I guess that this post is for the enthusiast and I confess to being no great expert. Farm equipment has certainly moved on in the last two generations. While I was waiting to swap tractor driving with Dan during sowing,…
Meet a good old girl
Machinery plays a large role on our farm. Tractors hold a special place in most farmers affections – we tend to remember the good features and forget the ‘less good’ ones. One of the tractors held in high respect is…
Seed grading – Ginge is here…
Seed grading, 2014. We must be getting close to sowing!! Every year my neighbour Neil Macgregor and I check with each other. The conversations go like this… ‘Have you seen Ginge?’ ‘No – not for a while’. ‘I saw him…
Ah the memories..
We are getting ready for the seed grader to arrive in the next few days. Getting ready involves moving grain, emptying bins and getting trucks ready. It came time to get the old truck out of the shed and check…
Tractors on Loloma
The first tractor appeared on “Loloma” in 1948. While tractors had been around for a while, the technology was expensive and severely limited during the war years of 1939-45. Tractors represented a major change in farming – allowing for larger…
Horse Teams on Loloma
I thought that it would be good to show you some of the farming history in our time on the farms in the Tichborne area. Most of the photos taken are on “loloma”. To start on this journey, we need…
Auger Maintenance
Augers can be one of the most valuable items on a farm, and yet when they don’t work – one of the most frustrating. And for those who don’t know what an auger is, its a long tube on a…
Fencing on Loloma
One of those jobs that you try and fit in, amongst the more urgent tasks, is fencing. Sometimes putting fences up and other times pulling them down. For us as a cropping enterprise, many old fences represent a real challenge.…
Had to smile…
At the moment, its mid feb and had recently rained. There were a few little ploughing jobs in small paddocks. Whenever we have a large paddock to do, we hire a neighbour’s 108 plate set of offset disks and pull…