Surveyor Measures Fields

Surveyor Measures Fields CROPS Miscellaneous 2-4-10 Remember the old acreage meter on the wheel of your grain drill? It was a far cry from today's electronic land measuring devices that are fast, efficient and accurate. Now you can get into your truck or tractor cab, head down the field and read the distance off a computer dial. The new DMI-Surveyor plugs into a dash-mounted sensory terminal of your vehicle and gives a constant reading of the distance travelled. The instrument, including sensory terminal, power-data cords and installation kit, costs $189. It can be installed in your vehicle in 30- minutes. There's no battery, no moving parts, nothing to wear out or affect the vehicle. With DMI-Surveyor, you get more than simple distanced measured. Convert figures to acres, square feet or - other units and then calculate pounds per acre, dollars per square foot, or any other kind of calculation. Here's an example of how to calculate in 10 minutes the amount of material to treat a specific field at a rate of 1.45 pounds per acre: 1. Drive down one side of the field with the DMI-Surveyor. Suppose you traveled 1,452 feet. Store this in the computer's memory. 2. Drive the second side of the field. Let's suppose the distance measures 1,191 feet. Push "memory recall" and multiply the two dimensions to get a total of 1,729,332 square feet. 3. Divide total square feet by 43,560 square feet/acre to get 39.7 acres. 4. Multiply 1.45 pounds per acre to get a final figure of 57.5 pounds of material to cover the field. DMI-Surveyor is accurate beyond 99%. It can be calibrated quickly by simply driving along a measured distance. For more details, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Distance Measurement Instruments-DMI, P.O. Box 1825, Gilroy, Ca. 95020 (ph. 408 847-2147).

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