The journey into the abyss of no return

[Baymule]

So a neighbor put 10 bulls in a field next to you with falling down rotten fence? Will they trample it and come on your place?

 

[Mini Horses]

Are you in a "fence in" or "fence out" location? That'll make a difference. Of course, the fence in people don't always want to.. And you prob have no animal control there

 

[Mini Horses]

holy schitt....that's a road!!!??

 

[Mini Horses]

So the new well is on a different parcel than your house. Do you have a well at your house? If not, is another planned? How far apart is house & just dug well?

While I'm sure it's vast and pretty, there are real challenges to live there. Your background and determination is totally needed to survive in that isolation. Talk about a "mountain man" ... With heavy equipment -- Hello!!

 

[Baymule]

So anybody can buy livestock and Neighbors have to fence livestock out as opposed to the owner fencing his in.
Then they can trespass all over your land to round up their cattle that they are half a$$ taking care of.

I do like the Private Property laws in Texas.

Would your neighbor split cost of fence and help put it up?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Maybe I should get a drone, what do you guys think?

I say - Go For It!

 

[SageHill]

Drones are fun, we got great video of the ranch early on. Heck I even used it to video dogs working sheep years ago. We got a Typhoon drone 6 props, back then supposedly better than the quad copters - but that was I think 6 yrs ago.
Go for it.

 

[Ridgetop]

Here is the fence in question, skip to 3:28 to see it.

Nothing wrong with that fence - as long as the wind doesn't blow!

 

[Ridgetop]

A couple Christmases ago DS2 got DH a drone. Thought it would be handy for flying over the gully. He could not figure out how to fly it. Our sons uploaded it to his phone and programmed it. They had fun with it. The updrafts from the gully almost made it crash and he wasn't able to figure out how to pilot it so he stopped using it. It is packed for Texas but in those strong winds I am not sure it will be able to fly home! LOL

 

[SageHill]

Looked up that drone and wow, very expensive for nowadays still. I was thinking also of using mine to check on animals across the properties, and keep watch on things. Hear something, send a drone up and it can cut across all this acreage faster and cheaper than I can an ATV. One of my pet peeves is driving across my properties where the driveways aren't at and it's 900' from pole barn to road, flying it is only 300'. When it comes time to put fence up it will help. Stand at one property pin and send drone up from another property pin, shoot an azimuth and that's the way I need to go with t-post or whatever. Cheaper than having a surveyor out here.
If it doesn't get banned, I think this is a great one. Lastly, it will be great in the summer time for when wildfire season kicks off I can spot wildfires and see what is going on.
https://store.dji.com/product/dji-mavic-3-classic-dji-rc?vid=125121

That's a good one as well. Like the 45 min flight time. I didn't look too closely at it, but if it has a "Return to Home" function you're golden. We had ours set up programmed flight around the ranch to watch the progress of the build.
Sounds to me like you can put it to good use for sure.