Probably be fine until a drink driver came along and took you out.
Could be better than boring you to death with his woes ................
Probably be fine until a drink driver came along and took you out.
IIRC Australia has 9 of the worlds 10 most deadly snakes.
I lasted 3 months. Trip to town once a week for supplies/food.
Working with cattle/driving tractors. I'm weird but i quite enjoyed the isolation.
Not too far from farmer roy, a place called walgett. Did look at going back, farmer agreed to sponsor me but never did.
Great people, great country. Back when they'd rain though 2001.
i quite fancy aus or America but it’s a hell of a step.
No it wasn't that far. It was more because we were working 7 days a week we only got in once a week.It might, or might not be 9 out pf 10, but it is quite high. Most of them tend not to be too aggressive. Only once did a snake try to bite me in 13 years there - a red bellied black (quite pretty in a weird sort of way) and it made the mistake of not knowing I always wear wellies - even in 45ºC. It failed to penetrate the welly and died under its heel.
Once a week for supplies? You must have lived fairly close to town. I used to take my wife in about every six weeks. 97 miles each way (to Tamworth) when we first arrived, and then they built a supermarket in Moree, only 50 miles.
A while after the 1982/83 drought I decided I needed some extra cash so did a stint as Finance Director for the Council in Walgett. FYI Walgett Shire Council area is bigger than Wales so the road gangs could be a long way from home. When it is wet those black soil roads are a lot worse to drive on than when it is dry.
We lived in town during the week and just went back to the property at weekends and holiday times. I had become used to not seeing the cattle every day and they did not take any hurt. I had an arrangement with a neighbour to look in mid week so they were seen as often as they would be when I was home all the time. That idea of not seeing the stock every day was the hardest adjustment to make after farming in the UK, but the places are so big you would be doing nothing else. I would ride one horse out in the morning and another in the afternoons. About 15 miles of fencing to keep in order too, so best checking those on horseback and come back with a vehicle when necessary.
No, it is easy to move. We went to Aus in 1979, Black Isle in 1993 and here in 2003 at the age of 59, but our next move (the Azores) will be for retirement. In the meantime I pick olives every dry day for the next few weeks.
But on the Brexit board you have been a strong advocate of Leave and I recall you saying you voted Leave as planned to return to UK for retirement. Unless I misread that or I made it up? In whuch case apologies. If you did though vote Leave and have strongly advocated Leave yet now are not retiring to UK I am somewhat disappointed. Hey ho.
It’s big step when already have my dream farm here , the thing that makes me want to leave is the sh!t politics and crap weather.It might, or might not be 9 out pf 10, but it is quite high. Most of them tend not to be too aggressive. Only once did a snake try to bite me in 13 years there - a red bellied black (quite pretty in a weird sort of way) and it made the mistake of not knowing I always wear wellies - even in 45ºC. It failed to penetrate the welly and died under its heel.
Once a week for supplies? You must have lived fairly close to town. I used to take my wife in about every six weeks. 97 miles each way (to Tamworth) when we first arrived, and then they built a supermarket in Moree, only 50 miles.
A while after the 1982/83 drought I decided I needed some extra cash so did a stint as Finance Director for the Council in Walgett. FYI Walgett Shire Council area is bigger than Wales so the road gangs could be a long way from home. When it is wet those black soil roads are a lot worse to drive on than when it is dry.
We lived in town during the week and just went back to the property at weekends and holiday times. I had become used to not seeing the cattle every day and they did not take any hurt. I had an arrangement with a neighbour to look in mid week so they were seen as often as they would be when I was home all the time. That idea of not seeing the stock every day was the hardest adjustment to make after farming in the UK, but the places are so big you would be doing nothing else. I would ride one horse out in the morning and another in the afternoons. About 15 miles of fencing to keep in order too, so best checking those on horseback and come back with a vehicle when necessary.
No, it is easy to move. We went to Aus in 1979, Black Isle in 1993 and here in 2003 at the age of 59, but our next move (the Azores) will be for retirement. In the meantime I pick olives every dry day for the next few weeks.
No it wasn't that far. It was more because we were working 7 days a week we only got in once a week.
You maybe know the farm if you worked in Walgett, was called Euroka, its shearing sheds were where the wolesley shearing machine was invented. Jim Obrien was farmer.
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, but our next move (the Azores) will be for retirement.
It’s big step when already have my dream farm here , the thing that makes me want to leave is the sh!t politics and crap weather.
Those cougars are dangerous.Probably the odds would be only slightly less than Canada with its snow ,ice bears and worst of all cougars.....???
Is that some green grass?
You'd be fine in Oz , they're commies as well .I could move to the outback no probs.
Heat doesnt bother me
Too many inspectors here.
And other di.ckheads
Our local pub used to be full of farmers and workers on a friday night, now its mobbed with land agents
SocialistsYou'd be fine in Oz , they're commies as well .
Socialists
There is a difference
It can only burn once thoughNot outback but the Eastern side is having a hell of a time with wildfires.
The one around Sydney is now as big as Sydney itself and like the newsreader said their summer coming.. its gonna be blinkin hot and hard for them .
I used similar on a White 150 tractor with broken air con. Dunking your head in a cattle trough helped for a bit as did wrapping a wet sweater round your head.It was probably the most unpleasant job i did in Australia next to working on a sheep farm in the drought for a farmer who thought bullets were too expensive. The clover seed farm was in Naracoorte SA which could n't be classed as outback more of a metropolisIve got a 20yr old Landcruiser Colorado, fantastic motor.
I spent a bit of time in the bush in WA from Banana plantations to sheep stations and clover harvesting in the south, which wasnt quite the green lush haymaking i imagined. It was the forerunner to the enclosed picture, a single machine behind a Chamberlain with the windows knocked out.. by f+++ those first four stubbies barely touched the sides.. Would say the Aussies and their country is/was/are brilliant..
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