- First thing Luke cut his finger down to the bone changing the blade on the grinder. Forgetting to turn it off at the socket beforehand, he slipped when tightening it and flicked it on by accident so had to go to hospital in Toowoomba for three days to get it fixed up. (NB. I don't use that machine don't worry)
- Sorted nut
- Gaby arrived
Tuesday
- Showed Gaby around and how stuff works
- Sorted nut, stick picked and blew under the irrigation
- The return of the retard chicken. This chicken was taken to Warren's other farm the day before I arrived on this one because it gets bullied by the other chickens and since has been bossing everything around on the other farm so they've brought it back.
The second they let it out it was chased by a possy of normal chickens and crammed itself under a trailer to escape. Really funny but can't help feeling a bit sorry for the lil fella.
Wednesday
- Stick picked and worked on the back of the harvester
- Thought it was going to rain so worked hard and into the dark to get up all the wind rows.
- Warren nearly tipped the tractor on a steep downhill section in the orchard where the 4 trailers full of nut he was towing back pushed the tractor on the downhill so it jack-knifed and a wheel lifted off the ground! He saved it by steering along the contour though and snaked the trailers to the bottom!
Thursday
- Sorted nut from big trailers into smaller bins using the trailer hopper so they can be poured into the smaller hopper for the sorting line.
- It rained the night before so sorted nut no harvesting.
Friday
- Sorted nut and levelled off the silo as it reached capacity so it didn't cone up and jam.
Saturday
- Sorted nut from trailers into other trailers! New 20 tonne silo needs to be built using shipping container so there's somewhere to store the nut as the other silo is full and drying nut out for the next few weeks.
- Put the new wheels back on the red quad.
Sunday
- Sorted nut and gurneyed Luke's boat clean as it's going off to be sold
- Gurneyed the foldaway table so we have a clean surface to carve up Timy (the pig) on. Plan is to make sausages and bacon from him!
Footnotes (ie. extra stuff)
Boring blog really not much different happening, especially with harvesting rained off. Finished The Walking Dead season 5 and The Three Musketeers audiobook. Ewen baked a chocolate cake with almonds. It was really fucking good. I made the Oli special (pasta pesto sausage). The piglets are cute as always - they bite your hand coz they think it's food! I've officially lost my Croc Dundee kangaroo leather and crocodile skin hat and it's been several weeks now so I think it's a lost cause. Yorkshire Tea almost gone so remind me to pop that on the shopping list. I want to catch the retard chicken but have to wait until the dogs aren't around otherwise they'll think it's okay to chase chooks. I had pistachios for the first time too, why the fuck are they green and purple? Being such a fussy eater as a kid is coming back to haunt me as the others take the piss out of how many things I've missed out on:
Still to eat: Skittles, twiglets, fruit winders, most seafood, solero, twisters..
Ticked off: cheese strings, sushi, pecans, pistachios
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