Bikes...

We treated ourselves to a Yamaha AG200.  A purpose built farm bike with lots of useful features like hand grip protectors, a side stand on each side of the bike, a fully enclosed chain, a clutch lock so that you don't have to fiddle around with finding neutral when you are on a slope etc.

Then we decided we needed a 2nd bike so I bought a cheap Chinese 250 through EBay.  It came in a box with no instructions!  Took me a while to figure it out but here's the before and afters...

John Deere 'Gator

What a useful little machine this is!  And it's safer than a quad bike...

New cattle crush

It's not often we are the recipients of a Govt rebate but we couldn't pass on the $2,000 they are handing out for capital purchases related to Work Cover and improved safety in the work place.

The existing cattle crush is a home made monster and would present a challenge for even the most experienced cattleman.  Here's the new one...

Boomerang clearance sale 22/03/2014

There's dry and there's dry

Our new toys...

Here is our John Deere 6630 with 4 in 1 bucket and our Gator next to it.  Can't wait to get started...

Outline of Lots 191 and 192 - Boomerang

One of the assignments as part of the Dip. Ag. is to create a Whole Farm Plan.  You start off with an aerial image and then create a series of acetate overlays to show the infrastructure and geographical traits on the property.

This particular image shows the creeks and dams on Boomerang, which we will call the more "usable" part of the farm i.e. Uriari being a mountain block, I am not including it as part of the overall exercise, even though 200 acres of the 800 acres could be utilised for grazing.