Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fencing Off The River
East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority and East Gippsland Water approached us regarding the need to restrict our cattle from accessing the Mitchell River since our property is upstream of the water harvesting point that supplies household water to several neighbouring towns including Bairnsdale, Lindenow and Paynesville. The idea was not to re-establish a fence on the original boundary…
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Off Stream Watering
Our grant from East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority and East Gippsland Water included funds for “Off Stream Watering”. These funds are to be used for installation of an off stream watering system to support our cattle. After much thought and research due to the challenges that we face at the property including no power, significant elevation…
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The Office
Being eco friendly is a major component of the farm, so when ex-corporate office partitioning is being dumped, we jumped at the chance to pick these up so we could reuse them. The idea of small cabins, large enough to hold a queen size bed, some room for changing, clothes storage, etc was born. Each panel…
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Cattle Sale
We scurried to find our 38 yearlings, which had been placed in multiple pens. Steers were in one area of the sale yards and Heifers in another. Lots of people were attending and the standard of the yards and how they operated was excellent. A different auctioneer managed a line of pens, with each pen…
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Working Stockyards
The virginal cattle yards finally get a taste of Black Angus pressure. Group task force with hay incentives were required to herd the stock into the cattle yards. One cow had only recently delivered a new calf, so she was excused to relax in the paddock with some hay. The yearlings needed to be sorted…
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Stockyards
Build your own stockyards. They said “build post and rail stockyards, they will look rustic and a real feature!”. What they did not say is the major effort required to build something that is basically circular in key drafting areas and not too many straight edges or right angles. We started the stockyards Christmas 2010 near the…
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Excavator
Every farm needs heavy equipment. Up till now, we have been relying on our neighbour for bulldozer and excavator services. While he is very efficient and does a great job, it is not economical for smaller jobs. So we decided to purchase an excavator. The Caterpillar 312C arrived during the weekend. After an initial assessment by…
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Baby Bonus
What happens when you purchase a cow that is unknowingly pregnant? You get a baby bonus!! This is the first time we purchased cows rather than steers. The main reason is steers wander too much and apply greater stress on our ageing boundary fences. Also cows tend to chew out the paddocks a little better and clean up…
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It Works!
Welcome to our new website! We created this website to support our vision for the farm at Wuk Wuk. We are yet to settle on a property name, so will continue to refer to the farm as Wuk Wuk. Take a look. Currently, you have to register before you can leave comments. We may relax…
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