Farms: Sugarcane harvesting at Ayr. North Queensland,.
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North Queensland produces over 95% of Australia's sugar, which is mostly exported as Raw sugar. Here, in Ayr, cane is being harvested from a field that has bee "burnt", this was done in the days of hand cutting, to drive snakes and rats from the field, and to remove most of the green "trash" from the stalks. Today , not many farms burn their cane, but a few still do, and in the early tropical evening, there is nothing more spectacular than a "cane fire" !
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What are the carting trucks?..Old Nissan diesels by any chance? the cabs look a bit like old Fiats but I know you wouldnt have them piles of crap down under.
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Sweet!!!
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Very interesting. Gregg, as are all of the videos you post on YouTube. I am, however, suffering severe withdrawal pains as a result of not seeing any BNSF Birdwood Sub videos in a while. Anything coming up soon?
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+FishplateFilms ;) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)
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Interesting to see, Gregg. Where I live here in north central Illinois, USA, the big cash crops are corn and soybeans. Best and Merry Christmas to you and yours! - Paul
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Nice, when I lived up in North Dakota, we had sugar beets, it was more simple to harvest, and the processing plants were big (south of Grand Forks). The BNSF had lots of business. The branch lines has very small trains (20 to 30 cars at times) looked like a model train. It was very flat up there, I don't miss the cold weather, but liked to watch the small trains. Nice video Gregg, it's amazing how small the tractors are compared to American equipment.
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Machinery makes fast work. It would suck doing it the old ways.
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Hi Gregg! Another great video mate! Interesting and informative! It was very good of the harvester and truck operators to let you 'in on the action' in the cabs. I've only seen two cane fires, but like you said they are spectacular! I can only imagine what it would be like to cut cane by hand, HARD YAKKA! Thanks for sharing! Keep it touch and don't work too hard mate!
Cheers!
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Nice change of pace, Greg. Thanks!
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They let it dry and only burn when wind blowing away from residents. I have only incurred shoot and ash once in seven years. I have fields within 1/4 mile.
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The Burdekin & Nsw still burn because of the conditions they have to grow cane in. Other areas sometimes farmers burn cause the cane is to tangled up so burning makes it easier or its a plough out block. Also good video
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Other than that truck with driver on wrong side i would have though i was watching harvest in Louisiana USA.
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Watched this being done right by my house today. Same machine. They burn all fields here that are going to allowed to regrow next season. Four year rotation.
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Interesting bit of kit those harvesters Greg. Not really an SD40-2 more like a GE40 tonner! I expect the maintainers have their work cut out for them every harvest. I just mulched my grape vines with sugar cane mulch as the kangaroos don't seem to like to eat it. Must be a bit tough for them. I am looking forward to the xmas message from Lord Stan this year?? All the best for the festive season and thanks for the great videos this year. Cheers.
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Interesting stuff Greg. Thanks.......David (UK)
PS - That your white Disco parked up at the side of the field?... -
Very interesting Gregg! Didn't realize sugar cane was such a big part of the economy in Queensland. I've often watched videos of cane harvesting in Mexico, these machines are fascinating. Thank you for sharing!
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Living in Canada, I didn't even know you grew sugar cane in Australia, Rice yes but cane I had no idea. The harvesters look so different from our combines which take a 40 foot swath at a time. Great video! Thanks for the education.
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Hi Gregg, interesting video. Merry Christmas, all the best in 2015.
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I grew up on a farm where we grew soy beans and this all together different. Thanks for sharing!
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hey Gregg... very interesting video.. nice to see how cane is harvested... thanks for sharing.. vinny