Farm Tour - Bits Out the Back of Our Farm
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Hi Folks. Here's a very quick farm tour of our Bits Out the Back" homestead farm after a few folks asked for it in our last video.
Will bring you more in depth tour videos after we finally move in & get settled. 😁👍
Cheers All & have a fantastic week.
Rob & B & Jack 🐾
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Cool, quite a piece of land you now have. Horse trails for your Glampers to ride on....
Thanks one of the plans we have. 😉😁
Cheers Jean.
Just incredibly exciting to tour your new space. This is ALL YOURS!!!!
Yep. 😁 A fair bit of work to do to get it up to scratch but it'll b a ball I think.
Thanks for the tour out the back
You may have a few yabbies in your billabong if your lucky
We have some in the front dams so I'm fairly sure there'd be some in there as well. 😁👍
thanks for the tour or safari, no wild animals, but jack. hope you enjoy every inch of your new adventure.
So far Jack & a few wallabies are it HCC. There is a feral cat wandering around but hopefully for not much longer. 😕
Great scenery! Jack was definitely excited about the drive too! 😂
He LOVES car rides Jennifer. As soon as any door is open he's trying to get in. 😂
Cheers & have a top one.
Thanks for the tour " out the back"....My first thought on seeing all that fallen timber, other than biochar, was leaky weirs. What a great resource for rehydrating the land...
B has been creating mini ones with sticks, branches & rocks on her afternoon walks with Jack. There's a few washouts above the dam behind the house that she's concentrating on at the moment. It will be interesting to see how they went after the rain over the past few days.
Cheers & have a top one Les.
BNE lad here, would definitely like to have a local charcoal supplier.
👍 Not sure how much we'll be making but we might be able to offer some for sale. 😉
Plenty of wood for a wood fire in winter .
Doesn't really get cold enough for fires from the records we've looked at. That won't stop us from having a few small pit fires though. 😉
Wooowsers! Huge place. Sooo cool.
We slightly chuffed about it to say the least Cath. 😉
Have a top weekend.
Thanks guys very cool look at the place, I'm very envious haha. Seeya Rob................you know what goes with pigs Rob, bow hunting haha.
🤣 B got first dibs to set up a blind & break in her Tikka. 😕
I'm yet to crack out the bows. Probably should set the targets up & get back into it.
Did you end up sending through an email? I've a had a few from different folks land in the inbox but haven't got around to going through them yet.
Great tour, and great property! I didn't know the farm was SO large! Cannot wait to see all the great things you do with it. Cheers!
Cheers mate. We were looking for smaller but wanting larger. We almost passed on this place due to the house but am glad we didn't. 😉
Really enjoyed the tour! I dare say you might have some agri-tourism opportunities in your future.
Camping for sure & would like to hold open days to show off some of the earthworks & farming methods well be using once we get up & growing properly Tairis. At the moment we're still working to get a ride on lawn mower & a proper filter system for the water. 😅
Hope all's well with you & yours.
I grew up down towards the otways in vic and that looks so much like the scrubby bush farms my friends and i ran feral on. Fantastic for some quiet camping!
We've found some great areas to set up camping spots already. Might even set up a "glamping" spot as well for those that don't like it too rough. 😉
Cheers Niamh.
Lovely tour. You will have no shortage in your wood supply that's for sure. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the quarry was, what about the gold !!! Looks like a good spot to do some test pans if you can spot any quartz rock. A tractor or a backhoe for your property wouldn't be any luxury. Thanks for the tour, loved watching it. 👍
We're definitely going to be panning to see what's there. 👍 We're hoping to borrow a detector as well to see what turns up around the rocky sections.
Hope all's well with you mate.
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Great tour.
Thanks 😁👍
Very nice.🦘🕊🦜
Cheers Christina. 😁👍
You’d definitely have native bees in that scrub
Loads of native bees around DUF. 👍 Looking forward to getting the kiln up here. Think we'll need to hire a larger trailer though as the 8x5 is just a bit to light to take it.
Cheers mate.
That tree at 8:40 has a termite nest about half way up. I wouldn't be surprised if there's kingfishers nesting in it now. You definitely have to call one of those tracks Quarry Road.
Goannas like to lay their eggs in them as well we've learned. 👍
Cheers mate.
you have wild bore on property nice hunting
Maybe one or two passing through to the cane & fruit orchards near by. We'll be setting up a few trail cams to see what's around once we work down the list of wants & needs.
Cheers Gary. 👍
Yes fire hazard on a farm is never good. I would look to clear off any dead or dieing growth.
It would be impossible to clear it all. We'll just be doing the basics around infrastructure & fences like most folks do. 👍
@@BitsOutTheBackFarm too bad I am in the States , could clear it all for you easy
l live in Biggenden.... top spot
Cheers Trev. Love it up here & can't believe we waited so long to move.
@@BitsOutTheBackFarm me to & lm an X Vic....
Your sitting on a goldmine to make charcoal👌
In the previous video, you showed many tadpoles. Maybe put some into a bucket and deliver them to the billabong if there aren't any there?
The tadpoles are an introduced pest species we'll be trying to catch & dispatch Payton. They are from the cane toad that was introduced to control the sugar cane beetle but went feral instead.
B wants to do a video explaining all about them & showing off a trap once we get some time to shoot it.
Cheers & have a top one.
Would have been cool to see GPS map (or similar) as you went around, gave better indication of size, bearing. Hate to think what non-eviro friendly stuff they buried.
Re: Drive, u may have better material there, our block is fairly sandy, so used recycled asphalt.
More comfortable + less corrugation created if tyre pressures ~20psi on tracks.
Goat meat has become popular, will clean a lot of that crap up.
Surprising no birds around, especially in the billabong.
I see B likes back seat driving😉
Mapping will be done once we have the ability to do so. A drone will help with that but it's low on the list at the moment. We do have loads of birds around. Found most disappear as soon as Jack goes running through the bush though. 🤣
Thanks for the tour. I subscribed a few weeks back, after youtube recommended you. Not watched your videos before then. I love your property. Reminds me of where I grew up in the, then, rural areas outside of Darwin. Just needs a heap of pandanas, paperbarks, and speargrass and my backyard growing up was pretty much the same. 😊 Including the pig wallows, just add buffalo ones and croc spots (buffalo wallows a croc takes over and resizes to fit its needs), a lagoon instead of a billabong, and I'm home. 😂
Really looking forward to what you guys get up to. Hubby and I have been discussing going off grid since before we got married (20 odd years back). We were thinking around Bundy or Gympie when we lived in Brisbane... but moved to the Adelaide hills some time back, so hunting here instead. I'd say we'd be drier here, but not as humid and no cane toads. So I hope to learn a lot watching you're set up, see if it helps remind me of growing up as a bush kid up north, and inspire me to find the right bit of land to go off grid on. For now, living on the edge of suburbia (slowly being surround by new builds on farm land 😞) in a large country town, aiming for urban off grid homesteading for now. Lovely to "meet" you both - Janis.
Hi Janis. Am glad you're liking the videos so far. We're not sure if we'll end up off grid here yet but I'm thinking it could be a possibility. With the 5kW solar that's already on the roof & the extra surface area on the sheds we could use I think we could generate more than what we need.
Sounds like you have a childhood growing up many of us dreamed of. My time on a farm as a kid was a lot more tame than buffalo & crocs. 😅
Hope you & yours have a fantastic Chrissy / break.
QLD gate is what I was told 🍺🍺
With all the crazy videos online about deadly creatures in Australia, I was half expecting a T-Rex to walk across the path.
P.S: One of the trails should be called "P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney".
🤣 Nothing too exciting animal wise here but I know what you mean. I have been asked about drop bears but so far we've seen none. 😉
I like the trail suggestion too.
Cheers & have a great one.
I call them a Bushmans gate.
I've heard the called that as well Mini. 👍
Thanks for the tour R & B. You are allowed to clear fence lines for blue zoning. 10 metres for external fences and 6 metres for internal fences. There is also consideration for existing infrastructure such as buildings and roads.
You can also install "permanent infrastructure" and clear 20m around that. For example a new pump cover, or a greenhouse.
Also look into civiculture. I highly recommend giving the ladies at the DES a call, they really are helpful with answering questions (and emails so you have their comments in writing).
@@mini696 B works for DES & has been bending a few ears already.😉👍
Cheers Mini696.
👍 Cheers mate. B got a load of info when we first started looking from folks at her work on the zoning & what we can & can't touch. She's also very good at writing grants so we'll be keeping an eye out for anything that might be able to help us & the land out as well.😉
Did you get much of last night's rain?
@@BitsOutTheBackFarm excellent. Sounds like you have it all sorted.
Only 20mm till 9am today. How did you go?
@@queenslandfarmer Sorry I missed this mate. Probably more than the ground needed. 😅 Hope you've had an enjoyable trip up north.
The biochar is a great idea to make use of the timber you're clearing but make sure to drop enough on the ground to feed the forest while you're working through. I always remember a quote from I think Geoff Lawton saying "a forest feeds on a fallen forest" 😁 give to the land and it'll give back to you
Also timber lying on the ground becomes fungi food instead of fire food so no harm leaving bits and piece behind as you work through
We won't be taking everything. More a fire reduction effort & turning the potential bushfire fuel into an income.
Thanks Rob and Bianca + Kira..
Oh very excited for the chance to name a track.. mmmmm best start being creative...
Well we know that if there is a platypus in the billabong Dave get dibs on that one.. 😂😂. But Bryans billabong bog track has a nice ring to it....😅😂😅😂.
Cheers buddy til the next one...
🤣 I think there's enough tracks to go around.
We think we have the name of one track sorted due to the amount of grevilleas flowering either side of it at the moment. We should probably do a quick video of it wile they're in bloom.
Cheers Mr Bryan.
Yeh you don't need 4wd, I reckon I'd get my falcon through there 😏
🤣 No doubt you could take it there. Not sure that I'd recommend it if you'd like to keep your exhaust attached to the car.
Great tour . Have you sighted any feral species yet 🏹
I think I saw a pig run across the road a few weeks back & have seen a feral cat but that's it so far mate.
How much land did you end up with down south?
@@BitsOutTheBackFarm compromised with family ended up in suburbia 800sq getting chickens soo ln but also got all the permissions to go 🏹 in the state forests which some are like 10 min from me
Thanks Rob ... You are going to need a good chainsaw.
We have a small 16" Stihl & an electric for small pruning jobs. Think we'll need something a bit larger for some of the logs down the back if we wanted to tackle them.
Cheers Malcolm.
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I see you two have decided to wear some of your house paint. Temporary tatoos? :-)
🤣 It's been 2 weeks & I notices I still have some on my big toe Ron. 😅
Cheers mate.