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

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

Farmer Roy said:
Who was he ?
What did he do ?

He was the chair of NASDAQ, and also an investment advisor, lender etc.
Had a massive investment co. going which was by all accounts the world's biggest Ponzi scheme, he managed (with help) to fleece billions of dollars from gullible investors.
Now he's in prison for 150 years, the amazing part for me is that they nearly got away with it, people think to be wealthy you need to be really smart or work really hard and yet these wealthy folk had absolutely no clue that Bernie was such a crook!

Blaithin · Jun 30, 2019

Farmer Roy said:
Hey @Blaithin - who do you work for now ? Do they have a website or FB page ? Could you put up a link or tag me please ?
Apart from general interest, a LOT of the Canadian / North American experience is very relevant to us down here as well

https://rr2cs.ca/

Unfortunately most of it is going to be events you can’t go to, unless you feel like travelling

But you might find the podcast interesting and somewhat applicable to life down there. You can also follow the Facebook page and see what sort of things we dig up to talk about. Let me know if you can’t find it and I’ll invite you to it, or whatever the heck one does with pages

Farmer Roy · Jun 30, 2019

Made it back home this weekend, quick paddock inspection of the chickies I planted a few weeks ago
Coming up ok, but there are areas where the wild pigs have just followed the rows along to dig out the seeds, leaving furrows like this behind

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

Farmer Roy said:
Made it back home this weekend, quick paddock inspection of the chickies I planted a few weeks ago
Coming up ok, but there are areas where the wild pigs have just followed the rows along to dig out the seeds, leaving furrows like this behind

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Fecking pigs

Can you bait them?

Have heard phosphorous and spuds is a good way to thin the pansies out a bit, or cyanide.
Maybe buy a few tons of "cake" and kill them with kindness, seems an effective way to wreck animals from what I read on here

Farmer Roy · Jun 30, 2019

Did you read my comments on Lucijet a few pages back ?

Don't really like baiting - even with the approved 1080 - but yes, I may consider it when I get home. Need to do something to keep them in check.
Will definitely resume my trapping / make more traps when I'm back.
Might even be an excuse or kickstart to get me back shooting again.
Dust off the old .243 & maybe look at a lever .44 magnum for quick / closer work ?

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

.243 is a pretty handy round for pigs, on your flat country it would be hard to judge range for heavier slugs? How close d'you reckon you'd get to them?

How about some landmines

A jack-light and shotgun would be my approach, ounce-and-a-half of 00 buckshot will slow them down enough you can beat them to death with your hat

Farmer Roy · Jun 30, 2019

Kiwi Pete said:
Maybe buy a few tons of "cake" and kill them with kindness, seems an effective way to wreck animals from what I read on here

Haha - years ago a mate of mine had an open bunker & a couple of sheds where he was storing 1000's of tonnes of grain sorghum. Anyway, 2 pigs took up permanent residence there. One was nicknamed the "pet pig" - it was literally obese with rolls of fat. Fattest pig I've ever seen. It would have been the equivalent of a 250 kg human . . . The other pug was called the "seeing eye pig", as Pet Pig was so fat it had rolls of fat over its eyes & was effectively blind. Seeing Eye Pig was relatively normal & lean, but it used to stick with Pet Pig & guide it around the place.
Too much of a good thing . . .

I'm guessing Pet Pig eventually succumbed to a heart attack or some other obesity related health issue. Slow way to kill them though

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

Seeing Eye Pig just made my day

Must admit I haven't shot a pig with a rifle in yonks, but I just pick on the little ones that I can carry.
Usually just jump on them and stick them, or use a certain guy's Ruger pistol if they get angry with me

But most here will either use a L/A 30/30 or a .44, or something light like a .223 or similar. You wouldn't take much of a rifle where I go piggin', it's a proper jungle (hence my jump method) and thus I wouldn't take a light calibre .

Open country is a whole different rack of clogs and I'd probably pick something with a flatter trajectory, as it's just so difficult to judge 300m from 420m without putting a few pills in the direction and looking for dust farts - which isn't my way.
Rangefinders are getting cheaper and quite a neat "toy" for other stuff too

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

Ideal pig-stopper

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

Are you reasonably happy with your chickies, though? Look good to me but I have no idea what you'd be expecting.

Steel · Jun 30, 2019

Kiwi Pete said:
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Ideal pig-stopper

Don’t let Arden see that she will take it as well as your AR
I use a 9.3x62 Tika, but people keep telling me my dog would be good on pigs. He killed his second feral cat today and chased a fox 500m The fox has a 200m start on him and he caught it at the fence, but it got away.

Steel · Jun 30, 2019

Farmer Roy said:
Made it back home this weekend, quick paddock inspection of the chickies I planted a few weeks ago
Coming up ok, but there are areas where the wild pigs have just followed the rows along to dig out the seeds, leaving furrows like this behind

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I sowed my chick peas at the start of June and have none up yet. Hopefully the 14mm I got yesterday will get them up. Very late, but should miss the frost by the time they flower.

Farmer Roy · Jun 30, 2019

Steel said:
I sowed my chick peas at the start of June and have none up yet. Hopefully the 14mm I got yesterday will get them up. Very late, but should miss the frost by the time they flower.

Yeah, mine were planted about 75 - 100 mm deep into moisture, so are coming up on that
Bit patchy, but ok at this stage
No rain & none likely either.
These will grow on sub soil moisture or not at all . . .

yellowbelly · Jun 30, 2019

Kiwi Pete said:
Ideal pig-stopper

"Go ahead pig, make my day"

You should consider a name change to Kiwi Clint

Farmer Roy · Jun 30, 2019

Kiwi Pete said:
Are you reasonably happy with your chickies, though? Look good to me but I have no idea what you'd be expecting.

80 % of the battle is getting a crop out of the ground ( assuming we are always planting into a full moisture profile. In our soil types - no subsoil moisture = no planting. Can't "hope" that it will rain . . . )
They are a bit patchy & have a long way to go yet, but in years like this any crop is better than no crop . . .
The areas I've been stripping cotton, north west of Narrabri / Moree, west of the Newel Higjway up to the Queensland border & north of that, are HUGE wheat / chickpea growing areas. They should have finished planting a month ago. There is NOTHING up there . . .

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

Steel said:
Don’t let Arden see that she will take it as well as your AR
I use a 9.3x62 Tika, but people keep telling me my dog would be good on pigs. He killed his second feral cat today and chased a fox 500m The fox has a 200m start on him and he caught it at the fence, but it got away.

She wouldn't know what to do with it; and the way Labour is burning money she can't afford to buy it back, the silly, silly bint

f**k, your dog must be a fairly rapid model ??

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

yellowbelly said:
"Go ahead pig, make my day"

You should consider a name change to Kiwi Clint

I suspect a few already sorta do, but the swear-filter changes it to "Pansy"

holwellcourtfarm · Jun 30, 2019

bitwrx said:
Tell me about these old SAMEs... I heard they had a great reputation in NZ for breaking virgin bush, cos they were tough and 4wd. But I'm not really sure what era it was, or the models that were around at the time.

Yeah, a nice old Same Leopard would do you SO much better than an old JD 6310 Charlie

Kiwi Pete · Jun 30, 2019

holwellcourtfarm said:
Yeah, a nice old Same Leopard would do you SO much better than an old JD 6310 Charlie

Wasn't much "nice" attached to the Same's.

That was much of the advantage in owning one, nothing to them so nothing stopped working. No radiator to leak, simple hydraulics, a big arm powered the steering so there weren't even hoses to burst.

Fuel + battery = tractor

Kidds · Jun 30, 2019

Been running Same tractors for decades and still do. Have a 90 still (other one set itself on fire) and a big old 6 cylinder thing I don’t know the name of.
I have snapped a stick off a 90.

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