The view from my "office"
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Travelling between offices in Central West NSW today. Beautiful view here. Bonus points to anyone who knows where it is...
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Going out there before we leave this morning. Saw a few rally cars arriving yesterday. There was also a group of long distance bike riders on a charity ride the other day. Plenty of visitors in town but very dry around here
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View from my actual office today.
New Farm, Queensland
New Farm, Queensland
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Another beautiful day in the Central West. This was somewhere between Canowindra and Cowra.
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Things were very steamy at this morning's office - Central Railway Station.
US built 5917 runs around the carriages of the Picnic train to Kiama.
3801 runs around the carriages of the Hydro Express (to the Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Bath).
US built 5917 runs around the carriages of the Picnic train to Kiama.
3801 runs around the carriages of the Hydro Express (to the Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Bath).
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This morning's office.Harvest Market,Launceston.Breakfast.
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Next saturday's breakfast will come from here.
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Late morning office.The Tramway Museum.Free except if you want a tram ride-$5 or $4.50 for a senior.
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My personal tram arrives.Even had my number .
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And has to take it's own power with it.
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..Next saturday's breakfast will come from here.
.Late morning office.The Tramway Museum.Free except if you want a tram ride-$5 or $4.50 for a senior.
.My personal tram arrives.Even had my number .
.And has to take it's own power with it.
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My old route to my office is still closed
had to go via this route instead
and my temporary office for 2.25 hours had great views during the journey
No prizes for guessing the destination
had to go via this route instead
and my temporary office for 2.25 hours had great views during the journey
No prizes for guessing the destination
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I got dusted off on a beautiful day yesterday to help with seeding some canola trials near Beverley, about 1.5h drive SE of PER.
Common agricultural trials are for things like cultivar (aka variety) comparison and evaluation. Generally, plots are 1.2 m (6 rows) wide x 10 m long. They need to be sown accurately in a grid with a precision seeder. A typical trial might be 12 varieties x 4 replications , so 48 plots, in a RCB (randomised complete block) statistical design with an ANOVA (analysis of variance) conducted on yield, or other parameters, at the end to separate effects.
Working in an area 40 m wide x about 100 m long, we sowed about four trials, running back and forth across the width of the site (ie. 4 plots sown in each run). Prior to sowing, the area was sprayed with herbicide with the rig on the ute.
Needing cm precision, we set up a differential GPS station locked to about 19 satellites. That in turn controlled the location of the tractor, which has fully automatic steering capability. So, once I swung the machine around and generally lined it up for another 40 m run, all I had to do was hit the auto-steer icon on the screen, switch on the precision cone-seeder seed feeding mechanism and lower the hydraulically-controlled tynes and press-wheels prior to the edge, then not touch the steering wheel until the run was completed and it was time to turn off auto-steer and the seed feeder and raise the tynes before steering manually for the next run.
The other operator was on the seeder, feeding the envelopes of coded seeds into the canister above the inverted cone (designed to spread the seeds very evenly) successively one at a time, with the gate opening precisely under automatic GPS control.
This is the same minimum-tillage methodology almost universally used in broadacre cropping. The tynes cut a narrow furrow into which the measured seed and fertiliser drops, while the rubber-edged press wheels apply pressure to ensure good soil/seed contact.
Common agricultural trials are for things like cultivar (aka variety) comparison and evaluation. Generally, plots are 1.2 m (6 rows) wide x 10 m long. They need to be sown accurately in a grid with a precision seeder. A typical trial might be 12 varieties x 4 replications , so 48 plots, in a RCB (randomised complete block) statistical design with an ANOVA (analysis of variance) conducted on yield, or other parameters, at the end to separate effects.
Working in an area 40 m wide x about 100 m long, we sowed about four trials, running back and forth across the width of the site (ie. 4 plots sown in each run). Prior to sowing, the area was sprayed with herbicide with the rig on the ute.
Needing cm precision, we set up a differential GPS station locked to about 19 satellites. That in turn controlled the location of the tractor, which has fully automatic steering capability. So, once I swung the machine around and generally lined it up for another 40 m run, all I had to do was hit the auto-steer icon on the screen, switch on the precision cone-seeder seed feeding mechanism and lower the hydraulically-controlled tynes and press-wheels prior to the edge, then not touch the steering wheel until the run was completed and it was time to turn off auto-steer and the seed feeder and raise the tynes before steering manually for the next run.
The other operator was on the seeder, feeding the envelopes of coded seeds into the canister above the inverted cone (designed to spread the seeds very evenly) successively one at a time, with the gate opening precisely under automatic GPS control.
This is the same minimum-tillage methodology almost universally used in broadacre cropping. The tynes cut a narrow furrow into which the measured seed and fertiliser drops, while the rubber-edged press wheels apply pressure to ensure good soil/seed contact.
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