[Des]

Anyway I will get off of my soapbox and get back to posting photos

OK, same here. :-) I've enjoyed the discussion.

This is a cattleman's hut in the mountains of eastern Victoria. This one was built in 1939 by Alex Guy, as you can see from the inscription above the door. The cattlemen from the surrounding valleys (in this case from Wonnangatta Station in the Wonnangatta Valley) used to pasture their cattle over summer on the snow grass plains at around 1400-1700 metres above sea level (say around 4500-5500'). They were very remote areas until logging roads went in after WW2. In fact the former Wonnangatta Station (now part of the Alpine National Park) still is very remote, accessible only by arduous walking tracks or steep and rough 4WD tracks. It takes about 2 hours of hard low-range 4WDing to go down the track from the snow plain to the valley.

K-S2 + DA 18-135.

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[jabobby]

Des, That is an awesome photo & an incredible story. I feel like I went back in time just looking at that. Not too many folks that could live that kind of life.
Here are a couple photos of my neighbors cows.
Best Regards, Bob

[goatsNdonkey]

Speaking of windmills....

[jabobby]

Speaking of windmills....

goatsNdonkey that is my kind of windmill...too bad I don't have one.
Best Regards, Bob

[goatsNdonkey]

goatsNdonkey that is my kind of windmill...too bad I don't have one.
Best Regards, Bob

When I was a kid, in the 1950s and 60s, there were still a lot of windmills with all of their vanes and able to turn in the wind, though I don't know how many of them were still pumping water. Now it is quite rare to see one that isn't a complete wreck. In fact, in the 1980s, windmills seemed to be getting removed at about the same rate as those first gigantic satellite TV dishes were being installed in farmyards all over. It looked like the countryside was shifting from peacefully pumping water, to getting ready to return fire if the Martians landed and started firing their own parabolic heat ray weapons we had seen in the movies.

[KC0PET]

When I was a kid, in the 1950s and 60s, there were still a lot of windmills with all of their vanes and able to turn in the wind, though I don't know how many of them were still pumping water. Now it is quite rare to see one that isn't a complete wreck. In fact, in the 1980s, windmills seemed to be getting removed at about the same rate as those first gigantic satellite TV dishes were being installed in farmyards all over. It looked like the countryside was shifting from peacefully pumping water, to getting ready to return fire if the Martians landed and started firing their own parabolic heat ray weapons we had seen in the movies.

Fortunately those big satellite dishes are mostly gone now. Maybe we can get a movement amongst the preppers (I kind of fall in that category) to bring back the old water pumping windmills

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Here is some winter cover crop getting started on our farm.

[honey bo bo]

Free Grazers

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[jabobby]

honey bo bo, nice grazers.
Here is some from a local farm. Have to go back when the sun is higher to get away from the shadows.
Best Regards, Bob

[jabobby]

This past summer a cell phone company put up a tower in my neighbors hay field. Nice for him since they pay a fairly healthy sum of money for the use of that little piece of land. My way to accept it is to look at it as just a very tall metal tree. It is 300 feet so that is a very tall tree. Here are some photos of it:
first shot is when they were almost finished erecting it, taken from the edge of my property about 300 yards distance;
second shot shows the crew fastening the strobe light on top and you can see the vultures checking out that nice new tall metal tree, taken from my front yard at about 500 yards distance;
third shot is a worker done for the day;
forth shot is a man connecting the antenna wires;
last shot is the final result, the new & improved vulture roost.
Best Regards, Bob

[goatsNdonkey]

If we are playing Farmland Poker, I'll see you a power line tower and a goat, and raise you a stubble field:








All with Schneider-Kreuznach Componon f5.6 80mm enlarger lens + K10D

[Des]

This past summer a cell phone company put up a tower in my neighbors hay field. Nice for him since they pay a fairly healthy sum of money for the use of that little piece of land. My way to accept it is to look at it as just a very tall metal tree. It is 300 feet so that is a very tall tree.

I think I'd be less Zen about it, Bob. :-)

If we are playing Farmland Poker, I'll see you a power line tower and a goat, and raise you a stubble field:

I think Bob's tower beats your power pole. But the goat and stubble field are a challenge for the next player. Which goat is it BTW? (Should x-post in the farm animals thread.)

[goatsNdonkey]

I think Bob's tower beats your power pole. But the goat and stubble field are a challenge for the next player. Which goat is it BTW? (Should x-post in the farm animals thread.)

The grandness of the pole I posted is based mainly on its comparison to the poles of the old power line that ran there, chunks of the poles from which we have spit for some of our new pasture fencing.

The goat, named Oregano, is one of our three dairy goat wethers. Oregano's markings are clearly of the Alpine breed.

[KC0PET]

This past summer a cell phone company put up a tower in my neighbors hay field. Nice for him since they pay a fairly healthy sum of money for the use of that little piece of land. My way to accept it is to look at it as just a very tall metal tree. It is 300 feet so that is a very tall tree. Here are some photos of it:
first shot is when they were almost finished erecting it, taken from the edge of my property about 300 yards distance;
second shot shows the crew fastening the strobe light on top and you can see the vultures checking out that nice new tall metal tree, taken from my front yard at about 500 yards distance;
third shot is a worker done for the day;
forth shot is a man connecting the antenna wires;
last shot is the final result, the new & improved vulture roost.
Best Regards, Bob

One of these days I would like to build one of those and lease the "vertical real estate", it is much more lucrative than the horizontal real estate. And I can also hang my ham radio antennas on it. But in my past career one of my hats was to contract and manage radio tower installations. I don't mind the cell towers personally, but I do understand that quite a few people do not like them.

[WPRESTO]

One of these days I would like to build one of those and lease the "vertical real estate", it is much more lucrative than the horizontal real estate. And I can also hang my ham radio antennas on it. But in my past career one of my hats was to contract and manage radio tower installations. I don't mind the cell towers personally, but I do understand that quite a few people do not like them.

Have you seen one that's been semi-camouflaged, or semi-decorated with artificial pine limbs to look sort of treeish?

[KC0PET]

Have you seen one that's been semi-camouflaged, or semi-decorated with artificial pine limbs to look sort of treeish?

Yes, some are even well done. I particularly like the ones that are made into Crosses. Wish I had some photos to show...

Here is some more corn stubble.