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@lyhargr_0 wrote:
@chameleon54 wrote:
@marwi_3023 wrote:
It's actually better to have the old tractor.
Owners aren't allowed to service new ones and it can be days before a service represtative will turn up to your farm and they cost a fortune
I actually own an old 1950,s Fordson Super Major tractor not unlike Daves second photo. It does all of the mowing around the sheds, lays water pipe lines, carts rolls of hay around the farm etc. The old banger is bullet proof and starts every time even if left 12 months between starts. I would much prefer that reliable 60 year old girl to a shiny new one any day.
Yeah lovely old tractor for those who are still stuck in the 50', they dont wanna do too much n take all day to do it ...... Bit like the LNP lol
You have got absolutely no idea have you ?
I,ll enlighten you as to what I,ve done since my last post yesterday morning.
Packed ebay sales from the weekend, raced to the post office and mailed them. Went to the bank, drove home, made some business phone calls, including organising a sign writer to make a sign for my sons new business. Booked a small job into a metal fabricator for later in the week. Packed a suit case and drove up to my farm in the hills. Checked sheep. Fitted a stock crate to my trailer ( has to be winched on ) and drove 250 km. to our remote farm. Stopped on the way and purchased a new stud sire ram ( lot number one in the sale ) using a telephone bid. Stopped again at a small town and purchased a few supplies for the farm and some groceries. Arrived at the remote propertry mid afternoon. Rounded up a mob of sheep and drove them over a km. to sheep yards. Selected 45 to be loaded onto a semi trailer in the morning and be sent to market. Selected another 50 young lambs to be weaned, loaded onto ute and trailer and taken to our hills properties. Finished this job, under lights in the shearing shed at 7.00 pm. THEN used headlights of ute to grapple hook a few overhanging branches of trees to allow access for semi trailer in the morning. Finished this at 8pm. made dinner, got the fire going and several more phone calls confirming truck arrival time etc.
This morning out of bed at 6.30 am. breakfast and set sprinklers going on garden. Returned sheep 1 km. to paddock.Two hours doing some repairs to sheep yards. Made up a device to lift power line to allow semi trailer access to property. Began mowing approx 1 ha. of grass along roadside with industrial mower. Semi arrived, ( one I had not used before ) guided him in and loaded sheep. Returned to mowing. Stopped to repair small breakdown and finished the job. Ducked out to the paddock with skid steer loader equiped with hydraulic post hole borer and finished a strainer post assembly I started last time I went to property. Ran a mob of rams into yards and draughted off the ones needed. Loaded them onto the ute and drove them out to a mob of sheep. Loaded up small lambs onto ute and trailer. I had a few too many, so had to offload a couple back with the ewes to make for comfortable travel for the lambs. Made a phone call to organise some summer adjistment for sheep in the coastal country, tidied house and hand watered a few plants then 250 km. journey with heavy load of sheep back to hills property, stopping at a country roadhouse for a bite to eat along the way. Arrived at hills farm at 7.30 pm., unloaded sheep in the dark and drove another 30 km. home. Another couple of phone calls including organising to pick up ram purchased the previous day, answer ebay messages and then flopped onto the couch around 8.30 pm.
SO, what have you done in the last 24 hours. ?
@davidc4430 wrote:
GEE THANKS dave, very generous but not required. While I have spent over $3000 since my last post buying a ram, fuel for the trip to remote farm, farm supplies and paying the truck driver cartage, the lambs have brought in around $6800, giving a nett income for the last 36 hours of over $ 3.5k ( not including a couple of hundred in ebay sales. )
The knockers can sit at their keyboards tapping away with their petty, little insults all day, ( dave, I dont include your good humoured digs in this...
) but it is those working hard, running businesses and keeping the ecomomy ticking over who actually pay for ALL of the things government spend money on.............
@johcaschro wrote:Gosh, to hear you talk one might almost be lead to believe that you are an altruist instead of a supporter of the most blood suckingest, climate change denialist, stinky-coal wieldingest, environment destroyingest, stompers-on-the-upturned-faces-of-the-poor-and-helpless-while-kicking-back-millions-in-un needed-tax-breaks-to the wealthy, government we have ever had.
How can you sleep at night? Oh, don't tell me; you exhaust yourself with hard physical work so you don't have to lie awake struggling and straining with your crisis of conscience.
I,ll pay you that one - very funny.
As I said in my last post, You have got absolutely no idea about me have you ? All these silly little insults and yet so far off the mark.....
I didnt vote Liberal in the last federal election, or the bye election we recently had. Also no Liberal vote in the last SA state election. I cant actually remember who i voted for before then, but doubt very much that it was Liberal. ( hang on, two elections ago Abbott was the Federal Liberal leader wasnt he ? Definately didnt vote Abbott Liberal..........
)
And for what its worth I agree with you on the " Climate change denialist, stinky-coal weildingest, enviromental-destroyingest, stomping on the upturned-faces-of the poor-and -helpless-while -kicking-back millions- to wealthy etc. etc.although I probably would have worded it slightly different.
I just think that at the moment theres only one thing worse than the Liberals and thats a Shorten led Labor Party
Spoiler
OOPS FORGOT THE GREENS...........
@johcaschro wrote:Gosh, to hear you talk one might almost be lead to believe that you are an altruist instead of a supporter of the most blood suckingest, climate change denialist, stinky-coal wieldingest, environment destroyingest, stompers-on-the-upturned-faces-of-the-poor-and-helpless-while-kicking-back-millions-in-un needed-tax-breaks-to the wealthy, government we have ever had.
How can you sleep at night? Oh, don't tell me; you exhaust yourself with hard physical work so you don't have to lie awake struggling and straining with your crisis of conscience.
Spoiler
I count sheep.............
@johcaschro wrote:Counting your sheep is probably going to become a bit easier in the future as ever-worsening droughts take their toll.
Ok, so you say you're not an LNP supporter. But you sure talk like one sometimes, so perhaps I might be forgiven for drawing that inference.
Whatever, it's a fact that our present govt is doing all in its power to destroy one of the only independent news services we have left in Australia. It doesn't need for you to admit this is so, the facts speak for themselves.
It would be horrible to lose our ABC and have only the Murdoch press massaging their neoliberal message and presenting McNews instead of the real thing.
People who support the LNP are, by definiton, partly responsible for all sorts of evils which confront us today; from a warming, more drought-prone (and less sheep-friendly) planet, to one which soon might not be able to find an independent news service able to hold the govt of the day to account.
This is important.
The drought is certainly making more work for me. The small lambs mentioned are being weaned at 9 weeks of age which is much sooner than normal and moved from our drought stricken remote farm to the SA coastal / near city fringes where we have received some rain. They will need extra work and pampering to compensate for early weaning, but I,m pleased to say, other lambs weaned early are doing exceptionally well at the moment, showing no adverse signs from the early weaning. The mothers are also doing much better, not having to carry the young lambs.
I am going to visit another land owner today, to follow up on the phone call about summer adjistment mentioned earlier. ( while I was supposed to be stuck in the fifties, going slow and taking all day to do nothing...... ) If this goes well, I will have an extra property of feed for my sheep and should be able to carry them all through.
As for climate change, farmers are at the very pointy end of this issue, and none more so than those farming in the semi arid, remote areas that both myself and my extended family farm in. These farmers have made radical changes to the way they grow crops in the last twenty years, being the early innovators and adopters of new technologies to combat rainfall declines. The results have been startling. They are achieving average yield increases of 50%-100% compared to traditional farming methods and this on much more variable and reduced rainfall. The neighbor who crops my remote farm is one of the most innovative around, using a combination of broadacre organic and biodynamic principles, along with reduced chemical weed control and will still produce a harvestable grain crop from less than 100 mm of growing season rainfall.( four inches of rain in the old language )
My response to climate change has been to spread my risk by having properties in both the semi arid interior and high rainfall coastal areas.
As to the LNP,s policies on the environment and climate change, I couldn't agree more that they are destructive and ignorant. To continue to allow wholesale land clearing in Queensland for the Nationals big business farming mates is unconscionable and to even be talking about diverting environmental flows for the River Murray to cotton and rice irrigators in a major drought is frankly absurd. All reasons why I haven't voted Liberal for a very long time.
