Life as a cotton farmer

While at Goondiwindi we took off for a drive around town and noticed bugger all to be honest tidy town but not much here at all we stayed a couple of days to get some of our affairs in order we went for a drive one day down to little town called bogabilla which was a waste of time on the way home i noticed a cattle sale on so we stopped in to have a look it had pretty much finished but we had a look at the weighing of the cattle which was pretty cool carter and i had a blast watching this.

After leaving goondiwindi we travelled west towards st george hoping to find work around that area as they were picking the cotton already on the way there i noticed a sign saying nindigully pub 10ks ahead i said to kristy that name sounds familiar so lets have a look so we dropped in there and found out i was right it is famous its not only qlds oldest pub at over 100 years old but it serves the famous roadtrain hamburger at a cost of $60 it feeds between 1-4 people and only weighs a mere 5.5kgs with a 1.5kgs beef pattie salad onion rings and a wait time off 1hr to cook. Someone order one while i was there but couldnt be bothered waiting for an hour to see it.

Well for the last 2-3 weeks i have been driving a tractor in the cotton fields around dirranbandi which is a small town near st george in western qld it was an experience that i wont forget for a while i worked for 12-15 hrs a day 7 days a week. I was mulching and root cuting the cotton plants after the cotton had been picked. 

See how dark it is at night trying to drive its very scary most days i would do a 12 hr shift and not see anyone besides the other driver when he came to do his 12hr shift after working at dirranbandi for a couple of weeks we had to move to a small town called toobeah it was very small literally 10 houses a pub which we camped behind and a kindy.

These cotton modules are worth about 15 thousand each and trust me there is a lot of them around i had to be very careful i didnt run into them when i turned around they were placed at each end where i turned around.

 

The boys visiting daddy on his tractor.

 

Some pics of downtown toobeah: