Tomo takes Major Millard for a fly....

[Tomo]

A few pic's from this afternoon - Maj Millards visit in his Lightwing (nice aircraft btw!) :thumb_up:

 

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[pudestcon]

Great stuff tomo and thanks for the photos. It's always good to see a great time illustrated in the pictorial.

 

Pud

 

 

[Tomo]

I thought I should just point out (for you uneducated) that those rows of colourful things are in fact, cotton modules - compressed cotton ready to be ginned. Each one weighs somewhere between 14-20 ton (depending on the day and module builder driver).

 

Maj left this morning, beautiful morning for flying here. :thumb_up:

 

 

[planedriver]

I thought I should just point out (for you uneducated) that those rows of colourful things are in fact, cotton modules :thumb_up:

Thanks for the great photo's and pointing out the above, just in case anyone thought you were growing hydraponic whacky tobacky:smoking: :no no:

 

Rgds

 

Planey

 

 

[Guest Wigg]

Great shots Tomo thanks for the thumbs up on the coloured things I was about to ask what they were. -Sue (Wigg)

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Great to see Major had a quick run up he only just got out before the weather closed in for most of the day, had almost an inch of rain then cleared for a couple of hours. The real cold front came thru just as the last load was in the air. Caravan had a bit!! of ice on it at 14000 and we freefalled down the side of a monster CB and got soaked landing under it. Time to pull out the winter woolies.

 

Ozzie

 

 

[farri]

Hey Tomo,

 

Did you teach the Major how to fly that thing? i_dunno

 

Cheers,

 

Frank. ,

 

 

[Tomo]

Nah, he seemed to be able to handle it pretty good... I'd pass him :thumb_up:

 

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Hi Frank, Where you been ?

 

 

[Vorticity]

Thanks for the great photo's and pointing out the above, just in case anyone thought you were growing hydraponic whacky tobacky:smoking: :no no:Rgds

Planey

funny you should mention that! There is a bit of an emerging hemp industry out that area. I remember some time ago being at a dawn Easter church service at a property just east of Cecil plains with my parents. As the sun came up we realized that the pastor was standing in front of a couple of rows of hemp!

 

I wasn't the only son visiting that weekend, one of the other parish members had their AFP badger son out. He approached the owner afterward as obviously he had to know! It was of curse the genetically modified strain that lacks hairs which contain the drug. Fom what I here it is an amazing crop!

 

Never know, maybe one day those modules could be hemp!

 

 

[Tomo]

G'day Vorticy, yes indeed! That property you speak of is our neighbour! And I chipped most of his hemp (like cotton chipping, but hemp instead! - de weeding it)

 

Small world ain't it -

 

:clown::clown:

 

 

[planedriver]

G'day Vorticy, yes indeed! That property you speak of is our neighbour! And I chipped most of his hemp (like cotton chipping, but hemp instead! - de weeding it)

Small world ain't it -

 

:clown::clown:

Have you ever noticed on the news, how when a crop is discovered and the police are burning it, how happy they look in their work:laugh:

 

How times have changed:question:.

 

Planey as a young lad used to go to the corn merchants in the UK and buy hemp seed by the pint scoop for ninepence, as bait for fishing. We'd tip it in a saucepan of boiling water and simmer it until it swelled a bit and a little shoot came out the side, and used tiny size 18 or 20 hooks which you gently pushed into the split in the shell of the seed so the little shoot was showing. It was a great bait, and no, we never caught clown fish.

 

If you were caught with that much these days, you'd probably wind up in the slammer, but back in the late 50's and early 60's it was a commonly used bait for river fishing.

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

They also used it for bait in the Southern states of the US, and apparently the fish just loved it, but they would have a lost look on their faces when caught !..............................Maj...

 

 

[farri]

Hi Frank, Where you been ?

G`Day ross,

 

I thought I`d take a break from some of the stuff I read here and get some sanity back.

 

Cheers,Mate,

 

Frank.