Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Owaka, New Zealand

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,721

We had a wee bit of snow this time last year, no such luck this year

but it could still come between now and Christmas.

Gum trees look cold in the snow, they aren't really dressed for it

 

CornishTone

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BASIS

Location

Cornwall

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,722

Winter wonderland!

https://www.facebook.com/105735272820062/posts/3304726346254256

 

cows sh#t me to tears

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

southern riverina Australia

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,723

I've got to say this morning was the coldest non frost/foggy morning I can ever remember here. Currently 1°c , local weather says feels like -3°c . And it certainly did feel every bit like it.Even the frost fans in the citrus grove near us didnt start till 7am . Normally they would be going half the night.
And before you say anything @Blaithin . We have had colder mornings. But they always have frost with them. There was hardly a hint this morning, not even ice on any of the gates.

 

Blaithin

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Alberta

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,724

1C isn’t freezing, why would there be ice? Just because it feels like -3 to us doesn’t mean it’s cold enough for ice.

Don’t think we get frost and frost warnings until it’s -1 or -3 or something like that.

 

cows sh#t me to tears

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Livestock Farmer

Location

southern riverina Australia

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,725

We get frosts at that temp if there is no air movement what so ever. That's why there was no frost at 5am. There was a mild wind. Hence why frost fans weren't going.

 

Kidds

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Horticulture

Location

Near Beeston Castle

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,726

Was this an arctic blast?

 

cows sh#t me to tears

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

southern riverina Australia

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,727

Yes.

 

CornishTone

Member

BASIS

Location

Cornwall

• Aug 4, 2020

• #31,728

Sure it wasn’t an Antarctic blast?[emoji6]

 

cows sh#t me to tears

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

southern riverina Australia

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,729

Dont you start !

 

Farmer Roy

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

NSW, Newstralya

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,730

Was a bit fresh sleeping outdoors the other night

 

holwellcourtfarm

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,731

Have you all seen the news from Beirut? So that's what nearly 3000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate going bang looks like, utter devastation.

Reminds me of the bad old days of the '70s there.

 

CornishTone

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BASIS

Location

Cornwall

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,732

holwellcourtfarm said:

Have you all seen the news from Beirut? So that's what nearly 3000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate going bang looks like, utter devastation.

Reminds me of the bad old days of the '70s there.

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Hell of a bang! Takes quite a few stars to align to make AN go off like that. There was also talk of a Hezobllah munitions dump and munitions seized from a ship being stored near there. Put all that together and... you have your stars!

Death toll in Lebanese capital rises to 135 as about 5,000 people are wounded – as it happened

Lebanese TV reports latest toll as government declares two-week state of emergency in Beirut after half the city damaged in blast

www.theguardian.com

 

Farmer Roy

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

NSW, Newstralya

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,733

 

Karliboy

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

West Yorkshire

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,734

Good stuff Roy. Does that mean your there for good now. I think I remember you saying you were just temping or something when you first started there.
How’s your crops looking ?

 

Farmer Roy

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

NSW, Newstralya

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,735

f**king cûnt tractor has shît itself again

doing the same job as before when a steering ram seal failed ( which, like last time, I’m trying to do before it rains on Friday. Rain beat me last time also, with last breakdown )
This time, I’ve blown a hose for the steering, up somewhere between the engine & the chassis rails where I can’t even see it or work out how to access it - but there is a big stream of hydraulic oil spraying out from there . . .
EVERY single f**king time I rely on this tractor, it lets me down

 

Henarar

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,736

that's the trouble they don't break so much when your not using them

 

holwellcourtfarm

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,737

Some folk laugh when I say the No 1 important feature of any farm machine is reliability. That's partly why I'm shocked at the stuff manufacturers are pushing these days. Keep hearing of lots of minor faults in new tractors and big bills within first few years!

She must be REALLY pissing you off now.....

 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,738

holwellcourtfarm said:

Some folk laugh when I say the No 1 important feature of any farm machine is reliability. That's partly why I'm shocked at the stuff manufacturers are pushing these days. Keep hearing of lots of minor faults in new tractors and big bills within first few years!

She must be REALLY pissing you off now.....

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yep and the more crap thats put on them the more there is to go wrong

 

cows sh#t me to tears

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Livestock Farmer

Location

southern riverina Australia

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,739

Insurance and a 🕯(closest emoji to a match on my phone).

 

Farmer Roy

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Arable Farmer

Location

NSW, Newstralya

• Aug 5, 2020

• #31,740

cows sh#t me to tears said:

Insurance and a 🕯(closest emoji to a match on my phone).

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good idea, although I dropped all non essential insurance a couple of years ago to save money

was also planning on replacing this tractor about 3 years ago, but the last few years haven’t been conducive to much spending . . .