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    • 2011 >
      • Project Beginning
      • My Trusty Farm Truck
    • 2012 >
      • Water Harvesting Earthworks
    • 2013 >
      • Stakeholders Gathering - Ending Re-offending Workshop
      • Forestry Prep and Earthworks
      • Development of Training Centre Envelope
    • 2014 >
      • Mobile Lucas mill
      • Raised Garden Bed Construction - Rockwalling
      • Seed ball making the Fukuoka way.
      • Tree Fern Garden
      • Making a Rustic Compost Bin System
      • Contructing a Holzmiete inspired Compost Toilet and Urinal
      • Making Bone Sauce
      • Water harvesting from roof catchments
      • Building our first kitchen garden
    • 2015 >
      • Installing Irrigation
      • Converting the Shearing Shed to Bunk House
      • Building the Pizza Oven
      • Bath House Construction
      • Making the Wwoofers Kitchen
      • 1st Inaugural Earthworks Course
      • A Very White Winter
      • Kitchen Garden Expansion V2.2
      • Building a pumpkin trellis + update
      • Installation of Drip Irrigation
      • Potato Towers - An experiment in vertical gardening
      • Preserving seasonal vege
    • 2016 >
      • How to make a bottled window panel
      • Berkley Compost Pile
      • This seasons harvest
      • Water tank and stand
      • Winter garden maintenance
      • Worm farm build
      • Belladigga "Beautiful Dam" and Swale fills and spills
      • A week in the life of a Tiger Hill volunteer
      • Kitchen Garden Fencing Project
      • Kitchen Garden Expansion V2.3
      • Farm Tour - Water Harvesting
      • Rock Wall Build
      • Building a Broad Fork
      • Planter Boxes
      • Tool Shed Fit Out
      • Pumpkin Patch Sheet Mulched
    • 2017 >
      • Kitchen Fit Out
      • Bath House Wall
      • Chalet Stairs
      • Butchers Block Build
      • Holtzmeter V2.2
      • Installing Drip Irrigation
      • Making the Kitchen Door
      • Garden Bed Build
      • Compost Slide
      • Composting
      • Dining Room Door
      • Dining Table
      • Fertilizer/ Compost Zone
      • Rocket Mass Water Heater V2.1
      • Bath House Additions
      • Bunk House Reno
      • Chicken Caravan Build
      • Ramp and Stairs
      • Workshop Benches
      • Nursery Construction
      • Bunk House Heater
      • Kitchen Atrium Build
      • Orchard Implementation
      • Planter Box V.2
      • Milk Crate Planters
      • Kitchen Garden Tour
    • 2018 >
      • Preserving the harvest
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My trusty farm truck.



When I first started planning this project I considered 'Every element having multiple functions". This was very intergral with my transport needs. I wanted a work horse but not a traditional ute but something with more carrying capacity as I am a resource manager and need to collect and recycle so many things for the project to move forward. 

I envisioned a small truck with a tipper tray as I was a stand alone farmer. I put the thought out to the universe for a diesel powered, 4x4, tipper, twin cab (for transporting volunteers) and this little gem came my way a week after I moved to the farm 3 1/2 years ago. I also wanted a small crane and found one second hand 1 month later and had it fitted. I also fitted a ring feeder tow hitch with a 3 ton towing capacity which enables me to tow a small excavator when I need to hire one. It was my daily driver for the first 2 years and is every bit economic as a similar 4 cylinder diesel ute. 

I now have the perfect do all vehicle with multiple purposes. I use it to shift all rocks around the site, haul bales from town, collect resources from any town trip, collect cow manure from paddocks, move timber and firewood on site and so much much more. 600km to a tank of fuel is not to bad for the loads it carries.

I strongly advise anyone considering to start a large scale project to invest in a purposeful vehicle like this to get their project up and running as it reduces so much work. If maintained well it will last the life of the project. In the future I intend to run this one on home made Biodiesel to even further reduce running costs.

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