Just spend our first day volunteering with Blazaide.
We’re are at the Nymboida Camp for four days.....
Driving in last night opened our eyes....
Driving my to the property open our eyes even more, eyes weld up a bit
Talking to the farmer, blew us away, he stayed to defend and I dunno how he survived, him and his mates saved the house but lost four shed and nearly all equipment. Sadly underinsured, more so didn’t understand ‘rural package’ insurance. He now wishes he let the house burn and saved the shed and stock yard. He took us through how quickly the fire got into them......had to believe unless you were there.
Anyways,
- I know know how they get fences so straight
- we knocked over 520m today, 130 star pickets over five sections, 7km of fencing still to go on this property.
- Honda driven star picket driver are a god send
- barb wire catches onto everything
- 7:30am to 2:30 pm and we were rooted
- our team leader is retired, he has been doing it for two months and we struggled to keep up, it was supposed to be only him and one other lady, he was so glad we turned up.
- Blazaid buy every thing local, wire, food, ice, don’t listen to the report Blazaid are doing contractor out of work, Farmers need fences, their ain’t enough contractors.
We have committed to four full days, we move into the hills tomorrow which will slow us up.
The farmer and his daughter don’t smile or interact much, they are busting their arses getting the strainer posts in for us. They were at it before we arrived and we still st it when we left.
So glad I brought the family, didn’t expect to spend a a week of our annual leave l, sweating our arses off building fences, it was hot and we’ve been blowing black Shit out of our noses for the last two hour. The three of us went through 12L of water today.
We’ll be sore tomorrow but will back up without complaint
The bride may get a couple of piece of ironbark for home.......
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