Orange and Hot Air
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Topic: Orange and Hot Air
Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Subject: Orange and Hot Air
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 6:24pm
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Well I got the balloon up for the 2nd time this year Saturday evening at my farm in Pilot Grove, MO. Flew off the cut hayfield behind the house. Took up my son Lucas and a friend of my farming partner. We got about 4 miles in 45 minutes. With 2 passengers and warm temps I landed a little early as beyond my landing spot was nothing but trees and crops and I go through fuel faster when it's warmer. I drove my two D17's and my 180 down to take some pics after takeoff. The D17 Series III that I got back this spring has my new to me 172 mower behind it courtesy Michael Crowe...works great! The 180 has a FMC 7X7 3 point mounted brush hog. The Series IV was all by itself. It was a great flight and a good weekend at the farm! Mike Here's some pics:       Pilot Grove, MO:  View of most of the farm. Beans in my NW bottom are in the long field, solid green in the lower right. Across the creek in the North bottom is Corn, center left of pic with hay field on the hill to the left. Wet spots were replanted with 90 corn but there are still skips :-( Across and back from that next the the launch site is the south bottom that had wheat with double crop beans in it now. Pasture, old silo & hay barn on the right of the pic. More beans on a hill top sort of center right...unfortunately my partner's cows got into them and mowed them off. They were planted the same day as the other early beans...you can see the field is barely green.  Lamine River and another friend's wet bottom ground:  I-70 looking east toward Boonville, MO. We landed off Hwy M just North of I-70.   ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
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Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 6:52pm
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OK Mike, I knew your tractors where camera hogs but they are getting out of hand now! lol Nice shots of your farm!
If you'd called I'd come over and helped get you in the air old buddy.
My corn is in the same shape too.
Don ------------- 3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 7:09pm
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whoooooowe! I had no idea what was coming from a topic "orange and hot air"! heaven knows we have an abundance of both on this site. LOL
Lookin' good Mike ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: powertech84
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 7:29pm
| Interesting, i guess i never realized it would take more fuel when its hot out, but thinking about it, i guess it it makes perfect sense. The air in the ballon has to be that much hotter. |
Posted By: Jacob (WI,ND)
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 7:41pm
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Very cool! That is one thing on my "bucket list" to ride in a balloon. ------------- Jacob Swanson 1920 6-12; 1925,1926 20-35 longfenders; 1925,1926 15-25's; 1927,1929 20-35 shortfenders; C; B's; IB; WC's; WD; WD45 |
Posted By: Rick
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 7:52pm
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Mike, The pics look great! I especially like the pic of Pilot Grove...it would make a nice calendar pic! The countryside probably looks super from the air,I'm just too darn afraid of heights or I would go up with you. LOL!
Don, Isn't he forgetting one of his tractors in that tractor pic? I never seen the WD45. What's up with that,Mike...ol' buddy? LMAO! Rick
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Posted By: Dave(inMA)
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 8:27pm
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Hi Mike - great pictures - thanks for sharing them! Especially enjoyed the "higher and higher" pictures of your tractors. ------------- WC, CA, D14, WD45 |
Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 8:37pm
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Neat pics Mike, I don't think I'd last to long in that balloon and I'd want to be back on the ground, to high up for me. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2010 at 9:08pm
for some reason, fear of heights often does not apply in ballooning. My loving bride has a healthy fear of heights, but I convinced her to do a balloon ride with me and she had a ball. She said for some reason it was different. This is the same woman that slides down in her seat crossing a high bridge! I highly recommend it! ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Rick wrote:Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 8:33am
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Lou - my wife has the same fear of heights and it's exactly as you said, she is okay with going up in the balloon and loves it....she just hasn't been up in a few years. So Rick no excuses any more...think I need to come out again to your place and take you up and show you what you've been missing. And as for the WD45...it's down in the "Red Barn" in the pic...still waiting for me to start work on it...every trip to the farm seems like it has 10 other things on the priority list...and I spend most of my first day mowing and getting stuff cleaned up before I can do any other projects. But I have to get to it very soon as I need to have it ready before fall to go get my 190 picker. Mike ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: BobHnwO
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 12:41pm
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Bout fell outta my chair,makes me dizzy!
------------- Why do today what you can put off til tomorrow. |
Posted By: orangereborn
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 1:46pm
| Awesome....That's what you call true million dollar views....Dale |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 4:54pm
| Really great pictures. Thanks for sharing. Wish I could be a Dale's this year - always enjoyed watching your launch -- but things just aren't working out right. Goofy weather has got me behind, gotta do what I gotta do. Hope you have a great time at Dale's. |