It has been a bit warmer overnight here the last week or so, but was fairly cold again last night with a huge fog this morning.
We have been without a bore for several months now as it was hit by lightning and it has taken this long to sort out the insurance yada yada yada. I am starting to see a tinge of green to the cultivation. Other than that there is plenty of brown as the grass has been killed off by frosts.
I went to Farmfest as well. A different day and I was disappointed that there was only a cattle show going on and not the demonstration type things I saw last year.
We went to a tractor day in the City yesterday. Why take farmers into the City? I have no idea. Boy things have changed. We saw nothing but concrete for over half an hour going in there. These are areas that used to be farms growing fruit and vegetables and dairy and now concrete is all you can see.
It was free to get in, but then we go to other tractor shows that are free to get in and they did subsidise lunch, but then the prices are ridiculous so it brought them down to normal prices. Although drinks and fruit were free so that was good. Although parking cost us $14.00!!! Of course it is free to park anywhere around here, so that was a huge amount to us.
It was nowhere near as good as Farmfest as it was only the brands that AGCO sells. So you couldn't compare to other brands, so was a bit boring for me. More interesting to hubby as he is a mechanic and they had engines set up in show cases to see how they work.
In the end I watched a guy with a knotter from a square baler. He asked me a question and I just said, "Well we were going to buy one until we found out it cuts a pigtail and so we are not buying one now."
He explained to me that the big square baler leaves a pigtail and the small baler does not. Which I know is not true as we bought a truck load of hay with someone with that small square baler and then had to spend over half an hour picking out bits of baling twine, so as the horses don't accidentally eat it. But hey I am female what do I know?
Hey I was bored, so I went and got hubby and he came over to watch and hear about no pig tail. Two more sales men who swore it did not leave pigtails and hubby got a price, etc, etc, etc.
The blokes we buy from were there and very good friends and down to earth. Hee hee hee. This is the guy who when we bought the valtra tractor told us it was a nice yellow not a horrible yellow. We would like it as it is calf sh!t yellow!!!!!!
So I went over and teased him and told him he had lost a sale because of telling us that that baler doesn't leave a pigtail. Hahahahahaha.
He just looked at me and said, "What?" I told him that the guys over there told us that that baler does not leave a pigtail and he just said, "BULLSHIT!!!"
This guy not only sells hay equipment but they also make hay and are hay contractors so he knows what he is talking about.
So I took him over there and he showed me where the pigtail was in the machine and knew one of the guys who told us it didn't and told him that of course it does. You should have seen that guy back down!!!! Adamant to us that it doesn't leave a pigtail but to this guy just agreed with him straight away and admitted he didn't know.
Well hey I needed some entertainment!!!!!
Our sales guy might be trading in a Lely Welger square baler soon. It does not leave a pigtail. It is from a deceased estate so it might be worth looking at. Except hubby now only wants to only buy new stuff and this baler would be about 15 years old, but anyway we can have a look we don't have to buy. That is if it does get traded.
Today hubby has started putting the roof on the new shed. A friend is coming to help with the roof. He has arrived so I had better go.