http://vimeo.com/69854648


lc

I think I'll pass on the Crop-Duster career.

Last thing I need is a kid with three heads.

MAU MAU wrote:I think I'll pass on the Crop-Duster career.

Last thing I need is a kid with three heads.

Huh?

gbflyer wrote:

MAU MAU wrote:I think I'll pass on the Crop-Duster career.

Last thing I need is a kid with three heads.

Huh?

Due to the massive amount of chemical absorption which would most likely lead to birth defects.

The pilot in the film even admits he is rather careless and is frequently ill.

MAU MAU wrote:I think I'll pass on the Crop-Duster career.

Last thing I need is a kid with three heads.

Ya ,but just imagine the money you could make with a kid with three heads.

I see.

Cool old vid. Ain't been any Parathion around for 30 years. Even when there was about all it did was stink for a couple hours. I guess it did keep a lot of people from going hungry back in the day though.

There's several Ag guys here. I don't think too many are working Stearman's or open cockpit Ag Cats anymore.

exodus wrote:

MAU MAU wrote:I think I'll pass on the Crop-Duster career.

Last thing I need is a kid with three heads.

Ya ,but just imagine the money you could make with a kid with three heads.

That was funny!

Nice videos. Quite the music un the second one, and what kind of plane is that at the 2:06 mark??

A1Skinner wrote:Nice videos. Quite the music un the second one, and what kind of plane is that at the 2:06 mark??

Something called a "Lansom Airtractor"

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/ph ... 09433.html

Sam

That is all BS!! anyone that knows AG flying knows that !

I have to comment on the poison; So if we would not spike our plate of food with poison before eating it, why do it in the field? And then we wonder why the cancer rate keeps climbing. I'm a farmer, (small scale, since I don't own much ag land, mostly mountainside and trees) and have studied soil fertility and plant science. I have come to understand that we're farming in all the wrong ways, and it's causing a pile of problems. Switch to what's being called "high brix" methods, and we'd be spraying nutritional folier sprays instead of poison. Stuff that's practically safe to drink, and it would work much better. Raise the brix of the plant and the bad bugs don't eat. And boost yield, (get it right and double or more is common.) and health of the consumer. The possibilities are endless. Flavor would soar. We'd still be flying sprayplanes, but we wouldn't have to be worried about toxic exposure. The chem industry would not profit, so no promotion there. Farmers will have to study on their own and figure out how to do it. A few are, and seeing serious results, as can be heard about when attending an "Acres USA" conference. RT

Welcome reubenT post #2!

I would encourage you to keep studying.

So if we would not spike our plate of food with poison before eating it, why do it in the field?

...And yet, most non-trauma deaths are happening to older and older people. Even average age of death is the highest ever-which includes trauma, smoking, STDs, and drugs of all kinds.

I'll have to think about this a bit.....
If you truly "have a better way", in time, it will prevail.
lc

Seems as tho most of us are our own worst enemy.... (above list + others)
Cancer? Heart attacks?
The medical/pharmaceutical/immunization/public health gang has gained the upper hand on infections (for now)-which historically caused most "young" deaths.
If you live long enough, your gonna die of something? right? That is typically when the (moderate) "life style" issues (diet/exercise/etc) kick in....
And then there is genetics.... The cards you were dealt at birth...... Some are blessed/some not. But arguably the biggest factor-all through life.
Sorry-rambling now.

As a farmer, I have to wonder how much of the pesticide actually ends up in the seedcof the plant? Any scientific data on this? At the stages at which we spray pesticide, I dont see it having much effect.
David

rw2 wrote:

reubenT wrote:And then we wonder why the cancer rate keeps climbing.

http://progressreport.cancer.gov/doc_de ... 3&coid=920

Because they haven't found a cure

Glidergeek wrote:

rw2 wrote:

reubenT wrote:And then we wonder why the cancer rate keeps climbing.

http://progressreport.cancer.gov/doc_de ... 3&coid=920

Because they haven't found a cure

Sorry, I should have made it explicit. The cancer rate isn't climbing. It's declining. That NCI report shows that.

A deeper review of the data shows that overall incidence rates and mortality rates for all cancers in all sexes and all ethnicities is declining, but the rates for some specific cancers are increasing and there are big differences between different ethnic groups for both incidence and mortality rates. It is a complicated field, but minimizing exposure to irritants of all kinds (human and chemical) is surely beneficial!

We all have to die of something.
Typically it is something we don't have a fix/cure for (unless people don't seek medical care in a timely manner).
As fewer people die of infections (antibiotics + antivirals) and heart disease (meds, stents, bypass, survive mild one and change behavior) we then grow older only to bump into something we can't cure/delay. Cancer is a very common one, but with early detection we are gaining ground with methods to "cure" quite a few types of it. The ones we can't cure is a big part of the reason cancer death rates stay relatively high.

What IS a damn shame is the early detection methods ignored by the "Bah-humbug" crowd-only to die early-quite unnecessarily. Unfortunately this happens WAY too frequently.
Our medicals push us in to see the docs on a regular basis, but (unfortunately) does not push us into cancer screening.

If your over 40, get a colonoscopy!!! DO IT!!

And ask you doc what other screening tests are age appropriate, and follow through.
Death appears to be quite PERMANENT!

lc

Sorry about the soap box. I keep losing friends/aquaintances/close relatives of friends-to colon cancer.......
and early detection will stop it/cure it.