Spraying Time | Gorse and Pine Trees | MD500

Spraying out areas to plant Pine Trees and a small bit of pasture gorse control
#farming #hillcountry #md500
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[@christchurchhelicopters8459]

Awesome video team! Great to be apart of it!

[@brendont1082]

Hi Alistair great video one of my favorites for this year only because I'm a big 500 fan 😊. Hopefully you have a great success with the spraying

[@garymadden2656]

👌

[@ronaldlucas5360]

Helicopter is a serious kit.

[@briananderson5634]

As you say, expensive but very necessary!

[@johnjordan4647]

How times have changed. First job after finishing school was spraying gorse up Northland way. We were in hill country like that with tractor towing trailer with bloody long hoses. Using 245-T which was the active chemical in Agent Orange 😮. No protective equipment . Only a pair of shorts and then donned gumboots when gorse got too thick. Alistair does the helicopter work on GPS to Make sure of complete coverage

[@kiwifarmernz]

Times are sure different. Yea they have trackmap with GPS guidance

[@christchurchtaxitourschris9716]

Always interesting for us townies 😂

[@azamyahmad]

Welcome back !! .. gorgeous filming edition camera work and as always beautiful sharing adventure documentary updated resume countryside content video and a very interesting video to watch .. million thanks again from Montreal QC Canada

[@beejayem42]

🐨👍Great footage!

[@markmeredith5521]

Very cool.....amazingly skilled operator. We planting maize today(for digester)

[@kiwifarmernz]

They are very impressive to watch

[@gatorguy7711]

Great content! Take care...

[@kiwifarmernz]

Thanks 👍

[@andrewj7994]

My nephew is flying drones out to oil rigs in Norway, he said they are carrying 187 kgs . Now they are moving to hybrid drones out of Texas, they have wings so not straight rotor machines. That chemical you use knocks gorse and it's cheap, if it drifts though...

[@jonathankeith2547]

Metsulfuron methyl isnt really a drift risk, even LV applied by aircraft. It is nowhere near as bad as esters!

[@kiwifarmernz]

No don't find drift to be a problem. Wow 187 kg. That's impressive

[@jptiger773]

Next time get Richie McCaw to pilot!

[@maytalksmack]

thought the same.. the GOAT

[@kiwifarmernz]

Dont think he does Ag work

[@stewbird]

Overrated

[@cornishcoastalfarming2517]

Nice job. Good they haven’t banned arial spraying. They have over here in the uk. They’re looking at trying to legalise parts of it again now drone spraying is becoming a big thing. Anyone doing it with drones over there or helicopter still cheaper? We’ve a few hill areas we’d like to spray with drone but until law changes have to stick to the knapsack

[@kiwifarmernz]

There are spray drones but haven't used one yet.

[@patrickaherne3598]

Do you have the spraying drones in NZ? They are starting to appear in the US. When I was authorizing blade time for an EC-120 or MD-500 a decade ago, it was 500-750 per hour with a $5k minimum call out charge. But, that was for a police helicopter not a sprayer.

[@stephendickson9000]

Yes, we have. No idea on the cost.

[@brenttonks4249]

The mob I worked for 20 years ago was $1000 per hour plus tax for a Hughes 500C. Mind you we would spray a 400ac dairy farm for broadleaf weeds in a couple of hours

[@kiwifarmernz]

Price per hour is around 2100 . Need to look into the spray drones for sure

[@murrayhey9760]

Just curious what was the rationale between helispraying vs plane top dressing?

[@kiwifarmernz]

From my understanding you can get better precision from a chopper. Sensitive areas like neighbours and existing trees.

[@stephendickson9000]

Gorse is a great nursery plant for native. Just saying.

[@gennabird107]

Gotta have native under it first 😂

[@stephendickson9000]

@@gennabird107 you can broadcast that seed as well.

[@markbarringer3075]

We have a drone spraying business in Canterbury if you are keen to chat.

[@kiwifarmernz]

Defiantly keen to chat, do you have a contact?