A Ride Along in a Crop Duster Ag Helicopter Applicator

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Ohio Ag Net & Ohio's Country Journal

6 жыл бұрын

Sunrise Cooperative has teamed up with Sayre Helicopter to apply fungicide again this year. Both companies recently held a field day to show the advantages of helicopter application and invited The Ohio Ag Net's Ty Higgins to ride along for the demonstration.

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@RCCopterLove Күн бұрын

I love the response of the seasoned pilot to your question if he ever gets "sick" of cropdusting and flying helicopters: "Not really! I can't see how" and this big smile on his face!! This is the best job for pilots! Such a great training on the controls, for precision and timing... not to mention these precise landings on the trailer for refilling the tank with the chemicals!! Fantastic!!

@randymiller3949 5 жыл бұрын

In the 70s & early 80s I grew up in Dothan Alabama, a farming county in Alabama...Houston Co, to be exact. Watching the crops getting dusted reminds me of when I was a young boy. I used to see planes dusting peanut field or a Watermelon field...I would always get excited watching & my dad would always pull over on the side of the road by a field & we would watch the pilot dust the fields. Man, this brings back great memories of my childhood & my dad. My dad was the Greatest Father Ever!!! I sure do miss him a lot. Much love from Mobile Alabama.

@Novadean1 4 жыл бұрын

I was about 12 jears old and Russian helicopter was spraying potato fields walking home from school my mother saied way it takes you so long to get home I say the Ka 26 I watched ! Than it was taken me long long time 1987 the first time in USA on the side of a Bell 47 in Springfield,Mo. in the 🚁 helicopter school I made it ! Bay the way I'm from east Germany at this time Kommunist Country !

@bluemarshall6180 4 жыл бұрын

@@Novadean1 Huh?

@Foryourinfo369 2 жыл бұрын

Thats one hell of a chopper to spray with! Cool!!

@flyingdutchman2918 5 жыл бұрын

I could tell it was a Bell by listening to the radio. LOL

@dongrimes108 2 жыл бұрын

Great content! Thank you.

@kristywebster5833 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool job!

@southernimager6256 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice! And I love the Bell Ranger.

@MrAIRSHOWFAN100 5 жыл бұрын

I see TH-57s all the time never gets old

@timmywade1313 Жыл бұрын

I worked for South Eastern Boll weevil Eradication program here in West TN they had 1. Helicopter spraying & HE freaked me out just watching him spray he did like a swoop&spin sort of pass. He went almost strate up & spin turn & right back into the field like if you wave your hand side to side with an upward motion @ end of the wave

@collinwilliams8688 6 жыл бұрын

That was awesome saw one of those sprayer helicopters in Celina Ohio out in the country where I live by Vantilburgs farms

@louskunt9798 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing story!

@NFlight Жыл бұрын

Would have been nice to see the pilot controls during the maneuvering... especially the light-bulb turn.

@mattverachtert5538 4 жыл бұрын

It’s interesting to me that they were allowed to ride with the ag plane while it was dispensing chemicals but they can only ride with the ag heli if it’s dispensing water

@louskunt9798 2 жыл бұрын

The FAA doesn’t make sense. They make rules. 😉😂🤣✌️

@carlosariasquiros6558 Жыл бұрын

That is an amazing helicopter. Nice video.

@EmergencyGuy Жыл бұрын

The aircraft is the Bell 206A Longranger.

@pstreaks 4 жыл бұрын

Any advantages to having a jet ranger compared to say a Robinson? Or is it just a personal preference?

@cashflyer 4 жыл бұрын

A LongRanger can carry more weight than an R44 and R66

@Novadean1 4 жыл бұрын

Yes and even it's a Long Ranger Sir

@MichaelSmith-eq5lf 3 жыл бұрын

audio needs fixed, might have been a great video but the mic clipping killed it

@glasswinder 5 жыл бұрын

Cool.

@hiflite2925 6 жыл бұрын

Looks like an old PHI helicopter.

@Novadean1 4 жыл бұрын

Yes Sir it's a old Long Ranger / Bell helicopter can lift more than the Jet Ranger !

@garyfischer4357 Жыл бұрын

Long Rangers are lousy spray helicopters. I,ll out work you with a Jet Ranger any day.

@JT-gi8rx 5 жыл бұрын

Two questions: 1. What is the price? High clearance sprayers go for $400,000-$500,000, if its in that range or less it would be great to own one. 2. Why fly under the power lines when you can just spray alongside them?

@ShitboxFlyer 4 жыл бұрын

It all depends on wind and wire height. My pilot mostly flies next to them as the rotor wash will push the chemical out far.

@fishhaulergreatlakes8208 10 ай бұрын

Tight flights around edges. Minds me off fishin under trees with lures, stay out the trees!

@pkpk-mu5cp 9 ай бұрын

Is bell 407?

@kopenhagenkid 4 жыл бұрын

How many gallons of water do you haul

@ShitboxFlyer 4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Christiansen the hopper on these (at least the one I work in) can carry 130 gallons

@ShitboxFlyer 4 жыл бұрын

*140

@vote4carp 2 жыл бұрын

Pilot says in the video it's a 160 gal. tank.

@Godzilla20393 Жыл бұрын

looks like a petroleum helicopter paint scheme

@repairfreak 2 жыл бұрын

Very disappointed with the choppy audio, looked very cool however. It does seem like the prop downdraft would be a disadvantage for crop spraying with a chopper vs plane?

@kopenhagenkid 4 жыл бұрын

How many ft r your booms

@vote4carp 2 жыл бұрын

38 foot boom.

@bluemarshall6180 5 жыл бұрын

How much is your Paycheck sir. 🤗

@JT-gi8rx 5 жыл бұрын

Would be huge if he sprayed 70,000 acres.

@ifcairwolfofficial9607 4 жыл бұрын

It may seem well but it’s so expensive to operate the helicopter. ESPECIALLY a turbine. My dad flies a Robinson and he is always complaining and he’s not even turbine he’s piston in the 44 and 22