Fun video for anyone that’s ever watched a crop-duster thread his way thru wind turbines and wondered what kind of madman would do that kind of work, (wind turbines or no – there’s still some hair raising footage here with a power line).
I think I set the video to start at the right time, but it’s about 3:15 in.
The filmmaker/flyer has some words in defense of his use of chemical sprays, that’s probably worth a listen as well.
Below some aerial application footage from near me, Gratiot County Michigan.
My uncle used to do crop dusting in the 1970s. My brother would say the craziest person in the world was someone who flew crop dusters and the stupidest person in the world was the flag man on the ground marking out which rows should get sprayed this pass. (Flag-man would be a bit like the stick-waver guiding a commercial jet into a gate while also being regularly coated by whatever 1970s-era mystery substances the crop duster was spewing.)