Crop Dusting through Wind Turbines, Power Lines and Antenna's 

A lot of respect Scott! There will always be haters but you do you and provide for yourself, and help provide for those farmers, America, and the world. As someone who is from Iowa and has family in the farming industry up by Mason City and out by Iowa City, I respect the fact that you didn’t throw back hate and instead decided to educate. Good luck at Reno

Thank you Scott for enlightening the public to the importance of what you do and giving perspective to how little chemicals are actually used. Live the video!

30 years ago we were doing 1 gallon work with Pencap in Nebraska and 10 gallon work in Louisiana. Those farmers in Louisiana wanted to see huge clouds of water. We managed to sneak it down to 5 gallons an acre and they didn’t notice. Same amount of chemical half the water. Half as many landings and a bunch more acres a day. People think Ag Pilots only fly the planes. I’ve changed engines, changed cylinders, fixed pumps, fixed broken trucks, washed airplanes and anything else that needed to be done. Up at 4:30am and if you’re lucky you’re done by 10:30pm. That’s what bug runs are like. Then there’s dealing with the farmers!!!! It’s a hell of a lot of work, but it was the best years of my life!! Be Safe and Keep a Firm Stick. You know when the stick goes soft you’re all done-Flying!

Scott I've said this before man...but this is the best series of crop dusting videos out there. The views you are getting don't surprise me. I've looked many times in the past for exactly what you are doing on RU-vid...it wasn't there until you did it. Great job and awesome video's! You are one badass Flying Cowboy! Just be sure you stay a live Cowboy...be safe and thanks for posting!

Hey Scott, keep the Duster videos coming please!!!! So many people seem to be so negative on pesticide since Monsanto got caught in the Roundup corral!!!! When was the last time anyone saw a crop duster or Ag Plane spraying Roundup??? They sprayed it or something similar in Vietnam and called it Agent Orange! Pesticides are necessary to have a decent crop at the harvest, period. I could watch a Crop Duster work all day long!!!! I’ve been known to stop what I’m doing and drive farther down the road just to watch one. When I was younger, I’d watch them spray the fields I was in, as I moved the sprinkler pipes. One pilot I knew would fly under the power lines and he would fly so low, you could hear the wheels hit the tops of the potato plants!!! He caught a power line once and I saw his plane go down. Another plane came and finished the field and I later asked him who finished the field? He said he got a ride to the airport and grabbed another plane and flew back and finished the field himself!!! What a man!!! I would have been an Ag Pilot, but when I got out of High School, the other Ag Pilots told me I need to make a million dollars to buy a plane. Now, I’m a 100% Disabled Veteran and Above Knee Amputee, with a low back injury. The FFA wouldn’t even allow me to sit inside an Ag Plane cockpit with the meds I have to take for nerve pain!!!! Otherwise, I’d have my pilot license and I would be flying an Air Tractor, Ag Cat or Ag Wagon for someone in the industry!!!! I’d find a way to latch my prosthetic foot onto the left rudder pedal to make it work!!!! So, I fly RC Aircraft. I’m a self taught RC Pilot. I have an Air Tractor 502B with a 92” wingspan. It weighs 16 lbs. ready to fly. I converted it over to electric, so it has the same weight on landing or take off!!!! It was made by Duane Habets in Conrad, MT, who just last year created and finished a beautiful Ag Cat, which has the radial engine and it’s a little bit larger than my Air Tractor 502B. I have a couple pics if you’re interested. Email me at flyintango@yahoo.com and I can send you some pics. Please keep the videos coming!!!! In my opinion, Crop Dusting is the closest thing to Military Fighter Pilot flying a Civilian can do. Crop dusting is so similar to a strafing run in a Corsair F-4U or P-51 Mustang!!!!! Fire Fighting with an Ag Plane seems mighty close to a One Man bombing run with a B-17 Mitchell or a B-24 Liberator!!!! I love to watch Ag Planes doing both Fire Dumping and Crop Dusting. However, if I had to choose one over the other and could only watch one, I’d pick the Crop Duster show every time!!!! Love those strafing runs!!!! Oh, and don’t you know the Vaught Corsair F-4U and the P-51D Mustang would each make an Awesome Crop Duster and/or Fire Bomber. Just keep the six .50 Cal guns active in the wings of each plane. You know, just a little pick me up, for those days when nothing seems to be going right. Just fly over a vacant field and take a real strafing run!!!! Give it the whole 9 yards in one shot!!!! Hahahahaha!!!! That’s where the saying came from ya know!? There’s 27 feet of belted ammo for the .50 Caliber guns in the wings of the Corsair and Mustang. When a pilot held the trigger down on a positive target, he’d say “I knew I had it, so I gave him the whole 9 yards” meaning he fired until his guns were empty!!! Have all the fun ya want!!!! I will make some more!!!!!

Thank you for keeping our food safe!

Scott, you're doing Gods work! You're helping 2% feed 100% of the population, not to mention the livestock population. And with the crop losses this spring we should be feeling that this fall. Winter and next spring. Lord bless you, fly safe!

From an Old Duster Pilot in the Fla panhandle, Great video! Wish I had that camera technology when I was spraying back in the '80s.. I have some time in a "Frakes" -20 converted A model "Cat" Also a bunch of time in the 450 recip "Cat". Alot of difference in them. Turbine power is the way to go but I still miss operating the old round motors.... . Thanx for educating the un-educated masses.

It’s awesome that you took the time to explain the fungicide per acre but honestly man, very few people who would make the kind of comments you mentioned would be willing to have their minds changed. Just know that most of us know how vital your job is for us consumers. Thanks!

Don't worry about not being able to make mods on your kitfox for the Reno races. There's an awful lot to be said for a man out making an honest living for himself and his family. Just go to Reno and have fun. This is a great video. Thanks for the ride.

he's good. real good.. Scott, this is fantastic

o man that sound gives me goosebumps! best start to a video/day ever!! jet-a click click click!!!

Hi Scott....I’ve been following these. I was a flagger in South Texas starting at age 12. (1962). Spraying cotton with malathion and dropleaf acid. I loved it even though I was covered in chemical daily. They finally let me ride ( legal?? No) in the rear of the Supercubs and I was hooked. I did that a few summers. They finally bought Pawnees. I could work three Cubs alone but Pawnees were too fast for that. I still fly, but after a career that included flying the country in HP Aircraft I now fly a beautiful Ercoupe around southern Oregon open cockpit. I love it. Your vids bring back wonderful memories as a kid. So thanks for that......of course I also watch your brothers stuff as well. But hey....I love the smell of malathion in the morning. Joe

thanks Scott..The old days.I flew in the early 70's in NC, then IL,IN,WI, etc. Stay safe

Hey Scott, great flying ! Good luck trying to educate all the idiots that don’t have a clue what we do farming! Beenl farming since 76, cotton,corn,peanuts, we used to spray some hard chemicals back in the day, methyl parathion, azodrin, ,Lannate, this stuff we spray today you could gargle with its so weak! I’ve sprayed hundreds of gallons of roundup,it’s one of the safest chemicals we have . Sorry, back to your spraying, time you moved up to a Trush or Air Tractor! Fly safe

11:35 Under the frickin power lines!! You my friend are a god damn sir. I fly those wood H-poles with drones daily and those lines are normally 60-80ft of the ground. Mind = BLOWN!

Scott, your job pays your Bill's, Bush plane seems natural for you,,nerves of steel

Hi, Scott; I love your viddies! Thanks for sharing them with us - and for letting Trent talk you into starting a vlog. 🤙🏼

You chaps utterly amze me! As a PPL holder, I used to flyClub cometions & and had aerobatic certification - but we never did anything like that, steep turns excepted obviously. I suppose a lot of people would say that crop dusting aircraft are far from beautiful, but to me, they are. An aircraft’s beauty is for me, what the aeroplane can.do. & how it responds to its pilot - yours certainly fit that character, but to makeover the way you do, you must have a lot of faith in yoursel & the plane..

Situational awareness to the extreme. Amazing flying.

I'm flying in with a friend in his Bonanza to the Reno Air Races.... beyond excited for the trip. Spraying in general, what most don't realize is the farmer doesn't spray per a calendar rather they spray for a specific problem - the happiest farmer (happier? ;)) is one who doesn't have to spray at all because it costs a lot to spray and that cost comes directly from their bottom line.

Your best agg video yet! The camera angles, the editing, the background music, the information and the footage, all composed perfectly for a very enjoyable view!

JC!!!, flying around wires & power turbines would make my ass pucker. That is some great flying Mr Palmer.

Great video, You look very busy on the stick are you sure there's not a bunch of slop ? haha, the sound of the plane is much better than music. You will never make the green earther's happy Safe flying Scott !

Those planes seem such a kit-bash anachronism of different eras of technology. I'm sure it's state of the art for that industry, but it still has that post-apocalyptic Mad-Max vibe to it.

I live in Wisconsin a couple miles from the Mississippi River. Today there were at least 2, looked like they could have been air tractors going to town down near the river. Cool to see them buzzing over our property to go fill up. It made me think of you. Thanks for the video!

awesome videos sir....my late dad used to be a crop duster back in the philippines, from late 70s to 2k...just love watching your videos...very nostalgic to what we grew up with. stay safe and keep posting. just subscribed to your channel. all the best..btw, my dad flew the Brave 375 , AgTruck and AgHusky ..

Can't thank you enough for taking us along for the ride.

Starting my first season here in Atwood, Kansas in a 188 (300hp)! I'll be watching every Ag video I can find. Loved this one!

Love your chemical explanation. Most people have no idea and think cropduster are killing everything. My dad was a cropduster. He owned and operated Dimmitt Aerial Spray from 1975 to about 2001. He had some crazy people try and sue but never won. He flew just about everything you can think of. He retired with an Airtractor 402. He did have a couple of AgCat but with the radial engines. Keep up the good work.

Welcome to Iowa where we are putting up windmills faster then the weather changes. Every 5 minutes one goes up. lol Gotta have something to keep the corn straight from nebraska blowing and illinois sucking! In case you ever wondered why the corn in iowa leaned to the east! lol

Scott, a video of yours I had never seen. Hope you're doing well! I watch Trents videos. You guys do some great flying and videos!

Awesome! I love how you’re yankin and bankin but just chill having a chat to youtube! 👍🏽👍🏽

Dude that was fantastic. Answering questions and flying at the same time was nice. Thanks man. Be safe

Wow flying under the power lines around @11:40

Great video. I bet the minivan at 6:06 was surprised.

This has got to be one of the funnest things you can do with your pants on. I really enjoy watching these crop dusting videos, your videos seem to make up about 50% of the crop dusting videos on the platform right now, so keep it up. You're making me want to get into crop dusting somehow, after I get enough money to get my PPL and so on.

Love the music, it goes so well with the video

Loved seeing an old ag cat turbine powered! I grew up around 450’s and 600’s! The last one I was with, pt6 powered was Kirk Aviation here in east central Mississippi! Loved it!

Years ago I watched my brother-in-law spray potato fields in Aroostook County, Maine in a Bell 47 helicopter. I watched him fly right up to the power lines and wondered how he did not crash on those lines. He answered my question, "You don't look at the power lines to judge distance, you look for the power poles!" You appear to have a similar system to avoid crashing on the power lines. Stay safe.

I enjoy your videos. Very entertaining and educative. I’m getting into crop dusting as well, so this gives me a heads up of what it’s like. 👍

Geez, I'm exhausted just watching this for 15 minutes. With all of the wires, turbines, and other obstacles needing your attention, plus having to carefully watch your GPS swath display I can imagine how mentally draining it must be. Well done.

Have know idea why I watched several videos of crop dusting, it looks fun, and I bet this guy just loves power lines,, Thxs for posting this, gb

Hi, Scott. Thank you for another flying video. And I appreciate your good explanation of the volume of spray you are delivering from the ag plane. It is satisfying to know you and others like you are NOT "poisoning" our farmland.

Scott this is one of the best flying channels on RU-vid!

Great job explaining to the uninformed what you are doing. People don't realize you have to do it or yield would be very poor. People would be very hungry. Again, thank you and love your vids.

You are a very brave man!!!

Hello Mr. Palmer, This brings back memories. I worked ground in Georgia after the army in ‘78 then trained in PT-17s at Johnny Dorr’s school in Mississippi in 1980. I must have really bad timing as there was a drought that year. Made a couple of other attempts at ag flying but got bs’ed by a couple of operators. Wound up hauling freight in a Falcon 20 until 9-11 which killed my employer. Been teaching now for 17 years, but here lately,I’ve been feeling the old urge to get my hands on the stick. Oh well, that’s how it goes. I subscribed. Keep the greasy side down.

It was awesome talking to you today Scott, Thanks for your time man. Ill see you again this week i hope.

Down in the dirt like a CAS pilot. Happy for you ol’ buddy.

Great videos! Not only is the farmer trying to increase yield to feed his family, they are feeding us! They provide the food we eat, or the food our food eats! Keep it up! I love to know the food I eat has been well taken care of, is safe and of high quality. Can't get anything better than combining flying and farming!!

Best outro ever...mid run: Subscribe..enters run.

From a new subscriber on your last video, another great video. Props to you for casually addressing the ignorant comments and questions, and explaining it all with facts, numbers, and data. Way to go in your delivery! Looking forward to your next video.

Shout out for the Reno Air Races. The STOL drags were alot off fun to watch.

Fascinating! Took my Champ from NJ out through the midwest last summer and enjoyed flying into many airports with ag operations. Looks like a major challenge but lots of fun. WISH I could throw my 65-hp 73-year-old Champ up on a wing like that...but nah, I don’t think it’s wise...

Holy corn! Incredible vlog! Keep up the good work. Love the flying footage and really appreciate your explanations. Each time I see a crop duster here in Iowa, I wonder if it's you up there.

Even through the interference on the audio, this was a great video, Scott!!!

Dude, at ~12:48 you pass in front of a windmill with the speed and turn of your plane appearing to be in sync with the blades of the mill -- AWESOME catch! Please strap an action cam with hyper smooth to your chest so we can watch your hands move the controls, the gauges track and the field/obstacles move with the horizon as background. Thank you for your stewardship and being a positive agricultural ambassador! We farm responsibly!

I love the music Scott. Good choice. o7 for the heads up low and fast. Also thank you for educating us on what you are spraying and how you avoid the BeeZzzzz. We need those bees to propagate the corn. Hope to met you soon face to face. ~ your neighbor

As a heli pilot all those wires make me nervous. I would love a video on how you manage your energy height and speed wise, how a failure would be flown at that alt.

there you are man. nice to see you agen thanks for sharing . have a good day.

Great video, thanks for posting, over in the U.K. the Ag pilots used to call it the bird cage on account of all the wires. Very little Ag Aviation take place now due to enviromental laws, I believe the still spray Braken (Ferns) on the upper moorlands By the way Scott you are doing a great job, it would not be economic to spray Corn any other way, other than by arial application due to crop damage from machinery.

Loved it thanks Scott. It could have been 30 minutes longer and I would have still been on the edge of my seat.

SKILLS! mind blown!

That turbine sounds really cool, Take care out there, it is like spraying in a bird cage!

Fun to watch. I grew up watching them in Steptoe. My dad has an airstrip down in St. John that used to be used for crop dusting.

Just had one come over our lake on the deck and spray some adjacent fields..freakn awesome. SW Lower Mi. They should have two seaters and charge to come along, i'd pay.

What a ride!!!!! Wow, so cool!!!!!! Best of luck in Reno!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for posting another great video 👍👍👍👍👍

You sound like a baseball radio announcer from the 1930's in this video. Pretty awesome flying. Someday I'll get my tailwheel endorsement and go do some backcountry flying.

Welcome to the Cornpatch! There's some dusters located here in Iowa Falls. I never get tired of watching these guys work.

I want to get an ag cat now just cause they look like a blast.

See you at Dead Cow!

Great job on the video and information on what you do Scott!

You are not flying, your dancing with it .

Great Video Scott, the Urban eco warriors is a real problem! I'm sure they would be bummed if there was black specks (fungus) in there cornflakes! thanks for sharing

Awesome footage. Had a friend in h.s. doing dusting 4 a summer job. Died on the job, can b a VERY UNFORGIVING occupation. That was b4 cell towers, wind gens, and a lot more hazards. ( in the 50's.)

*THAT* is one stunning vlog - man you’ve come a long way in your flying intensity and vlogging in a just a few short months! Great talk through and interesting details covered - thanks! It’d be interesting to hear how much of the flying around wind turbines and other obstacles and under/over cables is planned vs improvised in the moment. Keep up the nice work and all the best for Reno. :)

This man puts 360 gallons of Dihydrogen Monoxide in his plane and dumps it on earth. Every person who has ever died has ingested Dihydrogen Monoxide. Literally killing us all. ;) Awesome video! Think I’m going to fly a little higher off the ground for now...

Wonderful old fashioned biplane!

Very cool camera angles! Thanks so much for taking us along. Audio was a little rough, but thanks for explaining.

Corn fungus is pretty hideous. Google images of "Corn Smut" if you are interested. Great flying! I grew up in Iowa and I was trying to see if I could figure out where you were near. No luck, I'll have to watch again.

@9:50 a good explanation how much spray goes down, that looks like some challenging flying, v challenging

Nice video , please one day go thru airplane, engine horsepower, torque, maintenance schedule, dry weight of plane , how much fuel you carry and gallons per hour, top speed unloaded , ceiling height and what procedure for engine failure. Don’t pay too much attention to the nay sayers . You are providing all of American farmers a service to feed the world .

Yo Scott, You have a really neat job bro!! Keep it up!! Your Vlogs are kool and neat!! As always!! Fly Low,,, Fly Safe,,, G - Man

Thank you for dispelling all the fake news on what you do. Also as a FAA 107 Certified drone pilot myself, it makes no sense for a drone to do this job. Drones (hate the term - prefer multicopter) have their place in agriculture surveillance. Right tool for the right job I say! Keep up the videos, love this stuff, best of luck at Reno! cannot waif for 2019 Dead Cow fly in. Flying 🤠. We need a high wing emoji (Draco Please)!

Keep Sprayin’ Man!

That looks freakin scary, especially around power lines LOL!! Great job.

what an amazing way to make a living...

BTW, depending on how long you have been flying, If you have ever been to a cropduster convention you probably have met him. He sold Weatherly Planes for a long while too.

High speed under powerlines is scary even in a hang glider! Looks like pretty engaging flying, man.

Wish I could make it to Reno....eventually!

BOSS FLYING!!! AWESOME!!!

My total respect Sir, what you do is amazing with a capital "A". I firmly believe that only the best of the best get to be am Ag Pilot.

Thanks for sharing Scott! Heard you were in the area. Great video!

That Ag Cat sure is purdy and you get windows.

What an obstacle course! And I thought that I was a bit of a dare devil.....ag flying would certainly out of my skill range. I think I'll just take up knitting or something. Thanks for the vids!

Agrivating sound in the background

Another great video Scott! Your skills have come along well from the guy who questioned if he’d be good at this! I was hoping to take the family to Reno, but the bank account is saying no right now. Maybe we’ll get to High Sierra. You probably pull less g’s than I have been for my job. I’ve been doing spectral and thermal imaging of ag fields around here (Bakersfield, CA). They don’t set up our passes in a racetrack so we have anywhere from 350’-1000’ between passes while going anywhere from 90-110 ground speed. Good thing we get to use Citabrias! Don’t worry about the hippies and granolas who have no clue. What you do is vitally important to the individual farmers and by extension the economy.

That's a very dangerous job that takes real skill and experience