Awesome video mike , good luck controlling the the disease ,can’t get over the area the plan can cover , that’s so impressive 1000 acres before lunch, way to go 👍
You tell Brian from me he's beautiful out there. God bless him. You cannot be a slacker when you are a pilot. now Mike you got all this fungicide on you does this mean you do not welt. Lol Ashley appreciate that!
Now the Ozzies have the big nads, they spray at night in some places. Crazyness. They need the nights for calm air and no evaporation. A prop strike on a shovel handle is likely to take you down. Most of these AC have a cage like a racecar, but still, there are numerous deaths every year in Canada.
You could sell this vid to a spray plane company, those were beautiful shots of the thick blanket of spray, and the little micro droplets towards the last settling down through your hand onto the plants...
Small question does that spray plane have a similar system like the controls in a normal sprayer like auto steer, section control etc. it looks cool how that planes follows the contour of the land.
WOW was that cattle in the field behind you in the first half of the video Mike, if so never seen those critters before on one of you vids😂 Great job as always👍👍
@@mikemitchell2554 we have hired a plane for spraying before and doesnt do the real job what a ground unit does, dont care if it takes longer but with a ground unit I know I'm doing a better job.
@@mattwaldner8141 sounds like youve made up your mind. Is there a chance the hired crop duster was focussing on job security rather than productivity? Ijs, it might have been different if you had run it yourself and therefore controled the application better than the hourly employee.
What gpa and swath width are you using? We use 2 gpa for fungicide/insecticide on corn & beans at 55 feet. On a good day we can knock out about 2500 acres.
The plane has the same effect, the downdraft forces the spray into the canopy. These big fields are the perfect place for aerial application. Too bad his runway was not a bit longer to maximize the hopper load. Next year two At802’s!
A couple more dustings of chemical and you’ll have a third arm growing from your torso or forehead to hold your go-pro! 😂 You’re one crazy son of a buck! “And you may ask well Mike. . . . . “ 👍🏼👍🏼
What water volume are you using? You might get better control of disease if you lower your water volume and use a rotary atomizer instead of a hydraulic nozzle. More product on target and more uniform droplet spectrum.
Chickpeas giving you a lot of trouble. Seems like they need as much attention as all the other crops combined haha . Plus they don't store well you had them rot and had to pull them out. I think you can change those acres to something that actually makes you good money
Sorry if you've mentioned it, but is it more expensive per acre to spray with the plane or ground unit? At face value, not considering coverage or tire track damage.
Correction, the 402 is slow. If you’re using a 602 they go faster and can stay out longer. An operator I knew went from 502 to a 602 and sprayed the same acreage with 100 less hours
I would have never guessed growing plants could be so complicated! You need moisture but not too much, you need heat but not too much. Good luck man i hope this season works out for your and your crew.
Now if you bought the 802 plane you could spray more acreage .at over 200 miles per hour and travel further. And if the 402 is equal ro 3 ground spayers the 802 would be equal to 6 ground spayers. Im no expert on any of this stuff. Just thinking out load. One other could be problem is the takeoff is 2000 feet compared to 1000 feet for the 402. 402 range is 660 miles and.the 802 is 800 miles. Probably cost a lot more then a 402 also. Looks.like.the used 402 are for sale for about 300,000, and the 802 are for sale for around 800,000 usee
The problem is, it doesn't work that way.. Maybe in a perfect world?.. First: You can't just go buy an 802 and fly it. You have to work yourself up to that point with (X) amount hours in the cockpit for insurance reasons. Second: You can only fly in the cool of the mornings around here, and maybe some evenings, why? Because planes are super wind and heat sensitive. Which means you can only use 30% of the time. Where ground units can run all day. Third: You can only use a plane prb again 30% of the time, why? Well you can't use it for herbicides like burnoff, incrop, post harvest applications, or top dressing liquid Fertilizer. So really, it's only use if fungicides and some desication. So you would be spending 1.5M on plane that you can only use some of the time. Where ground units can go all day long. So why have it? Because it's just another tool in on our operation. Whatever we can get done with the plane, even if it's a small amount, can save us money on tracks.
Haha yeah, and unfortunately that's just fungicides!.. And thats not seed, seed treat, Noculent, fertilizer, burnoff herbicides, in crop herbicides, and desication, most likely drying, and storing them.
Instead of an Ag Tractor, how about a helicopter with a ground support semi-trailer chemical support wagon for the long distant fields? You don't need a runway for a helicopter.
What is the reason why you are having so much trouble with diseases in the chick peas💉💊⛑ The cash return on chick peas must hopefully be worth the troubles that come along with this type of crop.💰💰
Disease pressures are building up over the last 10yrs... The more ppl who grow them in the area only multiplies that problem. Chickpeas are really hard to grow and kepp, and the last 2 yrs have not paid, but we re suckers for punishment
WBW535 Think the use up Date was June this year.Some of the record rec’s coming if you have lots in stock.We have.Bought in bulk last year.Bad year,never got used up 🤔🤔
Pls be cautius, you're family will be thankful. Not every chemical is safe for human health or either laboratory animals' health. Had hoped it was different in 2020.
I liked the video of course but the downside of it is the disease in your crop because everywhere I've been send the last few months crops are doing great , Peas , wheat , potatoes . cucumbers , strawberry´s ect , all farmers are satisfied . Me not so much because of the multiple Covid tests but that´s the world we live in right now . I do hope you get this under control without breaking the bank on fungicides .
Mike, read the comments on you being so close to the spray and seriously, shouldn’t you be wearing a mask and not being so close to the fog/droplets? Love your channel, would hate to see it go away.............just saying
Mike, I may have found a power solution for your seeders and fertilizer carts. It's the ZF e-trac. It's an electronic wheel drive boost pack. You get more power and more traction. Fit it to the seeder or cart and get extra boost up the hills. It looks fantastic and might even be enough boost to get the Fendt 1050 up a hill. ruclips.net/video/gzZefxKH9K8/видео.html
My dad sprayed flowerbulbs for over 20 Years and now he has parcison because of the maconcozeb some say. I dont know what to believe. Just, he is not the onliest bulbfarmer with this disease. So Mike, whats out!!!
Here in Northern California they us helicopters to spray trees, the wash from the prop's circle the spray to get the under side of the tree. Very interesting to watch.
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Great day to spray. Big field, long runs.....beautiful flying!!!
Awesome video mike , good luck controlling the the disease ,can’t get over the area the plan can cover , that’s so impressive 1000 acres before lunch, way to go 👍
Farmers are the biggest gamblers!! Hoping for a good year for y'all mike
Really cool your farms have your own plane ! Stay Safe !!
Crops looking good, oh R ya! Well that plane is kickass eh
You tell Brian from me he's beautiful out there. God bless him. You cannot be a slacker when you are a pilot. now Mike you got all this fungicide on you does this mean you do not welt. Lol Ashley appreciate that!
Fungicides are definitely paying off these last two years in heavier than normal moisture. Even oats are seeing a 30 yield bump or more.
Cool vid, hope the spraying works out for you guys.
Absolutely brilliant footage Mike, hats off to any crop duster pilots, they've got big balls 👍👍🛩️🛩️💨
Now the Ozzies have the big nads, they spray at night in some places. Crazyness. They need the nights for calm air and no evaporation. A prop strike on a shovel handle is likely to take you down. Most of these AC have a cage like a racecar, but still, there are numerous deaths every year in Canada.
Nice video!! Thanks for share.
Hi Mike, are your crops doing well in general?
They are looking really good!
Love the channel and the videos you do!!!
You could sell this vid to a spray plane company, those were beautiful shots of the thick blanket of spray, and the little micro droplets towards the last settling down through your hand onto the plants...
How many of your farm crew scout fields you have so many acres must take days and days
I feel like one day we will look back at cropdusting and say what were we doing.
Thanks for the view from the plane, it looked close to the ground, 😂
Great video Mike
With all the headaches they present they must return pretty well when it's successful , correct ? Very interesting stuff !!
It would be awesome if you are able to mount a gopro on the spraybar on that plane! 👍 It take some skill to fly like that.
I'm surprised how slow the plane sprays.Looks nice and easy to control.
Of course i'm guessing.Brian might say otherwise,haha
Small question does that spray plane have a similar system like the controls in a normal sprayer like auto steer, section control etc. it looks cool how that planes follows the contour of the land.
No, only poor mapping compared to ground units, and a GPS light bar. That's it
Mike Mitchell okay wow That is some impressive piloting so close to the ground
@@MrTrashmasterfx that is all pilot and considering mikes operation.... he gets alot of practice
Mike, take care of your health!
WOW was that cattle in the field behind you in the first half of the video Mike, if so never seen those critters before on one of you vids😂
Great job as always👍👍
Great video mike. how many acres can Bryan spray in a day with the 402?
Completely depends on what he's spraying and on weather conditions. He can do a 1000ac before the ground units start loading thier second load! 😂 🤷♂️
@@mikemitchell2554 that's impressive.
@@mikemitchell2554 we have hired a plane for spraying before and doesnt do the real job what a ground unit does, dont care if it takes longer but with a ground unit I know I'm doing a better job.
@@mattwaldner8141 sounds like youve made up your mind. Is there a chance the hired crop duster was focussing on job security rather than productivity? Ijs, it might have been different if you had run it yourself and therefore controled the application better than the hourly employee.
When you say 5 degrees do you mean freedom units or what the rest of the world uses?
5C haha
What is 5 canook in freedom units? Too lazy for google. Here in florida its 95, feels like 105
What gpa and swath width are you using? We use 2 gpa for fungicide/insecticide on corn & beans at 55 feet. On a good day we can knock out about 2500 acres.
@bgtrakiec i suspect its atomization. Hope someone more knowledgeable responds
Hi Mike , get a real Agrifac sprayer with air assist . Then you get real coverage . Specially with bravo it needs coverage coverage coverage
The plane has the same effect, the downdraft forces the spray into the canopy. These big fields are the perfect place for aerial application. Too bad his runway was not a bit longer to maximize the hopper load. Next year two At802’s!
What width do you get per pass with the plain? I mean, what is the distance between brians passes?
Thanks for filling your lungs our sake Mike!
😂 Anything for you guys! 😉
We have 2 quarters that turned brown on chick peas in south Saskatchewan in two days they turned brown Crazy how they do that in two days
And we sprayed bravo two days before that
I know!! This disease is ridiculous, might be taking a break from them after this year
Well lentils look like 40 bushel a acre here but our 3000 acres of chick peas look like crap
Why don't you use tramlines Mike, Or does it just not work in your field sizes??
A couple more dustings of chemical and you’ll have a third arm growing from your torso or forehead to hold your go-pro! 😂 You’re one crazy son of a buck! “And you may ask well Mike. . . . . “ 👍🏼👍🏼
If Brian gets chick peas on the landing gear he is DAMB LOW🥺🥵
When I was a kid remember watching a plane spraying field peas dragging the tires.
Hope he stays off the stuck list with his plane
Amen
Haha, to funny
Does the plane have some sort of a guidance system in it ?
Yes.. Has a GPS light bar, and compared to anything ag, a poor mapping system 😂
How wide of swath is the plane covering each pass?
66ft
@@mikemitchell2554 i asked the same thing. I wont hold it against you If you disregard my comment. Lol
What water volume are you using? You might get better control of disease if you lower your water volume and use a rotary atomizer instead of a hydraulic nozzle. More product on target and more uniform droplet spectrum.
How is the nodulation this year? Love the air tractor 👌
Really good actually!
Looking good
Do you airstrips close to your other farms? You can chase him with a nurse truck.
Chickpeas giving you a lot of trouble. Seems like they need as much attention as all the other crops combined haha . Plus they don't store well you had them rot and had to pull them out. I think you can change those acres to something that actually makes you good money
Sorry if you've mentioned it, but is it more expensive per acre to spray with the plane or ground unit? At face value, not considering coverage or tire track damage.
How much acres do you guys farm?
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Correction, the 402 is slow. If you’re using a 602 they go faster and can stay out longer. An operator I knew went from 502 to a 602 and sprayed the same acreage with 100 less hours
So is this just a yearly occurrence for chick peas, or is this year just particularly bad?
Disease is bad this year due to moisture.. But we still spray 5 times on avg.. This year could be more
I would have never guessed growing plants could be so complicated! You need moisture but not too much, you need heat but not too much. Good luck man i hope this season works out for your and your crew.
Exactly! 😂 🤷♂️ 🤦♂️
And thanks!
Now if you bought the 802 plane you could spray more acreage .at over 200 miles per hour and travel further. And if the 402 is equal ro 3 ground spayers the 802 would be equal to 6 ground spayers. Im no expert on any of this stuff. Just thinking out load. One other could be problem is the takeoff is 2000 feet compared to 1000 feet for the 402. 402 range is 660 miles and.the 802 is 800 miles. Probably cost a lot more then a 402 also. Looks.like.the used 402 are for sale for about 300,000, and the 802 are for sale for around 800,000 usee
The problem is, it doesn't work that way.. Maybe in a perfect world?..
First: You can't just go buy an 802 and fly it. You have to work yourself up to that point with (X) amount hours in the cockpit for insurance reasons.
Second: You can only fly in the cool of the mornings around here, and maybe some evenings, why? Because planes are super wind and heat sensitive. Which means you can only use 30% of the time. Where ground units can run all day.
Third: You can only use a plane prb again 30% of the time, why? Well you can't use it for herbicides like burnoff, incrop, post harvest applications, or top dressing liquid Fertilizer. So really, it's only use if fungicides and some desication.
So you would be spending 1.5M on plane that you can only use some of the time. Where ground units can go all day long. So why have it? Because it's just another tool in on our operation. Whatever we can get done with the plane, even if it's a small amount, can save us money on tracks.
@@mikemitchell2554Damn that is a great answer. You didn't even have to bring up runway issues again.
Now Mike won’t get disease either after them couple of passes 😂
Exactly!! 😂
Similar problems in South America they went to 0.5 US/GAL per acre and disease was eliminated.
yep, and so were the crops !
@@TheRogerhill1234 haha. But not haha. Too much chem is never good.
Thank god we don't lose limbs when we get sick.
Do a r4060 review video please
If you plant chickpeas in a field that hasn't seen them before, do you still get the disease problems? Where does the disease come from?
If it's in an area where chickpeas have been grown, yes! We have some ground 60km away and no chickpeas close in 15yrs, and it's good still
Why are the nozzles not as wide as the airplane wing?
🤔 I actually don't know haha
The spray would get caught in the wingtip vortices and significantly increase off target movement (drift).
Well I just learnt something new! 😂 🤷♂️
So what’s the point of spraying with a plane vs. sprayer
7:00 In the video
Darius G thank you
So lentils and chickpeas kinda look the same? 🥺
Depending on how fast you drive by! 😂
Morning mike
So If the fungicide is having reducing effect when do you stop spraying and say enough is enough??🤔
Once you are 100+/ac in on fungicides, there's no stopping! 😂 🤷♂️
@@mikemitchell2554 she's a big gamble Mike!!🙏
Haha yeah, and unfortunately that's just fungicides!.. And thats not seed, seed treat, Noculent, fertilizer, burnoff herbicides, in crop herbicides, and desication, most likely drying, and storing them.
@@mikemitchell2554 a field full of Angus sounds easier!! 🤣🐂🤣 bloody vegans wanting a high protein pea!! Lol🤣😂
@@andrewwoodhead8305 now that is funny. Give me a steak any day.
Put a go pro on the plane. Greatings from Portugal.
Mic where is your Mike ?
How fast is he going?
RAY Bustabade I’ll guess 160mph maybe when spraying ?
How many gallons an acerwoth the plane
that plane is a 402 so it holds 400 us gallons
Mike, you need Antonov 225 or Airbus!🤔😉
What does he have for guidance?
Gps and his internal gigercounter
Do you think you have a record crop with all of the rain fall you have had?
It's looking Ike it yes!
Instead of an Ag Tractor, how about a helicopter with a ground support semi-trailer chemical support wagon for the long distant fields? You don't need a runway for a helicopter.
Vs. The cost of a spray tractor, you could afford a helicopter. Lmao
@@daneboyd952 Ag Tractor is a plane. There are many helicopters cheaper than an Ag Tractor.
@@daneboyd952 *Air Tractor. Apologies.
What is the reason why you are having so much trouble with diseases in the chick peas💉💊⛑
The cash return on chick peas must hopefully be worth the troubles that come along with this type of crop.💰💰
Disease pressures are building up over the last 10yrs... The more ppl who grow them in the area only multiplies that problem. Chickpeas are really hard to grow and kepp, and the last 2 yrs have not paid, but we re suckers for punishment
@@mikemitchell2554 they are a substitute for meat in vegan world I believe 🤔
U got sprayed ??? How safe is that ???? U kids will thanks u !!
😂 I put in my corn flakes every morning haha
WBW535 Think the use up Date was June this year.Some of the record rec’s coming if you have lots in stock.We have.Bought in bulk last year.Bad year,never got used up 🤔🤔
Pls be cautius, you're family will be thankful. Not every chemical is safe for human health or either laboratory animals' health. Had hoped it was different in 2020.
hope you wore flip flops take advantage of that fungicide on your toe nails keep them healthy hahaha
you guys looking for another pilot?! lol
Haha you got Ag Tractor experience? 😂
would be cool to ride in one of those
also illegal. Registered as experimental.. There are some training exceptions, but not many.
I liked the video of course but the downside of it is the disease in your crop because everywhere I've been send the last few months crops are doing great , Peas , wheat , potatoes . cucumbers , strawberry´s ect , all farmers are satisfied . Me not so much because of the multiple Covid tests but that´s the world we live in right now . I do hope you get this under control without breaking the bank on fungicides .
Thanks good sir! 🙂
Mike, read the comments on you being so close to the spray and seriously, shouldn’t you be wearing a mask and not being so close to the fog/droplets? Love your channel, would hate to see it go away.............just saying
Why are you spraying chicks diquised as peas? lol
😂
Did you have that SKIP in the field so it is easier to walk doing crop inspections without tramping down the crop😂🤣
Yes! I always do! 😂
Mike Mitchel
Mike, I may have found a power solution for your seeders and fertilizer carts. It's the ZF e-trac. It's an electronic wheel drive boost pack. You get more power and more traction. Fit it to the seeder or cart and get extra boost up the hills. It looks fantastic and might even be enough boost to get the Fendt 1050 up a hill. ruclips.net/video/gzZefxKH9K8/видео.html
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Should your really breathe in all that fungicide overspray? Yikes....
My dad sprayed flowerbulbs for over 20 Years and now he has parcison because of the maconcozeb some say. I dont know what to believe. Just, he is not the onliest bulbfarmer with this disease. So Mike, whats out!!!
Its the grande solar minimum sir bad bad weather for crops in Canada
First one here woot
😂
Need to go to wider rows, 75cm to 1m, way more air flow around plant, less diseases
Here in Northern California they us helicopters to spray trees, the wash from the prop's circle the spray to get the under side of the tree. Very interesting to watch.
Why not get a helicopter you can land far away with
Live long and prosper Mikey,,,,, the bee's thank you ,,,,☠☠
Beautiful i just halved my sperm count with all these chemicals, woohoo. heh 😂
Why do u awkward laugh after everything u say