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Set Up Camera Equipment for Documentation

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Mowing heavy brush on a steep pond bank! Stuck? Find out here!

What happens here

The presenter outlines his camera setup, which includes a GoPro mounted on a gimbal with a magnetic base, designed to maintain a level shot despite the mower's movements on uneven terrain. This setup allows for stable, dynamic shots from the mower itself. Additionally, a DJI Mavic Pro drone is prepared to capture aerial footage, providing a broader perspective of the steep slopes and the overall mowing operation. He cautiously notes the presence of power lines, which make drone operation risky, and humorously recounts a previous drone crash.

Goal: To effectively showcase the challenging terrain and the mower's performance, multiple cameras, including a gimbal-mounted GoPro and a drone, are prepared.

Tools and materials

  • DJI Mavic Pro Drone
  • Gimbal with Magnetic Mount
  • GoPro HERO4

What they say

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the drone up in the air I have a couple different cameras that I'm going to use today when you come back here after the intro I'll show you the cameras we're gonna use and we'll talk more about all the fun we're gonna have today on the farm all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] I guess first of all for those of you who are new to the channel this is the ventrac this is the honey badger the guys that subscribe to the channel of nickname this thing the honey badger that is called the tough cut and it's basically a brush cutter slash bush hog that we've used to mow the entire farm with the exception of about three acres we use this machine to bush hog our entire farm awesome and now we're going to take it and we're going to drop it off the edge of a would be cliff it's really hard to take a camera and show you the steepness of an embankment but we're right here on a nice beautiful flat pond down and there's a little slope here and there's a huge slope right here this is probably 25 degrees maybe 30 degrees maybe pushing the limits of the ventrac the first shot that we're going to take is going to be off over the edge and this is further than you can take a zero turn this is further than you can take it conventional tractor safely without rolling off over the hill rolling into the creek or rolling into the pond the whole reason we leased the ventrac was to maintain around the pond we had no idea what a great job he would do on the rest of the fields if you look out there all that was mode with the ventrac once we tossed a drone up in the air you'll get an idea of this 25 well it's probably about 35 acre field now we mowed that entire area with the ventrac - so without further ado let's show you the camera equipment because we're gonna drop off over the edge let me just step down here three steps down and my head's already at the same level as the top of the dam this is steep guys this is really steep it's gonna be fun I've got a plan to show you how steep it is let me show you hear that crotch rocket go by we call those a crotch rocket or a super sport bike when I was younger I had a sport bike like that now I wish those people were not around they go down through here like nine hundred miles an hour and that's what I used to do and now I'm like you're slowing I'd been down I'm getting over that guess let's show you the gimbal so we're gonna be using our cell phone gimbal I rigged up some stuff it's gonna be fun so this is the gimbal setup and this is what I…

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