that camera in the air ? Lol
Can you believe they want people to have

 

The licensing they are talking about from what I understand is for commercial drone operations. Not sure how they're planning on policing that, who's going to be in charge etc. I'm an FAA licensed pilot for both airplanes and rotary wing but honestly the skills required for real aircraft and RC are not even close to the same.

I've helped out on a couple drone projects for the local university and the FAA required two licensed pilots to be spotters while the drone is operating. We tried to get by with one since I was both an RC pilot and RW pilot but the local field office in Wichita would not go for it.

It's an evolving thing right at the moment and anyone with a couple hundred dollars can walk in to the hobby shop and be flying a drone that has more capability than the ones I was spending a couple thousand dollars and several months to build just 2 years ago.

 

https://www.airdog.com/

This was sent to me by a buddy.

 

It's funny they advertise it as "the worlds first auto follow done". I have one I built 2 1/2 years ago that will follow my phone anywhere it goes. That's actually a pretty simple system but pretty much useless too. I found a fellow RC guy in Germany who wrote the code for it and tried it out a few times but in all honesty I can't find any reason to have it.

And besides the useless auto follow their price is ridiculous. For 1/4 that amount you can get one that will do everything that one does, likely better, it just won't follow you.

 

I can think of uses for an auto follow drone. I'd like to sick a couple on my government conspiracy buddies, probly push them over the edge !

 

If you read more in depth on the one linked you'll see they have delayed production due to "a serious issue". Flying into stuff is serious and exactly what I found to be a major shortcoming when I was playing with it. You can set it to follow at a predefined height and distance but if you go close to another object it can run into it. They claim to have a fix where it judges distance to the ground below and adjust altitude of it senses the ground rising. Perfect but what about trees, other people, walls.......

What they are advertising it as being able to do requires many 10's of thousands of dollars in equipment to accomplish. The ability to keep whoever/whatever in the center of the video is a pipe dream. To do that kind of video requires a multi-beam laser designator with a computer to decipher the data and communicate that information to the 3 axis gimbal controller.

Trust me, we have tried all of that with what's currently available to the public and the only way it works is if the subject is moving in an absolute perfect XYZ axis line at a stable speed. Any deviation from any axis or speed and everything has to adjust.

But just to have it follow a conspiracy theory nut case would be priceless!!

 

With full HD rage video to boot!