The Glass Cage Podcast
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The Glass Cage Podcast
Ep 8
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We are back with a mid seeding episode of shed beers to catch you up on what's been happening
G'day everyone and welcome back to uh Shed Beers. I'm J H. I'm George. I'm Henry. And it is 353 on a Monday. I do. Well, we haven't done one since we started seeding. We uh we've left you guys high and dry, and we thought we'll uh we should probably get a uh a podcast through to you. I tried to get one uh when we finished Canola, but uh I didn't want to. George sent through on Gemini.
SPEAKER_05No, Alex I was I was tired. I couldn't be bothered talking to a microphone for an hour. When was the last one we did? Was it when we sat outside? Or did we pick up on two yes?
SPEAKER_01I think I think we did that one and then we did another one in here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I think so. The one where we forgot we like had nothing to talk about. Yeah. Probably. Yeah, it was up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So no, we're uh we're busy seeding away. We've currently finished barley and we're waiting for a trial wheat before we start wheat. So we're uh we had the weekend off. And then uh we got everything sorted, ready to go for uh you know for into wheat, but uh we can't go into wheat yet, so we haven't got the seed. We finished early and now we're doing our shed beers.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Which is good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, lots to catch up on. Yeah. Like how's the season going?
SPEAKER_04Well, let's start with uh everything is germinating very well, very evenly and growing very quickly already.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's been a uh it's been a wet seeding, which is nice, but not too wet.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, not like last year.
SPEAKER_01Not didn't have the amount of rain of last year, but it's it's just continuously raining.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, which is So I think I actually haven't had it look like I reckon I'm uh up to around sixty mils over seeding, or possibly the first blob might have been just before we started seeding. Um yeah.
SPEAKER_01We had 16 mils over the weekend, we had 11 mils last week, and then yeah, we've had rain during. I think we're up to about 120 mils for the year. It's been raining, guys, basically. Yeah. Well, it's getting to the point that we uh yeah, we're having to pull up the bar because we're not leaving.
SPEAKER_05No, not yet.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well we well, I mean you the other night you kept going.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I've yeah, but I I wanted to finish barley.
SPEAKER_01But the other day when we finished Mum's back, we didn't go into Athens long because it was too wet.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah, it was, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So it's good. Yeah. No, it it's nice. It's a ch it's a different change to uh to what we normally do. Normally we dry seeds.
SPEAKER_04So and uh the canola's cranking along. I've already started the end crop and certain patches of the canola. Um barley is just germinated straight out of the cedar, basically.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that is cranking along. Yeah. I got a feeling the wheat will do the exact same.
SPEAKER_04Pretty good driver. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't know, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04Some of those cedars are happening to it.
SPEAKER_05It's just all about how you time everything and how you turn stuff on and how you activate stuff. It really does make a big difference. I don't know. Some of those Bailey. It's all looked like they were upside down. No, no, no. They're just just slightly different. They'll they'll be yeah. It's all good. It's all good. Um what else has happened? Oh, lots.
SPEAKER_01But uh we so we got through the canola pretty unscathed. Yeah. There was a bit of stubble issues. Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we uh ryegrass issues as well. I hate stubble.
SPEAKER_01I mean, we've got to give the bar credit. The bar the bar is pretty good at getting through stubble, but it was a heavy stubble load as well. Yeah, yeah. Five ton stubble. Yeah. And the tyrns weren't in the same spot that they are now.
SPEAKER_04No, they weren't. Same same spot as last year. Yeah, so you couldn't couldn't couldn't nudge to go in into row.
SPEAKER_01For those who don't know, our our bar came to us with different row spacing. So we were anywhere from about six is six inches to about fourteen inches. So we had uh quite the spacing across the bar, which means that George will be inter row saring on sometimes half the bar, and then half the bar is just straight into disgusting bars.
SPEAKER_05But like you might you might get six runs down, and then you're inter row sowing on the whole thing, and then you're not like it's so bizarre. Yeah. Yeah. Um so anyway, this year I haven't nudged once because apparently the time spacing has been fixed since last year. Uh, which is questionable on some of them. Some of them are little, yeah. Like I'm sure it'll be fine. Yeah. Um so yeah, I might when I get into a paddock, I've been setting my run lines in the right spot, and hopefully next year. Like I haven't nudged this year once, so then next year I'll just add like um what what spacing are we at between the rows? Twelve. Twelve. Twelve inch. So technically, if I add like six inches, onto Yeah, but we'd probably only go what it probably only needs like five centimetres. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Or we'd just offset the receiver.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I'm not I'm not a fan of doing that only because of then you're well, you would you would be offset everywhere like doing the outside laps as well.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Which means that you'd then be correct on you know, you'd be intero signing on your outside laps.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because everything's set now. Yeah. And if we just need to make it set in the screen somehow, back in the brains of John Deere. So that you know, your 12.2 shift or whatever you've been doing, we need to like set that as the actual thing. And then after that, uh move the receiver five centimetres right this year, or it's next year, and then move it five centimetres or ten centimetres left the following year, and then five centimetres right the year after.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's with stal on top of it.
SPEAKER_01And then that way it's you're not having the every paddock, you're not having to nudge, and then yeah, your outside laps will be perfectly interrosewed as well.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. So it's just the difference between like uh creating an offset on the receiver or nudging over like the same thing, it just means an offset. Yes, every run line you go on as a constant offset.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yeah, yeah. But uh we did midl we did lose someone come the come the canola towards the end of the canola. We lost our employee.
SPEAKER_05He uh Shavi, we've lost him, we don't know where he's going. Yeah, still can't find him.
SPEAKER_01No, he got a bit homesick, so he uh he decided to go home. Yep uh wasn't too bad because we've got all our water everywhere.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and also he stuck around long enough for me to finish my double knock. So also didn't need someone chasing me with different chemicals and stuff. Yeah. Um and now I'm doing like one or two tanks a day, and it's pretty cruzy.
SPEAKER_05The only thing was like Chevy would be getting to midday, and then there wouldn't be much for him to do. Yeah. And then you would have to find joltsworing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't know what he would have been doing these last two weeks. Two or two weeks.
SPEAKER_04Like uh I mean, there's struggle for me and you to find things to do.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so and I'm flat out busy. Basically, I'm I'm gonna lift now, so I've got to tell the computer to go and lift. Late at night, I'm flat out seeding. It takes a lot to and then basically these guys gets five o'clock, they're knocking off, going home, you know, watching Netflix. I'm out there busy making sure not getting stubble blocks.
SPEAKER_01I reckon he's watching Netflix. Probably. Yeah, or change the subject. He won't admit it, but I reckon he's watching something.
SPEAKER_05Of course I'll never admit it to my boss because I think that's the one thing you don't allow us to do, but no, I don't.
SPEAKER_04He says that he's got uh sit uh the chair sideways so he can see the bar, but it's uh actually because he can just look at his phone, right? I do that right on the side the window. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01If I put something on Instagram, it gets liked pretty quick.
SPEAKER_05Um no, I don't I don't watch anything. Although I did get through booking 99, the whole of that. Now I'm halfway through the office, but I've never watched anything, so it's all good.
SPEAKER_01Um so a lot I know a lot of farmers do. Like I've I've known that they do provide like a tablet or back in the day it was you know a DVD player to watch movies. Yeah, I've always been like, well, it's a bit bit dodgy, like they should be concentrating on the right behind it.
SPEAKER_05What happens if you had like such a good operator where he can do both, but also be very you know good at all.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's why I'm saying, George, if you were actually watching. Like I'm saying, if I it's not like I'm gonna get upset.
SPEAKER_05Would you get upset? Is my point.
SPEAKER_01Probably not, but as long as you were watching whilst watching behind you.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, that's what I do.
SPEAKER_01So what so what I used to do when I was on the Cedar, when I did COVID, yeah, I um had my sticky phone mount on the back. Oh yeah. And then I would watch I I can't remember what series I watched, but I watched a series whilst, you know, because I always would look backwards. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Alright, I'll tell you what I do then. So obviously on our iPads uh we run um Acadracks. Like Land Track, sorry. So I have Land Tracks up, and then if you like open Netflix and then you swipe up, it takes it to a little box in the corner.
SPEAKER_01Oh, a small screen, yeah.
SPEAKER_05And the small on the small screen is probably as big as my iPhone. Yeah, and then I have that in the corner just playing, yeah, yeah. And then I can still see Land tracks, but like occasionally I'll be watching it. Yeah, but like it means I can just peer over, I might watch a little bit, and then but also the seasons I watch are like a series that I've seen before, so I know what's going on, but it does keep my head busy. Yeah, you're more listening to it than it gets to about half five, and then I do watch the the Tom's book.
SPEAKER_00Oh, the YouTube, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Because it gets dark and I do put that full screen and I'm listening to it. But I promise you, I'm very observant. Yeah, no, no, I'm sure you're aware.
SPEAKER_01I'm aware of that, yeah. At the other day, Henry, I'm not we're we're both standing out there and we're talking about seed checks, and he goes, Do you want me to be honest or do you want me to lie to you?
SPEAKER_05No, it was just like no no. Well, I think you said, Do you do any sea checks? And I said, Do you do any sea checks? And you said, Yeah, occasionally. Yeah. And you were like, So do you? And I said, Well, do you want me to be honest? Or do you want me to lie to you? Um what did I don't know what you said. I think you said, Oh, I don't care.
SPEAKER_01Like, just No, I mean, it's you've got the you know, you've got the blockage monitor, so you know it's still working, but the the point of the seed check is just to check the machine.
SPEAKER_04I don't make sure you haven't got a um a rank of uh times pulling off the machine. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Um last year was different because we had hoses that would were blowing through. Oh whereas you've got good hoses on there this year that shouldn't blow through. Yeah. Obviously a pipe, which you've had two secondary hoses pop. Oh not pop, but you know, had holes in there.
SPEAKER_05Um did any of you actually look at the holes?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, like one that I took off, it was clearly it being pinched, which could cause the hole.
SPEAKER_05Oh, okay. But I'm saying they weren't massive. I caught them pretty quick. Yeah, oh yeah, no, this was um yeah, no, so I I don't do C checks, and like everyone knows this, which I think John's fine about because we because we have the blockage monitors, and like I but the same we had the blockage monitors last year and we still ended up with sandblasting the bar. Yeah, but I think that was operators being silly. Like I've seen some of these sandblasters, and I'm like, how the hell didn't you see that? Anyway, it's a lot. Look, as long as it doesn't happen to me, it's all good. But um, yeah no, because because we've got blockage monitors, and like I've come to learn them very well, like I because they have their issues, yeah. I've kind of like come to learn their issues, and like I I know I d I know when like a pipe's half off, like the rate changes by like this much. So like I've come to learn all of that, yeah. And that's why I I like trust myself not to do a C check. But probably every if nothing goes wrong, probably every like two and a half hours I get out and walk around the whole machine. Yeah, especially at night time. Um, but normally within two and a half hours I get like a blocked pipe or like a press wheel not turning or just something happen, and then when I hop out and have a look, I have a look around the whole bar. And that's normally when I spot if there's an issue. Because I do understand like your back row of tines, you can't see one bit, and like if one of those was falling off like it did in Canola, you don't realise until you do a check. Yeah, yeah. So like if you if you went the whole night, that's why like I never go, you know, especially when it gets dark. I probably do get out every two hours and just check. Yeah, but I'm not doing a C check. Um I I I I remember the Borgo, I did do a C check every single hour. I was, and that's me being honest. But the Borgo, man, you had to, yeah. Yeah, yeah, well you had to, because if you didn't and then you found a block pipe, you're like, oh my god, how long has that been? But um, but yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. No, that's yeah, it is what it is.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I tell you what, my my um, you know, because I've been sat in this tractor for so long, like not really talking to many people. Yeah, uh this is like the first weekend I had off, and my throat has been hurting the weekend, and I can feel all the talking he's been doing.
SPEAKER_01Have you been catching up with it? No, but I'm staying, I'm staying.
SPEAKER_05Like even now, I can feel it's crazy when you're sat in a tractor, you don't talk as well. It must be a muscle. Yeah, the muscle isn't being used as much. So, like now I'm talking loads. It just gets you how much like hard work I've been putting into this farm. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Anyway, um, what are we talking about? What should we so shall we quit?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh, I'm sure you get it like when you haven't talked in a while and you're just sitting in the cab and you go gotta make a noise.
SPEAKER_05I tell you what, if there was a camera in that cab, oh, I think I'd be dumb for it. Yeah, well you just typically gets to a point where you just do some weird things or like Cab Fever, and then all of a sudden you're singing to the music and then you're like you're dead silent. Yep. You just go through the elbow, my elbow really hurts. It's uh yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04It's the old one where uh oh you uh my 680 where where the um uh where the two-way was handpiece was sometimes you put it in the wrong spot and it get uh the button would get jammed on. Oh I can't a couple times uh I had Paul call me, it's like, oh yeah, your two way's on. It's like oh was I was I singing along for that song? I've heard of people doing that. What was I doing in the cab when uh since the last time I used that two-way?
SPEAKER_01But uh we uh so yeah, we had Chevy Quip. Uh we did some burning, that's something we haven't done in a long time.
SPEAKER_05Which George was begging for from day one getting into that paddock and then finally let us burn it, which was good.
SPEAKER_01We burned the last 300 hectares. Yeah, bit of fun.
SPEAKER_05I can't tell you how frustrating stubble can get. Like when the conditions are perfect, and like you you know, you just want to do a few more hours and you're not tired, and like it's it's just so frustrating, even though it's not my bloody farm, or like you know, I shouldn't care about this stuff. It's so frustrating.
SPEAKER_04Um yeah, well, you're still gonna be the one who has to deal with it in the header or the spreader or whatever.
SPEAKER_05I know I was everything else. And I was saying that, I said, like, oh, at least I don't have to deal with these, like, oh, I'll leave that for the header driver. Like before it was like that, but now it's like you are the header driver. Exactly. So like my rule is now because my first couple years here, I'd get a stubble block and I would just keep trying to get it. Persevere, yeah. Because like I always thought like, no, it could be a one-off, or it could be because of that, and I would just keep trying to go. But now, if I get one stubble block, I keep going because it could just be a one-off.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05If I get two, I'll pull up.
SPEAKER_00That's it.
SPEAKER_05And this whole year, if I've had two, I pull up. Simple as. Yeah. Even if it's bone dry outside and I get two blocks, I pull up.
SPEAKER_01Except for in Hatton's back, you didn't. No. No, that was grinding.
SPEAKER_05But that was because there was ryegrass patches through the fart. Um there was ryegrass patches through the paddock, and this ryegrass, obviously, the boys, it was at harvest time before I got here. Um, the guys on the headers were just lifting up over it because there was no barley in it, but it obviously left a lot of bushy ryegrass. Dead beers. Yep. Left a lot a lot of bushy ryegrass, and basically every time I went through that, it could be 30 degrees. It you know, it's just the bar's not designed to go through thick grass and pull all this stuff, and you'll get blocks.
SPEAKER_04Instead of having rows, you've just got a mat of the room.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, exactly. So um obviously in that case, like you know, I would have had I think I spread out 10 blocks overall in that paddock. But the problem is every time you go through a ryegrass batch, you can't pull up because there's more rye, you know, it's a one-off thing. Yeah, so you just gotta get through it. And well, well, they're all spread out now. I think there's one is there any blocks anywhere that haven't been spread out? No.
SPEAKER_01There was Mum's back, but I think you drove through those ones.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, because when I did my outside laps, I went through it, and normally if I go like if I go through it on the side, it it kind of but it'll it all fizzled out, so it's all good. Yeah, yeah. Um but um yeah, stubble can be a very pain in the ass. Yeah, stubble was a bit of a nightmare. Hopefully, next year with everything that we're doing, it should be you should look at the paddock and like it not be touched.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that that's that's the goal. Yeah, which we could get that with the borgo when we were seeding into weight stubble, but we couldn't get it obviously in ballast.
SPEAKER_05Well, I think the problem with the Borgo, and I did this my first year, that like you would tell us to nudge, but then like, you know, I did it especially, and I know um I think it was Lever, I don't I can't the casual worker at the time did it. We would nudge and then you might get to a spot where one of them, and then you would nudge again. Yeah, we were just playing nudge chassis. Yeah, so through throughout the paddock, we were just nudging left or right, left or right, and it works, but then the following year you've kind of got a nudge left or right, left or right again. But we also didn't have SFRTK back then. Yeah, that's the bar the bar. The bar didn't actually match up, did it? Do you remember? No, it was it wasn't centered. Remember it had that issue. Yeah, yeah. Where it was like an extra foot on the I don't know. But anyway, because now we're on SFRTK, um, and the bar, because I set my um you know the spaces as it ticks over the line on your screen? Yeah I d I forgot what that's actually called. I set that to uh one centimetres because before they were set to ten centimetres. My point is you can see the bar is probably throughout the whole programme of this ceiling, hasn't moved within like on the straight runs literally three centimetres. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um which is awesome.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's so canola was pretty good. And then um we got into barley and we had the injector fixed on the uh on the tractor. Yeah. So we we we found some power. We're able actually to pull it. Uh the spry has actually gone. The spray has actually gone pretty good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so after I can't remember if it was after the uh before or after the last podcast that we had that we had the the um the flow meter, the motor fail again, and then we had a flow meter. But uh yeah, through seating it's been faultless until Friday and had my first tyre um yeah, go flat. So had a sidewall split on the tyre and yeah. But it uh it's just about to clock over 4,000 hours, so it's not bad on a set of spray. Yeah, it's pretty decent stent on a set of spray tires.
SPEAKER_01Um and then you look at the rest of them and you're like, oh, there's a few cracks there.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, they're not far off uh needing change in as well.
SPEAKER_01And I suppose we'll say it on this podcast. It can be an exclusive. It was really annoying because we're getting a new boom spray. Yes, yeah, it just uh this this we are this close, so close.
SPEAKER_04So that that's the whole thing.
SPEAKER_01Boom arrives in town tomorrow, yeah, sort of thing.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, so yeah, so we yeah, we're we've known about the cracks on the tires for a while, and it's been a case of well, we'll just see. We'll see if it makes it to replacement.
SPEAKER_01How how much do you think those tires are?
SPEAKER_04Oh, they're probably like I don't know, eight grand or something stupid.
SPEAKER_01Bit high.
SPEAKER_05$4,200.
SPEAKER_01Bit low. Six grand.
SPEAKER_05Six grand, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Six grand of labour, and yeah, uh it was good that they came like they came out and they did it out here, but their tools weren't working. So then it took twice as long, and we still got charged for the full time it was out here.
SPEAKER_04Nah, that they definitely should not have done that.
SPEAKER_05That's ridiculous. It's also lucky that like you didn't have to go spraying. Like you had just finished spraying. Yeah. Henry sent me the video of this hole in the tar. Yeah. And I quickly got on the two way. I was like, Henry, Henry, have you finished the paddock? Have you finished the paddock? Because this is it was the last paddock of barley. Yeah. And uh if he hadn't have finished the spraying, I couldn't have finished the barley, therefore, we wouldn't have had the weekend off.
SPEAKER_01Well, you would have, because he would have finished that night. He would have, yeah.
SPEAKER_05But I, you know, if the wind had picked up or whatever. I was like, did you finish? He was like, Yes, I'll finish. I was like, sweet, I don't care about the wind. I don't care about I don't I don't actually care about the hole in your tar. Okay, I care if the paddock's done and it is. So you guys do your own thing. I will crack on.
SPEAKER_01Oh goodness. Well, George, uh, just on one thing. Have you noticed something different about the shed?
SPEAKER_06This shed?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Hey.
SPEAKER_01Henry and I did something. Wait, what? Where's the forklift gone? Where's it gone? We moved it.
SPEAKER_07Oh, when? What? Fixed it. No, no.
SPEAKER_01So the forklift, our well, our old forklift, because we bought a new one, but our old forklift, we're still waiting on a crowd ram cylinder to come from wherever. The people in town might say who they are, but never dealing with them again. They are being useless about it all. Uh what's that gotta be? It's gotta be like nearly eight weeks since I took that ram off. Six weeks.
SPEAKER_04So we yeah, uh at least eight weeks, because it was a like a month before at least a month before seeding that you took it off. I think it was longer. It was nearly ten weeks. It was a long time ago.
SPEAKER_01And I put it right in the middle of the shed because I was like, I want to do it indoors where we can work on it so it's not dirty, it'll take 'em a week. Anyway, it's it's taken a long time. So essentially it's been two months. Yeah. Yeah. To the point that I bought a new forklift because we had um uh an employee who wasn't all that crash hot on the uh telehandler. It was hammering. Yeah. And I was worried that because we moved all our chemical into the big shed and we were that was our chem shed. But yeah, um I was worried that we were gonna see shuttles spiked by the uh the telehandler. Um so yeah, bought a new forklift, which I think needed to happen anyway, because that the Lindy was pretty crap. You know, battery was always going, tires going, the um the it's always leaking. Uh anyway, we put the lifts lift ram back in, well the sorry, the lift hoses back on. Yeah. And then just didn't crowd it. Just lifted it and drove it out.
SPEAKER_05Drove it out. Why did you why why did you wait ten weeks to do that? Because I was like Could you not have done that on day one and just moved in the shed? Yeah, we could have. But you didn't. When did you do that? We knew that it was gonna hang out. Is it when I went to wash the filters? Yeah, right. Jesus.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, we got a new forklift. Yeah, that's another thing though. We got a hang char.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Old hang?
SPEAKER_04It's uh it's got aircraft.
SPEAKER_01It I was surprised that uh I thought YouTube were gonna make fun of us pretty hardcore for having a enclosed cabbed air conditioned forklift. Yeah. They didn't.
SPEAKER_05I was saying to Henry, this is I well, this is what I think we should do. I know the aircon's awesome and it I think it works. I don't know. I was I was wondering, should we take the doors off and not use the aircon?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_05Why? Because you want the aircon.
SPEAKER_01Well, because it's a cab, like if if it gets to the point where we're like, okay, that visibility and stuff is really impaired doing this, then maybe we'll take the doors off. But I don't think we need to take them off. It's quite nice when you go down there, there's no our shit all over it.
SPEAKER_04Oh, true, I see. It's not wet. Yeah. And you just wait till you're helping me wash the boom or something. Oh, we'll leave the doors on, yeah. Exactly.
SPEAKER_05There's been so many times, like, or doing the header when you do the um auger and stuff. Yeah, the auger. Like sitting under that soaked and so, yeah.
SPEAKER_01The air the air conditioner is um scraped into the morning. That was a real like you know, sorry, guys. Uh oh, the air conditioner points right on your neck. It is freezing cold. Yeah. Yeah, it it works well.
SPEAKER_04It'll be excellent in the summertime. Got a heater as well. Yeah, we do. It does. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But you have to lift the seat up and turn the tap on the tap on.
SPEAKER_04So it literally just circulates your coolant through the heater.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I see.
SPEAKER_05Oh, it's cool. New footlift. Yeah. Exciting times.
SPEAKER_01Now on the shed, we uh we had a cyclone. No, no, we had a tornado, yeah. Tornado. Yeah. Torpedo. We had a tornado go through the farm.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that was crazy. It was in between we'd just finished seeding canola. Yes, yes, yes. We had that Sunday off, and it was the that following Monday we were getting the cedar ready for barley. Yeah. And uh it was just at this point, Chevy had left and it was just us three. Yeah. And uh it was wild.
SPEAKER_01Like, 'cause we were down there, we were calibrating the cedar, and on YouTube I thought, oh, we're just getting a little shower of rain at the moment, won't be too bad. And then it turned into Well, it was just like on and off.
SPEAKER_05It was like, well, what what I call lamb storms. So like on and off storms throughout the day. So it can be blue skies, hot weather, and then all of a sudden.
SPEAKER_01We didn't have any drizzle or rain leading up to that. It was just yeah.
SPEAKER_05Do you remember we we were calibrating and it started raining and then it would stop? Like it was raining on and off throughout the day. Like we had the occasional like let's call it storm go above us and round us, like the lightning you could see down. So anyway, I think this was um Because the calibrating was like an hour before the storm.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, exactly. Was it? Yeah, because we calibrated and then we cleaned the bar and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep.
SPEAKER_01Well, it was about three o'clock because we put we we were having smoke. Oh, we sat down, it was getting a bit wet. We're like, oh, let's come into here.
SPEAKER_05Like just a normal storm, like just started raining normally. Yeah, yeah. So we came in here, like sat here, and then just I don't know, just got just went nuts.
SPEAKER_01And then it started hailing. I got my phone out and starting to film it, and then it just was it was coming into like wind, rain, my my ears were popping.
SPEAKER_04Pressurising the shed to the point where we're having ears popped.
SPEAKER_01Well, the caught like the camera was like the whole shed was doing it.
SPEAKER_05I remember going like this, holding my ears, like why the pressure, yeah, and I've like you looked out the door and you couldn't see a meter in front of you. No, it was just it was I've never experienced anything like that. It was crazy.
SPEAKER_04There's a door that we don't use anymore in the shed, and I thought that was gonna get blown off at one point.
SPEAKER_01And when we we we walk out after it's all done, oh man, there's water everywhere. Oh, that's pretty cool. Is it oh our bins are water? All the rubbish is everywhere. Oh no, there's five fill bins. I didn't hear that.
SPEAKER_05I just I just heard John shout, like, oh no, the bins are gone. I'm like, Yeah, you idiot, the fucking cans are everywhere. But of course the bins are gone, and then he was like, No, the bin bins. And I looked and I was like, Oh my god. Yeah, odd. And the way the star pickets are still standing upright, and it lifted the bins over here, it hadn't like pushed the it hadn't pushed them back, it lifted them off and flipped them.
SPEAKER_01It was insane.
SPEAKER_05It was very like I thought this was we've got a smashed um we do, we've got a skylight now. Skylight gone. Yeah, but I thought this shad was gone.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I was like, and we thought thought it was bad how far they it had thrown the bins into the paddock, and then we got to cleaning it up. Yes, yeah. Uh doing a bit of a counter, but we're missing a cone. That'd have gone an extra hundred metres into the bush.
SPEAKER_01Oh my that's or I can't remember 500 metres from the biggest. I reckon that one went a K. That one would have gone a K. Uh I don't know. Okay. Okay, buddy. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Like maybe maybe six hundred metres. Yeah, yeah. 600, 700 metres. 600 metres.
SPEAKER_00650. 650. 67 metres.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, six, seven hundred metres, something like that. Anyway, it was uh big time.
SPEAKER_01Uh it was no and that was the paddock that you were gonna spray that morning. Yeah, that was right. I was like, oh, I don't think I can spray.
SPEAKER_04No, I think I was meant to spray that evening because I think it was gonna be windy the next day or something. I can't remember. It's like, I don't think I can spray this anymore. I mean, well, there's field bins in there in the field.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we had we had to wait for insurance to come out and take photos of them all, and yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, in the meantime we had to uh go help the neighbours as well because away. Yeah, uh, which is lucky that the tornado wasn't like they weren't burning closer to when this came through.
SPEAKER_05During the same day as the tornado. Yeah, yeah. But we had the tornado, then we had to take the fire trucks to Yeah, which you you guys got down there and you started it. So me and Henry went in Izzy and John took Fleetwood and um so Izzy's the old fire truck, probably hasn't been touched in six months. I don't know. Yeah, since I don't know. Anyway, since harvest. A long time it's just sat in the shed. Me and Henry go in that and I fill the pump up with water and fuel, like at the shed, then we get over there, and then as we get close to the fire, I hop on the back, go to pull the pool start on the pump. Right straight off. No, no, I did one pull, nothing, did the second pull, just fell apart. And so strong.
SPEAKER_04So I just turned into a support unit.
SPEAKER_05So anyway, it was funny because uh I did one pull and like you know, we're ready to go fire fire, and I second pull and it snaps, I'm like, oh. What do we do now? What do we yeah? I just said I was just looked at Henry, I said, Well, that's it. That's we're done.
SPEAKER_04We are done. It's alright though, because they had already got it pretty well.
SPEAKER_01On that though, we need to fix the cannon on there because on Fleetwood, because I got there, I was in front of you guys, and I went to use the cannon and no no cannon controls worked at all. Did you turn it on? Did you turn it on?
SPEAKER_07He didn't turn it off. Well, that would be off.
SPEAKER_05I don't know, I don't know. We might have just turned it off. I think I probably turned it off. You don't turn it off, you leave it on. So basically, you didn't even check the switch that turns on the cannon. No, but yeah, every time me and Henry have done it, we check the switch and turn it on.
SPEAKER_04Uh, because it was working when uh we were burning, it definitely worked. I might have just I might have turned it off.
SPEAKER_01It might be off.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So what were you doing?
SPEAKER_04Were you just have it spraying? I just have it spray and I just drove time. I mean, to be fair, when I was on my own at the um grains fine, that's essentially what I did most of the time anyway.
SPEAKER_01Except for it's halfway between long shot and um spray. Yeah. It's just mess of water everywhere.
SPEAKER_05Anyway, um that's a rightful one. So George George jumped on the back with you, so yeah, and Henry just drove around. There's fire there.
SPEAKER_01But no, that was it was pretty wild. So now we're down five field bins. We did contemplate taking out the other field bin and just pushing it over and pulling out the forklift and throwing that out. And yeah, what's coming out? Let's start making a mess of this yard.
SPEAKER_05You know, this workshop, let's push it over in the workshop, you know.
SPEAKER_04But also a week after a week or two weeks or whatever it is after, we realized it had actually blown something else over. Not blown it, moved something else.
SPEAKER_03So yeah. Wait, what? So I don't know about this. Yeah, you're the one that spotted the shit. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah, I did.
SPEAKER_04So underneath our bar and grill in our smoker room, yeah. There was uh no, John was we were about to have smoker.
SPEAKER_05We were about to have smoker. John was sat there like, oh George Water. It's like, oh my fucking one of your dogs has pooed somewhere, it stinks. No, that's exactly how you sound whether you want. I think you did a very good accent. I think you did a very good accent. And it was I think you did a very good accent there, mate.
SPEAKER_01But what I said was like, it's been spelling fishy here the last couple of days.
SPEAKER_05You guys call that. I was just stood at like the right angle, and I was like, oh John, you need to look behind you. There is there there is human feces and toilet roll everywhere. Basically, the the the anyway, it was everywhere, and I and I was just like, that's disgusting. Who was the last one to use it? And John just slowly points at himself, and then as well, yeah. So basically, my my boss, which I I don't know what relationship we have to be honest, I've seen his poof. Um I might have to leave the country.
SPEAKER_01The wind had moved the whole thing a couple inches, the whole bar and grill a couple inches.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. A couple inches is like a good foot. Oh, I don't know about a foot. Maybe have you seen how much that's maybe his foot, but yeah, no, no, you see the bend on that. Um it has moved a long way. So yeah. Blowing it, it um moved the obviously separated the septic pipe. And yeah.
SPEAKER_01Thankfully the the water's still going to it and the other ones are still fine.
SPEAKER_05Everything's fine except from the poop. And the poop was stinky.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's it's fine now, you can't smell it, but we'll get you under there.
SPEAKER_05So can we just recap to earlier of this podcast where the guys are like, oh, let's talk about my jobs.
SPEAKER_03What do we do?
SPEAKER_05Crawl under there and fix that part. Do not wait, do not wait until seeding is over. I tell you what, let's make a deal on the podcast. I will crawl under there and fix that if you guys clean the bar. It sounds like an apprentice job.
SPEAKER_01If you clean the whole seeder, I'll do that. No, not in 10.
SPEAKER_04Sounds like an apprentice job.
SPEAKER_01I'm just gonna get the loader and push it backwards. Wrap some tape around. As long as the as long as the solids are still going. That's all that matters.
SPEAKER_05That was not solid, my friend. That was something else. Anyway.
SPEAKER_01Oh, geez. Well, yes, so that was um unfortunate that that happened. Yeah, it was.
SPEAKER_05Anyway, what what else has gone on during seeding? Um everything's been pretty good with the cedar. We've had a few breakdowns.
SPEAKER_01Well, that would have turned it off. Um What else has happened during seating? I don't have a you the missus calling here.
SPEAKER_05No one can hear it. I can hear it. Yeah, but you can't hear it on the mic. Oh, yeah, you can.
SPEAKER_01We're just gonna have a little intermission here, everybody. No, just one sec, guys. One sec, he's just gonna have a quick chat. Well, we uh today George has just got his pallet. So he's uh his pallet from England that he packed all his pride and joy and goods and noise and troubles.
SPEAKER_04All his worldly belongings. What are we talking about? Your pallet.
SPEAKER_01Your pellet arrived on the ball. We're talking about the disappointing thing that happened this afternoon.
SPEAKER_05Oh right. Yeah, okay. Um so obviously I've moved to Australia and when I left. Really?
SPEAKER_01I really need to buzz. Basically, he's got a one-wheel and uh you drove it around the other day, yesterday, and then he's brought it up to the shed uh for us all to have a crack on a crack on. Try and kill ourselves.
SPEAKER_05And it doesn't work, doesn't work. It's really upsetting. It's a basically like when I was 16 I bought a uh a one-wheel, which I think is built by Future Motion if you're looking. One wheel pint X, that's what it is. And I bought it, it was about it's about five years old. Anyway, I left it for six months like uncharged and the battery went fully dead. And um me and my brother managed to get the get charge into the battery. But because I like um me and my girlfriend had a big palette that got shipped from the UK to Australia with like all of our personal items in and like my tools and her uh what did girls use makeup, yeah. And uh like candles and stuff. Anyway, bottles of wine. Yeah, just a bottle. Um of our personal stuff was in this big crate and it got sent over and it just arrived the other day, which was great, and we spent the weekend, you know, you know. Unpacking and packing unpacking it, if you like. And the one wheel was in this, but obviously, because the one wheel had been sat in this crate for ages. Yeah, battery has gone dead again, and I think the battery is toast, which is really a shame because I plugged it in and I used it on the at the weekend and it was fine. Yeah, like and then I've plugged it in again, it said it was fully charged, brought it up to the yard, and the guys were disappointed.
SPEAKER_07And I'm disappointed as well, it would have been funny.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. But um, I definitely think I'm gonna buy a new battery for it. And big spender. Big spender, yeah. So uh that was a disappointing name for the afternoon. Yeah, we're gonna. Chew it, tune, choo, chew in, tune in, tune in for some reels of John breaking his wrists. Breaking his wrists.
SPEAKER_01Shall I order a bidet for the house before you know a bidet? Yeah, why don't's a bidet? A bidet's a squirty thing. Squirtsy bum. Ugh.
SPEAKER_05I believe you meant I've seen your poos. You did more than a bidet. You did home me with the pa washer, brother. The flashbags.
SPEAKER_01Oh, she she was obviously off somewhere else when she wasn't at home.
SPEAKER_05No, she's just came back. Yeah. You probably rang me to say I'm gonna pick the dog. Can I pick that dog up?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Uh but talking about poses, you when we all uh say uh harvest time, we're having drinks around the uh the old table there, and then you're getting out, you're like, Oh, this is the best poo I've ever done. Oh, I'm sorry, but my cock's in it. In my defense. You did show it to everyone else. In my defense.
SPEAKER_05I said I showed it to everyone else but my boss. Yes. I did not need to see it. Willie was in it. Oh, I wasn't gonna show you my boss.
SPEAKER_01Did I show you?
SPEAKER_05Yes, you showed me. Sorry, Henry.
SPEAKER_01Sexual harassment claim.
SPEAKER_05I don't know, it's pretty impressive. I don't know if the HR department had left by then or like after seeing, like, let's say when we finish seeding and like, I don't know, we have a few beers to celebrate. Ask me about another poo and we'll we'll get that going. I don't need to know this. It's in recent days. Is it a paddock poo? It is, yeah. Anyway, let's change the subject, guys. We're all adults here. Let's be adults. Yeah, I would say I'm an adult. I'm a pretty mature adult. Um what what uh what else has happened in the in what's been going on? It's been a very it's been a good seating. For the whole of barley, there's really been no dramas. Because like the Cedar be got it, you know. I finally got the Cedar like fine-tuned to where there's been no issues.
SPEAKER_01John Deere out, and they whiz showed you some stuff.
SPEAKER_05He hopped on with me, showed me how to use the transmission really well.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and apart from the minor issue where somehow you jumped on my job and that I don't know.
SPEAKER_05I don't know how that happened. I th I think what happened is I joined his job and that was probably stuffing up the flexian system. Yeah, but that is what I know.
SPEAKER_01But you can't it you can't join a sprayer job because you're granules. It it doesn't you're like you have a seed, you're a seed up. Yeah, but flexian is liquid.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but the flexian somehow jumped on my job.
SPEAKER_01You shouldn't have been able to seed at all. Oh, I see.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's just weird.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, because I've we checked that I have seeded. Yes, I I checked because I've got to be.
SPEAKER_04No, I I definitely was seeding for sure. So where where where I because it what had happened is I'd sprayed up against our neighbours and um had to spray that because of the wind, and then we went seeded the rest of the paddock, and then I got back to the end of the um paddock and I was like, hang on, I've got uh someone else's coverage on my map. Uh and on that coverage uh decided essentially three headlands uh worth of like ced cedar with and the third cedar with only one of your section was turned on. So I actually that's why I dug to see if there was early on the And it was definitely barley in the game.
SPEAKER_05But you didn't you didn't notice that you only had one flexi and a half hectares. Um yeah, so flexian, like it's never been a thing to look at. It's always worked. And like I did spot it after 15 hectares.
SPEAKER_01But now they're going down 16 hectares. Oh, there we go.
SPEAKER_05I don't know, I don't know. I just didn't notice basically. I just didn't even didn't even think to check it because it was it wasn't even something that in my mind could be a problem.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that was the first panic watching Netflix and not doing C checks. No, I was not. I was not.
SPEAKER_05Well anyway, now I know when you do a C check there's no There's no link. They're just trying to see guys. They try and try and um Well, but no, it's uh it's been a good ceiling so far. Hopefully, I reckon this time in two weeks we will be wrapped up. Two weeks.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Well, yeah, I don't I don't want to push it.
SPEAKER_00It depends when Dale gets here.
SPEAKER_05Dale just needs to hurry up. Bloody Dale. You know, he says he wants to go out for drinks, then he's not it. Um yeah, we've just got the wheat left. But um all the track tricky pads, I would say. Yeah. Not tricky, but like, I've got a I've gotta think a bit more. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you won't be able to do headland control unless you do it on three Yeah, like three headlands.
SPEAKER_05Uh yeah, but even then, like three headlands just puts you in the middle of the field and some of the things.
SPEAKER_01Have you tried the figure eight?
SPEAKER_05Um, I've tried it. It it doesn't work, but talking to the John Deere guru, he said it'll only work in certain areas to where it'll allow you to work. So he said to me, leave it on figure of eight. If it can do a U-turn, it will do a U it will do a U. Yeah. U turn. And if it needs to do the figure of eight, it'll do the figure of eight. But apparently it takes a while to realise that. So I don't I I've never put it on top of the. Yeah, a figure of eight basically takes you a w like away to the side. There's a little coming to that. But equally, if you're gonna do that, you might as well und steer it. Yeah. Like the the the auto-turn is great, and especially if you're in a square paddock, you just use the autoturn. And like you were saying in the video, like if you had someone new on it, it's it's uh peace of mind for the tractor and for everything. But like for me, I I just use it as a tool. So like if if I can turn it on, I turn it on and like I you know it means I know the seed is fine, but most of the time I'm properly hand staring in in most paddocks.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Are you doing tines as well or is it doing tines?
SPEAKER_05No, I do tines.
SPEAKER_01That's why they're not going in in time. What? Where have you seen that? Where's this coming from? If I see triangles in the paddock, ridiculous. Oh well. We will catch you guys when we finish weight, eh? Is there anything else?
SPEAKER_05Is there anything else from you guys? No.
SPEAKER_01We did say we've got a new boom story, didn't say which one it was, so we'll leave it on that. Yeah. Turn in next time to find out. Yeah, to see the horse. Right, I catch you in the next one.
SPEAKER_04See ya. See you later. Cheers, and then you're not gonna do it.
