@eltalia
Morning Bill
Will keep you informed about the Lepto venture. Lots to do as the bottom paddock is waist high in grass at the moment and lots of dead and non productive custard apple trees that need removing before I can plant. Finally we have had some fine weather over the past week and the top part of the property was dry so did lots of mowing and then had the thought that I should slash the bottom paddock...stupid thought!... managed to get the tractor bogged, well and truly! Then had the neighbour come over and basically tell me I was an idiot for trying to mow as it was too wet and I was just making a mess of the place and he didn't like it cos he has to look at it. Well I am not the calmest person when I know I have stuffed up and am trying to think how the heck I am going to rectify the situation so I told him to F off it was my land and I could do what I like. Wouldn't have minded if he had turned up with "Mate how can I help? I can tow you with my tractor" but all he wanted to do was tell me I was an idiot. I already knew that and I hate it when people tell me what I already know
Hopefully the sane neighbours have a tractor and are willing to help an idiot.
Will take pics of the project as we go. I am always amazed when you do any sort of project how quickly you forget what it looked like before you started.
Cheers
Mark
Heh heh... you are pulling them out and here I am doing seed propagation
of them, custard apples! :-)))
Be carefull of what you wish for with neighbours, especially those of "I know better"
disposition.
True story, not mine but a friends;
Fella had a cow down in the dam, bogged solid and no way to get it out quick
through a comedy of unfortunate circumstance. So he phones the neighbour
for a lend of the Fergy. Helpfull Harry says "I am just up the road a bit working,
I'll come over" and turns up with his 250HP 4X4 Case, set of disc harrows behind.
"Just chuck a chain on her and shackle it to the bar on the harrow, she'll be right".
"Yer reckon? That's some tractor for a cow stuck".
"Nah maaate, she'll be right, autotrans, good as gold"
"Uh... okay" (scratching head on computer driven tractors has no clue).
Wading the chain through the mud, cow duly swathed in chain, the chain hooked to
the harrows it goes like;
"Yer got the shackle done?"
"Yep, take her up (tension)"
"Right, stand back a bit, the harrow might swing"
"Okay.. no worries, gun it"
And ,, Bang! the harrow swings, the neighbour declutches and
engages 250 HP in 4X4 with more gusto than the result shows was needed.
The cows head flies past the owner!
"Sh...t, sorry mate, slipped!"
Self sufficiency often does require a few "F 0" (s) as part of bush diplomacy.. heh heh
Bill