Land clearing update with Kioti NX6010 and Woods BB720X Brushbull
Little did I know that as I made this video, I had torn the fuel feed line nipple halfway off on my gas tank.
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08182014 Land Clearing
Home project begins! Monday, August 18, 2014.
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Liebherr 960 SME land clearing for a demolition site
Today something special. The new Liebherr 960 SME RC excavator at the land clearing for a demolition site, what a great model! Enjoy the video! Feel free to ...
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Sept. 24, 2014, 4 a.m.
THE son of an accused murderer has been ordered by a court to stop land clearing on his property near Moree amid claims of unlawful damage to native vegetation.
THE son of an accused murderer has been ordered by a court to stop land clearing on his property near Moree amid claims of unlawful damage to native vegetation.
The temporary injunction against Croppa Creek farmer Grant Turnbull was granted by Justice Rachel Pepper in the Land and Environment on Friday, restraining him from clearing on his property, Colorado, for five days.
The extraordinary move was brought on by Ross Fox from the Office of Environment Heritage (OEH), who submitted an affidavit claiming only a small proportion of native vegetation now remains on Colorado by reason of the continued unlawful clearing on that property.
The OEH submitted the interlocutory relief was to restrain Mr Turnbull from any further land clearing on the property which would contravene the Native Vegetation Act 2003.
Mr Turnbull is the son of Ian Robert Turnbull the man accused of the shooting murder of 51-year-old OEH compliance officer Glen Turner, in July. Ian Turnbull was last week fined more than $140,000 after being convicted of illegally clearing native vegetation on the same property between November 2011 and January 2012.
Grant Turnbull has been ordered to remediate an area as a result of his fathers actions, but he too is being prosecuted in the Land and Environment Court, amid allegations of unlawful clearing between June 2012 and January 2013.
On Friday, the OEH tried to have the temporary injunction heard on an ex-parte basis, without Mr Turnbull present, arguing further clearing would occur if Mr Turnbull was made aware of the order sought.
The OEH told the court, that in addition, investigators are examining further alleged illegal clearing on Colorado since January last year, based on satellite and aerial imagery.
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RIDING VILLAGE, South Sumatra: Illegal land clearing in Indonesia has been the primary cause of transboundary haze that has blanketed neighbouring countries Malaysia and Singapore.
However, farmers continue to use slash-and-burn techniques despite health and environmental hazards.
Sofi, a farmer and rubber plantation owner for 50 years, admitted to burning down the trees on his one-hectare rubber plantations every year to clear the land. He said: "I burn my land so it's easier for us to clear the cut tree branches. The small branches are the parts that are burnt. If we don't burn the land, it would be very difficult for us to replant it with cassavas and bananas."
It took only two hours to burn the land, compared to weeks if he were to remove the trees using machetes and shovels. But Sofi created firebreaks and monitored the fire closely to prevent it from spreading to nearby lands. He blamed the fires on peatland for the haze and said fires on normal ground die out faster.
Sofi, though, was not doing anything illegal. According to Environment Ministry laws that protect the traditional rights of small farmers, they are allowed to use the slash-and-burn technique for up to two hectares of land.
Instead, it is the plantation companies who have abused these laws. As they are banned from any amount of burning, commercial businesses are paying small individual farmers to use their land to grow crops before burning the land under the protection of the existing laws.
"We're working with the police to enforce the law, said Yusrizal Dinoto, head of the South Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency. Police on helicopters would patrol areas and take immediate measures to arrest suspects, whether it be farmers or plantation company workers who burn land."
Using excavators to clear the land is an alternative but it is also costly option that few independent farmers can afford.
"Burning to clear land is important for local farmers, said Iswadi, a Forestry Ministry firefighter. They need to clear land manually before they can replant rubber trees. They don't use sophisticated equipment so the only way is to burn land."
The small-scale farmers Channel NewsAsia spoke to say clearing land by burning has been a long-held local custom and they plan on continuing the practice until the government can offer them a better option.
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Sept. 20, 2014, 4 a.m.
THE man accused of murdering an environmental compliance officer has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs after being convicted of illegal land clearing the very offence his alleged victim had investigated.
THE man accused of murdering an environmental compliance officer has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs after being convicted of illegal land clearing the very offence his alleged victim had investigated.
Ian Robert Turnbull remains in jail, accused of murdering 51-year-old Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) compliance officer Glen Turner, but will fight for his release, lodging abid for Supreme Court bail.
Yesterday, the issue at the heart of the alleged murder was back in the Land and Environment Court in Sydney, as the 79-year-old farmer was convicted of bulldozing more than 3000 trees on properties owned by his son, Grant, and grandson Cory at Croppa Creek, near Moree.
Justice Terry Sheahan said Turnbull had not shown any genuine contrition or remorse for his offending beyond pleading guilty.
The defendant flagrantly disregarded the consequences of his actions, by continuing clearing in the knowledge that he was likely to soon receive a stop-work order, Justice Sheahan said.
Turnbull was fined $140,000 for the land clearing, after receiving a small discount for pleading guilty, and was also ordered to pay the OEHs legal and investigation costs, estimated to be about $172,000.
In his judgement, Justice Sheahan said because Turnbull was a leader in his sector, specific and general deterrence was needed in his penalty.
It must be substantial enough to deter others, as well as himself, from clearing native vegetation, particularly in this area, where unlawful clearing appears to have been an ongoing concern for the community, the judgement read.
"There is no denying that fashions among farmers have sometimes had calamitous results": Don Watson. Photo: Getty Images
The brutal reality of growing up on a farm invoked confusion in Don Watson. But he says there is a dignity to living on the land that city folk fail to appreciate.
In his novel Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn, Henry Kingsley said that free men in the Australian bush never touched their hats to anyone. My father never passed a woman in the street without touching his and he would do the same to any man he didn't know or believed worthy of respect. He was a smallholder of industrious, sober and gentle habits, modest ambition, a mortgage and little ready cash.
He split wood under the pine tree out the back. We could hear the blows: hear the blue gum cleave if the grain was even, tear but not surrender if knotted, the next blow just hard enough to force it apart, but not so hard that the axe jammed in the block or sent the pieces flying further than he could retrieve by bending where he stood. Every move was practised. Find the rhythm in it. Don't force it. In getting a cow in a bail, or drafting sheep in a pen, taking the harrows off the tractor or the horns off a cow, there is a rhythm to be found. As nature finds the easiest way to do things, find the way of nature. He was a Zen sort of farmer.
Meat market: A buyer checks out cattle in a saleyard before they're auctioned. Photo: Fairfaxsyndication.com
In the parable, the good soil speaks of a good heart. His heart was as good as he could make it: every wound of childhood sutured, every savage instinct denied satisfaction, but not always the indignation that thundered at the uncontained instincts of others, or signs of them in his children.
The ungodly folk on whom he visited his judgments were those whose baser natures were not contained: sloth, drunkenness, profanity, foul mouths, lasciviousness, cruelty, troublemaking and bluster, he could not bear. He tried to love his neighbour but, as a righteous man regardeth his beast, who could love the neighbour who mistreated his animals, or the bully who raged at man and beast alike? Or the man who never cut his thistles or pulled his ragwort so the seeds blew across the boundary fence?
He couldn't love such neighbours, but he internalised his disgruntlements, rendered them to the same inner authority that kept everything else in check. And as he ruled himself he would rule this bit of land: with hard work and obedience to the commandments, with irony and without anger, envy or cruelty.
We had dairy cows, but he always preferred crops and sheep. Then he began buying yearling heifers from "up north" where they were cheap as a rule. They would arrive on the train, skinny and half mad, but our good grass reformed them. He'd calve them down, which is to say, get them in calf ("pregnant" was an impolite word that we did not use in any context), and once they were delivered of their offspring, he'd break them into the routines of the milking shed and sell them to the local dairy farmers. He also bought springers, heifers already in calf.
The business involved a lot of bovine copulation, a lot of placenta and blood in the paddocks, a lot of bellowing and kicking and shitting in the cowshed, a lot of dead calves, veterinary bills and ingeniously polite denial of the brutal reality of our enterprise, and a lot of guilt, loathing and confusion in me.
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Farmer charged with murder: Police arrive at the scene of the crime outside Moree. Photo: Mooree Champion
The 79-year-old farmer accused of murdering environmental compliance officer Glen Turner has been fined $140,000 for illegal land clearing, an offence his alleged victim had investigated.
Ian Robert Turnbull has been charged with murdering Mr Turner on the evening of July 29 by ambushing him on a country road and shooting him multiple times with a rifle.
He is also accused ofholding Robert Strange, Mr Turner's fellow compliance officer at the Office of Environment and Heritage, andtaking him with the intention of committing a serious indictable offence.
Killed: Environmental compliance officer Glen Turner. Photo: Supplied
In the Land and Environment Court on Friday Mr Turnbull was fined $140,000 for bulldozing more than 3000 trees on properties owned by his son Grant and grandson Cory at Croppa Creek, near Moree, in northern NSW.
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He was also ordered to pay the OEH's legal and investigation costs, estimated to be about $172,000.
The clearing took place between November 1, 2011, and January 18, 2012. While Mr Turnbull did not own the two properties, the judgment reveals he had a financial interest in his grandson's property as he mortgaged his own farm, Yambin, some 15 kilometres away, as security against Cory's bank loan. Further, some of the profits from cropping intended to take place on the farms could flow to him.
The judgment shows Mr Turner discovered the illegal land clearing on December 12, 2011. In January and February 2012 Mr Turner conducted inspections of the property, including aerial flyovers.
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Farmer charged with murder: Police arrive at the scene of the crime outside Moree. Photo: Mooree Champion
The 79-year-old farmer accused of murdering environmental compliance officer Glen Turner has been fined $140,000 for illegal land clearing, an offence his alleged victim had investigated.
Ian Robert Turnbull has been charged with murdering Mr Turner on the evening of July 29 by ambushing him on a country road and shooting him multiple times with a rifle.
He is also accused ofholding Robert Strange, Mr Turner's fellow compliance officer at the Office of Environment and Heritage, andtaking him with the intention of committing a serious indictable offence.
Killed: Environmental compliance officer Glen Turner. Photo: Supplied
In the Land and Environment Court on Friday Mr Turnbull was fined $140,000 for bulldozing more than 3000 trees on properties owned by his son Grant and grandson Cory at Croppa Creek, near Moree, in northern NSW.
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He was also ordered to pay the OEH's legal and investigation costs, estimated to be about $172,000.
The clearing took place between November 1, 2011, and January 18, 2012. While Mr Turnbull did not own the two properties, the judgment reveals he had a financial interest in his grandson's property as he mortgaged his own farm, Yambin, some 15 kilometres away, as security against Cory's bank loan. Further, some of the profits from cropping intended to take place on the farms could flow to him.
The judgment shows Mr Turner discovered the illegal land clearing on December 12, 2011. In January and February 2012 Mr Turner conducted inspections of the property, including aerial flyovers.
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Land clearing in progress part 1
Land clearing in progress part 1.
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