Its been a few days since the last post, so I thought I should left you know whats been happening.
As mentioned in the previous post, we had received (as some might say) an ‘elegant sufficiency’ of rain. I would call it a drenching. 97 mm of rain over the weekend followed up by another storm of 14 mm a few days later. Australia is a marvellous country – we have some areas in desperate need of rain and others areas where it pours down unexpectedly.
However, just wait a few months and the situation can be totally reversed. So while we have had rain, I am very mindful of those who missed out.
So, it was wet weather jobs for this week. What do we do when it is too wet to get out intop the paddocks?
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Monday – We make plans. All the jobs you meant to do ‘When we get a chance..’ Well, now is the chance. So we draw plans of our manufacturing projects. On this board is a spare tyre holder for the ute and a stowage bracket for our crane arm. Whiteboards are very helpful for me to visualise what I want to do. These drawings are Dan’s plans – A picture is worth a thousand words. |
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Tuesday – Mick from Parkes Welding and Fabrication returns my Auger. It left as a rusted wreck and returned with a new auger tube, flighting and rebalanced. And Paint!! A fantastic Job Mick. All that was left to do was refit the motor and its mounting assembly and give it a run. |
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Wednesday – Surely its dry enough now – I have to make room in my silos for fertiliser to arrive next week. This involves moving our seed grain from the silos into temporary storage awaiting cleaning in the next few weeks. It was also a good chance to give the auger a run. |
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So I drive out to the hard area around our sheds, pull up and start depositing the seed in the temporary bin. As I look in the mirror, I see the chaser bin going down – fearing I have a just blown a tyre, I jump out to see what the damage is – but the tyre is fine. Its the ground that has issues.
This is ground that has never been ploughed and was always hard as a rock. Image what my soft, carfeully tendered cropping paddocks would be like. I’d show you, but I can’t get there to take a picture. Dad has always said that a wet year can be as bad as a dry year – there is no point in rain if you can’t get out and plant a crop. And no crop – no money. Perhaps then, it may be a few more weeks before I can get back out into the paddocks. I’ll keep you informed. |
So….., it looks like I’m back in the shed for the next few days. What else can I make?