Our semester of Year 9/10 AgHort activities is drawing to a close but our students wanted to investigate agricultural contracting and services so we visited the Glenfyne depot of Michael Lyne, from Lyne Contacting. Mick described his job progression from leaving Timboon P-12 School to owning and managing a contracting business that provides year round services to southwest district farmers including raking, baling, wrapping, spraying, drilling, power and disc harrowing. Students heard about the types of gear and equipment that Mick uses including John Deere tractors and the reasons behind the various purchase and business decisions when considering his apparatus, gear and managing the seasonal workload. At the yard, Kyle Delaney spoke about his career pathway, why he chose contracting and provided an overview of the plane drill including what it does, how it works, technicalities and setting up the drill. Jason Stevenson from Airdeter introduced the new drone component of the business and outlined why drones are used, their purposes, potential, drone services, how drones are set up including the mapping drone, programming, the differences between tractor vs drone guidance and drone legislation. The class investigated the hydraulic drone trailer office and workspace and observed the drones in action and could compare this with tractor capabilities. Mick was generous enough to let our students even fly a drone worth $75,000 that is used for spraying and fertilizer and operates from it’s own drone trailer. Thanks Mick, Kyle and Jason for a wonderful opportunity to investigate Agri tech in our own backyard. Comments are closed.
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