Our RFS station in Moulamein is also trained to be a Road Crash Rescue unit.
We had a couple of our newer members that needed to be ticked off so they were qualified.
It was also a great time for us older members to learn what we were taught a few years ago.
The course started Friday night, all day Saturday and another full day on Sunday.
Thank you to those that donated the cars as well as Clary and Alan who drove around and picked them up for us.
We will need more to cut up in the future, so if you have one or two cars to donate, please ring Alan on 0422 907 090 to arrange pick up.
If you would like your car back to take to the scrappies after we train on it, that is not a problem either.
We will happily load it on your trailer and maybe throw another one on top of it.
A big thank you to Chris from Deniliquin, Col who is one of our White Shirt mates that looks after us and Dan, who came all the way from Sydney to give us some lessons in how to cut up cars and save people.
We even taught them a couple of moves while they were down here.
This was a great weekend and we got one new member ticked off and one almost ticked off with a few more very interested to get qualified.
It was also a great weekend for us qualified mob to learn again what we have forgotten.
Gallery Photo Presentation Night
This is a free event tonight starting at 6pm and the gallery girls will supply a light supper.
With this mob on the job, it would be worth just turning up for the feed.
I entered a photo this year but my lens on the phone is about seven years old so I do not expect to be walking away with the goodies.
I think I will have to put more effort into my sculpture abilities.
Last year’s big idea ran out of time so I just threw a couple of entries in.
They both got sold so they could not have been too bad.
Get you junk together and start to work on the Gallery Sculpture’s for their bi-annual competition.
I have a year-and-a-half to get it together.
But knowing me, the welds will be still warm when I deliver it.
Melbourne Cup weekend
Another reminder for those farmers who host half of Melbourne on this weekend as they love to get up here and shoot a few ducks on our rice crops and have a bloody good time.
I have it on good authority that the DPI will be teaming up with the local police to check out every rice farm that has duck shooters on it.
For all the farmers, please make sure your paperwork is up to date.
Please tell ALL of your hunters to do the same.
They are almost guaranteed to get checked out.
It could be a very expensive feed of duck, fish or yabbies if they do not have the right licence or the wrong gear.
Bowls season success
Divi 1 team remain undefeated.
They had another win with 2 rinks up, one rink down. Up overall.
They did lose top spot to Racecourse as they got 3 rinks up.
But they play them at home this weekend.
Our Divi 3 played last year’s premiers, Lake Boga, on their home turf.
One rink up. Two down. Down overall.
We were the Divi 4 premiers last year, but we have gone up a level. We will get there.
This weekend it is both divisions at home, both against our mates from Racecourse.
Come over for a look at some good bowls getting played.
You are most welcome to buy a ticket in our raffle.
Smoko is just after 3pm.
We are still looking for new bowlers as not everyone is available every week.
Come over for a roll on Thursday evening and give it a go.
TransGrid
We had our meeting with our mates from TransGrid.
I told them where they should put their towers. Not rudely.
The most direct route is down past Echuca. But Murray River Council seems to have canned that one as it is not even on the map anymore.
It is on the map that they took back with them as I drew it there.
That route is around 140km shorter.
They also supposed to be going north of Moulamein to go through the station country and leave us irrigators alone.
They have great aerial maps that show where our irrigation is.
We still had to point out the bleeding obvious.
Like that paddock that is divided up into rectangle sections is irrigation.
That is a house, these are sheds.
This big grey area is water storage.
Look at this bit. It has all these bushes on it. That is our dry land.
That is where your 70 metre towers can go without stuffing our farm.
I even showed them a new route from Wanganella to Moulamein that does not go through any irrigation.
“That would be further,” they said. It is in their zone, I pointed out, and if they are worried about distance, the Echuca route should still be on the table.
No response on that idea. They told us nothing, and we are no wiser as to where they are going to put this horrible thing.
We will be happy to talk to them again, but as far as doing any surveys or anything to go to the next level, they will not get back onto our farm until they give us some more information.
There is nothing to survey. Where they want to go is irrigation on our place as well as our neighbours.
End of story. No need for a survey.
River levels
The Edward has continued to rise after the last rain event and is now at just over 2.9 metres and around 3600 megs a day. It will start to drop next week as the rain event water eases off.
