Daredevil Of Farming
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In today's video we get to see a cool part of farming: crop dusters/air tractors. We see them in action on one of our fields, and have the opportunity to get up close and personal with them. Thank you for watching through my ad placements: they are what make my farming dreams possible, so I really appreciate it!!
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As a relatively experienced pilot, crop dusting scares the shit out of me. The risk is massive, if anything goes wrong you've got nowhere to go. The only thing that tops this when it comes to danger are firefighter planes.
That's one of the reasons that they keep their airspeed up. They want to have some energy to spare in case they lose the engine. The good news is that there is always a field nearby in case they have to make an emergency landing. :)
When I was flying, I thought of possibly training to do crop spraying, but like you, it scared the shit out of me.
It takes skill and nerves of steel to be a crop duster.
Actually built to crash. Notice how far back the pilot sits, rugged rollbar.
As a guy who leans back in his chair and observing?: the heat of the flames ad that to the job. But if i see spray versus fire planes the spray go closer to the earth than the fire.
Not my cup of tea both jobs.
Back in the 60s a guy told me the first spray pilots learned the job in the 9th Air Force, shooting up trains and trucks in Europe. Watching them work out here (I'm about 100 miles west of Laura) I believe it. She struck a chord with me, my fist airshow was when I was at Purdue, and we were standing right under the soloists, in their F4J's. I can still feel the way the earth moved.
I'm a retired aircraft mechanic. I serviced those beasts for a living! They make 2 seat versions if you kids wanted to go for a ride in a field! It's a blast. Not easy flying, Days are long! Thanks for the videos!
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Here’s an idea for y’all :-)
Next year, ask the pilot if you can hook up your GoPro to the plane :-)
Then you will have all that aerial view of your property.
I spent 30 years. At Pratt & Whitney Canada building those engines, God bless, stay safe.🇨🇦
I used to be a cotton inspector for the state, and while I was out in a field, I had to use the porta-john. I was inside when I heard a plane coming, and when he passed over, he bumped the roof of the porta-john with his wheel. I had no problems going after that. Those guys are amazing.
@@SemperFido9915 what does a cotton inspector inspect for?
@@Notbendover Out here, we have a moth that eats cotton bolls before they bloom. We had a sterilization program that was used in place of pesticides. 🙂
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It's been 45 years now, and there was a farmer who grew acres of delicious sweet corn about a quarter mile from my house. We had a local crop sprayer plane airstrip about a quarter mile in the opposite direction. Every Sunday morning, the plane ( like the one in your video) took off flew low over my house, and we hear the plane make about 5-6 passes and then return to base. One morning, I heard the plane engine suddenly stop. I leaped out of bed and said, " he crashed." I drove to the corn field and saw the pilot walking. He said the morning sun blinded him, and he caught a wing in the tree line. Fortunately, he was okay.
When I was in high school a hundred years ago, I worked for our local airport in the summer. I got to flag for the crop duster planes. They would fly 3 feet off the crops. You’d wave a white flag on a 10 foot pole for them to line up on you then take 19 steps across the field and watch them fly 15 feet away from you. They’d bank hard and almost fly back on themselves. After getting to the end of the field, we’d jump in the pickup and bust butt to the next one while they refilled with chemicals. We’d start at 430 in the morning and go till it got too hot to spray. Go back out at 6pm and spray till dark. That was the best job I could have had. I’m 74 now and still miss it. Have fun kids. Keep up the great videos. Thanks.
@@loisrinehart6755 how about the Piper brave with a Lycoming 400 with 8 cylinders 👍🇺🇸
As a licensed pilot of many years with no flying for a long time now, I thoroughly love it when a turbine Air Tractor roars across your property spraying the corn! I really enjoyed the episode when you went up in the little yellow Piper Cub (I love flying those too) for a hoon around his home base near Henderson. Glad to see you're still grinning as wide as Nebraska when he or others come back for another job! Cheers from David in NZL 😁🤣❤🛩
LOL, I managed to find the flight recording on Flight Radar as he was spraying the field across the road and over your house! His steep 180º turns at the end of a run are about a quarter mile wide!
The skill level of these pilots is off the chart. I have had pilot license for many years which helps me appreciate the skill level these pilots have.
Emeralds for eyes. Simply stunning. You and Grant are great influencers, teaching this country what it really takes to feed people. How can't anyone who see your work and understand Farmers are not a bunch of people in a field pulling weeds. You folks are some of the most important people working in this country to feed the masses, sophistacated and professional buisness Men and Women who have always made The United States of America great, and work so hard to fill our bellys. Thank you.
Used to watch the dusters over the cotton fields in Arizona. They dusted with DDT - we frolicked in it! I’m 75, hasn’t killed me yet.
No plane, please. Just watch and ride.
Laura,Grant, Ireally like all the aspects of Farming. God Bless All the Farmers in the USA. America !
Get yourselves a Pilots License and have some fun!! It’s an exciting hobby and opens so many more things for you to enjoy!!
To be honest it's not the machine that is precise it is the human that is operating it with great skills that make it precise
Those pilots are amazing. My mother was a WASP during WW2. 1944-1945. She towed targets for ground gunnery practice with a P-40. Lots of stories....
I visited the Wasp museum in Sweetwater Tx a few weeks ago. Interesting place with wonderful exhibits. Those women played an important part in the war effort. Thank you for your mother's service.
@@philipmcdaniel4328 Thank you....
I grew up watching them. My Dad had a good friend who had his own duster. No mistakes permitted.
Love watching crop dusters especially when they dip down and all of a sudden pops up from nowhere
Here in the PNW, most of the Air Tractors have floats with water intakes and are used, usually in pairs, to drop water/retardant on fires, forests, wildland, and grains fields that burn from lighting strikes, bad train brakes, and humans. There have been a lot of flights in the last couple of weeks. The work with other much larger tanker planes, heliocopters, and smoke jumpers supporting the ground crews. Sadly lost a Fire Boss in Oregon a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks for taking us on the field trip! I was in aircraft maintenance while in the Air Force. I was a crew chief on a EB 57 A. I love anything aircraft related.
Thanks for your service!
@@Torsee you are welcome
Flying those “dusters” takes so much talent and it’s very impressive to say the least.
Thanks for showing us what the planes look like inside and out intimately.
Your corns looking good!
Worked 2 summers for a crop duster in western Nebraska when I was in highschool. Lots of work and 16 hour days but I made a lot of money. He would get so low to the ground sometimes that we would pull suger beet leaves out of the rims of the plane.
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@@dustindugger315 Sounds like somewhere around Scottsbluff, NE.
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I once saw an insane crop duster fly under a power line... inverted. I'm guessing loads of experience, boredom and heaping dose of dare devil made him do it.
Laura I have said this before........I have never seen a bigger smile on your face in all your videos than of the Time you went up in that Crop duster!!!!! You wanted to do that so bad......YOU WERE BEAMING!!!!! That sounds so much like WWII videos.
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I’m from east Arkansas and I’ve always loved watching the ag pilots in their air acrobatic displays. I have been traveling the highways and pulled to the shoulder just to watch. I especially liked it when they were flying the old biplanes.
Ok at least I know I'm not the only one who get's excited and giddy and wants to take all sorts of photos and videos when they dust at our house. I work a mile away from the QC airshow they put on each year, usually featuring either blue angles or thunderbirds along with F18s and F22s, so I'm used to this but it still never gets old.
I love how connected you are to nature and the land. This is the kind of lifestyle many people dream of but few have the courage to pursue!
Pratt and Whitney PT-6 Power on that Air Tractor! I pulled a magnetic chip detector out of the gear box on one and it had a gear tooth and a chunk of hub stuck to it. Other than the chip light illuminated that engine showed no performance issues. What a machine!
As we used to say at Beech flight test “Here we go trusting in God and Pratt and Whitney”
@@brianmee5398 In fact I used to work at a Beechcraft Dealership as an A&P before I went on to Engineering school. Sure would be fun to see Laura get a pilots license. Given the way she can handle one of those complex tractors she could probably handle a Super King Air.
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Here for this!! Thanks for sharing a bit about our industry in such a positive way, Laura!! We'd love to have you guys visit our operation in ND someday!
I would absolutely love to !!
When I was a young man my future wife lived on a farm about 20 miles south of town. One Saturday evening an Ag Tractor was spraying the end of the rows across the rows next to the highway. I saw hm make his turn to came back for the last pass as I approached the field. I sped up to a little over 105 MPH and passed him as he came in low to spray. I show him a thumbs up and a short wave and he looked over and saw me pass him. Waved back and finished the field and flew to the next one. Great memory!!
Must not have been an Air Tractor then, we fly across the field at anywhere from 130-170mph. Could've been a Pawnee though.
Those pilots are amazing! Thanks for sharing an insider view of the crop-dusting industry -- it's quite interesting.
I was a truck driver. One time I was on the Ohio Turnpike and a crop duster went over and I could have sworn that he must my trailer by inches. I actually thought that he was going to land on it
I am 84 years young and my very first plane ride was in a bi-plane crop duster spraying strawberries in South Florida. That would have been in 1949. I will never forget the experience. Planes were a lot different back then though, No where as closest to the speed this guy is going. Exciting and would like to ride in that one but I don't think that those have 2 seats because of the extra weight.
My in-laws are crop pilots and fly Air Tractors out in western Kansas. Makes me smile.
@astrogatorjones surely not near Ulysses ks
@@aviator2252 I know some guys out in Plains that occasionally fly around Ulysses.
@Skinflaps_Meatslapper buddy worked at north star as a&p
@@aviator2252 Oh, I know those guys! I check out their booth every year at conventions.
I was in the Navy and we flew in P3's chasing subs and would fly as low as 100 feet off the ocean depending on the conditions. Once we flew by a carrier and were below the carrier deck.... Our plane had a length of 116 ft, wing span of 99 ft. and we could fly up to 16 hrs when we shut down to 2 engines. Fantastic plane. This guys are fantastic pilots...
My dad spent 18 of his 24 years in the Navy here in Brunswick Maine working on P-3's. VP-8 and VP-11 as well as 2 shore duty tours CPW-5 and FASO.
@@toche207 Yep, P-3s were a small community, knew a few people from VP-8 over the years. We used to make Lobster runs on occasion when we needed "to test the engines" from NAS Jax. LOL
Awesome airplane.Air Tractor just started producing these for the military. Seems that if you empty/remove the spray tank/equipment, they can carry a lot of bombs and rockets.
There used to be a cropduster in our area of west central IL that used to be a chopper pilot in NAM. When he came to the end of a field he would go UNDER the power lines. Many times he flipped his plane in the lines of main power lines on the towers and the plane would be suspended laying across the lines. Once he came out of a field at an intersection and went under the lines and was head on with a car on the road. When he banked to miss the car his wing clipped the stop sign. When the plane hit the ground, he climbed out and said "I guess I haul it home again". When NTSB tore down the engine for their inspection; they found no internal damage, just one half of the prop snapped off. He had the engine stopped before he hit the ground. When he dusted beans his wheels would occasionally brush the bean plants.
Now days, after his second crash his licsense would be gone. No insurance, no spraying....
Laura you are a natural for being a pilot! It is not cheap but you definitely have the aptitude to do it. I got my PPL license in 1971. Kept upgrading and ended up with a commercial license with multi engine and instrument rating. So, sign up for a ground school after harvest.
If you would have chosen a military career, I could see you as another Kim Campbell. (Famous A-10 pilot)
Looked like one of our tow tugs from my Air Force days and there it was on the hood US Air Force!
Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤
Any time I see a crop duster I have to pull over and watch ..fascinating.
Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤
We use helicopters more than air planes where I live. They don't need an airport, they come to your farm first with a tank truck, and the helo shows up to get loaded, some companies even have a helipad rite on the truck roof.
So cool, brings back great memories of my youth, I was what they called a flagger for the crop dusters. I would hold up a flag on a long pole and the plane would fly over and drop the fertilizer, then I would walk 17 steps and do it all over again. I turned that job into one working for the air service in Pullman, WA 1964 Part of my learning experience in life.
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Based on the year you're talking about, do you know the name Pete Fountain? He had a flying service out of Pullman-Moscow airport. I grew up on a wheat farm just north of Palouse. The flagging you used to do was eventually replaced by a dispenser attached to the plane that would drop a four-foot long piece of toilet paper (similar material) that had a square of cardboard attached. The pilot would drop those on each pass, and they would mark his run, showing him where he had just sprayed.
@@jeffreyhill8040 I was working in the 64-65 time frame, a local Doctor owned the service at that time. They would use the old steranes with the dual wings, very loud and powerful. You mentioned Palouse, one of the pilots flipped his pave over when he was landing, I was tole he hit some soft ground.
@@jeffreyhill8040 they were about eight or so feet long, so they would lay on top of the plants, but yeah it's all GPS now.
I've played a lot with low and slow flight. These guys take it to a whole new level. There is a thing called "ground effect" where the flying charactoristics are completely different from just flying at a higher altitude. They have to transition from one to another without fail. In essence, the plane will fly just fine just above the ground at low speeds but when he pulls up for the turn the plane looses the ability to fly unless he has sufficient airspeed. It's a fine dance....
you two can grow anything. corn looks great. thank goodness this country has young farmers committed to feeding us. thank you!
I could watch those guys and gals all day long. It takes a ton of focus and talent
Back in the 1960's in Northwest Oklahoma yellow biplanes were the crop dusters. Loud slow but it was fun to watch them spray our wheat fields for green bugs.
While we were working next to a farmer's field, one of these guys started doing passes and spraying. He would do a pass loop up & around, then dive back down and spray another pass. Every time he dove the plane, it sounded like a WWII dive- bomber you hear on the movies, sooo very cool & LOUD. Awesomeness to the max!
they don't sound like a dive bomber, they sound EXACTLY like a dive bomber. We had a neighbor that dusted, and he had to call a WWII vet to make sure he wasn't napping when he took off. The poor guy would be under a table screaming the Zeros were coming if he didn't.
When I worked in the fertilizer pesticide business, I always loved wa5ching these guys. One was a good friend and every time he saw me on the road and if flying near, he would buzz me, including flying under the power lines. He could fly around a tree in the field by turning plane on edge instantly, they are amazing. He ended up flying for US spraying opium fields in South America and eventually getting shot down by cartel. He survived, hiding in a hollow tree by locals, and having 2nd and 3rd degree burns all over. Tough guy. Ended up owning a fishing lodge and he would fly into it with guests. They are a special breed
My pilot instructor was a crop duster in his youth it came with many benefits! I was desensitized to potential failures by experiencing many scenarios that he encountered. It was very reassuring. And fun!!! I love flying and highly recommend and you could have your own runway... come to think about it barns make great hangars.
One of my best friends I grew up with flew crop dusters in the summers after HS graduation. I was home from college the second summer he was flying and he was in a two seat Piper Super Cub. I rode with hime a couple of times. It was awesome. We were spraying cotton in some fairly small fields surrounded by trees. So down for a short run then up, bank around and do it again. Better than a roller coaster. Later that summer he lost power pulling up and dumped it in some trees. He survived with only scratches and bruises. Plane was repaired and back in the air the next summer.
That is amazing. I've seen it in real life years ago, but when he dropes down below a ridge, as if he's in crashing in the corn, unnerving.
Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤
That Air Tractor cost more than JD 9RX and a bean planter combined. The Air Tractor and the 9RX both consume about the same amount of fuel per hour under load.
Laura, if you like the feeling in your chest when the Air Tractor goes overhead, where you can feel the pressure in your lungs, go to a top fuel dragster or a unlimited class tractor pull event. You get the same feeling
Thank you for that LMNT tip. I bought some and I have less cramps now for just having 1 pouch per day. I used to have some serious cramps before.
I think getting your pilot's license could definitely be a lot of fun. I've heard of a few Ranchers with very large ranches that actually use helicopters to scout
So that was you a few minutes ago !! I was east bound on 80, today. Stopped in at Lincoln at the Super 8, but I watched a crop duster working just to the west of here. And the pilot was making some very wide turns to reverse direction on his,,, uh,, her, passes. Good job. I waved.
Nice change of scenery Laura crop spraying and so accurate with this GPS location tool nothing missed.
Earlier this week I was on my way to Omaha and was watching all these crop dusters just about everywhere. I thought it was so cool watching them and I had all kinds of questions. Thanks for sharing this information.
I used to love the crop dusters. I always thought they were the best
I LOVE watching those guys! I nearly run off the road everytime I catch one.
There's a guy I used to know who's a private pilot for an investment company. In the summer he would go back to Nebraska to crop dust. He said it kept his flying skills tuned up. That F-100 Super Saber at the airport was sweet.
I grew up on a small ranch/farm. Our neighbors grew filberts. I remember fondly the crop dusters flying over the filberts, so close to treetops and power lines. Incredible to watch. Thanks for letting me see a modern crop duster up close.
The Cessna 188 AgTruck is one of the coolest planes ever made... Second only to the Pilatus PC-12 NG. If you got your private pilot certificate and instrument rating, complex and high performance endorsements you'll never regret it! Just having your private pilot certificate alone is something that changes your life. A TON of farmers buy J-3 Cubs (the small plane you and Grant flew in) and have their own grass fields that they fly out of... It does help you to get a birds eye view of whats going on in your fields AND its a ton of fun flying low and slow in the evenings after being in the fields all day, just letting your door be open and feeling the wind. Nothing like it. If y'all do that, you DEFINITELY need to make videos of your flight training!
I have one in my hangar that I'll sell you, I'm not a fan. Looks kinda neat from a distance I guess, like a Stuka or something. We call them fart carts.
Several decades ago, we were in Scottsbluff for a Babe Ruth baseball Regional and a crop duster plane was dusting the cornfield behind our motel. Then, all of a sudden, the plane disappeared. What we did not realize was a potential tornado was bearing down on us. These pilots are AMAZING!! Brought back some wonderful memories. Thanks for this video!
My wife's flight instructor was a crop duster for years and he owned many WWII fighter training planes and "dusted" with dust instead of liquid like they do now. I got to fly one of those planes. a Stearman PT-17, way back when and it is a blast to fly right above the ground even though you are only doing 100MPH or so.
You can find an aerobatics training center near you and get a ride in a two person plane that does as many wild things you can imagine.
Give it a try!
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Back in the 70's thru the 80's, My Stepfather was a Crop Duster. He worked three months. Made $20,000 in that time. He played Bridge rest of the time. Only time the house was quite because of lack of shouting, screaming, arguing from the players, is when He was Crop Dusting. LOL! Cheers!
Laura enjoyed this way too much, I bet this lady will have her PPL sometime soon!
As they say, there’s two types of crop dusters, good ones and dead ones. 🙄
Handling characteristics are different when the tanks are full compared to nearly empty. At low altitudes that is critical. I too love to watch them perform aerobatics especially if there are trees or high wires at the ends of the fields.
When I was a kid, we chopped cotton. We were supposed to move over several rows when the plane was dusting. One time I lay down in the row, so it flew right over me. That was before EPA and concern for toxic chemical exposure. All 7 of us are now in late 60's and 70's. None of us came down with cancers related to it.
But the father and uncle of my best friend both died of cancers. I always wondered if it was because of the chemicals. Both were farmers
Hey Laura, love the show. But I live on a farm in MN and few years ago, the farmer around me had a helicopter come in and dust his crops. You think planes are scary, the helicopter would come in and dust and at the end of the field. He would pull straight up and turn around and then come back down. That is also so amazing to watch. If you ever can I would. Thanks for the awesome show.
When I was a kid, I used to spend the summers working on my aunt and uncle's farm in the San Juaquin Valley, CA. I drove a tractor mowing, raking and bailing several large alfalfa fields all by my12y/o self! I loved it and looked forward to every summer. My uncle also owned seven airplanes, three were crop dusters and three were crop sprayers, while one was a twin engine Beach Craft Bonanza that they used to fly all over the U.S. and Cental and South America. Also, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy watching all of your videos. Also, your participation in Matt's Offroad Games was much appreciated and I look forward to seeing you there again in 2025!
The dusters and sprayers were Stearman By-planes. His favorite story was when he was dusting a grape vineyard and got too low. He caught the gear on the wire holding the vine up off the ground and flipped the plane upside down. He was hanging there all strapped in and was fortunate that his cockpit was between the wires, so he nor the plane sustained any damage. God was watching, for sure.
Flying is risky, crop dusting is crazy.
My step mom died in a general aviation crash. Something happened to the engine just after take-off.
My dad and I crashed into a lake but both survived with injuries and PTSD.
Watch out with flying. Lots of fun, but quite risky.
Hi everyone, that airplane is so badass; super clean and powerful! Turboprop sounds so awesome, be safe!!! 👍✌️❤️
I work in agriculture and have been hauling fungicide to two of these air tractors for the last two or three weeks. It never gets old year after year.
Air Tractor of Olney Texas. Great planes and a great company.
Though a plane would be fun, it makes more since to invest in drone spraying technology and add that to the things you do. You might even be able to create a new income stream from it while saving the price of the plane and or having it sprayed by another company. Love watching your content
I love to watch the crop dusters in my area of Indiana. But unfortunately our community lost one of our young pilots this week while doing the job he loved. He was a 6th generation farmer and a hell of a good guy. RIP Ray
Was he the one that went down in Oxford? I was flying just on the other side of the border in the Rantoul/Hoopeston area when I heard about it.
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper yes
Enjoyed the video; and there is also a lot of aerial spraying going on now here to the southeast of you in northern Missouri. While I have applied almost all of my own crop-protection chemicals/pesticides myself I have also custom-hired, aerial applicators occasionally. What I really like about this post is both of you going to the airport north of town on hwy. 14 to let us viewers get a close-up of one of the planes. Laura, you did great filming the controls and the cockpit; and Grant, I sure did like the walk-around and explaining what you are looking at as another farmer like myself. I see the F100, Super Sabre, Air Force fighter jet is still on display at the entrance; and I have went by there many times after delivering at Iams west of Aurora on US34.
I'm 65 years old. I worked on my brother's farm/ranch in my 20s! One day I was moving irrigation, the plane was on one side of the hill and I was on the other. Heading towards each other, I dumped the motorcycle and laid down on the ground. As the plane flew over me, the pilot was laughing his , you know what off!! PS he was not spraying our field at the time, he thought I was my brother, I believe!! One morning going to school, I tried to outrun a plane running beside the road. I don't know how fast it is, when the speedometer gos to 120, and it goes pass that, and goes all the way to the d D on the shifter in indicator! Sorry I'm pretty much blind, and all them comments and periods are not in the right spots! Y'all stay safe!
Laura and Grant, from your video, that pilot flew 50 to 100 feet above from the ground. Not everyone would want to do what that pilot just did and not hit the power lines. Overall, being a pilot is awesome!
My dad, before he passed away, was a professional pilot. I used to go flying with him. We would do what we call, scud run from 1000 ft. above the ground. It was so much fun. Plus, do hammerhead stalls and lazy 8's.
However, if it was not so expensive, I would had my private pilots license today. Cause if my dad had his instructors license. I could had logged over 500 to a 1,000 hours total. From all the times I had flown with him. I have flown from a single engine up to a twin engine turbo prop.
I enjoyed today video very much. I live in an area where there is a lot of this activity, in fact there is a crop duster than operates from a location about 1/2 mile from me. All these years and I had never seen the inside of the planes cockpit ... until today. Very cool, thank you Laura and Grant for taking me along on today's adventures. See you on the next one. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.
I was trucking on I-40 through Arkansas and saw 2 of them working each side of the highway. It was awesome they made some low passes over traffic and put on quite a show for everyone. I made sure my windows were up because I didn’t want to breathe in any of that poison that they were spraying.
The Air Tractor is manufactured in Olney TX. They give tours to school's you may be able to go on a tour
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Good morning, the fields have grown. We use helicopters as well!
Expressing gratitude for your latest video, your consistent commitment to excellence is remarkable.
Years ago I connected with a group out of south of Jonesboro AR that converted Aig cats from piston to turbines. Built the TEP 331 turbines 43BL, 151 and some times -5 garrets to install on the Cats. They also built the SS spray bars.
The best is watching them crop dust on the hills of The Palouse. The way those pilot follow the contours of the ground is impressive.
Agreed. I'd love to find an operator out there to fly for. Occasionally I'll find similar terrain in Illinois to fly but it's rare and not as impressive, still fun though.
Great shots from crop duster airshow! As former Swiss Air Force pilot want to encourage you two to go for your private licence - with all the space you‘ve got - go for it 😊 Just back from a flight in an open seater „Bücker“ aircraft over the Swiss mountains….can‘t get any better! Love your videos - greetings from Switzerland - Rudy
For me as a European living person, this is so cool that I litterally is jumping as a little kid together with you, the sound of that white cropduster taxing gave me goosebumps, amazing, I cant put it to words how fun it was to see it behind the scenes at the airport!
They dont crop dust in Europe? This is a regular occurrence every summer in the US and Canada.
@@ralphvelthuis2359 No, its forbidden in the European Union, and before that a very limited amount of countries has done it, we are pretty concerned with chemicals and stuff here in Europa, so the smallest risk can cause it to get forbidden as so much else here
Nobody applies toxic dusts in the US anymore either, it's all liquid spraying.
@@oneninerniner3427 Hehe, well its a bit hard to think that you do, especially since all videos here talks about mixing water and chemicals
And this is still toxic, there´s no doubt about it, also its not like applying spots with a sprayer, but that would be very hard with the corn being this high
I entertained the Idea of becoming a Crop duster when I was young. I spread lime for Farmers.. I put 12 tons on my 6 wheel drive and trudge across fields at 10- 18 MPH . I live in SW Michigan .. where the Fields are usually a lot smaller and there are a lot of trees and power lines.
I knew of a Man who Crop Dusted and sewed wheat into his mid '70's here in MI .
I followed some other youtube channels and the Crop Duster had an accident, hit a power line and died. I think he was also like 72 years old. Some times it might be better to retire while you are ahead. His Son was crop dusting too .
While a senior (1970) at Concordia in Seward I worked for a crop duster whose air strip was near Goehner. (For those of you not familiar, all of these towns are in Nebraska.) It was a one man operation. Our job was to line him up for each pass over the field. No GPS in those days. He would fly overhead and then we would move the pick up fifteen clicks on the device attached to the front wheel of the pickup, wait for him to pass over and then move forward again. It was a most interesting job. You can still see the air strip south of I80 between the Beaver Crossing and Goehner exits.
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Ha, I remember those stupid things. Then there were the ones that had a sensor on the wheel and a display you mounted on the dash so you could keep the windows rolled up. And then of course there was the old trick of just painting a dot on the tire and counting how many turns it made. Running out into the field before the plane gets there to grab a bell pepper or melon to have as a snack while you sat in the middle of nowhere. Ah, good times. It was a tough transition from flaggers to GPS, some of the old guys ended up retiring because they couldn't use them, and there were a lot of crashes from pilots getting fixated on the lightbar and not paying attention to what's in front of them.
Crop dusters have big horse power to carry a big load. A State Trooper in Florida had a second job and a Crop Dusters Airplane. I watched him go from one field to another across the road and under the power lines!
I love watching spray planes /cropdusters there’s quite a lot over here in Australia also they do cotton farms and we’ve had one spraying our crops and also dropping mouse bait on our wheat and barley crops there’s just something about them that’s pretty awesome
Always enjoy watching crop dusters fly by our house. Not only planes have done crop dusting by our house, but also a helicopter. I watched the helicopter dive down over the power lines near the house and go about a mile down the crops and once it approached the woods, it pulled up with the cockpit looking straight up while going up, and then it swung the tail 180° , and came back down perpendicular to the trees and then straightened out over the crops to make another pass. That was awesome to watch!
I once went near the crops when a plane was crop dusting to take a photo with my SLR camera, and got a dusting of myself when I snapped the photo right before it got next to me. I recall it was a biplane that day.
Almost 50 years ago friend had a summer job loading chemical for forest fire fighting. A Vietnam veteran chopper pilot just got his chopper repaired and had to take it on a test flight to make sure it was in good working order. The pilot asked my friend if he wanted to go along. They were fling below tree top level (huge pine trees) in cut lines at top speed. They took a right by climbing just over tree top, banking hard still just over tree top, then sliding back into another cut line and back below tree top level. My friend thanked the pilot then went to the bathroom to check his shorts to see if he had soiled them. The next time the pilot offered a ride my friend said "Thanks but I think I'll pass." He swore to never do that again.
@@AutoCrete haha, ride of his life nearly soiled his shorts, that’s a funny story!
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@@JohnnyUtah15 The way he tells it is much better. His eyes still bulge at his recollection and you just can't put that into print. I don't know if you have any idea of what those Vietnam chopper vets went through . There are some crazy stories on RUclips.
The company I work for has a sister company that makes the spray and dry spreaders for these aircraft. They also have a water spreader that can be installed so they can help fight grass fires. The company is called Transland and they’re in Wichita Falls Texas. They also make a military version that has guns and if I remember correctly it can drop bombs like the WW-2 planes.
" ... now that is Close Air Support (CAS) at its finest. Imagine how many of our troops could be saved ....; reference: US Special Operations Command plans to purchase 75 of the AT-802U, Sky Warden, developed by the Air Tractor and L3 corporations." Good job, Laura ....; maybe, Laura Farms needs to take a field trip to Hurlburt Field and Duke Field, FL to observe CAS operations Tactics, Techniques and Procedures ..., real-time.
Those Air Tractors are super cool. I've been to the factor where they make them in Onley, TX. If you think those are big, you should see the fire fighting 802 Fire Boss on the floats.
Also, while spraying with airplanes is cool. And common in areas like yours where there are wide open spaces, check out a helicopter spraying operation sometime. They work of loading trucks that travel with the helicopters as they move from field to field, so they don't need to return to the airport to resupply or refuel. The helicopters can get into tighter fields than the planes.
We had our country air show a couple weeks ago. I stand in awe of those pilots.
My neighbor across the road used crop dusters for many years. I always enjoyed watching them.
Air Tractors are used in Western Australia as fire-figiting planes. Incredible pilots flying in challenging circumstances (smoke, updrafts from the fire etc).
watching from Guyana south America. God bless you both. I wish you an abundant harvest.
Growing up and living 90 miles north of Sacramento, in the middle of ag country and 300,000 acres of rice, you might see 6 or 7 Ag Cats dusting/ applying seeds or treatments within a couple of miles of driving. It is awesome. As a teen, we had an airstrip next to our shop and helped load them. When they rev up and take off, there is nothing like it. And yes, over the years, we have lost a couple of pilots.
Blue Angels are in Fargo, ND on Sunday!
Laura is obviously crazy about flying! The way she was smiling said it all!
Need to take a lesson or two and see if she likes it.
Yup, a Discovery flight at a local flight school isn't very expensive. Then you can get a better idea as to if you want to pursue it.