A cull no doubt :rolleyes:
Stuff happens.
:cheers:

35 foxes that don't need feeding anymore the endless frosts here have certainly caused the foxes to grow some nice pelts.....but they are a little over-ripe for picking now

Yeah got one with some dogs near the house the other night he was giving us hell with the chooks and sending the dogs mad. Full grown dog fox! Biggest fow we have ever got!

The only good thing about the lack of rain here has been the lounge room extension has been completed... well, the exterior at least. ...and when these winds finally take a hike, perhaps we can get the gyprock home to finish the interior.

Well yet another crappy day waiting for rain. :rolleyes: We have channels running to fill some of our dams ATM so at least there is somthing else to keep us occupied. We are only getting one dam per 400 hectares filled so only about 1/3rd of our dams will have water. We still have to pay 100%water rates tho. They say "we have to keep our men employed". Can't help but think "we need to live!" We tried to get dams half full so we could have at least some water in more dams but that is common sence. So we are stuck with water in 5 dams but paying only slightly less than if we had water in all 12! I would love to go to AWB or ABB and charge them for an average yield even tho I only delivered a third and say "we have to keep people employed!". Reckon by a*@e would not even hit the the footpath while being kicked out! Why is it that only farmers would be ripped off like this?

Well said Adon...

Life is very frustrating at the moment, i nearly lost it in the years i was back home after uni... very depressing times... with the weather against us and the prices as well.

Doesn't make a lot of sense that all the costs involved in putting in a crop keep going up, fuel, fertiliser, chemicals .... but commodity prices are the same they were 20 years ago (not the same value but the same figure) - pity $100 in 2006 doesn't buy you the same as it would have in 1985.

Farmers have become so much better at what they do in terms of efficiencies and production with new technologies and equipment... but you can only keep working for nothing for so long..

We keep praying for the rain to fall and the rivers to run again... would be great to see the smiles on the faces again.

But we get through and the spirit of everyone in the community remains high. We beat the local footy team and we celebrate!!

Hang on your from Donald aren't you.... ENEMY HATE YOU AAAARRRRRGGHHHHH! just joshin but don't mention footy!

So who else has taken out a firewood permit this season?......I've bought a 16 cubic metre allotment of 'downed' green greybox and ironbark from the local national park (5kms away) and am just starting to bring it home ahead of this rain.
What I was wondering was who else has this sort of State firewood deal going on ....or is it just in Vic.
Green timber thinnings is all that will be available next year in Vic which means you need to keep ahead of the game.

My brother got one last week for redgum in his he was only allowed to cut down wood that any hollows were less than 400mm. That was near koondorook on the Murray. Pretty good price for that amount of wood.

Not aware of any such deal here in SA, except for those already contracted to take firewood. We've been pruning out our dead (non-hollow) branches and finally demolished that fateful gum out the back... Graeme was so brave, but as fate would have it, he won a Husky Rancher, so decided that tree would be good to christen it on.

Next year should see us with a whole bunch of old fence posts (no creosote or arsenic) to burn for the winter. Would like to grow some paulonias here for firewood, but they like lots of water apparently, something lacking in these parts.

old bloke sized logs

......and a beautiful sunny day to be out in the forest

Good load there dilbert! Bet your back (and the ute)knows that as well My brother was on a camping weekend and decided to get some on the way home but the silly bugger cut them to size over there!

Well 20mm or there about for here out of this! not a puddle to be seen out on the paddocks! Best rain here since Feb and hopefully we can get a follow up soon and get things happening around here. This rain has saved a hell of a lot of sheep from the sale yards and will make life one hell o a lot easier!

So pleased you got a decent drop, Adon. Lord knows you deserve it mate. Not quite so lucky here with only 7mm all up. Still, better than dust rising out of the paddocks and it should help the natural grasses grow again. Even our little wheat crop is standing up looking a bit happier and with clay soil, the bit of moisture should hang about for a bit.

WoodJob scores
Meterage 5
Punctures 4
....three days lost to rain .....play to resume when the wicket drys out

This National Park deal is 'household'.....however there is provision for a forestry licenced third party to collect your allotment for you.....lots of people still using solid fuel stoves out here and you can buy a cooking stove allotment also ....areas marked in the forest specifically for 'small timber' for these users.
This is a household allotment that is offered and you only need apply to the local NRE guy in Vic to find your nearest place that is having manicuring work done on the forest .....it's all in the forest interest to mature with thinning .....so as to have many and varied stages of forest through the state I believe ......but the woods welcome and legal for a change

Jeez, can that ute cop that load? I take the F150 cab-chassis (big wooden tray) to buy my wood, and a double layer over the entire tray has the springs groaning and tyres bulging.

This things a wreck so it don't matter ....I put an old set of wheels and tyres on as I was fearful I'd spike my 'good' tyres ....but that didn't work and I'm back on the good ones :p
She creaks and growns as she rolls down the track but i can get in close to the wood unlike using the truck and it's the only tipper I have...bit small but a few metres at a time knock me up anyway.....and being able to tip it off is the only reason I keep the old girl in the first place.....she owes me little

I think I will have to have enquiry Dilbert :p
To much pressure for the old ute
Hope the driver wasn't spinning out of control with that loaded :cheers:

It's the headspins after the exertion of loading it .....but a sit down with a ciggie fixes that :p
About 2.5 metres at a time is all I bring home now and thats with a small trailer on.

Even had some help today but I was made to cut little ones.

Funny how you can enjoyed getting back to the basics while not just swipeing a card on the gas bill