"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
Farm1 wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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After two years of La Nina and plenty of rain we haven't had
significant rain in three months. But clever people still want to
burn their pasture

????? Is that how it started or was it a farm burnoff? The only
people who I've heard of seen who still burn stubble are the odd
wheat farmers out west.


I am in a beef cattle area where there are many landholders who still do
things the way that Grandpa did. Every Spring just before the expiry of
the burn-without-permit season they burn their paddocks. They overstock
and use set stocking in big paddocks and don't mind if their bulls cover
their own offspring. It's a time warp.

LOL. It sounds like it. We know one grazier who has a closed herd and his
cattle are pathetic, but he's the only one. His ancestor was one of the
more famous conservative Colonial parsons so I've always thought that might
be his excuse for such dim behaviour.

... sigh. Let's have a big round of applause for the (all
volunteer) Rural Fire Service who have to deal with such nonsense on
the ground.

But then we've all heard of ******* who join the RFS so they can put
out fires they start..... such ******* should be shot by their
fellow Firies.

True. They join up because they loooove fire. Its like the priests and
Brothers who teach because they loooove little kids. The same penalty
should apply but Cardinal Pell will keep it behind the seal of the
confessional instead.

Yeah. ******* priests and also those who went into politics after thinking
the priesthood might be an option.

As well as bushfires there are some local wildlife and garden shots
here too.

http://s1086.beta.photobucket.com/us...%20of%20Spring

Comments welcome.

Nice photos as usual David. Have you done your fire survival plan
yet?

Yep. I put the house in the centre of a 5 ha paddock with no forest
nearer than 150m and no tree nearer than 60m and I paid for
steel/hardieplank instead of wood and I mow all round. During this
episode, which was mainly on a neighbour's place, I was taking pictures
not waving a hose and worrying. Should freak conditions arise where fire
might cross the gap I'm staying to defend. I have enough water to soak
everything for days.

Well done. I'm still planning to do a plan. But I have sent Himself off to
the tip today with 2 trailer loads of tree trimmings and he's changing the
oil in the tractor because he's been slashing. Once things hay off, I'm
going ot kmake sure all tanks are filled frequently and all hoses are laid
out. I might even get him to move a tank that is on a hill and doing
nothing useful into a better, closer position where it can be gravity fed in
case of danger.