Owner-flown, from Ghent, NY
Drone work for farms, ranches, estates and solar arrays.
We find missing animals, check fences and roofs, count livestock and their feed, seed and fertilize fields, and clean solar panels. We fly farms, estates and other large properties out to 100 miles from Ghent, in New York's Hudson Valley. We farm there, and everything here gets flown over our own fields before we offer it for yours.
Opening for commercial work in the first quarter of 2027. Tell us about your property now.
For an estate, one visit for all of it
A large property, farm or not, still has roofs, heat pumps and generators, trees, a pond, fences and panels to look after. One visit looks over all of them, after a storm or on a schedule, and one report, with an answer for each, tells you how the place came through before you drive up.
For a solar array, inspect then clean
Thermal finds the panels that have stopped making power. If dust is what we find, a wash with deionized water can follow, and in winter fresh snow comes off with air from the rotors.
Three kinds of work
Ranch Operations
Missing animal searches, fence checks, head and feed counts, and scans for fawns and newborns, on call or on a schedule.
Fields & Solar
Seeding and fertilizing fields, and cleaning solar panels.
Inspection
Thermal and close-up checks of estates, solar arrays, barns, easements and water.
Tim Piastrelli plans and flies every job
The person you first speak to is the one who flies your job. There's no call center and no subcontracted pilot.
My family runs Three Waters Farm (opens in a new tab) in Ghent: certified organic, with grass-fed cattle, sheep, laying hens and a solar array of its own. It's our home too, an estate as well as a farm.
I've spent my career in robotics, self-driving vehicles, drones and cybersecurity.
Call me at (518) 227-0028, or read more about me.
Why work with us
FAA authorization first
Every flight is logged, and no commercial work flies without the FAA authorization it needs.
Weak cell signal is fine
The drone records on board and uploads after it lands.
You get a record
Every job ends in a report or record you can act on or file away.
The same four steps for every job
Tell us what you need
Where the property is, and what needs doing.
We agree it and plan the flight
You agree the plan and the price before anything flies. Then we draw the area the drone stays inside.
The drone flies it
From a dock on your property, or launched by us on site. A person can take control at any time.
You get the result
Where the animal is, a list of spots to look at, a head or feed count, what we found at each place we looked, or a record of what was applied or cleaned.
Three drones
DJI Matrice 30T
We bring it out from Ghent when something needs a look and launch it on your property. It flies a set route, or we fly it by hand. It has a regular camera, a zoom and a thermal one.
DJI Matrice 4TD in a Dock 3
It lives in a dock on your property and flies itself, on a schedule or when we start it remotely. It uses Starlink, not your internet. For an estate visit we can bring it out instead. It has a regular camera, a zoom and a thermal one.
DJI Agras T100
We launch it on site. It flies a set route, or we fly it by hand. It carries a 100-liter spray tank or a 150-liter spreader hopper. Its GPS is precise enough for close work over solar arrays. Radar and LiDAR watch for obstacles.
What we do with the pictures
Our software picks out animals, trees on a fence and dirty solar panels. A person marks fence breaks and open gates, and releases what we find before you are shown it.
Trained on our own farm first
A model off the shelf has never seen your fence line. We train ours on our own farm in Ghent first, and every customer job then goes into the training set.
A person releases what we find
The software marks what it finds and how sure it is. Nothing it finds reaches you until a person releases it, and anything it isn't sure about gets a closer look first.
Kept as your history
What we find is kept by date and place, so you can follow a fence line, a head count or a roof over time. Each fence sweep is checked against the last one.