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5th generation cropping farmer at Wimmera Farm in the Central Wheatbelt

Dalwallinu, Western Australia
Joined September 2016
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
After 70 days since starting harvest 2020 has finally come to a conclusion. A big thank you to our team for putting in a huge effort to get across 38000 hectares seamlessly 🍻
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
After starting seeding on the 1st of April, and starting around the clock on the 2nd of April, we finally finished our seeding program last night. 38300 hectare program sown with 4 machines was a pretty big task but it feels bloody good to be done!
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
The naked bloke has run across the paddock, and after 3 months harvest 22/23 is finished! A big thank you to the team for a huge effort in getting a record crop harvested and in the bin! Also thanks to all the businesses that kept us moving during harvest 🍻
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
Last we night we finished our 9500 hectare canola program. A well earned day of rest today ready to crack on with barley Monday. Good rains from cyclone seroja should get a good chunk of the canola out of the ground now making for a great start to the season!
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
The nude bloke has run! Harvest 18 is in the books. 33400 hectares covered, over 70000 tonne of grain, and more breakdowns and stuff ups then you could imagine. Big thanks to the 20 casual staff and 10 full time staff for making it happen! Time for a break
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Nathan Sawyer
11 months
Harvest 23 is done and dusted! Yields where about what we expected with 120mm of growing season rainfall with no stored moisture but A fairly smooth harvest with only a couple of minor breakdowns. Big thanks to all involved and here’s hoping to a better season next year!
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
After 64 days and 33000 hectares, #seeding18 is finally drawing to close! Massive contribution by the whole team to get it done! Special thanks to the nightshift boys who have made my life so much easier in the past 2 months... Roll on post em spraying/urea 😀
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
Yea probably just fill the seeders in the yard, not the paddock for a couple of days 😬
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
We started seeding on the 29th of march and finally finished last week on the 3rd of June. A good run with no major dramas other then a few power poles falling over 😉 even managed to shut down nightshift for a week in the middle to get the knockdown done. Just need rain now 😄
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
Always nice to see goodlands CBH site full of grain. Cracking year for the area!
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
1st of April, seeders are going around the clock and the bog tractor is parked in the corner of the paddock. It’s a good start for us but I’m sure there will be plenty of challenges to come. Good luck for the season everyone!
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Finally got a good run at cereals today and cracked our goal of delivering 2000 tonne to CBH in a day, 2129 tonne of noodle wheat into ballidu and konnongorring with 6 pocket trains. Hopefully we can keep above the 2k mark!
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
#seeding18 can't be all breaking gear and making dust! The inch of rain 2 days later was the icing on the cake. #paddockproposal
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
That time of year again.
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
Trident canola sown on the 1st of April at xantippe is coming along nicely, will get its clethodim spray in the next few days. Canola and lupins are in the ground and have started barley, it’s all systems go around here
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
Canola started coming down yesterday. Trident sown infront of TC seroja, can’t wait to get the header in there!
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
As is tradition, the end of harvest is signalled by someone running naked infront of the headers on the last run. Beer time 🍻🍻
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
Swathers got rolling this afternoon, let the harvest fun begin!
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
You know it's the home street of harvest when the old girl eats it's sieves and the reel falls off in the same day #harvest17 #homestretch #isitoveryet
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
I do wonder how much the after hours parts people at the local dealerships appreciate us starting harvest on a weekend 😆 #intoit
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
Still seeding, still getting bogged! Seeding 2021 has been a challenge. Few hectares to go at Goodlands and then just have to try tidy up the wet country. Bog tractor still has plenty of work ahead.
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
#IBCchallenge we are seeing how many empty shuttles you can leave stacked up outside with a cyclone forecast. If it doesn’t work out we may need a hand tomorrow to pick up 178 shuttles spread from a$$hole to breakfast 😬
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
Trident canola at Xantippe started coming down last night, hopefully we get a good run swathing and a smooth start to harvest.
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
I’ve seen a few blokes come in to work a bit cross eyed after a big weekend, but this is a first!
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
A few weeks ago we had a play with a new Agrifac for a couple of days, since then they have used our shed to fit cameras, today I finally got to see the cameras in action, spraying raddish in a wheat crop. Very promising technology, will be game changer!
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
the naked bloke has run, and season 19 is in the bag. lets hope 2020 is a bit kinder!
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
A small photo dump for the #agrimaster photo competition to showcase life in agriculture to help attract staff out of the city
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
#seeding18 update in picture form, also finished our shortened canola program and started on barley
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Toyota run ads about the hilux being un breakable. I call bullshit 😜
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
In the last 3 days we have graded 800 tonne of seed for next year. Big thanks to the seed shield crew for making it happen, even managed to deliver >2000 tonne to cbh on the second day of grading! @mattsmithscl @karensmithscl
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
Chucking out more nitrogen on a pretty handy canola crop before the rain this weekend. Plenty of flowers starting to appear around the district.
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
It's all systems go on struggle street today! #harvest18 #barley
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
With isolation finishing today, first stop (whilst still clean from iso) was to visit grandpa. He’s been busy finishing this stover windmill from the 1870-80s. Only 2 known examples in the world it will be a great addition to the windmill shed.
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
Good rains across most of our farm this week has given me the chance to play with our new toy. Love the smell of fresh turned soil 🤗
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
About an inch of rain Thursday/Friday was definitely welcome to keep things going. Plenty of potential east of dally! Latrobe barley and bonito canola
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
After years of talking about it, the new chemical storage shed is finally going up, built to meet storage regulations. Will be nice to finally have a shed big enough to fit everything comfortably.
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
Tipping off the last of the barley in down town kalannie tonight, with some good weather coming up we should be able to smash through some wheat
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
Trident canola is really starting to move along now. Got an unexpected 10mm on this farm yesterday to help it on its way. Sown 11th of April.
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
“We’ll give it a go with the 9430, if it doesn’t look like it will work we will stop and get a bigger tractor so we don’t bog a second machine” - Me, about to hours ago 🤦‍♂️
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
This weekend marks the end of our straight lime program, with over 20000 tonne spread this summer. Now to crack on with a blend of lime, gypsum and dolomite.
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
Boring night ahead for the seeder drivers, 4km runs with a few powerlines to keep them on there toes.
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Day 4 of seeding, because the first 3 days are a bit of a circus and it's too hard to get a good photo. The new stx550's scratching in some DG408 canola, hopefully we will have something to harvest in a few months!
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
First pass of post em spraying is finally over, with every hectare sprayed at least once. A massive effort by everyone involved to get through it all! Time for some more ‘normal’ working hours for a while 🍺
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Nathan Sawyer
8 years
Yard is starting to get busy, must mean seeding is getting close!
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
Few hot days have things drying out nicely. Should be good to go tomorrow!
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
Nothing like a bush chook at 8am on Sunday morning while you watch the dayshift grease their machines 🍺 #nightshiftperks
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
On Thursday night we celebrated the end of harvest and tried to get a full team photo (2 people missing due to fires). A massive thanks to everyone in the photo for making harvest happen!
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
If your going through dally heading north this winter, I highly recommend a visit to my grandfathers windmill museum. He does personal guided tours free of charge. DM me or contact dally crc for his number to organise a tour. He loves sharing his passion and stories!
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Troy Bungey
3 years
@nathansawyer94 ⁩ great article on your Grandparents? in “TheWEST” today. Need to remember to stop and check it out next time in Dally. Hope season comes to fruition after this great start.
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
Never get tired of seeing the sunrise at seeding, mainly because it signals an hour till beer o’clock 🍺 #nightshift
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Definitely in my top ten favourites ways to find my header at shift change #donttakeshortcuts #salty
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Bit of bank managers hour at Goodlands this evening. Scepter wheat is thriving following a failed barley crop that was sprayed out late September
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
When you hear over the two way that the wheels have fallen off a Morris you instantly think snapped axle. Was very happy to get there and find it’s just wheel studs 😊
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
Added another colour to the machinery colour spectrum for a day yesterday. Thanks to @Boots0907 and @mcintoshandson for the demo. Glad we had enough crop at Goodlands to make it bark!
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
Bit frosty this morning, but the kiwis assure me it’s still shorts weather #crazy #ineedmorejumpers
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Nathan Sawyer
9 months
Got under a storm on the weekend so the ripper is out of the shed. perfect opportunity to get some lime out infront.
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
An expensive solution for when you hate changing run pages 😉
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Good Friday indeed, finished our 6500 tonne summer lime program this arvo, time for a few beers before we get stuck into spreading SOA next week 🍻
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Nature putting on a show east of dally this afternoon #doublerainbow
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
Probably should have replied to the message from the spreader driver asking about the salty patch a bit quicker. Lesson learnt 😬
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
2 paddocks 2km apart at Goodlands, 1 one fallow in 16, the other wheat. 45mil summer rain, 45 mil GSR. Moisture retention key in LRZ
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Finally got this canola in the bin with an average of 1.97t/ha. Not bad seeing as it had no September rain and a few hot days aswell. @Doctor_650 @Willowbanks86 @DohntLuke @BrooksGunnadoo @Beauvalley91
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Ryan Milgate
6 years
An absolutely epic crop tour with @nathansawyer94 on the #speedfreaks bus tour. We tried to run a crop height calibration but the bush chooks won't stack high enough
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Nathan Sawyer
8 years
The truck is loaded, must mean it's time for summer spraying #goodbyesociallife
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
The new #hydramix batching plant from Beverly Hydraboom looks the good... Super simple layout should be backpacker friendly.. Just need rain
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Nothing worse then being stuck in slow moving traffic. Still got a productive night of harvesting in after half the district caught fire 😁
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Our talented trucky made a video of this harvest, featuring bad crop and a naked bloke it's a good watch
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
Seeder to the left of me, spreader to the right, it’s all action out here tonight!
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Nathan Sawyer
2 years
@Doctor_650 soaking up everything rural south Australia has to offer #speedfreaks22
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Started spraying out crop today, 60mm GSR, 105mm for the year, Latrobe barley tried its best but it wasn't to be
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Backpacker blonde moment this morning, get a phone call to say spreader has stopped working, go through obvious things on the phone, no luck, drive 45km to the paddock, to find he wasn't engaging the correct hydraulic spools 🙄 #carton
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
Nice morning to get over some bonito canola at Xantippe before the wind picks up. #onlyshowthebestbits
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
@hirschirsch When you say lost a tyne, does breaking 9 in half on a railway track count? #askingforamate
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Morris bin and bar with Gen 4 armrest display and extend screen running variable rate liquid and compound beautifully #seeding18 #nightshift
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Few hundred tonne of barley seed to screen over the next few days. Seed shield truck doing a great job as always. #seedshield #harvest18
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Nathan Sawyer
8 years
First of our bonito canola went in today to make sure bars are ready to go hard on Monday!
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
A lovely warm day to crack on with screening 500 tonne of sceptre seed, I’ll be observing from an air conditioned location I think! #seedshield #daveisback @mattsmithscl
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Nathan Sawyer
8 years
The two week old chaser bin got introduced to the back of our mother bin last night, just what you want #backpackerlotto #bushfix
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
@ryan_milgate In the interest of professionalism I thought it best to also get a photo using the industry standard measure
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Over an inch of rain in a few minutes at kondut, guess I'm not going to land 200 tonne of lime in this paddock tomorrow #wheredidthatcomefrom
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
The nightshift drivers are getting a crash course in IFR operating tonight, plenty of rock piles and trees in the paddock too
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Nathan Sawyer
8 years
Our mechanic came up with a cheap, easy and simple way to store funnels to keep the workshop looking smart #realissues
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
#seeding18 got underway Wednesday morning with some 43y23 going in. Beers around the fire tonight before things get silly next week 🍻
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Nathan Sawyer
8 years
Calm before the storm! Should start rolling gear out the yard and get cutting this week #Harvest2016 #rollonbighours
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Bit of #reseed18 action today, scratching in a mix of canola and wheat on badly blown sand to try get some coverage
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Nathan Sawyer
5 years
@Pontaragrain I'm pleased to announce no power poles where harmed in the seeding of that paddock last night 😊
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Massive thanks to everyone who retweeted this and offered advice, a crankshaft has been located. The power of Twitter is crazy
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Is it two cartons of you get bogged during a drought? #notcomplaining #kondut #moneyinmud
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Just finished the first farm of wheat and it poured down as we dropped the fronts, talk about timing. Wheat yielding well so far, going anw1 nicely 😎
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Zen wheat on lupin stubble at west wubin, can't complain considering the season we've had #mighthavesomethingtoharvest
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Cheeky Sunday afternoon moisture testing, was 9.2 on Friday, about 8 today, guess the silly season will crank up for us tomorrow #blackgold
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Nathan Sawyer
8 years
Nice to jump on the seeder for something different... And check out the new chicken feet press wheels which look to be working well
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
18 months ago this paddock was a dilapidated ostrich feedlot, this year it will be back in crop for the first time since the 70's
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
17 will be one to forget, may as well burn some Deisel to set up paddocks for next season #maxtillage #moisturedowndeep
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
@dubyadirt Engine on combine died, our mechanics couldn’t work it out, called dealer, they worked on it for a day, changed engine ecu, changed wiring harnesses all sorts, after several hours working on it they figured out the fuel gauge wasn’t working and the tank was empty 🤦‍♂️😂
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Another day another load of urea, shouldn't be long before its on the paddock. Hopefully the #rainlotto keeps going our way. Big thanks to our contractors for keeping sheds and tanks full
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Nathan Sawyer
6 years
Today is off to a cracking start 🙄 second snapped axle this season... #needbiggeraxles
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
The #hydramix made its debut today, loaded 7000 litres in 9.5 minutes, so far so good! #productivity
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Nathan Sawyer
7 years
Might have been to windy to spray today, but it's never to windy to expand the yard and make a pad for the new chemical shed #noyardistoobig
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Nathan Sawyer
3 years
@Barge1Burges Our shed is 18m by 36m, sloped to centre drain which runs into a concrete Waste tank, Bunded most of the way around except for 2 doors for access, 6 wall vents and 6 roof vents for airflow, water at all corners for emergency shower, eyewash etc
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Nathan Sawyer
4 years
A fantastic article about the stover windmill restored by my grandpa that I tweeted about a few weeks ago
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Jo Prendergast
4 years
I put a call out for windmill photos and was swamped with the most wonderful pics. I could only use a few but thank you all so much. It was for this story: @pbl1972 @cottonfarmgirl @JTomlinsonAG @veitch_carly @dale_grump @BWilson1966208 @Oscarthefarmer
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