AJ Wiechmann

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

You know, and if you have little struggles like that, it's got an electric fuel pump. You know, you just flip the fuel pump on and get some more gas up in there. It's not that big a deal. I didn't think it was a big deal. But, I mean, this guy is, you know, he was 10 years older than I was, and been a pilot longer than I had, and he just freaked out. Dude, you can't do that when you're up here.

You've got to keep calm. Right. See, I think that probably comes from driving for a living as well. Like, you get that. Things happen to you in a truck. Oh, all the time. Yeah. If you blow a steer tire, you don't overreact. You just try to gain control and get her, you know, pulled over and stopped. Same thing.

And you end up running out and forgetting to switch fuel tanks, which happens on some of our trucks. Yep. Okay, let's get this figured out. Do what I can to stay safe and get back on the road. Yep, man. You just got to keep calm, otherwise you lose your mind and you don't, then you end up screwing things up worse. So earlier you said your wife doesn't like flying as much as your kids do.

Do you ever try to freak them out just being the pilot? Well, what I meant when I said she doesn't like flying as much as they do, she likes flying and the kids like flying too. What she don't like is the roller coaster, man. When we start going up and down, she don't like that. But no, she's great. Funny story about that was when I first got my license, I had a smaller plane.

It was a four-seat plane. It was an Archer 180. A lot slower, a lot tighter cabin. Anyway, we had this lake in Missouri, or a house at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. And for whatever reason, We had always had somebody driving down for the weekends, you know, when I'd fly down. She wouldn't ride in the plane with me. She just wanted nothing to do with it. Loved going to the lake, though.

So she'd always ride with another family member down to the lake in the car. Well, it just so happened one weekend, nobody was driving down. And I said, I'm going. The kids want to go. The dog wants to go. You know, she's like, well, I'm not going to ride in the plane. I said, well, I'm sorry. You're staying home then. Yep. And I packed my bag and we started to head out the door.

She's like, you're serious. I said, yeah, if you want to go, you're getting in the plane with me. Yep. And that was the first time she rode in the plane, and now she don't want to drive. So, she just don't like it when I start pulling on the yoke and making this thing roller coaster, you know. It's kind of fun, you know.

The kids love it when I push on it hard enough that they're back there floating in the air. Maybe I'm not ready for that yet. No. So my father-in-law's got his pilot's license, and I don't know what level, but he was doing it out of Ames. And he offered to take me up on one of his, you know, continued hours or whatever you have to do to keep it.

And I was conveniently busy, so my other brother-in-law went. And he told me that that was the most scared he'd ever been because as they're landing, They were almost crossways on the runway because of the wind or whatever it was. Yep, crosswinds, yep. And they touched down and my father-in-law said, nope, I got to do better than that. Just gunned it and took back off.

So not only was he scared on the first time getting ready to land, but now he had to do it a second time. And so I've never flown with my father-in-law. Yep, they call that a touch and go. You come in and you got enough airspeed yet, you just hammer the throttle and you go again. It's touch and go. There are some pretty cool, I don't know what you call them, aerial acrobats or whatever.

Corey, I don't know if you guys get to see them, but they usually do tricks and stuff over Huxley. And they've got their smoke screen out the back and they'll make smiley faces or they'll climb up. It seems like they climb as high as they can climb and then spin and go into a nosedive and swing around and like, That would probably do me in.

There's a lot of really good stun pilots out there, and man, I'd love to do it, but you're not supposed to do it with this plane, so. Really? By Big Creek, where the farm is, we get some guys. I don't know if they're quite doing what you're talking about, Tanner, but they're definitely going up and coming down, and you can hear the thing, like, shut off and, you know, turn on, get going real fast.

Another big solar farm over there to the east. So you said you started farming four years ago. Yep. Was that family land, or you just decided to start farming from scratch, or what? It was, yep. Bought a piece of family ground that had, I mean, been in the family forever. And that was the first farm I bought.

I rent the rest from my dad and one other landlord I have, and it's all within, I'm pretty fortunate, it's all within a mile and a half of my house. That's nice. From the bin site, you know. So, yeah, got started with that first 100 acres and I rent 500 from my dad and 100 from another guy, so about 700 acres total. Well, that's not too shabby.

Yeah, so then actually this year we just started introducing cover crops, which, you know what, so far I'm a big fan of. Yeah? I just experiment. I did 300 acres of beans this year. I did 200 acres on cover crops. We did cereal rye for that, and then 100 acres into, you know, tilled ground. I dissed it, and then we field cultivated it this spring.

And I'm telling you what, I've got so much volunteer corn in that tilled ground, and the weed pressure's awful. My no-till stuff looks, I mean, the cover crop stuff looks amazing. It was a good spring for cover crops. It was great. When you get moisture like that, I've... seeing it when you don't have the moisture, it's dry, and then it just turns into concrete. Yep, yep.

Yeah, that makes it a little bit tougher. Yep. We got really lucky over at the in-laws. Oh, that's another solar farm. Is that what you were talking about? Yeah, yep. Huge one. I'm looking backwards for the listeners. I'm the one that's flying backwards, so I get to see things after everybody else does. It's huge. It's huge.

But anyway, over at the in-laws, almost 100% of our acres going to soybeans get rye or some type of a cover on them.

and we got very fortunate this year we got a dry spell right there at the beginning of june we were able to get the crop off and then beans planted and that week it rained off and on for the next two and a half three weeks so it couldn't have gotten any luckier as far as it goes for planting late soybeans putting that together yep if i recall them that weren't really heavy rains they were nice

Nice light soaker rains. It just did a good job. It didn't flood nothing out. Yep. Not everything goes right over there, so it was kind of nice to see that work. Yep. Most things don't go right over there. Speaking of trucks and motors, we've got two with head gaskets out of them. We need to get ready before harvest. Yep. Trucking ain't easy. You got a full-time mechanic? I do.

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