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    Default This drought is wrecking my hobby

    I just noticed that it’s more than 6 months since I posted anything on the forum. For those members who don’t live in NSW you may not be aware that we are currently in a ‘ worst in my lifetime ‘ drought. Life at the moment is a never ending round of feeding sheep and carting water. It’s a constant 7 days a week job. So no shed time and only a occasional work on the new shed. Looking forward to some rain soon. Only 63mls for last 8 months and last year was pretty dry as well.
    So looking forward having more time in the not too distant future
    See you all then

    Mark

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    Did I’d make some base plates for the posts. Oxy cut out of 20mm plate then drilled with the mag drill.

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    JEEZ Mate that's bloody bad. I hope the rain gets to you real soon, but not so much, that you can't work on the shed.
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    Hi Mark, I grew up just south of Fifield and read your posts about the shed with great interest. Hoping for plenty of general rain very soon, did you get any rain the week before last?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leighg View Post
    Hi Mark, I grew up just south of Fifield and read your posts about the shed with great interest. Hoping for plenty of general rain very soon, did you get any rain the week before last?

    Hi Leighg

    You must have grown up very close to where I live now.
    anyway we got 26mls 2 weeks ago which was great. That brought us to the 63mls for the year so far.
    Everyone is definitely hoping for a general rain soon

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    Thinking of you mark. Hope it rains soon but not too too much. Lasf thing you would probably need is a flood!

    Take care.

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    Hi Mark, my father was born and bred at Boundry Bend, floods, rabbit plagues, mice, locust's, drought, it can be tough.
    They walked off and left the farm to the bank.
    Anyhow, back to your problem, I don't know maybe this is voodoo science but I for one would interested if it works.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbuster
    When I was a kid we used to do ok dowsing with a couple of lengths of fencing wire so who knows.
    good luck, shed

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    Not good to hear about the drought. I had no idea it was that bad, but I heard there were large amounts of cattle being processed at the SEQ abattoirs, which have now dried up.

    Droughts are insidious in that you have no idea when it will end.

    I prefer floods, as floods while destructive bring life and are over in a matter of days, so you know exactly where you are. It is no wonder there are so many suicides during droughts, you can only put up with seeing so much misery for so long. It is something a lot of people simply do not understand as they never ever get exposed to it.

    It is like returned front line soldiers from war. People who have not walked in their shoes really can not comprehend what they go through.

    I hope the rains come through. Us up here have had a reprieve two weeks ago. Things are not really that much out of the ordinary yet, although it is drier then normal. We have had a pretty poor last four years as far as consistent rainfalls. It has been deluges followed by long dry periods.
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    Just had a coffee with a mate who has just caravanned trough western NSW and he was shocked at how dry it all was, so sorry to hear about it and how it affects shed time. After that my paltry flu and bung knee's impact on shed seems somewhat trivial in comparison. Hope things pick up for you soon Mark.

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    I've just come back from my 600 acre bush block approx 90 kms east of Dubbo. I think I've seen it drier once in the 35 years we've owned the place, but it'd be a close thing.

    Even the decent spring-fed dam is down a good 6-7m which means so is the water table.

    OTOH the wombats seem happy, there are still heaps of the rotters. I'd be quite fond of them if only they'd stop digging holes in my roads!!

    A lot of truly enormous grey kangaroos about the place, too, though I think I've gotten used to the semi-dwarf variety I've got at my Tasmanian home.

    The bright side is, RC's camels haven't made it this far - yet.

    Aldi's cheap inverter generators seem to work OK, FWIW. So does their $80 on special air compressor.

    PDW

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    Your 600 a re bush block in NSW?

    You are full of surprises PDW!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PDW View Post

    The bright side is, RC's camels haven't made it this far - yet.

    You can have them if you want, just not my deer.

    He looked like this yesterday.


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    It's surprising how far the deer have spread, I saw a handful crossing the powerline clearing a bit south of the NSW-Victoria border when I was driving up the coast road from Melbourne. There are a lot of them in Tasmania, all through the forest country in the Midlands.

    Never seen any on my NSW place though. Usually a mob of feral goats about. I don't shoot anything up there nowadays though, I'm over bothering. We've owned that land for a long time now but I'm really getting to the point where I can't manage the maintenance in the time I've got available. Getting time to sell when the drought breaks.

    PDW

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    Visited a friend out at the foot of the Blue Mountains the other week, even the eastern side is dry, despite a few big passing storms a few months back. The local dams are getting back to levels last seen in the big el nino late 90s early 00s from my observation. His next door neighbour raises Indian deer for live export and was just getting a semi delivering a load for hand feeding there too.....so things aren't just crook in Tallarook.

    Another mate "won" some camels decades ago, last one's offspring died either last year or the year before, with a mention in the paper. Took them to Bondi Beach for a promotional stunt for some product or other in the 80s, before a life guard told them to go away, being a smart b@stard, told him it's animal cruelty to deprive them of sand.

    I take it a SIP wasn't the most pressing item some time back either!

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