Daredevil Of Farming

[@NeilMaclachlan]

That was a really cool video....seeing the fields getting sprayed.... Then seeing the planes close up....Stay safe and see you on the next one

[@vokieman2979]

The crop dusting video was amazing.. They fly so fast and low it is thrilling to watch . Thanks for sharing it .

[@dennislarson4960]

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

[@timbroome212]

When I was a kid, I used to spend the summers working on my aunt and uncle's farm in the San Juaquin Valley, CA. I drove a tractor mowing, raking and bailing several large alfalfa fields all by my12y/o self! I loved it and looked forward to every summer. My uncle also owned seven airplanes, three were crop dusters and three were crop sprayers, while one was a twin engine Beach Craft Bonanza that they used to fly all over the U.S. and Cental and South America. Also, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy watching all of your videos. Also, your participation in Matt's Offroad Games was much appreciated and I look forward to seeing you there again in 2025!

[@timbroome212]

The dusters and sprayers were Stearman By-planes. His favorite story was when he was dusting a grape vineyard and got too low. He caught the gear on the wire holding the vine up off the ground and flipped the plane upside down. He was hanging there all strapped in and was fortunate that his cockpit was between the wires, so he nor the plane sustained any damage. God was watching, for sure.

[@garycraig4277]

These planes are so cool My dad scaled up planes from a RC model magazine and built an agwagon it’s a super cool plane

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@mikeborkhuis7278]

Those Air Tractors are super cool. I've been to the factor where they make them in Onley, TX. If you think those are big, you should see the fire fighting 802 Fire Boss on the floats. Also, while spraying with airplanes is cool. And common in areas like yours where there are wide open spaces, check out a helicopter spraying operation sometime. They work of loading trucks that travel with the helicopters as they move from field to field, so they don't need to return to the airport to resupply or refuel. The helicopters can get into tighter fields than the planes.

[@BloxFruitsMaster-r7f]

Laura, your videos always make me happy and ready for the day. Keep up the great Content!

[@steven8948]

Any time I see a crop duster I have to pull over and watch ..fascinating.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@loisrinehart6755]

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.

[@bobf1174]

@@loisrinehart6755 how about the Piper brave with a Lycoming 400 with 8 cylinders 👍🇺🇸

[@jhaedtler]

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!

[@Hoa-Mechanical]

😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@brianwaskow5910]

Looked like one of our tow tugs from my Air Force days and there it was on the hood US Air Force!

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@Robalogot]

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.

[@EtzEchad]

That's one of the reasons that they keep their airspeed up. They want to have some energy to spare in case they lose the engine. The good news is that there is always a field nearby in case they have to make an emergency landing. :) When I was flying, I thought of possibly training to do crop spraying, but like you, it scared the shit out of me.

[@jeffs4947]

It takes skill and nerves of steel to be a crop duster.

[@glennspreeman1634]

Actually built to crash. Notice how far back the pilot sits, rugged rollbar.

[@henkoosterhof5947]

As a guy who leans back in his chair and observing?: the heat of the flames ad that to the job. But if i see spray versus fire planes the spray go closer to the earth than the fire. Not my cup of tea both jobs.

[@davechristianson1802]

Back in the 60s a guy told me the first spray pilots learned the job in the 9th Air Force, shooting up trains and trucks in Europe. Watching them work out here (I'm about 100 miles west of Laura) I believe it. She struck a chord with me, my fist airshow was when I was at Purdue, and we were standing right under the soloists, in their F4J's. I can still feel the way the earth moved.

[@rayloomis170]

This why I love your channel! You take us on such interesting journeys! I thoroughly enjoy them all!!

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@chucklogan9611]

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

[@AgAviationAdventures]

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!

[@LauraFarms]

I would absolutely love to !!

[@SemperFido9915]

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.

[@Notbendover]

@@SemperFido9915 what does a cotton inspector inspect for?

[@SemperFido9915]

@@Notbendover Out here, we have a moth that eats cotton bolls before they bloom. We had a sterilization program that was used in place of pesticides. 🙂

[@oneninerniner3427]

@@SemperFido9915 lolololol! 👍

[@billnict1]

BS

[@v1rotait23]

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!

[@captharry900]

Grant, those planes are amazing. However they are no more amazing than some of the equipment y’all use. Thanks for the videos. We love you here in eastern NC. ❤️🦅♥️✝️🇺🇸

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@kevinlee583]

Very cool and very interesting and informative video…thanks so much for sharing this with us!

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@dklop4233]

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.

[@brucetrue]

That is amazing. I've seen it in real life years ago, but when he dropes down below a ridge, as if he's in crashing in the corn, unnerving.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@vandalorian8777]

Awesome airplane.Air Tractor just started producing these for the military. Seems that if you empty/remove the spray tank/equipment, they can carry a lot of bombs and rockets.

[@markknister6272]

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.

[@sethcornish8568]

Worked 2 summers for a crop duster in western Nebraska when I was in highschool. Lots of work and 16 hour days but I made a lot of money. He would get so low to the ground sometimes that we would pull suger beet leaves out of the rims of the plane.

[@dustindugger315]

What town ?

[@Yeti573]

@@dustindugger315 Sounds like somewhere around Scottsbluff, NE.

[@sethcornish8568]

​@@dustindugger315Alliance

[@AutoCrete]

I once saw an insane crop duster fly under a power line... inverted. I'm guessing loads of experience, boredom and heaping dose of dare devil made him do it.

[@JohnLundberg-f5e]

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.

[@roygardner4624]

Hey Laura, love the show. But I live on a farm in MN and few years ago, the farmer around me had a helicopter come in and dust his crops. You think planes are scary, the helicopter would come in and dust and at the end of the field. He would pull straight up and turn around and then come back down. That is also so amazing to watch. If you ever can I would. Thanks for the awesome show.

[@astrogatorjones]

My in-laws are crop pilots and fly Air Tractors out in western Kansas. Makes me smile.

[@aviator2252]

@astrogatorjones surely not near Ulysses ks

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

@@aviator2252 I know some guys out in Plains that occasionally fly around Ulysses.

[@aviator2252]

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper buddy worked at north star as a&p

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

@@aviator2252 Oh, I know those guys! I check out their booth every year at conventions.

[@ctweber2226]

A wonderful book of my youth by Robert Bach called Biplane talks about a summer flying in the Midwest. Great adventure for a young teen.

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@bjarkekorsgaard]

Super exciting to see the aeroplanes at your farm and at the airport - fantastic content Laura and Grant 😃😃

[@douglashomrighausen9010]

Enjoyed the video; and there is also a lot of aerial spraying going on now here to the southeast of you in northern Missouri. While I have applied almost all of my own crop-protection chemicals/pesticides myself I have also custom-hired, aerial applicators occasionally. What I really like about this post is both of you going to the airport north of town on hwy. 14 to let us viewers get a close-up of one of the planes. Laura, you did great filming the controls and the cockpit; and Grant, I sure did like the walk-around and explaining what you are looking at as another farmer like myself. I see the F100, Super Sabre, Air Force fighter jet is still on display at the entrance; and I have went by there many times after delivering at Iams west of Aurora on US34.

[@knucklebumpfarmsofficial]

Man, is that scary!? Those pilots are awesome! Loved the footage inside the plane specifically

[@karijuleppanen]

Thank you for that LMNT tip. I bought some and I have less cramps now for just having 1 pouch per day. I used to have some serious cramps before.

[@chrislovett6120]

I could watch those guys and gals all day long. It takes a ton of focus and talent

[@webanon]

The best is watching them crop dust on the hills of The Palouse. The way those pilot follow the contours of the ground is impressive.

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

Agreed. I'd love to find an operator out there to fly for. Occasionally I'll find similar terrain in Illinois to fly but it's rare and not as impressive, still fun though.

[@rickyweber2651]

Back in the 1960's in Northwest Oklahoma yellow biplanes were the crop dusters. Loud slow but it was fun to watch them spray our wheat fields for green bugs.

[@dmceowen1]

I have seen some KZbin videos of farmers using drone services for applications. Wild.

[@garykeenan3724]

Hi everyone, that airplane is so badass; super clean and powerful! Turboprop sounds so awesome, be safe!!! 👍✌️❤️

[@markswoboda8516]

Love watching crop dusters especially when they dip down and all of a sudden pops up from nowhere

[@lridg45]

just what you need Laura. I can just see you flying one of them

[@piewolfe]

Crop dusters have big horse power to carry a big load. A State Trooper in Florida had a second job and a Crop Dusters Airplane. I watched him go from one field to another across the road and under the power lines!

[@FreedomRock44]

Laura I have said this before........I have never seen a bigger smile on your face in all your videos than of the Time you went up in that Crop duster!!!!! You wanted to do that so bad......YOU WERE BEAMING!!!!! That sounds so much like WWII videos.

[@Hoa-Mechanical]

✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌

[@jimmyjenkins9240]

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.

[@Torsee]

Thanks for your service!

[@jimmyjenkins9240]

@@Torsee you are welcome

[@ECS-Dad]

One of my best friends I grew up with flew crop dusters in the summers after HS graduation. I was home from college the second summer he was flying and he was in a two seat Piper Super Cub. I rode with hime a couple of times. It was awesome. We were spraying cotton in some fairly small fields surrounded by trees. So down for a short run then up, bank around and do it again. Better than a roller coaster. Later that summer he lost power pulling up and dumped it in some trees. He survived with only scratches and bruises. Plane was repaired and back in the air the next summer.

[@ronc9743]

So like the little Yellow tractors they build in Olney, Tx.

[@robertperry9175]

great vid captain laura and captain grant sounds so cool

[@amytaylor8487]

Hello there👋👋 , how are you doing today?Hope your day wasn’t stressful at all!!!God bless you ❤

[@scottshort3718]

Those crop duster pilots are crazy and amazing!

[@patbullard9276]

I’m from east Arkansas and I’ve always loved watching the ag pilots in their air acrobatic displays. I have been traveling the highways and pulled to the shoulder just to watch. I especially liked it when they were flying the old biplanes.

[@davidbrimble5759]

Always enjoy your channel. Today's video was super. And always learning something from your excellent renditions. Take care guys!

[@DavidRobertson-pk4ld]

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!

[@nightmansmemo]

I think getting your pilot's license could definitely be a lot of fun. I've heard of a few Ranchers with very large ranches that actually use helicopters to scout

[@williamjones3462]

Handling characteristics are different when the tanks are full compared to nearly empty. At low altitudes that is critical. I too love to watch them perform aerobatics especially if there are trees or high wires at the ends of the fields. When I was a kid, we chopped cotton. We were supposed to move over several rows when the plane was dusting. One time I lay down in the row, so it flew right over me. That was before EPA and concern for toxic chemical exposure. All 7 of us are now in late 60's and 70's. None of us came down with cancers related to it. But the father and uncle of my best friend both died of cancers. I always wondered if it was because of the chemicals. Both were farmers

[@mikeknowles8017]

Pratt and Whitney PT-6 Power on that Air Tractor! I pulled a magnetic chip detector out of the gear box on one and it had a gear tooth and a chunk of hub stuck to it. Other than the chip light illuminated that engine showed no performance issues. What a machine!

[@brianmee5398]

As we used to say at Beech flight test “Here we go trusting in God and Pratt and Whitney”

[@mikeknowles8017]

@@brianmee5398 In fact I used to work at a Beechcraft Dealership as an A&P before I went on to Engineering school. Sure would be fun to see Laura get a pilots license. Given the way she can handle one of those complex tractors she could probably handle a Super King Air.

[@normnicholson4689]

❤​@@mikeknowles8017

[@westrotter7847]

I grew up watching them. My Dad had a good friend who had his own duster. No mistakes permitted.

[@kenwillis280]

I used to love the crop dusters. I always thought they were the best

[@James-blond007]

Didn’t know there were gorgeous farmers?!! Wowza!!

[@kevinwalgreen2199]

❤this video! Thank you for sharing. Those turbo AG planes have some horse power. 🎉🎉

[@rickvandusen9271]

Here in SoCal we’ve seen low-flying fixed-wing and copters fighting fires. Same thrill!

[@gregbumgardner3006]

Your videos are highly addictive, fun, educational. Love them. Hiya Pepper.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

I entertained the Idea of becoming a Crop duster when I was young. I spread lime for Farmers.. I put 12 tons on my 6 wheel drive and trudge across fields at 10- 18 MPH . I live in SW Michigan .. where the Fields are usually a lot smaller and there are a lot of trees and power lines. I knew of a Man who Crop Dusted and sewed wheat into his mid '70's here in MI . I followed some other youtube channels and the Crop Duster had an accident, hit a power line and died. I think he was also like 72 years old. Some times it might be better to retire while you are ahead. His Son was crop dusting too .

[@pastorlarry1950]

watching from Guyana south America. God bless you both. I wish you an abundant harvest.

[@nathanmeece9794]

Love the jet in background painted in The USAF Thunderbirds colors. I believe it's a F100 Sabre

[@StanSheram]

Gonna be my FAVORITE video. Wow. I’ve pulled over many times in my trips out west to watch.

[@billkline0320]

Anything that has to do with planes is just amazing thank you for this video

[@ld5714]

I enjoyed today video very much. I live in an area where there is a lot of this activity, in fact there is a crop duster than operates from a location about 1/2 mile from me. All these years and I had never seen the inside of the planes cockpit ... until today. Very cool, thank you Laura and Grant for taking me along on today's adventures. See you on the next one. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.

[@dereksbryan]

The moment where Gage comes down the track followed by the airplane, reminded me of the scene with Cary Grant in the Hitchcock classic 'North By Northwest'.

[@marklohmann6267]

Really good vlog. Piston engines are giving way to turbines. Much more reliable,but the piston engines sound so good.

[@westernok]

Though a plane would be fun, it makes more since to invest in drone spraying technology and add that to the things you do. You might even be able to create a new income stream from it while saving the price of the plane and or having it sprayed by another company. Love watching your content

[@ThomasCrowne]

Air Tractor of Olney Texas. Great planes and a great company.

[@bernardsteffen2788]

Noticed that beautiful solid Gold Necklace, glitters in the sun as you move about.

[@alberthartl8885]

Laura you are a natural for being a pilot! It is not cheap but you definitely have the aptitude to do it. I got my PPL license in 1971. Kept upgrading and ended up with a commercial license with multi engine and instrument rating. So, sign up for a ground school after harvest. If you would have chosen a military career, I could see you as another Kim Campbell. (Famous A-10 pilot)

[@WileEcoyote3397]

In northwest Florida at the Eglin test center they are testing a version of this airplane that will be sold as a light ground attack aircraft.

[@StormLaker]

We actually have drones working our area now too as well as a helicopter, and 3-4 of these guys. It's my favorite thing to see here in Iowa next to sweet corn bein sold out of the backs of pickup trucks at the gas station.

[@Malakie]

We have a lot of this here in Wisconsin going on. What's even better is when they have to fly in and through the bluffs, major hills and valleys in some areas.

[@johnensminger7675]

Blue Angels are in Fargo, ND on Sunday!

[@southernjoes8372]

Been drinkingLMNT for about a year now and it’s now a morning starter. I also like the chocolate one in my coffee

[@smijas]

Laura enjoyed this way too much, I bet this lady will have her PPL sometime soon!

[@andyanderson4357]

As they say, there’s two types of crop dusters, good ones and dead ones. 🙄

[@galenhammond-x4j]

Thanks so much for being so informative. I've wondered about so much of this. Amazing that a fully loaded one of these weighs the same as a WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt.

[@robertkeime4907]

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.

[@ruedihaenssler4942]

Great shots from crop duster airshow! As former Swiss Air Force pilot want to encourage you two to go for your private licence - with all the space you‘ve got - go for it 😊 Just back from a flight in an open seater „Bücker“ aircraft over the Swiss mountains….can‘t get any better! Love your videos - greetings from Switzerland - Rudy

[@SqueakyWheelMakesNoise]

I've always wanted to be a "Licensed" pilot. I'm pretty sure I can take off with one of those. It's the landing I think might be tricky. 😅

[@Jeffrey-Flys]

Every plane lands.. The trick is to keep it reusable. 😂

[@SqueakyWheelMakesNoise]

@@Jeffrey-Flys true. 😂😂😂

[@RichardBurdette]

@@SqueakyWheelMakesNoise funny you should say that. I have a PPL with instrument rating now but when I soloed the first time, as I was getting ready to take off it crossed my mind that once I lift off this runway I’m going to have to land this thing. Well I did obviously and three more times that morning. Will never forget it. I have a KZbin video of it.

[@Meditations2024]

You were looking at the plane; I was looking at your lawn, lol. Turned out nice. 😁

[@AnthonyBarry-q1i]

Nice change of scenery Laura crop spraying and so accurate with this GPS location tool nothing missed.

[@phoenixsui]

Recently found a channel where they use 4 of those for firefighting in formation. Beautyful.

[@oldhunterdan]

We had our country air show a couple weeks ago. I stand in awe of those pilots.

[@heimdallgsd]

Very interesting to watch , they do crop spray on some of larger farms here in UK

[@bradlavassaur8265]

Awesome video!! Those air tractors are very fast because they are driven by jet turbine engine. Super fast! This was the best video I have ever seen on your channel. Thank you for sharing. I'm a huge aviation fan. Have a great day.

[@cdw81960]

Earlier this week I was on my way to Omaha and was watching all these crop dusters just about everywhere. I thought it was so cool watching them and I had all kinds of questions. Thanks for sharing this information.

[@bradlavassaur8265]

I loved this video so much that I must tell you, there is a video on KZbin where you can see these incredible airplanes actually built. I believe it's a channel called agriculture adventures. The company is called air tractor, located in Texas. Great video. If you find it, it's well worth the time to watch it.

[@charleswelch249]

That's cool. Around here, we had the same thing done. Our corn is 8' tall and so thick with the timely rain. You can barely walk into the fields. Cool video, Grant and Laura.

[@brucelove1426]

Your lives are so full with farming, no time to try flying! Have to agree with Grant, keep your feet on the ground!

[@RhondaPlait]

My pilot instructor was a crop duster in his youth it came with many benefits! I was desensitized to potential failures by experiencing many scenarios that he encountered. It was very reassuring. And fun!!! I love flying and highly recommend and you could have your own runway... come to think about it barns make great hangars.

[@cslapler007]

Ok at least I know I'm not the only one who get's excited and giddy and wants to take all sorts of photos and videos when they dust at our house. I work a mile away from the QC airshow they put on each year, usually featuring either blue angles or thunderbirds along with F18s and F22s, so I'm used to this but it still never gets old.

[@chrisaherdsd]

great show!

[@charlesdurham6793]

My dad did that for 45 years! had a massive number of hours!

[@RealBastard-q9u]

I grew up close to the aerodrome in a country town in New Zealand where the crop dusting planes took off from. The first person to do aerial crop dusting was a New Zealander. I had a friend whose father flew a converted DC3 crop duster, that carried a huge load. We have very little flat land, much of the crop dusting and seeding is done in hill country here.

[@DreamFarmUS]

Operating an irrigation plane for the fields is really challenging.You did a great jop,thank you for the wonderful video.

[@outdoorsdon]

Watching the refueling ops reminds me of AF jets “hot pit” refueling and munitions reloaded was always an awesome sight is it was very choreographed with safety and precision to get back in the air. Thanks for sharing!

[@ubermike412pgh9]

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.

[@kirklothert3435]

I used to have a cousin of my dad's did that back a long time ago & I used to watch him when I was a kid & he would go right under the power lines. Talk about crazy & I cried some during the video. It just took me back to a more simple time

[@tombache3426]

I know this has been done for a long time, so it has proven success. It is my thought the boom sprayer you usually see would be more accurate.