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

[Kiwi Pete]

I had to laugh about the lawnmower bit! Have you managed to find it yet - or is tgat the day coming when you fall over it

As for us, still got a lot to learn, and we had hoped we would be able to leave this tiny Island and move away after our daughter finishes Uni, but things are becoming so restrictive where we had planned, that we doubt that will be an opportunity for us so have probably left things too late, but still our goal until they say no!

Ah, it did show up.
I asked Sarah and the kids if they'd seen it around anywhere



And then I went out to get some corn cobs for dinner one night and it was right there!

Gee I felt silly but we have 4 mowers in total- uncle's ride-on, a good pushmower, a rowdy one for driveways (the escapee) and one that I chopped up for my seaweed-mincer project. Amazing when you see the size of our lawn now....
But polyculture is the way to go, checkout some of the permaculture FB pages for inspiration, is my best advice.
A bit like sheep and cows and chooks together, things form symbiotic relationships and help each other out.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Have you anymore pics of that method of erection? A stop Frame video would have been great!

Mate it goes up that quick i had time for one pic...basically you build the roof on the ground...can build way more accurate.my new shed is 30m long built to the mm.
Then you attach one bolt in coloumns or legs etc...and lift with a crane or two...then sit down one end at a time...onto bolts in concrete...then put trusses to coloumn bolts in...takes about an hour and its all erected...then a few days bolting on all the brackertry and tin etc....

Reduces the amount of height work and is quicker

Ant...

 

[TelesnaAg]

Tough week...glad when this us all done...

Ant....

 

[MB Trac]

@TelesnaAg, was your shed put up like this one ?

 

[TelesnaAg]

@TelesnaAg, was your shed put up like this one ?

Correct....

Ant...

 

[opininionated]

Correct....

Ant...

At the top of the stanchion, where it pivots, do they have a special bracket or do they simply just put one bolt in?

 

[MB Trac]

Correct....

Ant...

You still posting on the Combine Forum ? Always liked your posts on there. After that whole password fiasco I lost interest in that forum.

 

[TelesnaAg]

You still posting on the Combine Forum ? Always liked your posts on there. After that whole password fiasco I lost interest in that forum.

Yes, but its pretty quiet...i like to learn and to be honest i get alot more from TFF, as i am in high rainfall 800-1000mm so its more relevant. THe combine forum is more the bigger farmer and mainly canada...a few ozzies...i get alot from probably more the seeding side as its a good resource for learning about openers etc...

I hold the record for the thread with most posts....my claim to fame lol...and a donald trump thread before election that i thought would die on page 3...400 plus pages later still going...i have learnt alot about history and banking from that...and opened my eyes to the level of corruption...i always thought that was africa...clintons put them to shame...with media these days the world is far from as it seems...im happy i learnt that information....

Ant....

 

[MB Trac]

Yes, but its pretty quiet...i like to learn and to be honest i get alot more from TFF, as i am in high rainfall 800-1000mm so its more relevant. THe combine forum is more the bigger farmer and mainly canada...a few ozzies...i get alot from probably more the seeding side as its a good resource for learning about openers etc...

I hold the record for the thread with most posts....my claim to fame lol...and a donald trump thread before election that i thought would die on page 3...400 plus pages later still going...i have learnt alot about history and banking from that...and opened my eyes to the level of corruption...i always thought that was africa...clintons put them to shame...with media these days the world is far from as it seems...im happy i learnt that information....

Ant....

I always followed all the Aussies posts, like you also for the seeding setups, because its so very much the same soil types as around here. Specifically the Western Australian region.

 

[TelesnaAg]

I will custom make a tyne and disc tool bar with one common aircart or seed box etc..

Ant...

 

[MB Trac]

I will custom make a tyne and disc tool bar with one common aircart or seed box etc..

Ant...

Something like this?

 

[Princess Pooper]

No infrastructure is almost a blessing for grazing big numbers of cattle. Reels and a GPS app on your phone give them 1/90th of your area per day for 90 days,
put portable water troughs on any areas you want them concentrated on...tank on a trailer... Robert is then your mother's brother.

Animals do not have to pull your plough to work for you.

@Farmer Roy https://agersens.com/shepherd/ not sure how well this works but it's an OZ company. The only problem is you might just have trained them up when it's time for them to go for slaughter on your proposed system - better have sucklers instead

 

[Kiwi Pete]

@Farmer Roy https://agersens.com/shepherd/ not sure how well this works but it's an OZ company. The only problem is you might just have trained them up when it's time for them to go for slaughter on your proposed system - better have sucklers instead

Thanks for that - I do remember seeing that article before (oh to replay all that I've seen before),, a pretty cool concept for these broadacre cropping operators that want to incorporate livestock but don't want to spend all day with fencing

 

[Farmer Roy]

Hey pansies
I'm back

 

[glensman]

Hey pansies
I'm back

g'day ya flamin drongo

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Back for some more inspiration Roy!

 

[Farmer Roy]

Or incoherent drunken random swearing

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Go on then cupcake
Let's be hearing about life on the ranch

 

[Farmer Roy]

cupcake ?
im curious as to what the original was before the TFF Swear Police Censorship Board got to it

 

[Farmer Roy]

Ok, some background info for the ones late to the party
I'm located in north west NSW, nearest main town Gunnedah. Approx 31 S 150 E, which in the northern hemisphere puts me somewhere in line with Egypt or Libya or somewhere . . but we do have better soils . . .
100% dryland Cropping, 2 seasons a year. Cool climate crops like wheat, canola, chickpeas, barley etc through the winter, warm season crops like cotton, Sorghum, mungbeans, sunflower, etc through the summer.
Heavy black self mulching clay soils, high OM, neutral PH. Open alluvial floodplain, original vegetation was open grassland like the North American prairies or southern African Veldt
Rainfall supposedly 24" & summer dominant pattern, but VERY variable & seems to be getting more extreme.
Temps can go from say -7 C to 47C, although last summer was hottest on record, this winter just gone was hottest / driest on record & this spring has already broken records for heat & lack of rainfall
Cropping is basically all zero till ( mainly to conserve soil moisture. We grow crops on stored soil moisture, not in crop rainfall ) but I'm not a fundamentalist nazi about it. Sometimes we need to work the ground eg after a wet harvest & deep wheel tracks, to control chemical resistant weeds, or pupae busting after cotton to control resistant insects.
Me - I'm 51. Divorced. 2 teenage girls. Remarried. A 9 yr old son.
My great great grandfather came here from England in the mid 1800's, he was the second mayor of Bathurst, the first inland town in NSW after the Blue Mountsins were crossed. We have been around this area since the early 1900's.
My mother came out from Scotland in the late 1950's as a nurse on assisted passage. I have Right of Abode in the UK & spent 3 yrs there in the late 80's - early 90's working on farms.
With deaths / family partnerships / divorce ect, we have lost a lot of land since I was a kid - from over 4000acres to now me just owning 1400 & leasing another 1100 next door. I also do contract planting work, & the occasional casual work at a local funeral home just for sh1!s n giggles ( the manager is a friend of mine )
So - there's some background