Flying the nest

davidk1394

Right everyone I decided I'm going to go off for a year or two and see a bit of the world . I decided I'd like to start in Australia and then maybe onto NZ for a look. I'd like to start off driving machines and then maybe work on a dairy farm for a while. Do any of ye have any suggestion or contacts ? There's a few of us going but nothing set in stone yet.

Nekarsulm

I have a cousin working out there in NZ, South island with a contracting firm call Flintoft Contractors. They were hiring a week or so ago.

https://www.facebook.com/FlintoftContractors/

Who2

davidk1394 wrote: »

Right everyone I decided I'm going to go off for a year or two and see a bit of the world . I decided I'd like to start in Australia and then maybe onto NZ for a look. I'd like to start off driving machines and then maybe work on a dairy farm for a while. Do any of ye have any suggestion or contacts ? There's a few of us going but nothing set in stone yet.

watch what you get stuck driving at. Don't let the highlight of your day be the couple of seconds while your pointing the tractor towards home. One of the regrets i had was not going out and going ranching. most of the farms are extremely rural. A lot wont hire smokers for driving work and try and sort out a farm from references off someone you know. there's plenty of agencies out there that specialize in agri work but a lot more bad stories than good from some of these.

davidk1394

Who2 wrote: »

watch what you get stuck driving at. Don't let the highlight of your day be the couple of seconds while your pointing the tractor towards home. One of the regrets i had was not going out and going ranching. most of the farms are extremely rural. A lot wont hire smokers for driving work and try and sort out a farm from references off someone you know. there's plenty of agencies out there that specialize in agri work but a lot more bad stories than good from some of these.

I have heard of those stories alright. I'd like to start with machinery for a while. I have contacts if I want to go out onto a cattle station or dairy farm.

Who2

its the one huge regret i have. too good of money and too much beer kept me away from the cattle stations. they love hunting too, so learn how to shoot if you don't know already.

Reggie.

davidk1394 wrote: »

Right everyone I decided I'm going to go off for a year or two and see a bit of the world . I decided I'd like to start in Australia and then maybe onto NZ for a look. I'd like to start off driving machines and then maybe work on a dairy farm for a while. Do any of ye have any suggestion or contacts ? There's a few of us going but nothing set in stone yet.

Best of luck lad. I've seen plenty of the world. Most of them not exactly tourist destinations

Base price

Who2 wrote: »

its the one huge regret i have. too good of money and too much beer kept me away from the cattle stations. they love hunting too, so learn how to shoot if you don't know already.

Many years ago a friend of one of my brothers headed to Aus to work on a cattle farm/station. He was a younger son of a local farming family and there was no prospects of him ever farming in Ireland. He was a keen hunter (on foot and mounted) and a fisherman and was a good shot with a .22lr. He was nearly as good a shot as me but not quite .
We used to amuse ourselves with target shooting competitions amongst friends on a Sunday afternoon during the Autumn/Winter - cause that's what we did in those days
Anyway after a few months working in this cattle station the Manager told him one day that they were heading outback on motorbikes for a week or so to cull feral goats - apparently they were a problem in Aus. When he saw the caliber of the rifles that they use over there he phoned my brother to tell him - there was no facebook/whatsapp etc in those days.
The Manager was so impressed with his shooting skills/accuracy that he recommended him to other farmers. He worked in Aus for a couple of year (visa) and gathered enough money to buy a few acres in Meath.

carrollsno1

Good man theres work going on the dairy side here atm. Think the main silage men herecare quigleys. raynes? Ellesmeres or cairn farms that i can think of off the top of my head. Let me know when your out may meet up for a pint

carrollsno1

Actually you might get work on a digger or dozer in kaikoura where the quaje was last year. Try CANSTAFF either

davidk1394

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Actually you might get work on a digger or dozer in kaikoura where the quaje was last year. Try CANSTAFF either

I'll look up that, thanks. How are you getting on ?

lakill Farm

Reggie. wrote: »

Best of luck lad. I've seen plenty of the world. Most of them not exactly tourist destinations

I was going to say Westmeath

Reggie.

lakill Farm wrote: »

I was going to say Westmeath

Well with you around. I agree

carrollsno1

davidk1394 wrote: »

I'll look up that, thanks. How are you getting on ?

Grand not a bother lad whether you go to the north or south island theres a handful from our college year out theres 2 soon to be 3 within ten minutes of each other on the south island and 5 or so next to each other in the north and theres a group of 5 from kilkenny that id know one of just over spread between tge two islands

mycro2013

Head to echuca melbourne. Thats the real dairy capital of australia. Better money than in new Zealand and you are relatively close to civilisation.

Who2

mycro2013 wrote: »

Head to echuca melbourne. Thats the real dairy capital of australia. Better money than in new Zealand and you are relatively close to civilisation.

i spent a good while in melbourne (class city), never went dairying though. it'd be more northern territory for the huge ranches.

yosemitesam1

In NSW at the minute, have never seen anywhere as dry. Most of the osr looks a disaster, wheat not so bad but could do with 6-8 inches of rain if it's going to come to much.

carrollsno1

yosemitesam1 wrote: »

In NSW at the minute, have never seen anywhere as dry. Most of the osr looks a disaster, wheat not so bad but could do with 6-8 inches of rain if it's going to come to much.

Still winter with ye as well is it?

yosemitesam1

Don't know what you'd call it, cold at night with a risk of frost and back up to high teens before 10am, no rain though. Osr is in full flower and wheat is still in stem extension, so that would be April at home

Water John

Well in our calendar terms, it's the 20th Feb out there. Don't know does it translate that way, weather wise.

carrollsno1

Today was bleak enough for an hour or so by god them little jersey calves can run dinner well earned atm