True life

[heelwinch]

I will drop a link to a favorite song of mine below. I really enjoy country music, not the new teeny booper crap but once in a while these newcommers hit it, and this is a song that tells it like it really is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc823UD0LeU


Not the big " government" funded farms, but the small 3 or 4 hundred acre farms that take it on the chin every year.

how about these poor bastards that live everyday under the cloud of the subsidized farming industry.

The Plane you see in the video is a Piper Pawnee and is what I learned to fly in ... dusting apple orchards 40 years ago or more.. There were only 3 in the state that were operational when I flew.

[electriklady]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOvqXoWB7s:):)

[heelwinch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOvqXoWB7s:):)

Read up on it .... Community organized... he gets paid wheather you get your crop or not...

Kinda like your attitude

http://www.stoneyacresfarm.net/csa

Please put me back on your ignore list, I'm tired of your ignorance.

[electriklady]

So I take it his opinion doesnt count..........if he gets paid whether he has a good crop why would be care about "organized labor?" Ya read up on it huh? but did you listen to what he said? Of course not......I am sure you label him a "commie" not an entrepenuer. I figure it is a way to SAVE the small "family farms." who dont have many other options.........

You are so predictable.

[electriklady]

"Typically CSA farms are small, independent, labor-intensive family farms. By providing a guaranteed market through prepaid annual sales consumers essentially help finance farming operations. This allows farmers to not only focus on quality growing but can also level the playing field in a food market that favors large-scale, industrialized agriculture (http://www.powerlineman.com/wiki/Industrial_agriculture) over local food.
Vegetables and fruit are the most common CSA crops. Many CSAs practice ecological (http://www.powerlineman.com/wiki/Ecology), organic (http://www.powerlineman.com/wiki/Organic_agriculture) or biodynamic agriculture (http://www.powerlineman.com/wiki/Biodynamic_agriculture) by avoiding pesticides (http://www.powerlineman.com/wiki/Pesticides) and inorganic fertilizers. The cost of a share is usually competitively priced when compared to the same amount of vegetables conventionally grown – partly because the cost of distribution is lowered."

[heelwinch]

So I take it his opinion doesnt count..........if he gets paid whether he has a good crop why would be care about "organized labor?" Ya read up on it huh? but did you listen to what he said? Of course not......I am sure you label him a "commie" not an entrepenuer. I figure it is a way to SAVE the small "family farms." who dont have many other options.........

You are so predictable.

That's fine... I'll add you to mine.

[wtdoor67]

I will drop a link to a favorite song of mine below. I really enjoy country music, not the new teeny booper crap but once in a while these newcommers hit it, and this is a song that tells it like it really is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc823UD0LeU


Not the big " government" funded farms, but the small 3 or 4 hundred acre farms that take it on the chin every year.

You guys whine about your collective barganing rights.. how about these poor bastards that live everyday under the cloud of the subsidized farming industry.

The Plane you see in the video is a Piper Pawnee and is what I learned to fly in ... dusting apple orchards 40 years ago or more.. There were only 3 in the state that were operational when I flew.
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We had a guy in a Pawnee once. He got into the wrong field with his spraying. Hit the Govt. 115 KV line. Came thru between the static and the phases. Caught the last phase on his gear. It tipped down and went into the ground. Broke the phase wire and ripped off the ends of about 3 or 4 arms on H fixtures. Tore the plane all to hell but you know the guy only got a small cut on his forehead. He went to the nearest farmhouse and they hauled him to the hospital. He walked into the ER and passed out. Shock I think. He was alright.

Our crew went down and put it all back. We theorized if he had been higher and caught the shield wire, it probably would have put him into the phases and killed or burned him up. Those planes were designed with survivability of the pilot foremost.

[heelwinch]

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We had a guy in a Pawnee once. He got into the wrong field with his spraying. Hit the Govt. 115 KV line. Came thru between the static and the phases. Caught the last phase on his gear. It tipped down and went into the ground. Broke the phase wire and ripped off the ends of about 3 or 4 arms on H fixtures. Tore the plane all to hell but you know the guy only got a small cut on his forehead. He went to the nearest farmhouse and they hauled him to the hospital. He walked into the ER and passed out. Shock I think. He was alright.

Our crew went down and put it all back. We theorized if he had been higher and caught the shield wire, it probably would have put him into the phases and killed or burned him up. Those planes were designed with survivability of the pilot foremost.

Definitaley have a good survivable rate in a pawnee, and that man was not the first to clip a line. Clipping a line that doesn't snap immediatley is a good thing in a tail dragger, it acts like a rubber band and lestens the impact dramatically.

Johny Cash... is currently "Walking The Line". Damn he's good.

[barehander]

This guy took out 7- 500kv towers; this was aug. 1973, hotter than hell. He was spraying some nasty crap on tomatoes, had to wear disposable suites-masks & gloves when we went in the field. All the pilot got was a broken arm.
Those brown trucks and yellow hard hats brings back memories......