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Started Working
A er leaving school at Narrogin Agricultural College in December 1964, I started
work at Sunnyside Farm.
We s ll had Mick Kennedy (Irishman) working for my father Roy and the farm wasn't
big enough for three of us. Roy organised share cropping for Mick, with neighbour
Phil and Lo e Rands, using our machinery. This went on for two years un l Mick le
“Sunnyside” to work for my brother in-law, Ross Hersey.
When Mick and I were sowing the red paddock out the back of Phil Rands’ property,
we loaded up bags of seed and superphosphate on the truck. We would place the
bags on the combine board then one would start driving while the other one would
p the bags into the combine box on the go making sure you didn’t fall off the
skinny board or you would land in the trailing harrows. When you were coming up
to the truck the next round I would jump off the end of combine so you missed the
harrows and run past the tractor to set up the next lot of bags on the edge of the
tray ready to put them on the combine when it pulled up. Then repeated the
process. By lunch me we had emp ed the truck, so Mick went back to fill up again
while I finished the last box. Phil Rands came down to see what we had done with
the seed and super. Mick said, “we had sown it”. Phil said, “you couldn’t have”.
When I sowed that paddock, if I got the tractor and combine out there and sowed
one round the first day, I was doing well.” We finished that paddock at midnight and
the bags we lumped on our backs were 180 pounds (82kg).
When I le Narrogin Agricultural School I was old enough to obtain my driver’s
license. I am proud to say I that I have now been driving for 52 years and to this
point of me have never had a driving infringement.
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