Hello welcome to Kate's Ag today I'm here in in Endelave Denmark
with Paul Toth a very close family friend of my family in Montana and
you actually spent some time in Montana which is so awesome yes
go to Farm in Dutton 1981 and 1982. that is so cool and you're also a pilot like my dad yes and
I've done my first solo recently so we're going to take a trip in the Piper Cub today yes one
time in the old days a Piper Cub was the most usual light airplane when people saw a small
airplane they would say it's a Piper Cub they're easy to recognize when they were new they were
all yellow yes I've never flown in a Piper Cub before or with a control stick well it's easy
well this will be very fun thank you my driver solo um actually you do three and that was where
um uh winds went South you know they have a truck with um with a big like like a fishing thing but
we're a big diesel engine and uh and a steel cable and then about uh three quarter mile stretch so
when when you fly gliders when you prepare they take the slack out of the of the cable and it
it sort of you could see it moving in the grass and it rattles and then at some point it's it's
taught and then you look out at the guy holding the wing and wave everything clear and then they
just they open the throttle on this thing it has a very light Glide of course and has maybe 200
horsepower or something wow so it just accelerates like like a race car and you're in in 20 yards
you're off the ground and then climbing actually quite steep but the the funny thing in in Germany
after we land in the evening or late afternoon so when after this was done the instructor comes over
I didn't know this and it wasn't a bucket of ice water or anything the instructions
in German left or right I had no idea so I just said one of those things and then the
instructor grabs this person bend you over for us and hold and then he slaps whatever
side you have said and suddenly you have 20 people all the other students in a long line
and they come running and they and they slap as hard as they can oh no so in that evening I
can only sit on one side oh my goodness so would each country I guess have a different tradition
um actually you get a little bunch of flowers that the instructor picks out in the field
while while his his watching the airplane yeah yes oh wow that's pretty cool in the Air Force
they grabbed the new pilots when they come down from the solo and and throw them in the they have
like a pond for for water you know water plant for for the for their fire that is so cool they
would throw him out there but the the glider pipe was in German they slap you behind a memory I'll
have forever I had no idea my instructor had said to me on a very bad day one months um would you
like to try it by yourself and of course I hadn't done any landings that day by myself so I said no
no so I when he asked me I thought it was a test of good decision making so I said no no and he
said are you sure and I said are you joking that I could possibly solo and then he told me I could
um and and I was just very nervous but super excited and I definitely wanted to I did all
my landings um completely that day and it was just dead wind as well
anyway let's go okay yes I'm now here with Victoria Paul's daughter and you're also
a pilot which is so awesome hi yes uh yeah I've been I mean in this family flying is part of life
so I grew up with flying and it was kind of a natural progression to get a license of my own
that's amazing and do you love it yeah I really like it especially the plane you're in right now
I'm sure you'll enjoy the flight you're about to go on because it's really
for me it's uh what do you call it it's like real flying you can open the door and when the weather
is like today it's really nice that's amazing and what did you learn to fly on the island fly
actually in the Cessna next door oh really yeah that's the one I uh schooled in that is so cool
foreign yeah it's the the transport plane if you will but it's also I enjoy flying that
one as well that is awesome do you remember your first solo experience
was it scary um yeah a little bit like I I wasn't I didn't know it was going to be that
day that's the same that happened to me too so the instructor just said I I think you're
doing fine I'm just gonna get off you know kind of thinking in my head I was like are you sure
like you know you know right but then at the same time you're a little bit apprehensive uh and then
the first time you get full power when you're alone in the plane it takes off immediately
exactly I was so surprised me too the scariest part was the takeoff for me not the landing yeah
now I'm here with Paul Toft and you also spent time with my family farming in Montana and got
to experience Montana Harvest yes which is quite amazing I was there from Easter
in 1981 until just before Christmas 1982. oh I experienced all the all the doings on the farm
and skiing and snowmobiles and water skiing in the summer and it was great that's awesome
agriculture is very certain certain parts of it of course in the beginning mainly the main
thing to notice is the size of the equipment well here we can grow a lot of things and the fields
are smaller and we get a lot more rain yes so that's different from Montana did you drive
combine at Harvest yes I did I did actually the second summer I was there I I drove a lot on the
combine yes that's my favorite part but also I also drove the grain truck and of course tractor
and sprayed and picked rocks when when the time was there so I more or less tried everything I
went actually with your dad to a branding at your bro or your uncle Shorts in Augusta oh
it's quite an experience I bet it was saying quite nice now you're an aviation mechanic in Denmark
yes which is awesome so you're also a pilot just like my dad yes and your two daughters are also
Pilots which is phenomenal or my whole family flies we we have a couple of old airplanes so
um that keeps us going it's basically here we are on a small island we have
um Landing Strip right next to the to the house it's easy to get back and forth what are some
stuff in this country a lot has happened over the last 40 years it's 40 years ago I was in Montana
so now actually some of the Farms got tractors almost the size of of the the tractors you have
the one of the major differences maybe the we don't have the big hitters on the on the big
combines because um the barley and the wheat fields are they're spaced further apart yes
because we don't have the rainfall to see it as many kernels per per row and that's close together
yes and because of your extra rainfall you're able to produce more crops so when you seed more
you'll have a bigger Harvest but if we seed more that plant will just die because there's no water
to help it grow what are your biggest producing crops for Denmark or or what is Denmark known for
for agriculture um I think actually mainly we're known for production of of pork and because of
that we have lots fields of barley but over the years as it it seems like the the temperature
has been racing in the old days they were growing corn in Northern Germany but now actually people
grow corn up here as well so that's used a lot for feed and kind of advancements in technology
helped Farmers be able to do that I'm sure it does yes it takes different equipment well we be
the normal size of your combine header I am not working in agriculture anymore but but I I see
many combines the the in the old days the header could just sit on they could drive along on the
road but now now they are on a trailer behind the combine so they're actually quite big what type of
my dad bought this place 50 years ago and the first 25 years we actually cultivated the soil
and had barley or wheat or rape seeds my dad also planted a lot of trees we have hazelnuts walnuts
plums but it's not more than ourselves that we we use and and friends come and get and I love
that you have such a large focus on Farm to Table here and fresh food I mean you bike down to the
the vegetable garden to pick up vegetables for dinner yes every day and that's really nice it is
thank you so much for inviting me and I've just had a wonderful time it's been
a pleasure thank you for coming it was very nice we're looking forward to your next visit
and we're looking forward to you coming to Montana oh we should yes yes most definitely
we miss it I miss it yes bye bye for real I'll talk for your day.
that was very enjoyable you're welcome anytime
I'll come and have a flight with you in Montana yes that would be wonderful
you're welcome anytime good thank you [Music]