AJ Wiechmann

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Farm4Profit Podcast · F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine! · 22 Aug 2024 podcast
Actually, two of them. Yep. They keep the... Keep the shop rolling, keep my trucks rolling. We do a little bit of outside work for some of the neighbors. do some aftermarket custom stuff to the trucks.
You know, we dress them up a little bit and we just start working with a buddy of mine out east and we bring in his air ride kits and we put them on the front of these trucks and get pretty fast at that. Does Logan still do a lot of painting for you? He does. He does all my paint work.
I'm pretty fortunate he lives, his paint shop is, I mean, I can throw rocks at his windows and break them and he's right across the grass from me. Yep. So if I need something done, if it's something big, we'll put it in my shop and You know, like a trailer or something like that, we'll come over and paint that. If it's small, we'll take it to his place, and we just work really good together. Yep.
Whereabouts are we? We're over top of... We are actually directly west of St. Louis, and we are 38 miles directly west of St. Louis. Something like Columbia, probably. Well, maybe not. We're a little south of that. Yeah, we're about 100 miles east of Columbia. And we just flew through a cloud, right? Well, between the clouds, yes. 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. Not bad. So as you think about the future of your trucking business and what you've got going on with the farm,
What do you hope that looks like? Are you wanting to fly more? You want to farm more? Want to truck more? Hit the lake more? Well, you know, that's a hard one to balance because I have a definite passion for all of those things. I love flying. I love driving truck and I love farming. I love being at the lake with my wife and kids.
That's great, but it's hard to be everywhere at one time and it's hard to spread my time out to do it all. As far as the future goes, I'm going to grow as the trucking company will allow me to because it is my main source of income. The farm is a hobby. I mean, in all consideration, there's a lot of big farmers around me. My 600-acre farm is a hobby farm. Yeah.
Flying right now is a hobby, but if I get into more of a career with somebody, you know, if we end up partnering on a bigger plane and we end up doing more commercial stuff, I'll probably gear more towards that. And I've got a brother that's helping me run the trucking company, so he can dispatch while I'm in the air, and between the two of us, we'll get it taken care of. Yeah.
Yeah, I would love to pursue more of a career in flying. I do love it. But I won't give up trucking completely. Right. And of course the farm is there, and I'm going to be back there spring and fall to do that. So what's a weekend look like down on the Ozarks with the wife and family? It's good. It's real good. You got a big boat? For that lake, I would call it a not-so-big boat.
It is a 35-foot regal. It would be considered a small boat there. I mean, there's a lot of 60-, 70-foot boats down there. You just take the family over to Redheads, get yourself a cheeseburger? Yep. We do that quite a bit. I love it. So what are we looking at over here, Corey? This is the Missouri River? That one is... It doesn't look big enough to be the Missouri River.
No, it's probably the Columbia River, maybe. But it is quite interesting, you see all the trees, and Dave was talking about the ponds outside the acreages, and then you get next to this river, and it is like a mile of actual farm ground again. They're farming the river bottom. Yep, I can't bring up what that river is. It's good, it's just mucky soil. Yeah.
Well, AJ, we appreciate you allowing us to take over your radios and record an episode for the first time in a plane. My pleasure. We might have to go higher when we come back so we can actually be a member of the Mile High Club. Easy to do. I will be in the front seat. You know what happens when you're in the Mile High Club? I was just getting ready to say, I'm going to sit in the front seat.
You and Dave? You and Dave will be in the back seat. I'll make y'all sit in the back. I'm getting kind of nervous. Jesus. I'm not going to reach over and grab the joystick. All right. Much appreciated. We do ask all of our guests a question just to kind of wrap the episode up all together. What's the best food you've ever had and where did you get it from? Oh, boy.
There's a lot of truck stop, you know, hot beef. I'm guessing it didn't come from an airport in Oklahoma. Well, no, it didn't. And I can tell you it didn't happen for me at truck stop either. Good Lord. That's gone downhill majorly. But I would say probably the best, believe it or not, some of the best food that I've had has been local.
Like Des Moines, you know, 801 Chop House and Johnny's and Fleming's. Man, they're all good. I love them places. They do an excellent job. So it's usually on a date night with my wife, you know, trying to get away from the phones and away from everything else. We'll go to Des Moines and have a good steak supper. Yep.
You don't ever just hop in the plane and be like, I feel like going to Kansas City for barbecue. Yeah, there actually is. I mean, speaking of that, there actually is. We go on a dinner flight once in a while. We'll take maybe another couple with us. Very, very good restaurant called Jones Black Angus, and that's up in Prairie Machine, Wisconsin.
It is literally you land at the airport and walk across the street and it is right there. It's it's. Top notch. I mean, they do a great job up there, too. I would compare that to Johnny's in an 801. Really? There, they do a great job.
So I've got to assume every time somebody new gets in your plane, you answer the same doggone questions over and over again that everybody's ever asked you or we asked you. You'd be surprised, man. I mean, it's... There's a lot of people that get in here and they just, they don't say a whole lot. Because they're scared shitless. I think so.
Until they get used to it, you know, then they'll start asking questions, you know. But, yeah, it's kind of amazing. I figured, you know, I get some people in here that are like, hey, what's this do? What's this do? What if I push that button? It's like, don't push that button. Yeah. But that's what's going to happen if Dave comes up. He'll be pushing buttons. Yeah, for the most part.
I mean, first-time flyers are just, they're pretty quiet. They're taking it in and... As we put more hours on, you know, then they start asking questions. Interesting.
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