hi I'm Mike get ready for something completely new as we dive into 360 video
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ordinary every day around here something new is going on and I've got a little
bit of a break here to tell you about a new idea that we have here on our
wyoming life technology is always evolving and it's it still does just
with just like any other times and especially with youtube and one of the
ways that we've been looking at doing things is through 360 video now this
wouldn't be something that we could do all the time obviously but it's
something that we could incorporate into brandings preg checking you know that
kind of thing when we're sorting cabs and stuff like that so I thought we'd
just give it a try this weekend and just see how it works now here's the here's
the rub the camera that we would need to do this cost anywhere between 500 to
$1,000 I've contacted GoPro to see if they will be willing to let us use a
camera for a little while and I ever heard anything back from them yet so
what I did was I went to Walley world and found this camera now this is a 50
dollar 360 camera and whether it works or not is really not the huge question
we know it's not going to be the best quality in the world but it is going to
give you the opportunity to see what a 360 video on the ranch would look like
up in the corner you're gonna see if you're watching this on a desktop you're
gonna see a little cursor type deal that has four arrows in it now you can either
grab the screen if you're watching on a desktop and drag the screen around or
you can use those cursors to actually look around me this camera shoots 360
degrees all the way around if you're watching on your phone or any other
mobile device including a tablet you can actually move your phone so you can move
your phone around and you can actually look around the countryside as I
sitting here talking also if you're watching if you're watching on a desktop
I believe most desktops are gonna or most browsers are gonna allow you to use
your mouse to scroll in and out and zoom in and out on the video so this is 360
video like I said we're looking at using it during brandings and anytime that
we're in a Corral where there's a lot going on in a lot of different
directions maybe this might be a good time to do paying might work we could
always strap it onto a tractor but like I said we want to get a better quality
camera to do this then we're using right now but rather than go out and spend the
money and find out that you guys aren't interested in it anyway figured we just
do it the cheap way and do a little test run of the whole thing so here's the
plan for today I'm gonna take this camera around with me I've got to go
back and check on some gates and some stuff going into different Corral's
these guys will be heading down to summer pasture before too long so what
we're gonna do is we're actually going to drive that route taking them back to
summer past year we're going to stop in different pastures set up the 360 camera
let you take a look around and I'll narrate my way through it if I need to
but we'll kind of show you what we're doing where we're going and hopefully
get a good test of this thing and get you guys a good idea of what the 360
camera experience would be all about so I've got the four-wheeler sitting right
here obviously as you can see if you move the screen that way we're gonna
jump on it and we're going to take off down the road a little bit and go down
and look at system look at some summer pasture
we go
so the basics of this thing are pretty simple if you have a smart TV though
this may not work for you some Smart TVs work and some don't
if it doesn't work on your TV you may actually have to go to a computer for it
to work on the computer you can use your mouse to look around just grab the
screen and move it or use the cursors up in the upper left and on your phone you
can move your phone around or you can use your finger to move the screen back
and forth 180 degrees vertically and 360 degrees around horizontally one thing to
keep in mind when you are touching your screen is that you may accidentally
pause this video a few times that'll happen just click it again to unpause
so this past year is what we call the cut across basically the whole point
it's not huge it's about a hundred acres or so and goes up over this hill aways
but when we bring the cows from where they're at now in their home pasture up
this way we bring them through the cut across here so that they don't mess with
the hay fields which are right over here there are about a hundred and seventy
acres of hay fields right here that they actually just go right around when it's
time to move them down to summer pastures so they won't spend much time
in this past year but it is definitely on the way
as we leave the cut across pasture past year we head in to the heifer pasture
this pasture here is called the heifer past year mostly because it pretty much
houses heifers most of the time and there's another cut across at the other
end of the cut across to get around the heifer pasture if we need to but we're
going to drive through the heifer pasture and head towards what we call
the one legged windmill past year and you'll see why in just a minute
so this is what we call the one legged windmill past year it's kind of a bowl
down in here but it's great for runoff which really does catch down in this in
this pasture here so there is a lot of standing water a lot of reservoirs that
the cows can drink out of while they're down here they'll spend probably the
month of July maybe in this pasture depending on how much grass there is
until they move down to their summer pasture which is the giant part of the
ranch that most people never see and that is where they will spend their
entire summer let's go check it out
so this is literally the beginning of summer pasture for the cows there are
thousands of acres down here making up well more than what probably 2/3 of the
ranches down here and this will be where they will spend their entire summer this
is where the calves were will will grow and where the cows will care for their
cows and get in trouble and do everything else that cows do all that's
gonna happen right down here I got a couple things that I want to show you
throughout throughout this this pasture they're not really things that I can
really talk about maybe I'll figure out something to say about them but we have
one that I'd like to do is I'd like to take you up to the top of what is
probably the highest point on the ranch I'd like to to go up there and get some
360 footage from up there and then we have an old windmill that's all the way
back and a few homesteads that we might be able to take a look at as well so we
are gonna head that way up on top of that hill which I hope you can see and
then we're gonna head way back that way to take a look at some of the oldest
structures on the ranch so come on
so this is one of the hi I'm over here just spin around there you go this is
one of the highest points on the ranch especially back here in the summer
pasture this is the highest point in the summer faster or not I look at it I
think that those hills up by our house are actually higher than where we sit
now but this is a great place to come up and sit and look for animals you know if
you're missing a cow this is a good place to come and do it or come and look
for not to miss her but you know sometimes it's a good place to come and
miss people too so not a bad place to hang out at all this is probably one of
the more peaceful places on the ranch feel free have a look around
our next stop is way down there about I don't know how far away mile
maybe maybe a mile away we're gonna head down there we're gonna check out an old
windmill that still works still pumps water I really don't have any idea how
old it is but I know we've put a lot of work into keeping it working
I'm gonna head down that way and take a look at that little girl
this is one of the earliest structures here on the ranch built back in the
early 1900s this windmill provided water for
god-knows-what livestock they could have irrigated out of it who knows and it
still stands and it still works even though they are very high maintenance at
some point I would like to replace a couple of the windmills on the place
with with solar-powered water wells but for now this thing is just it's a piece
of history and even if we did take it out and replace it with a with a
solar-powered well or something I would try to save it I've talked to Erin about
it I would like to move it up by the house and at least have it set up to
continue doing its thing maybe it's not pumping of water but it'll it'll always
spin this is Wyoming after all back this way we have one more one more one more
stop to make and that is at the original homestead back here on this sectional
land so we're gonna head over that way and take a look
this homestead was originally built and want to say like 1922 or something like
that but this is the oldest homestead that's still actually any part of it
left on the ranch there's a couple more homesteads that kind of look something
like this that are a little bit tore down but her a lot toured out but most
of them were actually taken out and removed so this one you can still see
the walls are still here that the roof is still here obviously and underneath
here who knows what is here I've always been tempted to do a little excavating
but at the same time if I do that that kind of feels like you know like digging
up a grave kind of thing that makes any sense so as we take a look at this very
oldest on the ranch we now take a look at the newest and that is this 360 video
technology like I said in the beginning of the video this camera is a POS but it
does give us the gist of what we will be looking at if we decided to invest in
doing this and this is where we need your help well I need your help because
Aaron thinks it's silly I'm a goofball for for tech and gadgets and things like
that so I think it would be kind of cool to have during branding or you know
anything anything where there's multiple things going on at once ER scenery you
might like to look at as I'm yammering on you can kind of you know drift away
but that's up to you you let us know if you think this is something that you
would like to see done better on the ranch because obviously if we if we
decide to do it we're gonna get a better camera we're gonna we're gonna put some
effort into it and and make it work so this is totally up to you you let us
know in the comments whether or not you like this being able to look around the
360 technology of me is just awesome and and I hope that you enjoyed it even if
we never do it again it's something that I can say that I'm that I've definitely
done so thanks for coming out with me today taking a look through the
passengers as we're gonna be moving cows down here before too long that's
generally the path they're gonna take we're gonna be down here with them as we
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