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Halden
Unit 02 · On air

MCA · Main range feed

A wide feathered cloud sweeping across a deep blue sky above pale open grassland with animals gathered on the horizon

Front inbound · ETA 04:12:00

Read the sky before the herd does.

Halden is a field console that watches cloud build-up, wind and pasture moisture over your range, and tells you when to move cattle, hours before the front arrives.

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North range: move Herd B to Lee B before the front reaches the ridge.

Paddock entry

PDK __ · Key no. + ENT
Live · N

Cam 2 · Herd

Three cattle grazing on green steppe below low hills and bright cumulus

Unit 02 · Pressure

00 · 08

hPa / 6 h

1

Cloud build

0.72 idx
2,140 m
2

Wind · Gain

14 kt NW
100%
3

Pasture moisture

31%

Next move

Window

C → Lee B
04:12:00

Range select

F1–F4 · 0–9 + ENT

Feed · North range
A

The station

A weather station that thinks in paddocks.

Forecasts are written for towns. Your herd lives forty kilometres from the nearest one, on ground where a front can cross a ridge and drop the temperature twelve degrees in an hour.

Halden puts one nine-metre mast on your range and one console on your desk. The mast watches the sky the way a stockman does: how fast the cloud is building, which way the wind is backing, how wet the grass is underfoot. The console turns that into one plain instruction: which paddock, and by when.

Meet the instruments

Cam 3 · Mast view

A tall cloud tower rising into blue sky over a dark ridge at the edge of the steppe
  • 6 h

    Median warning before a front reaches the herd.

  • 40 km

    Radius of sky and ground read from a single mast.

  • 11 W

    Draw of the whole station. One solar panel runs it.

B

Instruments

Four modules. One instruction.

Each module does one job and shows its work on a readout you can check at a glance, with gloves on, from across the room.

  • 1

    Cloud build

    Index 0.72 · Rising

    Sees towers forming

    A sky camera scores vertical growth every ninety seconds, so a cell that will matter by dusk is flagged at lunch.

  • 2

    Wind shear

    14 kt NW · Backing

    Knows the lee side

    Two anemometers at three and nine metres catch the shift early and name the paddock that will be sheltered when it lands.

  • 3

    Pasture moisture

    31% · Firm footing

    Reads the ground too

    Buried probes tell you which gates will be mud after the rain, so the route you pick is one the herd can walk.

  • 4

    Herd position

    Herd B · 48 head

    Counts who is where

    Collar pings place every group on the map. The move window is worked out from how far they have to go.

Printer · Day log

  1. 05:40Cloud base dropping over the west ridge. Watching.
  2. 08:15Build index 0.55 and rising. Wind backing NW.
  3. 09:10Advice: move Herd B from Paddock C to Lee B before 13:20.
  4. 11:45Herd B through the east gate. 48 of 48 counted.
  5. 13:30Front on the mast. Gusts 41 kt. Hail, nine minutes.
  6. 14:05Clear. No losses. Log closed.
C

Field log

One Tuesday on the north range.

Six lines, one decision. The console does not ask you to study a radar loop. It tells you what it saw, what it advises, and whether the herd made it.

“I used to stand on the porch and guess. Now I read one line at breakfast and we are done moving by noon.”
Ines Okafor · 2,300 ha, north range
D

Order

Put a console on your desk before spring.

We build in small batches and install each station ourselves. Tell us the size of your range and we will reply with a mast position, a price and a date.

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  • Next batch ships

    March · 40 units

  • Install

    One day · Two people

  • Subscription

    None · You own it