Another "days of firsts"

So finally I found out that the talks about the roos (read: kangaroos) jumping around freely here on farmlands are true. On Monday morning I saw 3 roos looking around in the bush and gicing the big green thing funny looks, today noticed another fellow enjoying himself (or herself) under the early morning sun totally ignoring my passing just about 20m away. I thought they would look a bit different from those we have back in Tallinn Zoo, maybe it's just the fact it's wintertime coming up so their fur adjusts to the colours of the surroundings. I imagined them to be less grey and more light brown :)

Monday also started up with my trying out the spraying the first time with all the procedures of making the chemical coctail in the tanktrailer, getting the sprayer inspected for any kind of problems etc. To be honest, it's not as hard of a work as I thought. I am just driving the whole unit to the certain field, get the machinery ready (yes, you can go wrong with it and then it's not good) and off I go. The driving itself is being done by GPS controlled autosteering, the use of

pedals is anyway a rare thing, just have to keep my eyes open for rough terrain (result of bad ploughing), any breathers or centrepoints on the field or other miscellaneous objects. The GPS keeps the tractors on the straight line and my other duty is to turn the tractor around at each end of the line and align it close to a centre of a new line, there GPS takes over the process again. Of course you have to calculate the wind direction, because as certain fields that are still not harvested are neighbouring the ones I spray, I might just ruin a lot of crops when miscalculating something, also it would not be a good idea to spill a big amount of the coctail out from the tank because otherwise that certain spot on the field will not grown anything within the next 5 years. :) AND it is also not a good idea to leave the sprayer running while making an unexpected stop on the field, mainly due to the previous reason. AND there are quite a few other things to bare in mind, such as the bearings and bearinghousing and if those are intact. Well at one point I was too busy finding my way around a field centrepoint while Pete (who was instructing me) noticed a bearing being broke. Moreover, having had it changed after 30 minutes hard work and just having started to head back to the shed another failure - the 2 long beams of the sprayer had got stuck into one another. As the wheels of the sprayer unit were aligned precisely and correctly AND as the whole thing had just had it's renovation it was pretty unclear why it happened. Not even the guys who have been working in that farm for 10 years have not experienced anything like it. So it must have something to do with me :) Looking at the bright side, without having had those incidents we would probably have gone to the other farms (I'll tell about it later) without enough or specific spares. No worries, all turned out just fine.

Well, I am not sure how interesting it is to read all this. Moreover, I wonder how many people are actually reading this apart from my family. So if it does not take tooooo much of your valuable time dear readers, send me a small notice so I'd actually know who am I dealing with here :)

Cheers guys!