Daredevil Of Farming

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 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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Get yourselves a Pilots License and have some fun!! It’s an exciting hobby and opens so many more things for you to enjoy!!

I spent 30 years. At Pratt & Whitney Canada building those engines, God bless, stay safe.🇨🇦

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!

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!

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.

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.

Laura,Grant, Ireally like all the aspects of Farming. God Bless All the Farmers in the USA. America !

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.

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.

Those pilots are amazing! Thanks for sharing an insider view of the crop-dusting industry -- it's quite interesting.

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!

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.