Finally got my drone working.

I got a drone when this topic came up last year. I could not get it to fly. Finally got someone to get it going for me. I did not spend a lot of time looking for someone.

Tim you were correct. They are not that hard to fly. It will take a lot of pratice to be good at it. Here is a link to my fourth time flying it. The second time I flew it was to price out a chimney repair. Did not waste anytime putting it to work and earning its keep.

About a 1 1/2 minutes into the flight I was in the trees. Did a little trimming. Crashed every flight so far. The drone is strudy. I did not break anything when I crashed. I had a couple that I thought that I would not be flying again.

I am still flying to fast for video. It does not seem like I am flying that fast, until I watch the video.

https://youtu.be/Zz2SrfiFlHM?t=27s

Just watch out for that 333 exemption and drone 'Do' and 'Don't DO' orders. No way around it without a pilot license, which really sucks. :(

Roofguy Said:

Mike H Said: I sent our old friend Tom Hay a link to that first video, and told him to pay close attention to the upper right corner at the beginning... I knew hed have an interesting response foam roof guru, but he always manages to surprise me with his wit.

Wow Mike, LOL. thanks for sharing. I guess Tim must have named his drone Pigs because it was when Pigs fly he would have something nice to say about SPF. LOL

Its just business. Nothing more. Customers want SPF, customers want TPO. We work harder to make money with SPF than with chopped glass, there is no doubt about that. There are no $25,000 to $40,000 gross days with a single crew doing SFP, there are with chopped glass. At least not with the prices in our area.

We simply diversified in order to expand beyond what we were doing - in fact, we have used foam to expand into other sectors altogether. See below, we just recently got patent pending on our poured foam-based duck blinds.

Tom shouldnt read too much into it...

Tim I think I read right, LOL. Look at your new web site, your a foam man on fire LOL. http://www.adamsrooftech.com/

My one salesman just got a request for me to take a video of an inner city garden to put on the non-profits website of the garden.

This will get around that Holencik Exteriors does community service work. It is always great when you can help people out with something that you have fun doing.

Also, the video and web address might give the impression that SPF is all we do. We have to promote and sell SPF, the chopped glass jobs come to us.

Mike H Said: I sent our old friend Tom Hay a link to that first video, and told him to pay close attention to the upper right corner at the beginning... I knew hed have an interesting response foam roof guru, but he always manages to surprise me with his wit.

Wow Mike, LOL. thanks for sharing. I guess Tim must have named his drone Pigs because it was when Pigs fly he would have something nice to say about SPF. LOL

It's just business. Nothing more. Customers want SPF, customers want TPO. We work harder to make money with SPF than with chopped glass, there is no doubt about that. There are no $25,000 to $40,000 gross days with a single crew doing SFP, there are with chopped glass. At least not with the prices in our area.

We simply diversified in order to expand beyond what we were doing - in fact, we have used foam to expand into other sectors altogether. See below, we just recently got patent pending on our poured foam-based duck blinds.

Tom shouldn't read too much into it...

I sent our old friend Tom Hay a link to that first video, and told him to pay close attention to the upper right corner at the beginning... I knew he'd have an interesting response "foam roof guru", but he always manages to surprise me with his wit.

"Wow Mike, LOL. thanks for sharing. I guess Tim must have named his drone Pigs because it was when Pigs fly he would have something nice to say about SPF. LOL

Latest foam job and drone vid:

https://youtu.be/4IzvRMIyDuQ

Just got my drone lifted off for some final finished video of an 80 SQR foam job, hit the record button on my iPhone: SD Memory Card Full.

Crud! Landed it, ran down the road to Walgreens and got another memory card.

I'd have to say that my drone is the best investment I've made in a sales tool in a long time - far more useful than my thermal imager. So, now that you can put an infrared imager on these drones...

A guy in Louisville just shot one down that was hovering g over his backyard. I don't entirely blame him, but I don't know the whole story yet.

gal should be agl if not for autocorrect. agl = above ground level.

Wy, a typical radio control controller is used but my iPhone is clipped to it and can see thru the camera lens on the drone in real time. Yes is shows altitude, speed, as well as distance from me. I never go over 400' gal, which is the legal limit. In fact none of my videos was from over 300' - 400' is way up there and just not necessary. I only go as high as I need to to get the whole building in the frame.

Do you control those on an I-pad , IPhone or a special drone controller? Does it give you the altitude? It looks to my untrained eye that RG might have been pushing the legal limit midway through the video.

Lefty Said:

It is amazing how many things you can do wrong and still run a successful company. LOL

Quote of the decade!

Roofguy Said: Here is something I have been doing for some free advertisement that seems to be really effective. See the video below for an example.

I go to a town and drone the usual things that citizens and former citizens would like to see from the air: their old high school and football field, downtown, any unique city attractions, and especially a closeup of the water tower. Then I post the video link to that citys Facebook page and next thing you know everyone is sharing it...oh yeah, my logo and web address are on the video. ;-) Always get permission from the schools and local uncontrolled airport FBO before you do, but if you walk in with the drone in your hands its pretty easy to do.

I even got this little town below to do a front page article on me and my drone. Cant beat that free publicity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cpXeNyxT10

Cool Vid Tim. Looks like a Fibertite roof on the HS.

Rumor has it that the reason Tom Hay is no longer with us... He saw "Adams Roof Tech - Foam Roof Guru" and collapsed of a massive Fred Sanford, on the spot.

Tim, The great part about doing these things is it does not feel like work.