• Back to fencing.

    August 31, 2020 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    When Janette drove the Hi-Lux home the other day, she reported smoke coming from under the bonnet. The front right wheel was very hot. The suspicion was that the brake was jammed on.
    Took the wheel off this morning and realised that this needed more than a spray with RP7 - it needed Kevin Ryan!
    Kevin came this afternoon and decided that new brake callipers were needed. A phone call to a car wrecker in Melbourne, my credit card number and the required callipers will arrive in the mail.
    Janette expressed some concern about getting the cows and calves in for marking in a few weeks. We decided a new small bit of fence would help to better guide them in. This will mean that there's a fence down the middle of the calving paddock. That was the original idea years ago, but I must have got sidetracked - not hard for me. So today I started. Two gate posts are in and, hopefully, steel posts and wire tomorrow.
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