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6 Responses to “A crop duster flys over the Tiny Free House”

1. Davidfromcali says:

   July 27, 2009 at 7:09 am

   The crop duster is flying way too high to be spraying out anything. Spraying is done a couple of feet off the ground. Solid material like rice and fertilizer is completely different. You get an even pattern when you are a bit higher if there is no wind. As it flies over you can see the spreader unit underneath for fertilizer or seed. They use the spreaders for seed and come back later to put on fertilizer. Seeding and fertilizing many crops in this way is cheaper and more energy efficient than chugging through with a ground rig and you can’t get into the fields with machinery for much once it’s flooded.
2. Michael Janzen says:

   July 27, 2009 at 9:12 am

   It wasn’t spraying our farm. I was doing turns and spraying a nearby farm. He was up high to clear the trees. I’m not sure what they were spraying that day.
3. Anne says:

   July 27, 2009 at 12:12 pm

   I remember years ago on my grandparent’s farm by Green Lake, WI, the neighbors crop dusted a field with some sort of pesticide and ended killing nearly all of my grandfather’s honey bees. The bee hives were a personal hobby and not income producing for the farm, but it was still really sad to have them all destroyed from the neighbor’s use of pesticides. Maybe that’s ultimately the problem with disappearing honey bees in the world… over use of pesticides on large mono crop fields. Sigh! (p.s. you pallet house seems a little airy )
4. Davidfromcali says:

   August 1, 2009 at 10:15 am

   I like your tiny house. Pallets are a good source of cheap lumber that usually just get tossed. A lot of homeless people where I live could benefit from a simple structure such as this, keep up the good work. In much of the country such small structures don’t require permits, either.
   My father crop dusted for 47 years and I never saw him fly over about 10 feet off the ground with a spray rig, almost always lower. They fly just high enough to clear trees and poles and then go down right above the crop to minimize drifting of the spray. The crop duster in your video has a spreader on it and no sprayers. Spray rigs are on booms the length of the wing and easily seen. The triangular spreader is for dry material only and almost always is flown much higher to get a wide spread. I’m glad he wasn’t spreading unwanted seed or fertilizer your farm. Some pilots are not careful. A certified organic farm should be kept free of any unwanted biological or chemical intrusions. Your neighbors look a little close for comfort.
5. Jay Needham says:

   September 29, 2009 at 3:23 pm

   You can clearly see the spreader underneath the plane. (Ag-Cat) He was either seeding or fertilizing. We fly about tree top high to evenly spread seeds and or fertilize. People get a little to worked up to see us just doing our job as safely and respectfully as we can. With the growing demand for food for an ever increasing population, aerial spraying, fertilizing, seeding is the quickest and best way. You have such a short window of time to administer seed, fertilize, or growth increase chemicals to crops. Airplanes is the only way to keep up with the hundreds of thousands of acres that it takes to feed this nation. So please don’t be too quick in getting angry about an ag pilot flying low over your home. We try to do our job as respectfully as we can to those of you on the ground.
   Thanks for your understanding
6. Michael Janzen says:

   September 29, 2009 at 8:21 pm

   I realize that now thanks. Actually it’s not the low flying plane or what he/she was doing that day that was worth noting… it was that pesticides are being sprayed on our food all the time but planes just like that. Not sure I want to eat that poison anymore.