Extreme Crop Dusting 1957

[itachiuchiha026]

OMG ARE THOSE PIPER J-3 CUBS?

[cobrachoppergirl]

Haha, I thought he was going to say... down south... in Columbia... South Carolina

[heymama1]

insanely cool!

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

Yeap, DEA still dusting there. That is Sierra De Santa Marta I was told.

[neper1982]

YOU`VE GOTTA RESPECT COLOMBIAN PILOTS!!!!

[oldfart387]

I'm a whitey and feel no guilt at all. My family never had the money for a slave. But since I've been paying for entitlements my whole life, they should have to come paint my house, wax my truck, mow my lawn, etc.

[SFConifer]

Dustin the fields with paraquat

[oldfart387]

Have a buddy that does this and he's scared of heights. He'll dodge trees and power lines but he won't go up a ladder.

[01Jcar1]

I DO THIS JOB EASY ALL THE TIME

[SUPERAMAZINGATOMIC]

This video would be incomplete without narration.

[mateopavolini]

correction for the description, it aint "columbia" its COLOMBIA !!!

[neper1982]

@mateopavolini YEAH!!! YOU TELL 'EM BRO!!! IT'S TIME FOR EVERYBODY TO FINALLY UNDERSTAND IT IS COLOMBIA WITH A FREAKING O BIATCH!!!

[garagecrap]

seen those two people getting dusted?

[KlaykidReal]

I replay 0:06 to 0:09 when I am in a room full of black people. And then I look at all the uncomfortable white folks.

[tomview1]

@KlaykidReal Thats the way!!! - never let whitey forget!!

[supressorgrid]

@KlaykidReal They are suffering from white guilt as if they were responsible for actions that happened before they were born. Many white sharecroppers worked the fields before the advent of the cotton picker. As far as black folks are concerned, I think they were better off then than now.

[tomsanzf]

ColOmbia not ColUmbia! please!

[MrCeditor]

Coming to the History channel this year... All new Extreme Hardcore Super Crop Dusting.

[coloradoavalanche19]

"crop" dusters?

watch?v=_MbhPWud8kM

[togume]

All together now... ColOmbia. With an "o"; not a "u".

[youhurtmehbrain]

DO A BARREL ROLL!!

[eenKasper]

Those crop dusters are lucky Cary Grant is not around…

[UnitedTulips]

and everyone got cancer

[TMHmodels]

Crazy skill to fly under the tree lol!

[CAPZEN1]

haha sucks to be the cameraman at 0:50

[ZEEMADMAN]

EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeSplat. Were gonna need another Airplane. A Pilot too! There are Old Pilots and there are Bold Pilots, but there are no Old Bold Pilots! War Pilots are great until the flashbacks start to hit them. Did You shoot down an Airplane yesterday. Yah He was about to attack Me! Dammit Hans that was the 3:30 Passenger Plane out of Brazil! This is the 3rd time You've done that. People are starting to ask questions! Questions You don't want to answer. So just stop it O.K.!

[neper1982]

colombian pilos of course!

[DelfinoDelphis]

Amazing

[yurasseck]

Imagens que todos os pilotos agrícolas deveriam ver.

[extere]

were these nazi luftwafe pilots who escaped europe after war??

[1955thekeeper]

Yeah, and to realize that they were flying J3-Piper Cubs. A really dependable light aircraft for its day as well as today. They were kind of the Model A's of their time. There are several cotton and soybean fields just a few miles from where I live, I really enjoy watching the CD spraying the fields in the late spring and summer. The sound of those engines as they make their passes over the fields reminds me of an aerial combat ballet with the crops.

[MrUAV100]

I'm surprised that pilot could get into the air with those huge balls!! Amazing flying skills.

[BenHaor]

Great flight ability, but no love at all for soil, rivers and nature as a whole...

[umahuma4]

Death from above.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

If you look closely at 1:27 you can see that he's flying with crossed controls so he can follow the contour of that hill without deviating from a straight flight path. This is also used when you come in for landing too high...then it's a forward slip. I've used the forward slip a lot over the years especially when flying an aircraft with no flaps. It's vital that you maintain flying speed several knots above stall otherwise you could wind up on your back at very low altitude. Not good.

[IC2720]

yep, that some good flying.

[spercepolnes21]

@SpeedyNeutrino43 We call it side-slipping. It's real fun when you take up an instructor who's never done it before - they almost wet themselves as you slip off a bit of height to plonk in over the fence on a short strip.....

[lowanfast]

@spercepolnes21 What fool of an instructor doesn't know how to do a slip properly? I would be ashamed to know them.

[spercepolnes21]

@lowanfast Indeed...young guys who get a C cat rating and then try and impart their (lack of) knowledge on beginners to get their hours up - having barely flown a flapless taildragger.....

[Doomsday2060]

you can just see the intoxicated pilots flying around with their lovely fags hanging out of their mouths spraying DDT all over the place.

I wish I lived in the 50s, i would have the 60s to look forward to

[SkiAv8or]

What is wrong with you?, Are you stupid? Are you?

[Doomsday2060]

Am I stupid? NO.

Are you living in a fucking cloud cuckoo land? YES.

[chayahwxef]

are u guys serious have u met a real llbreal libreal indoctrination lolrofpmsl

[noacronym]

Chemicals are good. They kill many Liberals every year, which is always a good thing.

[Jigsaw407]

Thankfully they also kill many totalitarians, fascists and conservatists, too, so I agree with you assessment: chemicals are indeed good.

[noacronym]

The absurdity and ignorance of your Liberal indoctrination is glaring, big time. As an aside, I do believe totalitarians, fascists, and communists come from the Left, where the Liberal Democrats are. What an idiot.

[Jigsaw407]

Communists maybe. But totalitarians can be found on both sides of the spectrum (and both are nutjobs). And as for fascism: try the other left. Believing is not knowing, my dear indoctrinated friend.

[umahuma4]

Yet the communist are spared, YAY!!!

[justme228]

=) nice

[ismasamov55]

mmmm bucketing in ddt with out any protection...the good ol days

[DEP717]

Banning DDT killed many thousands of Africans who died of Malaria.

[JohnBohnam223]

looks like a fun job

[Crashman2]

GREAT VID! 5 *****

[outled]

sickening.

[bleendy]

an Uncle Sam's still dustin there today , cept it aint cotton

[TheSoundDepo]

crop dusters sounds like some knock-off version of ghost busters lol

[Zeamus634]

You wouldn't be handling chemicals like that these days. not with H & S around.

[8Blurb13]

Wow, that dive down that mountain.. insane! And to you anti-chemical pussies, My grandpa has been spraying for around 30 years now and is one of the healthiest people his age I know... The chemicals only cause cancer in the state of California, or at least thats what the label says ;)

[MilitantDanny]

Everyone calls DDT dangerous and terrible.....

You should see the shit my father (39 years of crop-dusting) is forced to use these days instead. 10x worse/more toxic and 10x more expensive, but all the hippies are happy....

Yet the WHO has been urging the use of DDT for malaria/mosquito control increasingly! So which is it?

Do some reading other than Rachel Carson's junk-science "the sky is falling because of DDT" memoirs that started this crap, and let's get back to what works.

[boyd868b]

gee what whiners. i grew up in the 50' my dad crop dusted. i use to play on 50 gal. drums of 2-4-d parathion . i worked as a flager for a cropduster in the 70s worked with the same as above plus thimet and other nasty chems. still work weekends loading a spray plane. will be 56 this summer. so whaaaa.

[TEXWAKE]

haha you know whoever filmed this was probibly dead the next day trying to get thoes close up shots while the plane was spraying haha

[barryb83110]

I don't see how those pilots could stay that focused for so long, remembering and anticipating the hazards in time to avoid them. They definitely lived on the edge.

[1albertaboy]

That is great!! I would love to see the insrumentation in those planes, (or lack there of). I have to admit, I'm jelous.

[warnyou]

YOu can just see the cancer.

[ramonsn]

very good video,hard to find archives!!

not seen wvery day,take a look !!

[markmimp]

they must be smoking somthing illegal..

[Topper747]

As usual there is somebody with the stupid and ignorant comment. Please, stay on the aviation subject.

[glfan896]

Without mission komputer, 50 cm over land... Military pilots should see this twice a day!

[PatrykTHEplayerS]

1:03...lol

[masicklazik]

yeah lol :p

[tbdaemon]

I think a few of you are missing the point of the video: it's not that the spray is poisonous, it's that the flying is excessively dangerous. These pilots have hardcore mad skillz!

[p4lestina]

maybe both things huh? Cancer + insanely low flight, I call that suicide attempt!

[cruddiestcrudever]

my GOD that stuff looks poisonous...

[masicklazik]

it practicaly is !

[LethalHobo]

if they used hemp they wouldn't have to spray it... militaries before havn't been able to operate without hemp. Somehow.. they did it!

[OrangeSFO]

"Rich Colombian harvest!" LOL!

[SonicYouthXXX]

now those pilots are really sick under, lying under a tree 0_o

[NickRatnieks]

It doesn't bear thinking what these guys were like in their cars!

[Stationmaster]

Once watched two crop dusters over a field in Arizona - at night! They had spotlights.

[SmiertSpionem]

Is Arizona pretty flat?

[Stationmaster]

Arizona is varied but it was reasonably flat at that location. There were some nearby power lines though.

[raduboy19]

amazing video my friend

[TheChronicOne]

Woo hoo!!

[poopstreek]

That was refreshing.

[kazmaz79]

Those guys are my heroes!

[criticalmass]

I have been thinking about what I'll do to build time with my commercial ticket. I think I just found my answer. I sure hope they still need pilots for that...

[Tony95E]

hell yeah ....those are pilots.....

[foton1971]

WOW!!! Those pilots ROCK!!!

[jokeingkider]

If your a pilot then you'll know what I mean for what i'm about to say.

"Too bad them bold pilots will never become old bold pilots, or even old pilots in that matter"

[6785K]

My dad has flown and worked on a farm for his whole life, he usew to mix lloads of DDT for the cropduster my grandfather used befdore my dad flew and they never washed their hands,he has perfect vision( needs glasses to read really small print) but he is medically healthy and he was exposed to it for years. TGhat suff was not as bad as they say,some was but not like they say it was.

[Bonney59]

Our family farmed rice and we used crop dusters, usually converted Stearmen biplanes and we'd flag across the field for the planes to line up on us. When we were through with the job they'd land on a road and move us to the next field. We rode in the hopper/tank with DDT and who knows what else. No ill effects yet.

[jeffboatright]

Strongest association seems to be with breast cancer in women.

[N9155E]

...hardcore for the advanced user; mainly in a chemical context.

[GREEROPS]

I notice that the camera guy also took a dusting... wonder if he is still around ?

[sonofrattler]

I'll be dipped! That's the 1st I've seen a Piper Cub with a hopper and booms.. Too cool! Any of you seen the Bell 47 with the Soloy(?) Conversion? Dad flew one for a while, spraying cherries in WA. I still love watching Agri-Avation. I stop on the side of the road to watch. Stay safe guys! Thanks for the job you do. W/O cropdusters there are no crops. Being hungry sucks!

[tayloreasley]

I have never seen one hooked up before but i have a 46 cub and it has a tank that mounts externally under the fusealge. came with the plane when my late father bought it many years ago. Never hooked it up, just sits in the barn.

[tedthughes]

Tank is usually in the back seat, or is the back seat of a cub. If I remember correctly about 50 gal max.

[krbosak]

"W/O cropdusters there are no crops. Being hungry sucks! "

Oh cmon. you sound like soviet propaganda, but in your case pro-cropduster.

[cdube85]

Dang, were they really piper cubs?

[mikesavago]

awesome

[thecolorofdirt]

That guy kicks ass.

[crazyman7000]

thats by the Andes Mts were learning about South America and that around there and the inca and he aztec so i can say how did they spray the mts. i can say i know they used plane when they came out

[joselaga]

donde consigo este video completo?

[CropDusterMan]

Hey Bomber Guy, great video! I'm a heli crop duster in CA and loved the old footage. Reminded me of an old episode of SKY KING!

CropDusterMan

[burningcow422]

aviation and chemicals.  woooo

[kolonelklunt]

insane!

[agrockett]

boberguy thankyou aerial applicator south louisiana Ill.

[tedthughes]

Ever do any spraying around Maroguin, Bunkie, Alexandria, Baton Rouge or Cottonport.?

[agrocket802kc]

Do my applications south of Bunkie near Basile Eunice area

[marceloadeoliveira]

Muito bom!

[denberg2]

Keep 'em coming, Bomberguy!

[smurfswacker]

Jeez, this reminds me of a 1950s photo I saw of an L.A. beach crowded with people while a big truck drove past spraying DDT onto them. And those guys pouring gook into the planes didn't even wear gloves.