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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on August 11, 2013, 08:30 PM:

Got a shot at a crop duster on the way home from a job. Don't think a Aerial gunner can hold a candle to these guys which fly just a few feet above the corn tassels. Was hoping to get some footage with electric power lines involved as these guys take it right to them and show some pretty cool dives and pull-outs.
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Just a good old fashion rainbow taken at the motel before work.. Buy the way I was working in one of the most populated coyote counties in the state (McNeal) with coyote sign most everywhere you look and a road kill to boot which you don't see very often..

Posted by 3 Toes (Member # 1327) on August 12, 2013, 05:54 AM:

All low level flying is dangerous. But once aging TA is clueless. A spray pilot is flying a field, a flat field that he gets to look over and find all hazards before he ever starts. Aerial hunting is typically in rough terrain with unknown hazards and those hazards and terrain change as a coyote or coyotes move. I've never seen a field move. I guess when all you've seen is the flatlands you don't know some of the places we aerial hunt in the west.

Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on August 12, 2013, 08:23 AM:

I've been known to pull over and watch a crop duster @ work. It's pretty cool, and does make a guy pucker up when they buzz a powerline.

It doesn't seem like so many guys do it around here anymore ? maybe spray rigs are being used more, dunno ?

As far as aerial gunning goes, never seen those guys in action. I'll trust what Cal says though, big wide open places can look kinda flat @ 1st glance until ya get out into it.

[ August 12, 2013, 08:26 AM: Message edited by: Dave Allen ]

Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on August 12, 2013, 09:04 AM:

Being in farm country here, I have seen them all my life, almost every day, all summer long.

Ive seen a couple crashes too. One tangled in high line wires...not pretty.

Where I work, one of our good customer's sons got the itch to fly helicoptors about 10 years ago or so. He took lessons, then bought his first helicoptor to play with. Then he got the idea that he wanted to spray crops with it so he started his own business doing it. He had a couple of the small, bubble windshield coptors, and set em up to land on a tanker fill truck. He does well.

A few years ago, he bought a Huey, freshened it up, stripped it out, and set it up with spray tanks and the whole setup. He found a Vietnam era pilot and the guy taught him to really fly the thing, and now he sprays crops with it all over the place, Really awsome to see. He can spray some of the larger fields we have here, without refilling so often. People just pull over on the side of the road to watch.

Mark

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Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on August 12, 2013, 09:38 AM:

I'm curious Mark, what kind of crops are grown in your area ?

Do you have to look up parts for Combines...?

Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on August 12, 2013, 10:32 AM:

Arrrgh...I hate combines, but yes, sure do. Corn is king right now, and forage harvestors/chopper stuff is what we sell most of during spring/summer. Actually almost year round.

Cotton,corn,hay. Vegatables as well. Lot of trees..walnut,almond, olives etc.

Lots of dairies here, we produce a lot of milk, cheese etc, thus all the feed corn/hay.
Grapes are big here too.

Lots of different stuff grown all up and down the valley.

We just switched our business system over to Equip. What a nightmare compared to our old (Legacy) system.

What do you guys got up there? Do you know who RH Machine is up that way? Do a lot of bidness with them for ripper points etc.

Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on August 12, 2013, 04:26 PM:

Mark, I'm pretty new to all this, but, yeah combines suck [Eek!]

I work with two guys who have been there 30 years, and they hate 'em also..LOL

Mostly we grow, alfalfa/corn/wheat/beans/onions and a host of seed crops.

RH machine rings a bell, but can't place @ the moment ? Yep, dairies here also and the choppers that go with 'em.. [Big Grin]

Posted by CCP (Member # 913) on August 12, 2013, 05:36 PM:

When I lived farther south a drinking buddy of mine had a business spraying with his plane. He took me up a few times, one time I ask what was the worst thing about his job? He said people stopping on the highway at the end or beginning of a field watching him. He would have to stop spraying way short or way long of the highway with them there. Most would leave while he went to restock his tank and he would then have to remember where he stopped short or long to spray that section. Parallel highways are not the problem it's the people at the beginning and end of the fields that cause the problem. Didn't wont to get sued with toxic chemicals blowing on them.

He died doing his job in the late 90's.

Posted by Duckdog (Member # 3842) on August 12, 2013, 06:21 PM:

What gives Dave?!!!!
No taters?!!! Need I remind you what state you live in? [Wink]

Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on August 13, 2013, 09:49 AM:

Yeah, Dave, no potatoes? Are you anti-potatoe or something? lol. The original owner of RH Machine developed a proprietary chrome alloy that has extremely high wear properties.They cast it into all kinds of parts, like ripper points, sprockets, scraper skid shoes etc. Its what all other chrome alloy is compared to in the ag industry. Top secret formula that everyone wants lol.

I always get a kick out of companies that come around and bug the shit outta me to compare thier chrome to RH. Its always the same line, "Our chrome will out perform RH's 2 to 1". And.....it never does.

Another "Tales From The Ag Industry" story...by me.

Mark

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Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on August 13, 2013, 05:16 PM:

Potatoes..Lol, our license plates even say, Famous Potatoes.

We think it should be changed to famous potholes.. [Big Grin]

Yeah, anyway not many potato farmers around here, they're grown mostly east of here 150-250 miles or so.

Quick story, one time I bought a bag of spuds, said Idaho Potatoes on the bag..Ok cool ! flipped it over and it said something like grown and packaged in Walla Walla-Washington..

Go figure.. [Big Grin]

[ August 13, 2013, 05:26 PM: Message edited by: Dave Allen ]

Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on August 13, 2013, 05:23 PM:

Mark, now it's buggin' me, I'll ask about RH tomorrow.

We get most of our points, sweeps, shoes and all that stuff from a company called, Norwest out of Rupert Idaho. Yeah they grow more spuds around Rupert also.. [Smile]

[ August 13, 2013, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: Dave Allen ]

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