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Getting work done, ex Sheep and beef farmer

Waikato District, New Zealand
Joined June 2016
Headed back across the ditch again....... on a sprayer.... 1000 hectares and counting
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Think I found the perfect job .... or how it used to be before everyone got busy... stopping for dinner in the middle of harvest #familybusiness #harvestnz #newholland #otagonz #summer weather @WeatherWatchNZ @travelingfixer @BenDooley8
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Off on another adventure....21 hour drive from Hamilton to Clinton...... back from Aussie Harvest to a NZ harvest. Let's catch a moon
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Replying to @admired_art
Australian sunset, Victoria
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Finished my Australian harvest 4 days early so ticked off another bucket list item, house boating on the Murray... all the talk was how much water was around
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Currently in Horsham, enjoying the experience very impressed about the transportation of windrowers
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Come to Australia they said money to be made , sun shines endlessly.... just don't go to Victoria... rains every day and it's freezing, even for a kiwi , been a day or 2 since I've driven a windrower
Evening mood 👌 – at Rukuhia, Waipa District
Our clean green power generation working (or not) in our windiest month of the yr at Waitetuna , almost laughable with millions $$$ spent, but wait let's all get ev's and really f... the grid won't be car less days ...more days when you're allowed to drive them @WeatherWatchNZ
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Just shot across the ditch for 2wks, haven't seen son for 3 yrs and 1st time in 3 yrs the 3 of them and myself had been together..the feeling is awesome 👌 Weather is just spot on. #family #sunrises #goodtimes #queensland #GoldCoast #byronbay #holidays #weather @WeatherWatchNZ
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Awesome flight from Hamilton to Christchurch this morning, couldn't of asked for better weather #mttaranaki #southerners #mtcook @WeatherWatchNZ @FlyAirNZ
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If any1 is interested in irrigation& Agriculture,I highly recommend visiting Uzbekistan. Massive canals to move water around & from there it's all done by eye(tractors making ditches) and hand .on a large scale ..fascinating to say the least Cotton is huge... wheat barley lucerne
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Just a couple of pics from Uzbekistan that give you a different perspective #haycartage #kidsinagriculture #sweethoney #threewheels
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Replying to @charlottalks
Bugger it , coming home tomorrow, haven't seen rain since I left 8 weeks ago...🤣🤣 Temperature just now in Dubai
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10 days into an epic work/adventure traveled to Uzbekistan for 6wks to work on summer harvest 24,000ha of barley/wheat to be done #work#travel#summersun#hot#johndeere#krone#uzbek#qarshi No Twitter in Uzbekistan, resent
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Wow wow wow , just spent 8 weeks harvesting and baling wheat, barley and the straw in Uzbekistan. Such an awesome experience. No Twitter there more pics to follow @WeatherWatchNZ @fairleigh_ag @ohthatwelshguy #Uzbekistan #Indorama #johndeere#krone
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