Crop Dusting Video

[John Kissel]

Thankyou very much for the video. I used to get to see them alot when I was hauling citrus where I consider home, FLA. The airport in LaBelle had some Grumman AgCats and those radial engines sure sound fine.

[dennis dunlap]

I had experience years ago with at first I thought was a crop duster , I was putting on nitrogen in the river bottom farms which was located next to a airport up on the high ground , always planes taking off and landing , it was also a flying training center school for Indiania State , One day I,m working and hear a rumbling noise that sounded ljke a nostalgia dragster and see a shadow next to the tractor that was way to close ,next thing I see is a real small vintage plane painted up like a WW -2 fighter plane bouncing across the field next to my John Deere ,,I about had The big one !!! After it quit bouncing and came to a stop I stopped and went to check it out , the older guy was shook up but ok . He was flying to Vincennes In. to a vintage air show and had run out of fuel , I had some fuel in my truck so I rounded up the rest of the guys working and fiilled him up and we all had to push him a long way in rough worked ground to try to get him going . We got him up and going, It reminded me of the old film clip you use to see of the plane flying thru the barn..... Price-Less Oh I did get pictures !!!

[Harry 6674]

I used to flag for a crop duster in eastern washington when I was in high school. I would stand in the field with the flags held out, when he got lined up on me he would wiggle his wings and I would have to take 23 of the fastest steps I'd ever take to get ready for the next pass. If he was spraying a spud field and wasn't picking up some vines with his wheels he thought he was to high off the ground. I got sprayed with all kinds of crap. Might be why agent orange didn't bother me in nam. Might also be the reason I don't have much hair.

[older racer]

hello, what part of eastern washington state did you work in ? I use to do same thing back then. it was great, being 13 and around planes

[Harry 6674]

Originally Posted by older racer

hello, what part of eastern washington state did you work in ? I use to do same thing back then. it was great, being 13 and around planes

It was in a little berg called Warden, just east of Moses Lake. The fun part was having to beat the spray plane to the next field. Could be twenty miles or more. Learned how to drive real fast on gravel roads. The owner said he would pay any tickets. Luckily I didn't get to test that.

[CFM]

Originally Posted by Harry 6674

I used to flag for a crop duster in eastern washington when I was in high school. I would stand in the field with the flags held out, when he got lined up on me he would wiggle his wings and I would have to take 23 of the fastest steps I'd ever take to get ready for the next pass. If he was spraying a spud field and wasn't picking up some vines with his wheels he thought he was to high off the ground. I got sprayed with all kinds of crap. Might be why agent orange didn't bother me in nam. Might also be the reason I don't have much hair.

Used to have a guy spray our soybeans. If his wheels werent turning my old man would complain he was waisting spray. There were pines at the end of each row also.

[Chris Hill]

Thanks everyone for viewing my video. It's neat out in the country.

I have another one I'll post later.

[older racer]

hi back in the old days, they wheel marked the field as they flew over it. that way , they knew where last pass was. this was done without flagmen, esp in spraying peas with parithion. they did fly very close to the ground anyway. I would say, they were very good pilots, to that at 100 MPH!!!