finished the paddock (averaged 3.8 tonnes per hectare), unhitched the comb and hitched up to the rear ready for towing, jumped back in the glass castle glanced at the highway (about 3 kms away down the hill) and it's firetrucks and coppers and ses all over the joint

 southbound semi with a load of round bails caught alight, 38degrees out here with a strong northerly, she was well alight but it looks lie the boys have it under control, lucky to catch it just there another 1 or 2 k's up the road and it's all crops

poor bugger, his loads gone

Probably threw a smoke out the window.....................



How many bags is that to the acre DaveO??

-- Edited by Disco Duck on Sunday 8th of November 2009 02:28:18 PM

Was that marajuran you were harvesting , and you set up a smoke screen down the road

yeah the price of wheat at the moment is close to marawhichy prices, it's like picking up ten dollar notes, floating around the $250 per tonne delivered Port Pirie, it fluctuates during the day now Ducky , you got me thinking (the onboard computer doesnt deal in bags to the acre like we used to) so heres one for you while I have my cuppa and wait for some fuel we averaged 3.89 tonnes per hectare, there are 3...... 60 pound bushells to a bag of wheat 1 Tonne = 36.74371 Bushells so theres one for you, when I try to work it out in my tired frame of mind it comes up wrong the chatter on the uhf is unsure of the cause of the fire, some say spontaneous combustion, others say a bit of junk from the smoke stacks, others are saying a passing car chucked a cigarette butt out, nobody knows as yet! they got the prime mover away and saved the flatbed but the load is a writeoff!

Reminds me of "the good old days" when a few heavy showers followed by days of high temperatures would have the uncovered hay/straw stacks virtually exploding into flame. Not nice.

fuel still not here yet, hell it's weird after having the engine droning constantly in the background to come out to silence, my ears are ringing trying to get some sound anyway, yeah rolly I have seen a few stacks go up through exactly that description, the funniest one was when my uncle chased a wildcat into the stack, let go with the 12 guage and burnt the whole lot down got a couple of trailers down there now picking up the leftovers, god knows what they want that for, mulch I suppose, I see super cheap charges $8 for a small plastic bag of pea straw, hell we've got tons of it out here

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got a couple of trailers down there now picking up the leftovers, god knows what they want that for, mulch I suppose, I see super cheap charges $8 for a small plastic bag of pea straw, hell we've got tons of it out here

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Start bagging son, start bagging, could be a millionaire in no time flat.

 

onboard computer says shes 45.2 with a 10 knot northerly outside, i aint bagging for no-one

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onboard computer says shes 45.2 with a 10 knot northerly outside, i aint bagging for no-one

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A wee bit warm pal, hope you have air con in the cab.

 

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Of course. They 'ave it soft these days!

Nah, wen ah were a yung un...........

 

everything in here, better than at home, I can even play dvd's, big difference when I first started in the game, he's talking about updating to a bigger better one next year, god knows what will be in there just got a message from the boss, shredded a tyre, stepped out of the cab just as the wall gave way and exploded, missed him by no more than two feet, took about ten years off his life he reckoned, I'll bet he's got a brown streak in his dacks

About 5 bags to the acre I work it out to be..........................??

Hey Davo.......I was up Burra way over weekend.....dammmm its dry'n out fast.....this heat not helping.....I was east of Mt Bryan....looking back over hallett windfarm....if I could see it between the flies.. Dave

38 deg in Streaky Bay with a slight northerly drifting in, which is not bad as that comes in over the water.

great spot Dave but not this time of year, shes dryer than a dead dingoes chew toy, and it's drying out very quickly, gonna be a mongrel year Ithink! and yep plenty of little sticky bush flys

Gee, 5 bags to the acre. The ****ies must be doing cartwheels with joy out that way. Meanwhile the Eyre Pen farmers just have to look on - again. The Lower Eyre Pen usually does ok, but if they had storms they'd miss out too. It seems fish farming is the way to go in that part of the world. Floods in northern NSW and SE Qld, heat in SA, rain in FN Qld. It's a large country/island, with a vast diversity of climates, all at the same time.

Yeah....if they got 3 or 4 over on the far west coast they were happy.

How many acres are you reaping all together DaveO??

not exactly sure Ducky, I think this is the last of the wheat possibly one more, then we have Barley and some peas??? I just keep going until there aint no more, I dont know how much he sowed, I think he put her all in seeing as to how it was forecast as good year! I reckon another month will kill it, maybe less I heard on the gripevine that over georgetown/gulnare way they are pulling between 10 and twelve bags, this paddock is not so flash, I'll be finished in here by tommorow morning at this speed

They always do a heap better over that way than the coastal areas

yeah theres a rain band that goes through from roughly wirrabara right the way down to the clare valley, wished I owned a few hundred acres down there I will be over in the Beetaloo valley this afternoon, cant wait to see what the readout will be from that, may have to pick individual wheat seeds by hand the heads are so big and fat, it'll be like picking up $100 notes

That is a lovely area to be working. Enjoy!!