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Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:03 pm
by MSDawg870
dukmisr2005 wrote:give him a jar or jug of colored water and tell to keep quiet that this is something new... knew a guy that used to sell trees in a dry climate (Oklahoma) and he gave away a "fertilzer" to apply once a week.. it was colored water and was just to make sure the customer watered his tree each week..
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:49 pm
by lowbar
Duck Nawteek wrote:I've got a buddy of mine that lives in mayersville and his older brother before he died flew crop dusters but before that he was a c130 pilot in the airforce so he knew how to handle a plane. He told me one time he was sitting on a tree line over looking this field deer hunting on afternoon and his brother decided to play a trick on him, filled the compartments up with water and flew damn near eye level to him and as he pull up he dumped all that water on him while he was in that treestand and soaked him to the bone. He did this right before it got right for the deer to start moving to. Another time he filled up his hopper with rye grass and flew over his house and dumped every bit of ryegrass seed in his yard and he did'nt know about it till it started to grow. It was so thick that he could hardly cutt it. LOLOL
Sounds like you know Brad. His brother Keith was a crazy SOB.
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:46 pm
by Deagle
Wingman,
Whats your take on this? I took this Sunday in between Water Valley and Oakland. Looked like he was just spraying the woods.
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:29 pm
by Wingman
ROW spraying, maybe? Or could've been spraying something to kill hardwoods in a pine plantation?
I used to see choppers around here doing some of the 2,4-D work in rice, but rarely anymore.
They used a chopper a couple years back in Quitman and Coahoma to spray the canal banks and part of the Sunflower River banks to kill the brush. He was landing on top of a loader truck near my house and it was neat to watch. Provine in Greenwood sends choppers all over the nation on spraying jobs.
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:19 am
by duckkiller
Provine does alot of sparying on my deer camp property, It is really neat to watch them land on that truck and re load. They had one of their choppers crash about 300yds behind our camp house a few years ago, and there was about 15-20 of us there and saw it happen
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:38 am
by donia
Choppers used to be used in the boll weevil program to spray in the tight spots the planes couldn't get to on the edges, but were too far out for the mist trucks blowers to reach. Dang they were expensive though!!
They were also used around Memphis where there is cotton around populated areas out by the Ag Center within the city limits, since they are much more precise in their application for those situations. People still complained about health problems from "that stuff they were spraying" because they happended to drive by during the application.....
Malathion doesn't cause respiratory problems that people were complaining of - it is the same thing the mosquito man uses in your neighborhoods (when they do send the mosquito man out - they only send him out here if there is a complaint of increased activity).
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:59 am
by richard b evers
I love to fly. nics pic
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:15 pm
by Deltamud77
How much does a fully loaded Air Tractor run a fella...just curious?
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:51 am
by Huntington Point
Hey Wingman, that's Kelly Peeler in the white Thrush out of Yazoo City airport. Great pilot. I work on his GPS in the aircraft out of Cleveland airport (Air Repair, Inc.)
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:18 am
by Wingman
Thanks, HP.
Y'all still building Birddogs up there?
Re: Slimming capsule
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:24 am
by dukmisr2005
think we got a bot running!!
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:37 am
by Boogerden Boy
Wingman wrote:ROW spraying, maybe? Or could've been spraying something to kill hardwoods in a pine plantation?
I used to see choppers around here doing some of the 2,4-D work in rice, but rarely anymore.
They used a chopper a couple years back in Quitman and Coahoma to spray the canal banks and part of the Sunflower River banks to kill the brush. He was landing on top of a loader truck near my house and it was neat to watch. Provine in Greenwood sends choppers all over the nation on spraying jobs.
There's still a guy that comes up every summer to put out 2-4-D on the rice. Golden Ranch Aviation. I flew around with him one day while he was sprayin a drainage ditch for some district.
He charges $100/hour for drainage spraying. Took him 45 minutes to spray it. $4500/hour ain't too bad
Re: Fall Payments
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:10 pm
by Wingman
$100/hour x .75 hour = $75
$100 hour won't cover his gas. Did you mean $100/minute?