Often - no,  most often farming life is something you do by yourself. You're out in the paddock working away and there are tasks that just need doing. Sure, to would be easy to just call in a contractor to do certain tasks or you could buy the appropriate machinery but I find joy and satisfaction of just finding a way. A corner post, strainer post or in this case my front gate post is a big chunk mod Australian hardwood that weighs around 110 to 120kg's. Now I'm all of 82kg's ringing wet and while I can carry my own weight on my shoulder these big buggers are just too much for me to lift. Ive devised my own method for getting old ones out of the ground and for dropping the new ones in the re-doug holes. If I get this process wrong I'm pretty much stuffed. I have to get the rural fencing supplier to lift the post onto my ute and position it the right way round (bigger end hanging off the back) and put it on the side which I'll be able to back the ute over ...

The thing I love most about farming and why I made the move to the country is the variety of opportunities you get each day to use your brain and brawn. The city to me had become all about routine, traffic and waiting, waiting, waiting.  don't get me wrong the city was my place for many years but the time came and I just knew there had to be more more. I wanted to be somewhere that offered endless challenges every day, where the nature of the work was both physical and mental and I knew when my corporate career came to the end I didn't want to spend my retirement inside 4 walls.    The best laid plans ..... blar blar blar, when you have a farm you do have a plan the next day and for the week then you get up in the morning and most usually that plan immediately changes. A cow has gone down sick, pest are attacking the vegetable garden, a tree fell across a fence, the horse has gone lame.... the list of jobs is endless but I'd not change a thing. Here is just one issue I ...