AJ Wiechmann
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first heard Aug 2024
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Farm4Profit Podcast · F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine! · 22 Aug 2024
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That was our first turbulence we've had. That's pretty cool though to see, like literally we're flying through the crumbs. Where else do you think you'd fly Tanner? Above there? Below there? Typically below the clouds is rougher than above the clouds and going through the clouds is a little bit rough, but... Join Corey. You boys want some popsicles?
This is a first experience for the Farm for Profit crew. We have recorded a podcast from a train. We've recorded a podcast from a boat. And we've recorded a podcast... Wait, we've done one on a boat? We've done one on a boat. No, we haven't done one on a boat. We need a boat. We have done a distillery. We've done a... yeah? Uh-huh.
I remember the one we were going to do on a boat, and that would have been an extremely good show. On a pontoon. Cars pontoon. I know a guy with a boat, but I don't think it'd have anything to do with farming. We are now recording one live in an airplane. How high up are we right now? We're 3,500 foot. 3,500 feet above the ground. So we are not quite in the mile-high club of podcast recording.
We're in the half-mile club. We're in the half-mile podcast club. We got the whole crew here together headed down to a business meeting. Isn't it fascinating, guys? As a podcast, we get to go to business meetings. Yeah. We've got probably one of the most interesting people that we know flying us down there. We have to say that. We have to say that. We have to say that.
So every time you call into the airport, that's what you got to read back to them. So that is our guest today. AJ Whitman here hauls my pigs and now hauls me around. Welcome to the, this is probably a farm for fun show, wouldn't it be, Tanner? It has to be a farm for fun show. That's what we're doing. We're having a ton of fun. I did ask when the beverage services started.
He said hot tamales in that little drawer over there. Apparently it's bring your own. Yeah. Yep, I screwed up today, sorry fellas. That's alright, you got a return trip home to make it up for us. I'll bring the beer. There you go. So what do you think listeners want to know from a podcast from the sky? How the crops look, maybe? Alright, we're flying over, uh... We just crossed into Missouri.
Southeast, uh, well, yeah. Just crossed into Missouri, seeing lots of, uh... Wind turbines. A lot of wind turbines. And most people in southern Iowa that I know don't like wind turbines. They want them gone. That's because we're in Missouri now. That was probably the line right there. Wouldn't you say, Cory, Central Iowa looked like there was some bonding issues?
Probably going to have spots of no yield. But otherwise, overall, it's looked okay to good? Yeah. Definitely some challenging spots. We flew out of Ames, Iowa. Ponding was pretty bad. You can tell spring was a challenge there and it got a little bit better as we went southeast. Southeast looked pretty good. I haven't seen much for water damage since probably Knoxville.
It looks like all the ponding that we have down here is on purpose. You know, acreage ponds, what these are. People that like to hunt, fish, recreation, that's all recreational ponds. So, AJ, we always give our guests a chance to introduce themselves to our listeners. So, why don't you tell them a little bit about who you are and what you do? Oh, yeah.
My name is AJ Weekman, and, of course, I'm flying these guys around. So, I'm a pilot by hobby, mostly. And I own livestock and farm equipment for a living. That's what I do for a living. I've been doing that for, this will be a year 20 for that. I really enjoy it. Farmer flies too, don't you? Yep, oh yeah, yep. Ben Farmer, can't forget that. Ben Farmer, this will be year four for that.
It's been a great experience. Obviously things this year don't look as good as the previous three, but we all knew that was probably coming. So I fly for a hobby and really enjoy it. So do you have a cattle pot then, or a hog semi that you're hauling mostly wood animals? Yep, livestock trailers. And we haul anything that'll walk on there. Sheep, goats, pigs, horses, don't matter, cattle.
And we go all over the country, 48 states, and there are 18 of us. Oh, wow. So 18 livestock trailers running. And like I said, I got all farm equipment myself. And we do a little bit of driving and work. But yeah, most of it, most of it, Came from hauling pigs. That's where we got our starters, hauling pigs. So what's the trucker term for your trailer?
Like when they say pot, like a pot-bellied pig? Yeah, yep, yep. Livestock pot. Livestock pot. And then what are you, lowboys, or what are you hauling equipment on? Yeah, yep, it's a lowboy. Ag trailer, it's got aluminum slide outs, you know, so you can haul sprayers and all your grain carts and all the big wide stuff that can't get on a normal width trailer.
Now the real question, what kind of tractor do you pull it with? Yeah, what's your ride? I drive a Peterbilt. Yep, driving Peterbilt. It's a 2016 glider. It's been kind of a project. I've been in the making for six years. It took me to put it together and I finally got it back in September, so. Didn't you blow one up earlier this year? That was the truck.
Like I said, it's been an interesting one, so. Does that got a heat and polar transmission? It does. It does? Yep. Got a big cat in it? Cat engine, yep. Yep, just kind of unfortunate we must have had a bad crank in it because we broke the crank at, what was that? 40,000 miles. Pretty early in the game. Where you at? California? I was on my way back from Oregon, actually. Well, Washington.
I made kind of a west coast trip there. I hauled some fertilizer out there. Ended up on a boat going to, it was in Totes. So I took a van, took Totes of fertilizer from Liquid Grow in Williams. I'm sure everybody's familiar with Liquid Grow. That went on a boat in Seattle, Washington, and that product went to Anchorage, Alaska, to a farm up there. Oh, really? Yep. Was that Grown Corn's farm?
You know what? Yeah. Well played, well played. So, yeah. Yeah, and I was working my way back, and I was actually hauling floor dry back out of Nevada, and I got back to the Nevada-Utah line, and it laid down on me. Just started knocking and quit running, so... Up in Alaska, you could have got, remember we interviewed the guys from Edison, or stealing Edison's idea.
What was the company with the... Edison Motors. Edison Motors, yeah, stealing Tesla's idea. That's what it was. Really? So as a trucking company owner, are you the owner of all the tractors, owner of all the trailers? You work as a broker, dispatch? How's that work in a trucking business? So I am owner of the trailers.
mostly i would say 70 owner operators and then i own four or five trucks myself so but a lot of his family i got my dad i've got three brothers that all drive you know that all got their own trucks so they're considered owner operators and then i got a couple drivers of my own trucks but yeah i do i don't broker i i'm not considered a broker i just line up the loads for my guys and
Once in a while, if I need help from a buddy, you know, a neighboring trucking company, then I guess I wouldn't call it brokering because they don't take any money from that. I'm happy that they're helping me. They help me go to the load, so they get all the money. So I'm not a broker. But yeah, we work together a lot like that.
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