Most things in life don’t go to plan and that is particularly true in the bush. There are two old sayings out here  – ‘If you have machinery, you can expect breakdowns’, and ‘If you have stock, expect losses’. At harvest time the former is usually true although touch wood by the time we finish in the am we will have been breakdown free this season.

Usually we will be half way through a field and a bearing will go on the all important chaser bin or, something will happen to the mother bin! Fingers crossed the worst that has happened so far is being caught in a short sharp storm on thursday afternoon last week. It took us all by surprise. There I was having assumed the position (feet out the window) waiting on one more road train to load and it started to sprinkle. We managed to get the truck loaded, the header and motherbin enroute out of our western country however the chaser bin had 3 tonne in it when the heavens opened. After a nice fall of 15mm  we were left with the wet grain in the chaser on the side of the road. There it sat until we could move it and empty it out. The break in the harvest found us back out in the paddock mustering the last of this years steers in. So while we resumed harvest this am I bolted back to the mainhomestead to do the paperwork for the truck. We are always pretty busy here but whew! The last six weeks we’ve been flat. On a happier note the moos sure like a little stubble …