Crop Duster Plane ??

I hear ya acfleet,happened to us 15 years ago,plane spraying fungicide on neighbors 200 yards from our house and sheds with hot wind blowing our way, couldn't believe it. We had burning nostrils locked up in the house,had to get in car and drive away,wife was pregnant at the time too,now im not anti spray or chemicals , crop 6000 acres annually and spray all that multiple times.

Edited by JPG AUSTRALIA - 03 Aug 2020 at 7:38am

ac fleet wrote: Ground sprayers are by law requires to have boom height of 4 feet ---these idiot planes are 50 feet or more above the crop and the chit drifts for miles! ---As I write this ---our local dip is over my house again----I cant work outside for 3 days again because of the drift.

He wasn't complaining about  "dumping" chemicals onto people in his yellow, blue and then a helicopter post earlier . Again, I was merely asking about plane colors . 

FREEDGUY wrote: Tbone95 wrote: Acfleet has probably had a bad experience, with a careless cowboy that did or does things recklessly. His opinion is as good as anyone’s. If you didn’t see that type of reply coming when it comes to spraying.....you didn’t look very hard My ORIGINAL POST was about the COLOR of the planes . AC's comment has NOTHING to do with that . You sir, should look a little deeper into a post

Well, “sir”, he replied rather early on about the color of the guy’s plane and called him a jerk then too, that make ya happy?! It’s called conversation, not every reply is to your original post.

“Deeper into a post”😂😂😂😂😂😂

Edited by Tbone95 - 02 Aug 2020 at 5:20pm

That seems completely BLATANTLY wrong acfleet. I don’t blame you a bit for being po’d.

Have heard those same horror stories of Over spray and destruction from Ground Applications not so much Crop dusting as well, Not ever seen People or Homes sprayed from a Crop Duster not even when close to the fields when lived KS, UT and OK as well Here.

Edited by DMiller - 02 Aug 2020 at 8:43am

FREEDGUY wrote: ac fleet wrote: Anybody flying these stupid things dumping chemicals down on us should be jailed!---they are idiots with no respect for life in general. WOW !! I did NOT see this type of reply coming  ?? !! There's been "dusters" flying in this neighborhood for 45 years that I can recall, never heard of personal/property damage from them . Property damage due to the local "for hire" Co-Ops/ seed/fertilizer/herbicide joints are a different story

Anybody flying these stupid things dumping chemicals down on us should be jailed!---they are idiots with no respect for life in general.

truckerfarmer wrote: Generally the yellow ones are Air Tractor brand. Different companies paint their brand their own colors. Similar to the different tractor companies.

Generally the yellow ones are Air Tractor brand. Different companies paint their brand their own colors. Similar to the different tractor companies.

Arthur Godfrey got fined for flying a DC-3 over New York City back in the early 50s.  Why do people remember stuff like this,  but can`t remember their name?

I think it was Arthur Godfrey that uses to say " there's old pilots and there's bold pilots but there's not a lot of old bold pilots "

When I was a kid in the mid 70's there was a crop duster hired full time by the nearby large potato growing outfit. My brother worked field maintenance for that outfit and they had a fleet of about 8-10 newer International tractors all within a few years of each other, mostly 1466's and a couple 1566's, all with cabs. Potato farms like to keep a narrow strip of bare soil around their fields, I assume for insect and weed control, and all potato fields around here have center pivot irrigators because the soil is so sandy and can't hold moisture. The potatoes were sprayed with fungicide about every 5 days so the duster kept busy with the 3500 acres he had to spray. Sorry for rambling, but anyway, there was an employee out working the edge of one of those fields on a nice summer day and that field was being sprayed at the time. it wasn't unusual for the duster to have potato vines hanging from the landing gear with this particular pilot because he was fearless and would often get a little close to the ground. It was an old Stearman Biplane and was as tough as they get and perfect for carrying heavy loads of chemical. They would have to lift over the center pivot (which run non-stop all summer) and then drop back down and keep spraying, and then lift for the power lines or trees at the end of the field. The tractor operator stepped out of the cab to take a leak and saw the duster clear the irrigator but thought the plane sounded funny as he was peeing. Then he realized the plane wasn't lifting in time for the power lines and was coming right at him, he dove and laid flat on the ground as the plane clipped the folded up wing on his field cultivator and slammed in to the cab of his 2 year old 1466 and proceeded to flip over and land on its top. The propeller slice through the roof of the cab and would have killed the tractor operator if he would have been in the seat. The pilot walked away and was back in another cockpit a few days later. Unfortunately he crashed again a few years later and was killed. True story.

Those pilots are some of the best pilots in the world.  You try staying on the right row at 95 knots, plus or minus nothing, at 3 feet over the crop, plus or minus nothing.  There is no auto steer in the cockpit either.  They are real pros 

People ask me why I won't fly a spray plane...I tell them, if the crash doesn't kill me, the chemicals will.