Crop duster, saw this yesterday on 380 just outside New Castle. I want that job.

Thanks a bunch for posting. Brings back fond memories of crop dusters getting after the boll weevils. Bill

remember these, used to see them a lot

They were all over when I was a kid in Memphis, Cotton was King.

Some of those brave pilots went off to the big war.

I grew up on a cotton farm near West Memphis. Remember when Memphis college was called Memphis State?

That's an Air Tractor. They're made in Olney, just North of where you saw this. They use them quite a bit in that area.

I see them quite a bit. Always fun to watch.

Almost got hit by one when I was checking cotton for % bug infestation. The cotton was tall and I was bent over to get a boll. When I started to stand up, there was a wheel coming at me. Close enough to see the tread. It was Red Dunn in one of his biplane crop dusters. I hit the ground. Not much to worry about, since Red never really put his wheels down in the cotton. The farmers wanted the dust applied as low as possible so it wouldn’t drift off in the wind. Red apparently had plans to stay alive, so he dusted from a bit above the cotton. He was never first choice for dusting.

At one other time, I went to a farmer’s house to give him the % infestation report and there was Red’s truck, with his top wing (in two pieces) in the bed. Went in the house with the report and Red was at the kitchen table drinking coffee, and I remember that his hands were shaking badly and coffee was being spilled. Red said he had set er down hard when coming back for another load, which he took on and applied, and when he landed the second time, the top wing fell off. I remember it was his red plane. He also had a silver biplane. He did survive years of crop dusting, though he’s long dead now. He wore a scarf around his neck, like Snoopy, as the Red Baron, when he flew.

Ah, the things you remember.

Pretty dang cool !!

I also checked cotton in the summer to help pay my way through college. My job was much safer. I checked cotton acreage to make sure the farmers did not over plant their allotment. I got paid $11.00 a day and furnished my own ride.

I can only recall it being called Memphis state university. Memphis was a fine place to grow up at one time But I would never go back the street and house I grew up at are unrecognizable today..

A friend of my old man flew tractors and had the back end of one snatched off by a power line. Now thats he's gotten old he's content to drive terragators.

Still see a lot of crop dusters around the Corpus area. Not much room for error there. When you are driving down the highway and one disappears from sight, you kinda hold your breath until it pops up at the other end of the field.

Remember my sister's daughter discussing playing in the cotton trailer while discussing a book called A Painted House by John Grisham. It was Grisham's first major book. It was made into a TV film.

My daddy's cotton field.

A Painted House was not his first major book and came well after novels such as The Client, which was also made into a movie.

I still see them quite a bit. Very distracting when driving.

I just emailed this link back home. Thanks again Guy.

I see them pretty often.

I believe it remains one of the most dangerous occupations in the country.

Still see them almost daily here in Childress, Memphis, Wellington, Paducah and Quanah, out here in Gods country! I hope it stays rural here as long as I live.

I see them a lot, especially out around Seminole. BTW, Newcastle isn’t West Tx.

Got a friend that flys sky tractors out in the Petersburg area. He's my main scout for pheasant season.

I see quite a few around here, I’ve always been jealous of the pilots being an adrenaline junkie myself but I’m quite sure id been long dead by now had I actually flown one.