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

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Wonder how the Poms would go with this dust

neighbors are all flat out dry sowing. This year is unprecedented though this bloke and another neighbor are watering up their crops . In a bad year some may choose to pre irrigate. But this year is certainly extreme.

 

[Farmer Roy]

they would love it
complain about how lucky we are & how unfair it is
they might even make silly statements about wishing for 50 C temps










until they actually experience it for themselves . . .

 

[Ukjay]

they would love it
complain about how lucky we are & how unfair it is
they might even make silly statements about wishing for 50 C temps










until they actually experience it for themselves . . .

I have only experienced 40 degrees whilst on holiday, and people were moaning like feck, so 50 would be a nightmare I would imagine!!

 

[CornishTone]

I have only experienced 40 degrees whilst on holiday, and people were moaning like feck, so 50 would be a nightmare I would imagine!!

I’ve experienced 52 once... and that was enough! 44-45 is not unusual here in the high summer, but it’s rarely lasts for more than a few days at a time and it’s a dry heat which is bearable. It’s the humid 30-35 degs that you get up north which are somewhat less bearable!!!!!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

They issued a flood watch for my area this evening.

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I live up the hill from a dam on the Three Hills creek (That’s the one completely wiping out the road and going around ice flow bridge in my other photos). Right now they’re saying the reservoir is over capacity.

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Going for a drive down there in a bit to see what it looks like.

Typical

You issue a flood alert for people's safety and they all go out to watch it happen


At least I was SUPPOSED to be out there in flooding

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Typical

You issue a flood alert for people's safety and they all go out to watch it happen


At least I was SUPPOSED to be out there in flooding

We don't do that here we only go to the beach when a tsunami warning is issued!!!

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I have only experienced 40 degrees whilst on holiday, and people were moaning like feck, so 50 would be a nightmare I would imagine!!

No. Seriously you can't imagine. Think I've only seen 2 above 50 and one was the day of the 2009 black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. It was bad enough that it was hot. But then to add the 80 to 100khp winds was as shown, catastrophic . And when it's that hot and windy it was literally like opening an oven door

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Basically a flashover waiting to happen in those conditions.
Having worked in temperatures from -35 to over a couple of hundred, there is little good about heat (other than you don't feel cold for a bit)

 

[Kiwi Pete]

they would love it
complain about how lucky we are & how unfair it is
they might even make silly statements about wishing for 50 C temps










until they actually experience it for themselves . . .

Was that by the same poster that offered to give you "a fuking slap" by any chance



I read that one, would be good to watch, few can handle 40° for more than an hour

 

[CornishTone]

No. Seriously you can't imagine. Think I've only seen 2 above 50 and one was the day of the 2009 black Saturday bushfires in Victoria. It was bad enough that it was hot. But then to add the 80 to 100khp winds was as shown, catastrophic . And when it's that hot and windy it was literally like opening an oven door

We had similar conditions during the Pinery Fire. 80km winds and 42 degs. Imagine a fire front 40kms long moving between 50 and 80km/hr through standing crops and bush. Yup, like a fan forced oven!

 

[Farmer Roy]

very observant of you

 

[Farmer Roy]

err, for those of you who asked, here is a vid of cotton picking.
2 machines, a picker ( the one with the smaller front ) & a stripper ( the wider front )
part of a trial comparison with yield & fibre quality between the 2
a mate of mine is running the stripper ( some may remember a pic I posted a few weeks ago of a VERY poor crop he was in )

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=363830594112053

" Pickers vs Strippers. While picking our second ever crop of Dryland Cotton last week, we took the opportunity to collaborate with CSIRO to try and help determine yield and quality differences between the two John Deere Round Module machines. The modules will be sent to the LDC Gin at Moree for ginning and further tests. Thanks to Lachie Melbourne, Ian Gourley and everyone else involved for organising the machinery and logistics "

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Excellent

Um, how the feck do they load those dirty big modules on a truck and not be 11 feet wide?

 

[Farmer Roy]

Excellent

Um, how the feck do they load those dirty big modules on a truck and not be 11 feet wide?

single row, they about 1.8m wide, whatever a truck is. We have pretty tight oversize vehicle laws here

 

[Kiwi Pete]

You would "cube out" before going overweight, you said they were about 2 ton?

Pretty neat anyway, I just guessed they would go on 2 wide and you would have a beer-swilling man in a dusty white pilot vehicle in front

 

[Farmer Roy]

for those who get confused between cotton round modules & cotton bales, this is what a " bale " of cotton looks like. 227 kg of clean cotton lint, after it has been ginned, removing the seeds & any trash. This is the unit of measurement for yield & marketing purposes, what we actually sell & get paid for


that loader grab obviously has a number of bales in it, you can see the individual bales in the shed behind

 

[Farmer Roy]

You would "cube out" before going overweight, you said they were about 2 ton?

Pretty neat anyway, I just guessed they would go on 2 wide and you would have a beer-swilling man in a dusty white pilot vehicle in front

yeah, being overweight isn't an issue


nah, far too many truck movements for that and the modules probably wouldn't survive the trip hanging over the edge like that . Some blokes can stack them 2 high on low loader trailers, but generally just a single row on a flat top , generally 5 or 6 on a single trailer, 8 on a B Double & 10 or more on a Train, depending on size of trailer

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I won't let on even the cotton modules have RFID for ease of traceability to point of origin

Will be too much of this at the cost

 

[Farmer Roy]

following on from the EID debate elsewhere, every one of those modules has its unique bar code on a sticker applied by the picker, after it is wrapped. These are read as the truck enters the gin yard, & every module is tracked this way, back to each field & grower