brooklyn1 wrote:
> "phil..c" > wrote:
>> brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> A few minutes ago:
>>> http://i40.tinypic.com/16ke6x1.jpg
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>>> Morning beggers:
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>>> http://i43.tinypic.com/157eii0.jpg
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>> Lovely, but jealous of all that grass you have
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> Don't be jealous... you're welcome to help mow.... have you ever mown ten
> acres of lawn in a day? All I can say is sitting a tractor is tough on the
> kidneys... tractors have no suspension... good I have plenty of bushes
> heheh.
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he he try doing 5000 acres of barley harvest in a day & a night

By the way the community here holds the guinness book of records for
most headers in one place at one time see

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> WESTY said it would work. Boots offered his property. Brickie got excited and Griffo wanted to bring his chopper.
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> Well, Westy was right. Boots copped a bonus in getting 200ha of wheat off in world record time. Brickie could only marvel at the publicity and confidence booster to the local community and Griffo, well Griffo had a ball in his helicopter ferrying professional and amateur photographers.
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> And the result?
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> An entry into the Guinness Book of Records for having 55 combine harvesters operating together in one paddock in an event called the Perenjori Header Muster.
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> It happened on Friday, December 19 in a 200ha paddock owned by Ron ³Boots² Cannon after much planning by Perenjori Progress Association member and local Elders agent Ian ³Westy² West, who thought of the idea three years ago.
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> Perenjori Shire president and farmer Brian ³Brickie² Baxter was an enthusiastic supporter as was Allan ³ÒGriffo² Griffiths, who owns a farm and a helicopter in Carnamah.
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> ²I was absolutely knocked over by the response,² Ian said of the more than 350 people who turned up to watch 56 headers make short work of a Calingiri wheat crop going 2.3t/ha.
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> The task was completed in two passes of the 1100m wide paddock by a variety of combine harvester models ranging from the current breed to a Massey 850 built in 1985 and designed with a 7.3m (24ft) closed front or comb front which required three lifting rams.
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> It was the last header away and kept up admirably with its bigger brothers (with the assistance of a chase bin).
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> The end result was 400t of Calingiri wheat delivered to the nearby Bunjil bin with the operation taking about an hour.
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> ³I had been waiting for the right year to use the idea to get the community together to celebrate the season,² Ian said. ³It also gave us an opportunity to raise funds for the progress association to help out the St John¹s Ambulance brigade and the local school and other local groups.
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> ³And we wanted to give a positive spin to Perenjori, which has copped a bit of negative publicity as a town in decline.
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> ³Guiness opened up a new category for us and I suppose someone else will now want to have a crack at it.²
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> Naturally all ideas need support and Ian is grateful for the help he has received, with the mind-boggling logistics of handling low loaders, parking comb front trailers, arranging road trains to take the wheat and feeding the multitude.
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> ²Could you also please give our sponsors a plug too?² Ian asked.
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> the National¹s head of Agribusiness Risk Management Services Tim Keith said.
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