AndrewB
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Yea @shearerlad long time ago now.
when we finished college most of us went to Australia to do a harvest..
6 of us where on the same large farm, he ran 4 headers 24 hrs a day, we were lucky as we were home to our own bed every night and had a full time cook to look after us. Some friends worked for a contractor in the east and they weren’t so lucky, sleeping in headers or dirty shearer quarters as they moved about the country. I went back for another 2 harvests the farm paid for return flights as they couldn’t source reliable local workforce. We were treated like family by the boss, Xmas day with his familybooked us accommodation and gave us farm vehicles to go to Perth at new year etc.
we worked hard for 2.5 months end of Oct to beginning of Jan but we partied harder for the next 3-4 months travelling Australia and New Zealand spending our hard earned money.
A few of the boys stayed on to do a season in New Zealand or seeding in Australia but I stupidly came home to do spring work.
It was a great experience and would throughly recommend it to any young person before they get tied down and response abilities in life. Try and get some recommendations from people that have been out there recently.
The farm we were at was sold to Lawson grains, we had at least 10 years of local lads heading from Scotland the same farm all though word of mouth no need for CV s.
when we finished college most of us went to Australia to do a harvest..
6 of us where on the same large farm, he ran 4 headers 24 hrs a day, we were lucky as we were home to our own bed every night and had a full time cook to look after us. Some friends worked for a contractor in the east and they weren’t so lucky, sleeping in headers or dirty shearer quarters as they moved about the country. I went back for another 2 harvests the farm paid for return flights as they couldn’t source reliable local workforce. We were treated like family by the boss, Xmas day with his familybooked us accommodation and gave us farm vehicles to go to Perth at new year etc.
we worked hard for 2.5 months end of Oct to beginning of Jan but we partied harder for the next 3-4 months travelling Australia and New Zealand spending our hard earned money.
A few of the boys stayed on to do a season in New Zealand or seeding in Australia but I stupidly came home to do spring work.
It was a great experience and would throughly recommend it to any young person before they get tied down and response abilities in life. Try and get some recommendations from people that have been out there recently.
The farm we were at was sold to Lawson grains, we had at least 10 years of local lads heading from Scotland the same farm all though word of mouth no need for CV s.