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Moving Farm Equipment Safely

 
When it comes to moving farm equipment on public roads, a little planning can go a long way toward preventing accidents. Nicole Hornett is a farm safety specialist at Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. She says it’s all about route planning.
 
Interview with Nicole Hornett (2:32 minute) (1.16 Mb)
Source : Agriculture and Forestry

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It's summertime in Minnesota as a yellow Air Tractor agricultural application aircraft -- a crop duster -- responds to the control inputs of its pilot in a low-altitude dance just above the tops of the cornstalks. Enjoy! And we found a Bell 206 Long Ranger spray helicopter perched on a support truck at the edge of the cornfields, and launching from there. In our video, you can occasionally hear the rotor sounds of the crop-dusting helicopter as we see the yellow Air Tractor in a nearby field.