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

[Doc]

Best ewes I’ve ever had were welsh halfbreds. Maternal AF. Lambs almost as big as mams at 16-18weeks.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I just did over 4000km in Germany, italy, Switzerland and Austria.

Think i seen 1 or 2 pot holes in italy

Thats it for the whole trip.

Intetesting side note the road deaths per capita not much better than oz??

Everyone speeds like mad.

Ant...

You need to know the roads well, to speed much down here.

And even then, you're only as good as the cûnt coming the other way.... was much different when I was a teenager, empty roads.
Turning onto the main drag, you'd have to wait for a car one time in ten, now you wait for a car 9 times out of ten - still "it's farmers ruining the environment", and not cars

Potholes probably do save lives, complacent drivers definitely cost lives - most all of our MVAs that we attend are really just due to foreign conditions, catching tourists out.
Getting crossed up in loose gravel, pulling over too far to take photos and rolling into a ditch, very few high speed head-ons (but when they do, they do it in style)

 

[Kiwi Pete]

 

[TelesnaAg]

Getting really strict on speeding here.

Long stretches now with average speed cameras,you just can’t get away with it.

They have that in place is Switzerland amd europe, the backroads are hell, id be doin 70 where sign posted and pretty tight road and they flogged past me

Every country was the same even in Switzerland, on hwys they were ok, but country roads same ol story, had to be somewhere yesterday.

Ant..

 

[Jim bean]

Ant l had exactly the same in Italy, mad barstewards are always stuck on your exhaust or trying to overtake on blind bends. I just switch to l don't care mode when driving overseas. Mind you Melbourne drivers aren't much different.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Ant l had exactly the same in Italy, mad barstewards are always stuck on your exhaust or trying to overtake on blind bends. I just switch to l don't care mode when driving overseas. Mind you Melbourne drivers aren't much different.

Yep, inly difference in oz if its 60 in town single lane and yr doing 60, rarely would people pass.

Italy is a proper dump, i hated it

Ant

 

[Yale]

Yep, inly difference in oz if its 60 in town single lane and yr doing 60, rarely would people pass.

Italy is a proper dump, i hated it

Ant

That’s made me think back to our honeymoon in Italy.

They have an established image of Ferraris flying around twisty roads,high fashion,Mediterranean villas however the reality is deprived communities.

 

[texas pete]

They have an established image of Ferraris flying around twisty roads,high fashion,

It must just be North Wales then...

 

[CornishTone]

That’s made me think back to our honeymoon in Italy.

They have an established image of Ferraris flying around twisty roads,high fashion,Mediterranean villas however the reality is deprived communities.

I’d like to go to Italy, just for the historical bits really. Rome, Monte Casino, Sicily, Salerno etc. One day... we’ll test our passports post Brexit and see if they still work![emoji57] Failing that, we’ll send the Australian lodger with her passport when she’s old enough and she can report back!

 

[Yale]

It must just be North Wales then...

Saying that a guy who we rent land from up the road had 2 Ferraris in his garage until a couple of years ago,now got rid.

Replaced with a fancy V8 Merc convertible alongside a year old RR Vogue and a new Discovery Sport to go and fetch his paper and run around.

Not that I’m the jealous type.....

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Raking wheat in front of the chopper today.

Cutting in front of me with the windrower.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

While you're baling, here's me feeding stuff out

 

[Blaithin]

Cows got stuck in their last two acres at the summer pasture. They’re quite happy with the tall grass. See how long it lasts them. With harvest being so delayed it wouldn’t be easy to walk them home right now.

 

[Canada Farmer]

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Wallace Footrot, eh

 

[Deerefarmer]

Raking wheat in front of the chopper today. View attachment 833592
Cutting in front of me with the windrower.

C'mon, no chopper pics?

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

C'mon, no chopper pics?

Ha ha. They have only just got here. I have managed to catch the windrower and he had a full days head start....

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Just for @Deerefarmer

 

[Kidds]

My lad was driving one of those for a season about 7 years back up at Longreach.
Don't think it has rained since

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Puts our 5 month "droughts" into perspective, doesn't it?
7 years....... ?

 

[Kidds]

Just saw a pic from Longreach