Sidekick has got it in one! He's right up there with the Aussie lingo! Yep, headers in Australia are combines in your idiom. Fronts, as in flex fronts, draper fronts and etc in Australia are headers in your lingo. And contractors are your "custom cutters" which is a bit of a weird name! After all when a contractor comes in to harvest your crop he actually contracts to do the job! Some of our machinery gets parked in the blue roofed shed as our weather is not as severe as some of yours. Our sheds are just average size, say 130 feet by 40 feet on up to farm machinery sheds that are a 30 metres [ 100 feet] per side in this area. They often have one side open with no doors although more and more grain cockies are fitting doors. We usually just drive into the shed with the 9.1 metre front on for servicing. [ OK, 30 foot front! ] We measure yields in tonnes a hectare just like everybody else in the world does except Americans. After all you sell all your grain overseas in tonnes and not bushels although a lot of American farmers may not realise that so when will you guys actually get out of the 18 century and scramble into the 21st century. We travel kilometres like everybody else in the world. We also drive on the correct side of the road, the left hand side with the driver sitting in the correct place in the right hand seat. We only own a fraction of the land areas you guys own because our land is measured not in acres but in Hectares like everybody else in the world. We use a lot more fuel than you do as we fill our vechiles with litres of petrol or diesel like everybody else in the world. We also pay a lot more for our fuel than you do and that is due to out tax frenzy government although I reckon you might catch up with your new hot seat holder! Our biggest state, Western Australia is larger than the largest country in Africa, the Sudan. WA is just under 1,000,000 million square miles in area and is 1. 2_3rds times the size of Alaska and 3. 2_3rds times the size of Texas. Anna Creek cattle station [ ranch ] in outback South Australia covers 6,000,000 acres or about 34,000 square kilometres which is just a bit larger than Belgium. Or if it was an American state it would come in at number 42 in size behind West Virginia and ahead of Maryland. And our seasons are reversed to yours which was the subject of considerable embarrassment when I was in America. An American farmer insisted that we had it all cocked up if we were sowing in May_ June as that was the middle of summer and we harvested in November _ December and that was the middle of winter. Quite a shock to my system to find somebody who did not know about the southern hemisphere or seasons and etc. Reckon I have lobbed enough verbal assaults on American sensibilities for one night so I will now retreat to the bunker for the return fire!!
