finished the paddock (averaged 3.8 tonnes per hectare), unhitched the comb and hitched up to the rear ready for towing, jumped back in the glass castle glanced at the highway (about 3 kms away down the hill) and it's firetrucks and coppers and ses all over the joint
southbound semi with a load of round bails caught alight, 38degrees out here with a strong northerly, she was well alight but it looks lie the boys have it under control, lucky to catch it just there another 1 or 2 k's up the road and it's all crops
yeah the price of wheat at the moment is close to marawhichy prices, it's like picking up ten dollar notes, floating around the $250 per tonne delivered Port Pirie, it fluctuates during the day
now Ducky , you got me thinking (the onboard computer doesnt deal in bags to the acre like we used to) so heres one for you while I have my cuppa and wait for some fuel
we averaged 3.89 tonnes per hectare, there are 3...... 60 pound bushells to a bag of wheat
1 Tonne = 36.74371 Bushells
so theres one for you, when I try to work it out in my tired frame of mind it comes up wrong
the chatter on the uhf is unsure of the cause of the fire, some say spontaneous combustion, others say a bit of junk from the smoke stacks, others are saying a passing car chucked a cigarette butt out, nobody knows as yet!
they got the prime mover away and saved the flatbed but the load is a writeoff!
Reminds me of "the good old days" when a few heavy showers followed by days of high temperatures would have the uncovered hay/straw stacks virtually exploding into flame.
Not nice.
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fuel still not here yet, hell it's weird after having the engine droning constantly in the background to come out to silence, my ears are ringing trying to get some sound
anyway, yeah rolly I have seen a few stacks go up through exactly that description, the funniest one was when my uncle chased a wildcat into the stack, let go with the 12 guage and burnt the whole lot down
got a couple of trailers down there now picking up the leftovers, god knows what they want that for, mulch I suppose, I see super cheap charges $8 for a small plastic bag of pea straw, hell we've got tons of it out here
got a couple of trailers down there now picking up the leftovers, god knows what they want that for, mulch I suppose, I see super cheap charges $8 for a small plastic bag of pea straw, hell we've got tons of it out here
Start bagging son, start bagging, could be a millionaire in no time flat.
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everything in here, better than at home, I can even play dvd's, big difference when I first started in the game, he's talking about updating to a bigger better one next year, god knows what will be in there
just got a message from the boss, shredded a tyre, stepped out of the cab just as the wall gave way and exploded, missed him by no more than two feet, took about ten years off his life he reckoned, I'll bet he's got a brown streak in his dacks
Hey Davo.......I was up Burra way over weekend.....dammmm its dry'n out fast.....this heat not helping.....I was east of Mt Bryan....looking back over hallett windfarm....if I could see it between the flies..
Gee, 5 bags to the acre. The ****ies must be doing cartwheels with joy out that way. Meanwhile the Eyre Pen farmers just have to look on - again. The Lower Eyre Pen usually does ok, but if they had storms they'd miss out too. It seems fish farming is the way to go in that part of the world.
Floods in northern NSW and SE Qld, heat in SA, rain in FN Qld.
It's a large country/island, with a vast diversity of climates, all at the same time.
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not exactly sure Ducky, I think this is the last of the wheat possibly one more, then we have Barley and some peas???
I just keep going until there aint no more, I dont know how much he sowed, I think he put her all in seeing as to how it was forecast as good year! I reckon another month will kill it, maybe less
I heard on the gripevine that over georgetown/gulnare way they are pulling between 10 and twelve bags, this paddock is not so flash, I'll be finished in here by tommorow morning at this speed
yeah theres a rain band that goes through from roughly wirrabara right the way down to the clare valley, wished I owned a few hundred acres down there
I will be over in the Beetaloo valley this afternoon, cant wait to see what the readout will be from that, may have to pick individual wheat seeds by hand the heads are so big and fat, it'll be like picking up $100 notes
