Flowers For My Bees With a Drone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- I use the drone to spread some flower seeds in the burned area of the ranch so my bees will have more next year.
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What stops birds from eating all of the seeds?
The seeds are landing in dry powdery ash, the hope is most are burred on impact.
The ideal time to plant is when they would fall naturally.
luck
Mix em with clay, maybe in the ballmill. I bet they would drop better and the clay provides moisture. They make things round here with guerilla farming and use hemp in those clay balls to shoot with a slingshot....😎 greetz from HUNSRÜCK
Do you mean buried on impact?
Things Cody uses gloves for sunflowers, math.
Things he doesn't use gloves for: Mercury, dangerous stuff.
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Things Cody uses full-body armor for: butter.
bcubed72 butter has proven to be more dangerous than mercury to Cody
He has touched so many dangerous things that now the safe things need to be protected from him.
Daksh Malhotra Actually, butter is a lot healthier then vegetable oils
well.u clearly havent seen that video,
Put the drone in attitude mode and see which way it is moving (this is the direction of the wind).
Ah Thats such a good idea!
attitude mode :D
"how 'bout *YOU* fly over there"
-cody's drone
I chuckled.
Stefan: good to see this hint here... My thoughts (I refrained from yelling at the screen) yep.. Easiest way to tell.
you could use an rc plane for that, when i was a kid, there was a guy at the rc airfield that had a plane that was able to drop a shitload of candy over the people watching. it really was a lot and it spread out quite far. so maybe this would work to seed out strips of flowers instead of one random blob :D
He could do a collab with Petersripol bet he could help him out
As some others pointed out: "Sounds way too fun to be legal"
Legal as long as the drop doesn't cause hazard to people or property (in most Jurisdictions). As the above OP commented, candy drops are a tradition in the RC model aircraft world.
Linecraftman Who cares? Fly your drones and quads and helos all you want. Don't buy into that "drone license" and flight log bullshit. Just don't use it to spy through Windows and don't fly near an airport. Simple. All this stupidity about, "drones are becoming a problem, we need to figure out how to regulate them," is nonsense.
Andrew Delashaw I don't know about the USA but normally you need a airplane pilot licence to operate any sensible size drone or plane
I hope you have some special flower seeding permit for that , Way too fun to be legal........
Oy m8, 'ave you go' a permit for planting these sun flowers?!
Its funny how like minded a real officer is with the one in any game
pretty sure these are his lands. no need for permission to spread already a local plant
Still.....This day and age......May be looking at some tall time. Such a crime against those poor innocent seeds, borderline abuse/neglect.
Next spring: Your garden isn't looking tidy enough Cody, here's a warning. Better trim those acres.
Honestly these videos are so calming. I love getting cozy in my bed, turning the a.c all the way up and watching your videos.
Arnav Wadekar Same here
We dont have ac its too expensive
That's so fuckin hot.
I do the same thing too, I used to fall asleep to his Cody's Mine series during winter!
I just realized how much you care about your/our environment. You are doing GREAT work. Keep it up! Keep growing that hair, and Keep On Keepin' On!
At 1:45 that's winnowing, Cody. We'll be looking forward to seeing some of the new flowers next year! Thanks for the upload.
From Drones jumping on a trampoline to Cody relaxing in a bad of bees... So much fun. Love it.
The drone sounds like a swarm of bees.
that's how it flies, it's just made of angry bees held together by technomagic
Sounds more like a swarm of horseflies.
Sunflower seed cannon Cody. Just blast the seeds up in the air with a motar that shoots the seeds in a ball of clay. Use the air compressor and wrap the ball with wet newspaper. Place the ball in the tube after putting in some toilet paper for wadding.
You can use the drone for spotting.🐽
That's why i respect you not just creative you also has a good heart
Good Guy Cody, helping the bees with the flowers
To determine the wind direction at altitude you should be able to ziptie a long thin stick to one of the landing gear and have it sticking out in front of the camera (beyond the prop wash) and tie a sting or piece of ribbon onto it. It should act as a little wind sock in front of the camera's view.
Also, I might suggest a horizontal tube with a corkscrew feed mechanism attached to an unlimited servo for feeding seed at different rates over a given area.
If you get a larger drone with more payload capability you can automate the feeding of seed at set intervals along a waypoint path.
Lookup the Pixhawk autopilot and its auto grid missions. It can use terrain following to drop seed at set intervals along an automated grid pattern of lad. Sounds like what you are looking for.
Man, those drones are LOOOOUUUUUD! *shudders, and ponders aerodynamics to muffle the props, and other things to reduce noise to tolerant levels.
Although desolate and dangerous, that is a beautiful spot to live and work in.
Two weeks ago, 86,000 acres were completely burned in Mati, Greece. This drone method of spreading flower seeds give me hope. If we're to reforest the burned land in due time, we need to look towards alternative, smarter solutions like these, cause we certainly don't have the manpower to remedy this situation.
Hey Cody, maybe you could make like "seed-bombs" that "explode" on impact, scattering the seeds a little more evenly and you'll perhaps be better able to control where you plant them? I think it would also be just very cool seeing you try to make them efficient (and safe of course)!
Alex Hermans I'm picturing popits from the 4th of July. Include some seeds in every little popper; some are pretty much guaranteed to survive just based off of statistics. Seed viability for this option would be highly variable, as many can prove to be fragile.
Sunflower or wildflower seeds embedded in a mud ball. That'd be great.
Yeah, there was a company in the uk that used to make wildflower seed grenades to brighten up neglected urban spaces that you couldn’t easily access, they were made of a clay/earth mix I think
Nice to see someone taking the initiative to help jump start the environment.
Now automate the drop routes, seed pickup and seed release system and drone battery charging. Get 10 more drones and let them do their thing. Next year all the mountains are covered with sunflowers.
There was a story awhile back about using drones to drop in tree seeds or saplings. Some believe it's better to walk in and dig a small hole. That's somewhat related to your drone seeding project.
HI Cody, Love your vids and the goings on around the farm. We also try to plant and have found the native flower Echinacea , bees love it and best of all, they thrive in drought areas...and the natives used to make tea from leaves and maybe roots to stave off colds etc..keep up the great work..love it..
Get yourself some lavender seeds Cody, bee's love it and it looks amazing when you have a few growing. Not to mention lavender oil you can use medicinally or even for the washing machine for your clothes.
Don't worry...... Bee happy! excellent as always Cody.
Anyone else had that smile when he siad "As it **happens** there's a pretty big are cleaned by a forest fire"?
I anticipated a full on seed spreader though with a slightly smaller hopper and a little hobby motor attached to a little drone...
but I guess a pop bottle works as well
Friend of mine dropped wasps eggs over fields against pests as a summer job. Sounded really fun
The birds will be enjoying the snack you left for them.
A nice bit of thinking outside the bucket. Love the t-shirt.
You can actually buy wildflower seeds mix in large bags... Maybe some species would stick in the prairie?
Cody you have inspired me to grow my own fruit and veg! Thankyou!
You can get 20lbs of blackoil sunflower seeds at Wal-Mart for 8 bucks, in the birdseed aisle, I throw them all around the edges of my yard and they produce a lot.
I love how you were just chilling with the bees, glad the fire left them unharmed.
Laying with your bees for that commentary? Oscar nomination for you sir!
If you can look straight down, put a string with a little streamer with a fishing weight at the bottom so you can see wind direction from where the drone is
Cody we want more of this drone content.
Cody this is brilliant! I'm hope this works for you! I love the bee keeping videos. I am also inspecting hives and when I get to see vidios from a resourceful person it's always nice 👍
Maine had the lupine lady, Utah has the sunflower man
The place you live seems so beautiful. I wish I could live in the country
Sunflowers are interesting they build-up clumps of soil so that club will basically run away and help grow more sunflower seeds if they definitely build-up the soil from the standpoint of organic matter in the root system under the ground you should use a leaf rake and go over the seeds with a leaf rake and at least get some of them below the surface
Dude, that's like the dopest spot ever... (native american land...) You even have a trampoline, which increases property value by millions...
“They kids from my high school would have loved that” lmao
Greatest shirt EVER. “Without data you’re just another person with an opinion”.
Two smashing tshirts CodyDon. Science also good.
You should try this with some perennial native wildflower seed! Pearly everlasting, desert milkweed, arnica, milkvetch, fleabane, yarrow, etc.
A fire once destroyed my house in Minecraft.
I make mine out of dirt so that they don't burn :)
A. G. Omg so sorry fucking RIP.
A lava moat around my wool house wasn’t a good idea
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Such a beautiful place you got there.
make a bunch of cylinder/cups that stack together that are held together by cannon fuse, one igniter and the thing will slowly come apart as a time delay, dropping each cup/payload.
cant wait to see what that area you seeded looks like once the flowers grow
Cody, i miss your beekeeping videos. I realy enjoy them.
Hire the fire department to drop a few tonnes of seeds above the valley, imagine how astounding it would look if the hills were covered in bright sunflowers.
Im a simple man, i see cody, i click
Slightly disappoints that the drone isn't being used to take the bees to flowers like some kind of bee taxi.
Seems like a simple hand spreader would have been a fair bit more prudent, but I guess making a show on here, is more important than actually getting things done.
You can start sunflower seeds in a greenhouse, then transplant them to larger containers or half barrels (with drainage at the bottom) later. That would make for an interesting project with your bees.
It would also look really good imo
Those are a very small variety of sunflowers here in Indiana the grow about ten feet tall and have a flower about eight to twelve inches across.
Cody if you want your seed to have a butter chance of growing hold them in water for a few howers before spreading them. here in E Europe we do theat with many seeds and they grow very well( those theat we plant by hand) this works with corn too wat ever the seed.
I like the irony of using one drone to feed hundreds of other drones.
If you used a fixed wing platform instead of multi-rotor you could carry allot more weight and You can cover more ground faster.
Heck that would be a fun project!
Look forward to seeing results in spring
You can check the wind direction by switching the drone to ATTI mode and looking in which direction it floats.
Cody: So I'm harvesting these sunflower seeds.
Me: Ah, I, too, like to eat sunflower seeds.
Cody: I'm going to replant them because my bees like the flowers.
Me: *cries because that's so thoughtful and adorable*
You should get a crazy amount of flowerseed and make a flower field for the bees!
what an ingenious release mechanism.
Hey Cody'sLab,
You must know someone with a plane or Flys. Take buckets up and have them fly you over. Pilots jump at any excuse to fly.
Beautiful land,, I would love to visit the ranch.
To gage wind direction you could hang a string 10-20 feet with a weight at the end and a ribbon.
Ribbon should flow in direction the wind goes!
after cody's open contempt for grass lawns i cant be sure he didn't just start that fire so he could plant sunflowers for his bees XD
Just to point it out as a curiosity, here in Spain we eat sunflower seeds as a snack, they taste pretty good. We call them "pipas".
We eat them here in the US too, but I've never called them pipas
It is the name that we give them in spanish, at least here, maybe in South and Central America they use another word. People eat them here a lot, even in the streets, it is rare for a store or kiosk that sells snacks or food not to sell them, with a lot of different flavors added to them. I thought that it wasn't very common there, since I've spoken with some north americans who were surprised that we ate them. I am glad to hear that we are not the weirdos on this one, they taste really good.
Great way to plant trees too
Good job Cody you keep it up..even with the fire you keep going...
You should paint the drone yellow and black. Because it's a drone, and it buzzes!
This project makes me think how cool it's going to be to have drone automation. Maybe a little program that takes the drone out and waters the seeds daily at a certain time at marked coordinates. But mostly this project just makes me want to get into beekeeping :)
@Cody'sLab
if ya ever need an idea for a video, maybe a small documentary on your dad...he seems like a fascinating character
TH-cam needs to leave you alone..every video i have watched that you have made I feel has been educational..
Might want to get some fireweed seeds, they love the post-burn environment.
5:33 ok if I were in your position I would freak out and run as far away from those bees as i could
maybe just drive around on the quad with some with a hopper or something on the back where you can control the flow of seed and just do a few laps of the burnt out canyon :)
Cody, your shirts are awesome! I love the nerd humor you frequently wear on them! XD
"the kids in my highschool class would've loved this thing." Wow, Cody was a teacher.
FatherReality that was his dad talking I think. Also he may have meant when he was in high school, not that he's teaching now
Chilling with the bees beehiving yourself
Just so you know i appreciate that steven universe shirt
And the shirt later on that says "without data you're just another person with an opinion"
Horrible brain washing show
imagine getting mad about a kid's show
I came to the comments to say this too.
Andrew you are right. Liberal propaganda.
Why am I so excited to see the video of all the sunflowers next year XD
I just found your channel a few days ago, and I can say, I love it! Fun and full of knowledge.
You could make seed balls/bombs and drop them by drone. They'd drop more like the egg, so more precise sowing.
dude... good idea! that will look awesome next summer too!
it's somewhat strange seeing a drone laying an egg
Try making seed bombs! Seeds plus clay plus manure, pressed together into a fair pellet works well with a slingshot so maybe a drone also!
First Scott Manley with the wind in his video today and now Cody too? That can't be a coincidence :D
It’ll be nice having a hill covered in sunflowers
If we face an apocalypse, I think my best chance of survival is to find Cody.
Drop a cooked egg or a tennisball or other stuff onto the trampoline from a certain height with the drone to see how high they bounce back, you know, just for science :)
just learned an awesome idea.
Thanks a lot brother
Reminds me of how awesome drones can be. Wish I had some land to fly at lol.
You could try putting one of those lawn markers off the bottom of the drone in view of the camera to see wind direction
I like how the drone sounds a little like a big bee.
One more way drones could be used. If they could get one to plant seedlings would be awesome. Using a drone to put a fire out is totally impractical but mabe if they made a huge one capable of planting seeds. We could possibly use one on Mars to Terraform even.
CODY'S PLANTING EGGS!
But seriously, that's a cool idea. I wonder about using some sort of mechanism that spills out seeds gradually, so you could control placement better with lower -altitude strafing runs?
I love the mountain range
I love you, Cody! 💙💚💛💜