Today at work

[Muddyroads]

Yes, Financially satisfying,
I do wonder when dismantling, that when installed they never had Forklift, Telehandler, etc, just ladders and rope.

Like a modern Stonehenge!

 

[Pan mixer]

Yes, Financially satisfying,
I do wonder when dismantling, that when installed they never had Forklift, Telehandler, etc, just ladders and rope.

I have put them up (and taken some down) with ladders and a block and tackle, it was hard work but much better when we had a ratchet on a socket. Much easier with a loader. Block and tackle were fine in a decent barn when there was something above to hang them on. Makes me shudder to think of doing that nowadays.

 

[Muddyroads]

I have put them up (and taken some down) with ladders and a block and tackle, it was hard work but much better when we had a ratchet on a socket. Much easier with a loader. Block and tackle were fine in a decent barn when there was something above to hang them on. Makes me shudder to think of doing that nowadays.

As a teenager I helped to put a new bell frame into the church tower. Cutting into blocks of stone that we calculated to be way over 2 tonnes each, 80’ above the ground, built around 1000 years ago, it was an incredible experience and has stayed with me to this day.

 

[Pan mixer]

As a teenager I helped to put a new bell frame into the church tower. Cutting into blocks of stone that we calculated to be way over 2 tonnes each, 80’ above the ground, built around 1000 years ago, it was an incredible experience and has stayed with me to this day.

One of my old building built in the 1950s -30 foot trusses on up to 18 feet high uprights was all put up with shear legs and ropes, that wouldn't have been too exciting.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Mungs

 

[Farmer Roy]

Sorghum

 

[Farmer Roy]

Ok, we have mice issues in the sorghum.
Am going to put the plane over it, baits ( treated wheat ) at 1 kg / ha.
About $8 / ha for the bait & $8 / ha for the plane.
You can even smell the mice in the crop

 

[Farmer Roy]

I was working on a farm in the very thick of this, in 1984
Watch the video included in the below link. Old mate with the flame thrower was the next door neighbour, managing a corporate property, & I know / knew all the people featured.
We were sowing barley ( early cereal here ) at the time. With a 48 ‘ airseeder on 9 “ spacings. Every morning, you had to clear every seed boot & air hose, as they were all full of mice, climbing into the hoses looking for grain. You might end up with a few dead mice jammed upfront in the hose, then a heap of live mice stuck behind them, in a 1” hose that could be over 2 m long . . . We had a long piece of half inch steel rod that we used like a cleaning rod to push through the hoses & clear out the dead / stuck mice. Or you swing the hose around your head as fast as you could & hope centrifugal force did it’s thing. There are a lot of hoses on a 48’ Gyral airseeder . . . I was only 18 but I was the one driving the tractor & doing the planting, so it was me who was doing this every morning. Never forgotten it . . .
Didn’t matter if we left the machine out of the ground or buried as deep as it would go, mice would still get up into the seed boots & hoses. All we could do was fold it up so the wings were up in the air, but they still got into the centre section.
From memory, we stopped sowing as we realised the mice were digging the seed out of the ground . . .
Just after the barley sowing ( before wheat, our major crop then ), the farm took delivery of a brand new Versatile 946 4wd artic tractor. It was literally driven off the back of a truck & parked up. The mice got into it & destroyed the cab, eating all the soundproofing & dust proofing in the cab & electrical wiring, dyeing in the A/C in the roof, pîssing & shîtting all through it . . .
It was disgusting
Hate the smell of mice

Disturbing 'felt highway' footage a worry amid warnings mice plague may worsen
A video from the 1980s has resurfaced, making those living through the eastern states' current mouse plague count their blessings.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Farmer Roy]

PS - a repurposed liquid style fire extinguisher, filled with petrol & then pressurised, makes a very effective ( if somewhat dangerous) home made flame thrower

 

[Baker7810]

Day trip over to minaret station, Wanaka NZ

 

[grainboy]

More of the same, just got to get this strengthened concrete plinth out.

 

[benny6910]

 

[benny6910]

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Trying to make it dry up a little

 

[DrWazzock]

A proper clean and degrease, new bearings in the cooling fan and new belts in the Deutz on the Bateman Hi Lo.

 

[Flat 10]

Yes, spread at 10-20 tonnes/acre. A good soil conditioner and decent source of N. Waiting for an analysis for this lot. Certified organic too.

How can it be organic? Glad for you that you can use it but doesn't seem very organic to me.

 

[Flat 10]

Ok, we have mice issues in the sorghum.
Am going to put the plane over it, baits ( treated wheat ) at 1 kg / ha.
About $8 / ha for the bait & $8 / ha for the plane.
You can even smell the mice in the crop

No one waits for beneficial build up then?! Have all the birds of prey and mammalian predators been shot or something?

 

[Wombat]

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Nice digger, 307?

 

[benny6910]

Nice digger, 307?

Thanks yes it’s a 307 it’s a good size digger for farm work I think

 

[Wombat]

Thanks yes it’s a 307 it’s a good size digger for farm work I think

Yup i have a grey import Japense 307 with knuckle boom and think its a lovely machine. I honestly out of everyhting i have bought the last 10yrs wonder how we ever managed without the digger

 

[JohnD]

Bit of a standoff this pm. This bunch are arrogant buggers. They won't move if in a vehicle. I' m sure they are still pee. ed off the beet have gone. View attachment 938825

look at all the burgers and sausages