AJ Wiechmann

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Farm4Profit Podcast · F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine! · 22 Aug 2024 podcast

I mean, they're nice. But then I'm looking at the minivan. I get a brand-new minivan with all the bells and whistles... You know, yes, it's a minivan. I get that. You just don't get that six inch extra six inches of clearance. But you get that for like mid 50s and you're not getting into a low quality SUV for 75. And I think that's I think that bump up is because you can ride it off.

Yeah, it could be, yeah. Well, that costs twice as much for registration of that vehicle. I know that, because you could buy a truck. My wife and I looked at a truck versus an SUV, and it's like $400 a year to register the SUV, and it's like $90 for the truck. So as long as you get a four-door truck with a bed, as long as there's a bed in it, then you're, you know.

I sent Corey a text that said the bed's got to be at least six foot. It can't be a short bed. So is that why they put all these newer pickups at a 6.5-foot bed? Probably. I think it's exactly why. At least that's what they claim they are. Yeah, someone probably came up with those ultra-short beds, and then someone got audited and found out they couldn't. Ride it off like they wanted to.

Register your old El Camino. I don't know, I'm just wondering even, should we be... So it's my first year of farming, so unlike you, AJ, I'm starting off just on the assume we're going to lose money. But it makes me wonder, should we budget better and start backing off our personal expenses You know, because we went out to eat last night and we'll go out to eat again next week.

Should we start tailoring that back or is that going to trigger the economy to do something different because everybody's doing that? Everybody's hesitating. That's a good question. I've often thought about that myself. Yeah, where do you start cutting costs or how do you make it work? You know, me, I'm not going to lie to you, I've got nice equipment.

I probably should maybe downgrade some of that. But the problem is right now nobody else wants to buy my stuff either because they're not making money either. So, yeah, do you start cutting out stuff of your home life or your personal life? I don't know if that's the right thing or not. Yeah. You know? To me, that feels like a lot of resort. Yeah, I agree with you.

It really ain't fair to your wife or your kids. Yeah. You know, it ain't their fault. So I don't know. And that's why we're... doing, working as hard as we are, because we want nice things for our families and, you know, to have a good life. Yep. But that's exactly right. We don't have to push Farm for Profit as hard as we push Farm for Profit.

But Corey does always give me shit for trying to save my way to prosperity. I feel like if you just always run a lean ship, Then that's what you don't have to worry about. If it doesn't work and your ship's already as lean as it can be, then it's really shit. Well, I've even thought about marketing some of the farms.

You know, my gal at my office, the office manager says, hey, we could save if we only mailed, you know, promotional mailers to 15 miles away rather than 20 miles away. Probably saves $2,000 in auction. Well, you know, where's the line? But and then also, you know, every time we send one out, we probably promote our business, too.

I just wonder if all business owners are thinking that way and how they decide to cut back if they do cut back. Or is this the time to go forward and over advertise your business when everybody else is not?

Well, I want to get back to a little bit more fun conversations here with AJ, because this flying privately in a plane is already something that I think I'm falling in love with, and that's not going to cut expenses for far from it. Well, I mean, it's not a, this isn't considered a PJ. That'd be a private jet. This is a, what would you call this, PP, a private plane? It's PPP, private pop plane.

No PJs, no hop toes. Yep. be considered a private plane. Yeah. Well, let's fly somewhere and go look at a twin prop. Yeah, we can do that too. As you, AJ, you said that you've owned planes for almost as long as you've been driving trucks. About half the time. This is probably about year 10 for me owning a plane. And you originally got it for personal use enjoyment.

What's some of the coolest places you've flown to? Oh man. I know it wasn't Houston. So actually, funny story, that's where I bought this plane from was Houston. Really? So I did all the training in this plane down there. Okay. And yeah, I got that from down there.

But probably some of the coolest places I've been to is, I've been up into Montana and actually going out, believe it or not, going out to Vegas about twice a year in this plane. And that's a long flight. It's an eight-hour flight. But it's a lot of fun. I mean, different country. I've been into Florida. I flew my family down to Gulf Shores, Florida for spring break three years ago.

And, you know, we stopped in Nashville for the night on the way down. They're just kind of, you know, just something extra to do for the whole trip. And it's just, I mean, it's cool places like that that... Not everybody says they can do or have done or can go do that just on a whim. Yeah. What's it like flying into a big airport like Vegas?

Or do you not fly into Vegas, I don't know what it's called, international? Yep. So, man, I can't remember what they call that one either. But no, big airports, like real big, busy commercial airports, like Dave, you asked about maybe stopping in St. Louis on the way back tomorrow. They will allow me to land there. They don't like it. Yeah.

Because they got a lot of big planes coming in and out of there. They don't want little me jumping in and out of there. So as I was telling Corey, there's nine miles from there, there's a small little airport, and we could have landed there and just Ubered over there quick. But same way in Vegas. The big main airport there, I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head.

I fly into Henderson Executive, which is 20 miles west of town. Nice, small, private. It's a private airport, I guess. How big do you have to be? Like a nine-passenger jet? Let me rephrase this first. What's the difference between your plane and a jet? I know a jet engine, but there's got to be a huge significant difference in flying a jet versus flying a plane. It's mostly speed.

Them jets go a lot faster, you know? If a controller's got you in the pattern and they need you to speed up, this thing won't go that fast, just to keep out of the way of other planes. Like them big commercial planes. And there's what they call jet wash also. Them big jets put off a lot of, or jet wake, I believe is what they call it. This little plane would just be thrown all over in that.

So they don't like it when I go in there. So we just stay away. We go to the other airports, you know. Des Moines, that's a smaller airport. They don't, you know, planes like this fly in and out of there all the time. Yeah. But you get in the big metropolitans like Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, you know, you just stay out of them big ones.

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