Farm course in the Outback
So after 2 days Brisbane, we were on our way to the farm price. This takes 1.5 hours from Brisbane in a small farm (~ 1000ha) instead. We (10 +3 farmer workers) live about 20 minutes. from the farm, and 10 minutes of a "city" (a bottle shop, a supermarket and a working business clothes + 20 houses). Here, almost no people, just miles and miles of pastures, cows, horses or just desert. One can see from the farm no more house, hills, even after the next, total wasteland.
The farmers who run the farm price hot, Mad and Ren. The net are real and really funny, but sometimes they talk a little indistinct and outback-origin comes out (they look really like real cowboy's and behave like that:-D). They always drive us to the farm, or if we need something in the next town. The people who join with me and Chris the farm price hot, Sam, Keith (Ireland), Joe, Adam, David, Reichel (England), Kevin and Julia (Germany). The people here are really funny and we have to work a lot of fun during or after the ^ ^
celebrate the first day we only had paperwork, introduction and settling in the area. Then we went into town and have brought us great hats and other Acessoires (see the picture on bottom:-D). Then on 2 Days to get up at 5:30, so we are ready for work at 6:30. First, we must fuettern the horses and then went off to ride. It was quite different than I had imagined it, but it has, despite my ignorance, really worked well. We would have to catch it, prepare to ride and ride for 5 hours. The legs looked after, from really bad but I've never been dropped and I had the horse really well under control. Then, after lunch (meat, meat only, as it should be in a farm ^ ^) then went on motorcycles. It was only much about carbs, gas, clutch, etc. talked until we could finally go. The bike has 5 gears and can up to 80 km / h run, but we have mostly only the first 3 gears used, and my maximum speed was 60 km / h (but not on normal farm because of ^ ^). All the fields have been built with terraces, so that the earth is not the rain sliding down. Over the jump you had to and was really good fun. At 6:00 then the class was over and we went home and watched movies, drank beer and milling, as always, meat.
On 3 Day was then again rid of place, same time, himself. This time we learned how Quad's procedures. It is more complicated as motorcycle ride, because every stone, every pitch has an effect on the Quad. We must deal with the whole body in the Kürvers lie, so you do not runterfaellt and you must work against the slope. It was very exhausting in the long run, but we're only 3 hours down ^ ^. After lunch, we go off again in this time we had to go off-road terrain vehicle, which for that, have the NEN drivers' licenses were not bad. If we did not have to go, we could learn how to pop the whip, which I soon got out (but I still had red stripes on the back ^ ^). When we got there after work, the jobs were already there, which have been attributed to us. Chris and I got together a job as a "sheep picker", which means that we all carry sheep and sheep, the guardian. The job does not take that long, but ne Money source. We have since called and got the job immediately, which I am really very happy, because it is our first job.
The fourth day was rather boring, we only had to drive tractor, build fence and a bit of work with Chainsaw, although that was rather low. After work, we have received for our good work, spent beer and then we had to set about what we wanted to go tomorrow.
For the fifth day came the real work to us, we had all the cows through the Prairies to bring to the farm, because we had to identify calves. It was really bad because we had such post a horseshoe around the animals so they do not run away, but we should be there not as close, or they are attacking. I was, because I absolutely wanted to practice a bit, on a motor bike, which was not always great because the bike is the only one clutch that had to be almost always pushed at 5 mph. But we have the cows in 2-3 hours made it into the farm and then we had a shorter lunch break to rest, for it was even harder. Then we had to disperse the cows, sort it, count, branded, spray characteristics and against what diseases. After 3 hours we were there and ready and are sweaty and drecking to the pub in the "city" and have driven us to the other farmers and so maintained. The pub is the center of the nightly scene and everyone comes over here and drink something before he goes home. Now we are ready, we have passed all of the farm price and here we go right to work, then really am looking forward to my Muckie:-D
will now only be celebrated tomorrow and go back to Brisbane.