Today was the nicest weather of our trip, mid 20s, humid and sunny. Unfortunately we spent quite a bit of time indoors.
Lots of questions have been generated on our trip so Tim took the time, along with Steve’s help to work through our questions. A few of the twenty or so we had were harvest logistics, RTK systems issues, metric vs imperial, residue spreading, axles sizes, track widths, measuring compaction and economics.
We learned a new term – Distance of Squash (DOS), a Tim Neale expression for compaction. Another expression was ‘mongrel soils’, meaning poor soils. Tim has explained the Australians have come up with lots of unique names such as brown snake for a brown coloured snake and red back spider for a spider with a red back. Australians have a great sense of humour.
Tim strongly recommended that we try to establish a standard for wheel stance. It would be best in the long run to choose between metric or imperial. Three meters is not the same as 120 inches.
He also encouraged us to do a farm layout – topography and drainage among other things so that the tramlines can be planned for efficiencies and slope conditions.
Traction may be another thing we need to rethink. Going from duals to singles sounds like a problem but packed tramlines provide greatly increased traction.
All together the day was highly profitable. Tomorrow we will be visiting farmers in the Rockhampton. The flooded road will not allow us to go to Emerald.
Rockhampton is a beautiful area and I have included a few pictures including one of the Fitroy River running at about 36 feet deep due to the rain and for those who like fruit bats (hanging in the trees).
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