Comments on: Cropduster http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/ small gauge filmmaking videoblog Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:15:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dave http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/comment-page-1/#comment-18709 Dave Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:53:48 +0000 http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/#comment-18709 Glad I found this site. I worked for a crop duster in 1949 at Lovington NM. I was 15 and worked for flying lessons. The duster was a J3 Cub with clipped wingtips. Engine was a 90HP with chrome cyls. I would load seven 50lb bags of dust (350 lbs) and with the prop blowing the dust back in my face. Then he would be off again. The land around Lovington is so level you could land about anywhere. Often wonder if I would suffer long term effects of dust like 2-4-D, Toxaphene, etc. So far, no, I'm 77 in good health! Glad I found this site. I worked for a crop duster in 1949 at Lovington NM. I was 15 and worked for flying lessons. The duster was a J3 Cub with clipped wingtips. Engine was a 90HP with chrome cyls. I would load seven 50lb bags of dust (350 lbs) and with the prop blowing the dust back in my face. Then he would be off again.
The land around Lovington is so level you could land about anywhere. Often wonder if I would suffer long term effects of dust
like 2-4-D, Toxaphene, etc. So far, no, I’m 77 in good health!

]]> By: Jim http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/comment-page-1/#comment-14785 Jim Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:27:57 +0000 http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/#comment-14785 What great fun to see this! I was a summer employee of George's from 1971 - 1977 in a modest ground bound job. He could fly like that for > 12 hours on a long northern IA summer days. He flew that low to make sure the wing downwash planted the herbicide past the corn leaves and onto the weeds, and that it did not drift into other fields. He was a great pilot with fantastic endurance and skill. He bought lunches and dinners at the Redwood. A great boss. I saw him move to callair aircraft in the early 1970s. I loved seing his V tailed Bonanza fly over town. I never got to take lessons from George, but inspired, I did become a pilot in later life. I call my autopilot "George" in tribute, because of its precision. Thanks for posting the film! What great fun to see this! I was a summer employee of George’s from 1971 – 1977 in a modest ground bound job. He could fly like that for > 12 hours on a long northern IA summer days. He flew that low to make sure the wing downwash planted the herbicide past the corn leaves and onto the weeds, and that it did not drift into other fields. He was a great pilot with fantastic endurance and skill. He bought lunches and dinners at the Redwood. A great boss. I saw him move to callair aircraft in the early 1970s. I loved seing his V tailed Bonanza fly over town. I never got to take lessons from George, but inspired, I did become a pilot in later life. I call my autopilot “George” in tribute, because of its precision.
Thanks for posting the film!

]]> By: Barb Ferrell http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/comment-page-1/#comment-10612 Barb Ferrell Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:00:00 +0000 http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/#comment-10612 George Bryant was my dad also and I loved watching this againg. I must admit at the time it was scary at times for his family. Thank you so much! Is there more of this excerpt that we can see? George Bryant was my dad also and I loved watching this againg. I must admit at the time it was scary at times for his family. Thank you so much! Is there more of this excerpt that we can see?

]]> By: Kris Levine http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/comment-page-1/#comment-10611 Kris Levine Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:50:50 +0000 http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/#comment-10611 That is my grandfather. Thank you for putting this out here!!!! That is my grandfather. Thank you for putting this out here!!!!

]]> By: Georgia Munderloh http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/comment-page-1/#comment-10610 Georgia Munderloh Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:15:07 +0000 http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/#comment-10610 That was my Dad. Loved seeing it again! That was my Dad. Loved seeing it again!

]]> By: cropduster accident http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/comment-page-1/#comment-9385 cropduster accident Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:31:07 +0000 http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/#comment-9385 [...] L. Huscher had a little car accident in Emmetsburg some time after these pictures were taken. ...http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/Crop Duster Killed in Dodge County While Inspecting Chopper - Wisconsin Ag ConnectionA long-time [...] [...] L. Huscher had a little car accident in Emmetsburg some time after these pictures were taken. …http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/Crop Duster Killed in Dodge County While Inspecting Chopper – Wisconsin Ag ConnectionA long-time [...]

]]> By: Robert http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/comment-page-1/#comment-5568 Robert Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:54:18 +0000 http://lostinlight.org/2007/12/01/cropduster/#comment-5568 Exhilarating stuff! Truly wonderful footage. Really sent me. Got the sense he was flying just a tad too close to the ground on occasion. But what a pilot. It was just under ten years before Rachel Carson's magnificent book, Silent Spring exposed the devastating effects DDT and its ilk were having on the food chain - especially birds. And certainly us. Incredible to watch the free flow of potent chemicals on that scale. Lost in beautiful light again. Exhilarating stuff! Truly wonderful footage. Really sent me.

Got the sense he was flying just a tad too close to the ground on occasion. But what a pilot.

It was just under ten years before Rachel Carson’s magnificent book, Silent Spring exposed the devastating effects DDT and its ilk were having on the food chain – especially birds. And certainly us. Incredible to watch the free flow of potent chemicals on that scale.

Lost in beautiful light again.

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