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SHED BUILDING ADVICE From a farmer who has bought 5 sheds in 17 years P6

FREE BEER It’s your lucky day P5

FAMILY HEALTH Be aware of this little known problem P2

See us at: The Field Days P2

AusTruck Extreme World Record Weekend at Barmera P2

MASSIVE FARM SHEDS Of the Past, Just How Big Was Big Back Then P8

SHED BUILDER WINNING HEARTS P7

CHANGING CROPS IS RISKY...But it’s paid off for one grower P4

One Major Mistake Made By Princess Dianna... and how farmers can learn from it P3

FArM gAtE NEWS the Farmer’s Newsletter Phone 1800 088 528 email info@grantsheds.com.au

Grant ShedS PO Box 29, Monash, Sa 5342 fax 08 8583 5402 web www.grantsheds.com.au

A BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER TO INFORM AND ENTERTAIN YOU

MAR-APRIL 2012

Family Update In our last newsletter I told you that my mum was terminally ill (well I suppose we all are since death is part of life).

Sadly, Mum passed away on 12th February after a few ups and downs.

We’ll miss her but we take comfort in knowing that she was well and truly ready to leave this earth. And also that we have her in our hearts and souls.

I strongly believe that your loved ones never leave you because they are part and parcel of what makes you, YOU. Not just in genetic make-up but also in your values, behaviour and manner.

The Unknown Story of UTI’sThere is something I would like to share with you that I had never heard of before. I share it in case you haven’t heard of it either, and it may help you recognise it if it ever happens to one of your family.

I didn’t know that a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) can cause the person to become delirious. Mum caught a UTI twice during her final months and on both occasions started hallucinating and repeating single words or phrases over and over again. Sometimes she was quite agitated with it, but when we asked her if she was in any pain she’d answer ‘No’.

I believe it is more likely to occur with elderly people with a UTI and that it is twice as common with women than with men. And women are more likely to show no symptoms of the UTI.

Delirium can occur quite suddenly and you should get your relative checked for a UTI if it occurs.

If you do a Google search for “UTI Delirium” you can find more information.

Farm StoriesThis month we have some more stories about SA Farmers. It never fails to surprise me just how friendly country folk are. I’m not sure why it amazes me because we’ve always found it very easy to chat with like-minded country people.

So, thank you to everyone we talk to. We really enjoy hearing from you, talking to you and helping out wherever we can.

This edition our stories are about a friendly bunch from Penong, west of Ceduna (see page 6 & 7) and a wine-grape grower from Barmera (P5).

Spectacular Riverland EventAus Truck Extreme World Record

Weekend. Loveday 4x4 Adventure Park March 17 & 18, 2012

For any blokes or families interested in Extreme Motor Sports, Monster Trucks, 4WD’ing and just getting away for a weekend, here is an event you should definitely attend.

Australia’s newest 4WD event “Aus Truck” will debut in the Riverland on 17th & 18th of March, at the Loveday 4x4 Adventure Park and it will be a huge weekend of action.

Aus Truck is a series of timed races over obstacles and has drawn large crowds to the Melbourne and Brisbane 4WD shows. 30 of Australia’s top modified 4WDs will compete during Saturday morning and all day Sunday.

Racing is on the Loveday track with 2 cars racing at a time starting 500m apart on the 1k circuit racing against the clock in a pursuit style race.

Saturday afternoon will see a number of spectacular attempts to smash up to 8 records from the Guinness Book of Records.

World Record attempts will include:

• Longest Jump by a Semi – with a Ford Louisville LT9000, bogie axle semi to attempt it. It is currently held by the Nitro Circus crew at 51 feet. Loveday 4x4 are planning an 80 foot jump

• Longest Wheel Stand by Monster Truck “The Devil’s Taxi” – in excess of 1km

• Longest Reverse jump by a car . • Single roll overs in a car over a 3 min period • 1km wheel stand by a Polaris Oddysey UTV • Longest jump on a motorised esky • Longest Jump in a car towing a caravan

Directions: The Loveday 4x4 Adventure Park is near Barmera in the Riverland of S.A. Go to the United Service Station on the Sturt Highway in Barmera. They will give you a map to get from there to the park.

For More Information Contact: Tony Whateley - Mobile Phone: 0418839787 Email: info@loveday4x4adventures.com Web site: www.loveday4x4adventures.com/Calender.html

AWARD WIN Grant Sheds won a Streetsmart Marketing Award in February. One of the major reasons behind the win was for implementing these ‘Farm Gate News’ community-building newsletters. So we hope you continue to enjoy them and we’d love to receive your feedback on them. Let us know what you like and what else you’d like included.

All the best Ali & Danny Halupka Owners – Grant Sheds.

What Makes Country Life So Good?

COMMUNITY

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Ali’s Mum & Dad , Margaret & Grant Telfer

See You At The Field Days 16-17th March - Fri-Sat South East Field Days - Lucindale30-31st March - Fri-Sat Karoonda Farm Fair20-21st April- Fri-Sat Kapunda Farm Fair7-9th August - Tues-Thurs Eyre Peninsula FDs - Cleve19-20th Sept - Wed-Thurs Riverland Field Days - BarmeraWe will be attending these field days and look forward to seeing you there. If you’d like some help with your shed planning we are happy to help. Or just call in for a chat. We’d love to see you.

Ali & Danny Halupka presented with Streetsmart Marketing Award by Mal Emery

If you die without a Will, you are deemed to have died “intestate” and your estate will have to be administered at Court in accordance with an inflexible statutory formula which will determine where your estate will go. This can result in unintended results for some people, perhaps contrary to what they would have wanted.

Many people believe that if they are married and they die without a Will, all their property will automatically go to their surviving spouse. That is frequently NOT the case in Australia.

If you are married, all jointly-owned property will pass by right of survivorship to your spouse. Matrimonial property (essentially property acquired during the marriage) may go to your spouse, however this may require Court orders to determine & enforce those rights.

However, if you also have one or more children, state law will provide a formula which will direct the share of the separate property (property acquired before marriage or inherited during the marriage) which will go to each of those children. This can be an unintended result if the estate is modest and your surviving spouse needs all the estate-assets to make ends meet.

This is especially dangerous for farming families.

The surviving spouse might well need the entire farming business to operate as a whole in order to make ends meet. If the farm gets carved up according to the government’s formula, then the surviving spouse could inherit a disaster.

12 IMPORTANT MISTAKES TO AVOIDThese laws of intestacy vary from time to time and from place to place. If you die while on holiday in another state, the results could be different than dying at home.

Further, if you die intestate (without a Will), these are some things you CANNOT do:

1. Leave any part of your estate to a friend.2. Leave any part of your estate to a step-

child or foster child which has not been adopted.

3. Provide for a disabled child or other

disabled beneficiary so as not to impact the government assistance they might otherwise receive.

4. Provide for a family business to be continued or sold as a going concern.

5. Nominate a guardian for your minor children.

6. Prevent a minor beneficiary from receiving all of his or her inheritance at age 18.

7. Leave any gifts to charity.8. Disinherit someone who would normally

be regarded as your heir.9. Specify who will receive your personal

property such as collectables, jewellery, artwork, coins, etc.

10. Provide a life estate so that someone can live in your home after your death.

11. Provide for the continuing care & accommodation of a pet animal.

12. Designate the ages and the terms under which your children or grandchildren will receive their inheritance.

Under modern laws, it may be possible for a person to have more than one “spouse” for the purposes of probate law. A “domestic partner”, or “defacto” may potentially be able to validly challenge your estate AFTER you die, and acquire property rights in your deceased estate under intestacy laws which you don’t intend.

Estate Planning Disasters of the Rich & FamousAs promised, here are some more stories about estate planning disasters of the rich and famous, this time from overseas:

H Celebrity: Jimi Hendrix Mistake: Never writing a Will. Story: Music legend Jimi Hendrix died at age 27 in 1970 without a Will. Under state law, his dad, Al, got everything, leaving his close brother Leon with nothing. Al built Hendrix’s musical legacy into an $80 million venture, but in his own Will cut out Leon and his family, in favour of his adopted daughter through a later marriage.

Lesson: No-one is immortal. Create a Will.

H Celebrity: Warren Burger Mistake: Relying on do-it-yourself documents.Story: Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court Warren Burger died in 1995 with a $1.8 million estate and a Will of just 176 words he typed up himself. His family paid $450,000 more in estate taxes than needed to be the case, and his executors had to pay to go to court to get approval to complete administrative acts such as selling real estate, that typically a well-drafted Will would have allowed without court approval. Lesson: Even if you know a bit about the law, get a lawyer who specialises in estate planning to write your Will.

H Celebrity: Princess Di Mistake: Relying on a “letter of wishes” to give away belongings. Story: At her death in 1997, Princess Diana left a detailed Will, naming her sister and mother as executors. She also wrote a separate “letter of wishes” asking her executors, at their discretion, to divide her belongings among her sons and her 17 godchildren. But instead of getting stuff worth an estimated 100,000 pounds, each godchild got only a trinket. Lesson: If it’s not in the Will, it shouldn’t be relied upon.

Death and taxes (and illness) may be unavoidable … but they don’t have to ruin your family or your business. Make the effort to protect the people you really care about.

How to Make Sure Your Family Is Not Left Stressed and Struggling When You’re Gone

Estate Planning For Farmers Part of a Series by Rod Genders

Rod Genders is a senior Australian lawyer specialising in estate plan-ning and accident compensation. This includes Probate and Letters of Administration for Deceased Estates, as well as Wills, Trusts, Powers-of-Attorney and Advance Medical Directives. His boutique specialist law firm Genders & Partners is the oldest law firm in South Australia, established in 1848 – visit it at www.genders.com.au . Rod is also a prolific author and speaker. Some of his articles and books on Wills, Probate, Trusts, Estate Planning, Asset Protection and Retirement Planning may be found at www.estateplanners.net.au

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When Barmera wine grape grower Bruce Bassham pulled up vines to plant alternative varieties, it was a risk he never thought he would have to take.

It turned out to be a new beginning. “I’d never done anything like that in my life, I’d never planted anything without a contract,” he said.

However after years of rock bottom prices, Bruce said he had simply had enough.

“We had one year with rock bottom prices without a contract which just went to the bottom feeders and we made only about $130,000 off 100 acres,” he said.

“I didn’t even come out and watch the boys pick that year, I couldn’t stand it.”

“Statistics show that 3rd generations tend to be as long as family farmers go. You are usually out of it by then and you think, ‘Am I the one that’s going to lose the farm?’”

“I could see that the wine industry was heading for trouble and it’s one of the reasons why I moved towards organics to try and find a niche.”

The decision to grow organic and alternative varieties such as vermentino, fiano, nero d’Avola and montepulciano, over 100 acres

was certainly risky but it has now paid off, with the grapes in demand and Bruce’s passion for the industry more alive than ever.

“We had started down the organic road, we were about 2 years into organics but it takes 3 to be certified when we lost our contract on this property,” he said.

“We had 64 acres of chardonnay on this place and the price of chardonnay was going south and the future looked pretty bleak if we had stayed there.

“We devised a plan to see if we could get ourselves out of there and came up with half a dozen varieties to try. We got to the point about this time last year and we still hadn’t sold any more than about 30 tone out of a possible 1300 tones but then a large winery rang us. They were actually one of the wineries that had cut our contracts only 12 months earlier on the home property, and they were back in the market looking at our alternatives plus the chardonnay.”

The rest is history with the organic grapes also holding up particularly well in the weather which normally attracts disease.

While Bruce said many growers will likely turn to alternative varieties in the future, he said it needs to be a slow introduction.

“The alternatives have got a place in the industry I think but we don’t need huge volumes, we just want it to grow slowly,” he said.

Story reproduced with kind permission of The Riverland Weekly.

Changing Crops Is Risky... ButHAS NOW PAID OFF

The Bassham’s home car shed supplied by Grant Sheds

Bruce Bassham’s 9m x 18m x 5.1m Grant Sheds Machinery Shed purchased some years ago

“Am I going to be the one that’s going to lose the family farm?”Barmera wine-grape grower Bruce Bassham admits he was very worried. But he devised a plan to turn his wine-grape business around.

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Here’s an unbelievable offer that you won’t see very often!

GRANT SHEDS 60TH ANNIVERSARYGrant Sheds is turning 60 years old and we’re having a Sizzling Summer Celebration!

You’re going to think we’ve gone crazy when you read a bit further, but that’s alright.

We subscribe to the theory “to make a difference, you’ve got to be different!” I believe you'll be hard-pressed to find a better shed than a Grant shed and I want to give you a chance to find out for yourself.

I'm either confident or crazy!

What I truly believe is, we make the best "Aussie Tough" farm sheds around. Here's your chance to find out.

SO HERES THE DEAL! With every FARM SHED* purchased before March 31st, 2012, we’ll give you FREE BEER, of your choice, for an entire year!

Your choice of Southwark, Carlton Draft, Coopers Clear, Boags, Hahn Super Dry, Coopers Pale Ale, Corona or Crown Lager.

This means we will give you 2 cartons of beer every month for an entire year!

That’s 24 cartons over 12 months!

And what if you’re not a beer drinker? Let us know and we’ll see what alternative drinks we can arrange, cos we don’t want you to miss out!

Why are we doing this?Because it’s our 60th birthday and we want YOU to celebrate with us. We know that we are very different from our competitors and we want you to experience our total “Aus-sie Tough” Grant Sheds care and share package!

6 FREE GIFTS FOR YOU!Here are ALL the GIFTS you can take home if you order your new farm shed during February or March.

1. FREE BEER FOR A YEAR … Of course. Just order your new farm shed before March 31st*

2. BIRTHDAY PRICES We asked our steel supplier to help us celebrate and they’ve agreed to some amazing discounts that we can pass on to you … but only for a short time.

When you get us to work out a shed proposal for you, the short-term discounted price will be highlighted. But you’ll need to ACT FAST to order your new shed before the discount expiry date shown on your shed proposal.

Some people have snagged price reductions of $5000, $8000 and even $15,000. Naturally the size of the shed you want will affect the discount … but they are massive savings for you so GET IN QUICK !

3. FREE DELIVERY of your new farm shed, valued at up to $500!

Just return the Discount Voucher you received with your copy of our ‘Farmers Guide To Choosing The Best Farm Shed” by the expiry date on the voucher.

4. Plus a FREE STRENGTH UPGRADE Roofing grade iron on your walls (Valued from $350 to $3,700, dependant upon which shed you choose!) Again, just return the Discount Voucher by the expiry date on it.

5. 50 YEAR STRUCTURAL GUARANTEE!Order at any time and you’ll always be fully covered by our iron-clad unique, rock-solid 50 year structural guarantee.

In the unlikely event that something needs to be fixed with your shed, we promise under our guarantee that we’ll FIX IT for FREE or we’ll REPLACE IF FOR FREE if it can’t be fixed!

6. $500 ON-TIME DELIVERY PROMISE We guarantee your new shed will be delivered on time or we will deduct $500 from the agreed cost of your shed.

WOW … That’s an amazing amount of added value and the sooner you order your new farm shed the more Birthday Bonuses you will get.

SO WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO THINK ABOUT? If you’ve been thinking you might need a new farm shed in 2012, don’t wait.This Sizzling Summer Celebration offer is available only until March 31, so contact us today to get the ball rolling!

You’ll soon be able to “crack open a coldie” to celebrate YOUR NEW SHED!

Visit our explanatory web page at

www.FreeBeerForAYear.com.au to view our video explanation of this offer.

We can assure you that you will not find anything like this from any other shed supplier in Australia.

Yes, we’re a little crazy maybe, but hey, you don’t turn 60 every day!’

So, let’s re-cap the 6 BONUS ITEMSyou can get in this “FREE BEER” offer...

*conditions apply

Get Your NEW SHED and FREE BEER Now! FREECALL: 1800 088 528

Get a farm shed and enjoy FOR A WHOLE YEAR!GET THAT SHED YOU KNOW YOU NEED AND GET A YEARS WORTH OF FREE BEER!

p4 FArM gAtE NEWS: the Farmer’s Newsletter Go to www.FreeBeerForAYear.com.au for more details of this FREE BEER FOR A YEAR Offer

Bonus #1 Free Beer For A Year

Bonus #2 Birthday Prices

Bonus #3 Free Delivery

Bonus #4 Free Strength Upgrade

Bonus #5 50 Year Structural Guarantee

Bonus #6 $500 On-Time Delivery Promise

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Milton Chandler (Mildey) has invested in 5 Grant Sheds farm sheds over the past 17 years and every one of them has been built by Grant Sheds Master Building Contractor, Steve Charnstrom.

1. Because the sheds are always very good structurally,

2. He could get Grant Sheds builder, Steve to build them, and

3. He’s always been happy with them so has continued to buy them.

Mildey’s 5 Grant Sheds farm sheds are:

• 150 tonne Fertiliser Shed • Machinery Shed - 12m x 24m x 4.2m

(40’x80’x14’) • Leanto - 9m x 24m x 4.2m • Leanto - 9m x 24m x 3.9m • Workshop—15m x 12m x 5.4m (50’x40’x18’)

Mildey says that the workshop is one of the best investments he’s ever made. “I should have done that 17 years ago. It should have been the 1st shed I built.”

He says he needed to be able to drive a semi through the shed and wanted plenty of room so he could work on his machinery out of the elements . “There are a lot of bad days living close to the coast - a lot of days when it drives you nuts working out in the wind and sun.”

“So it’s a nice reprieve to get out of the weather and the quality of my work is better when I’ve got a good environment to work in.”

Milton lives 50km west of Ceduna so it’s quite remote and hard to get any contractors there. When Steve built his first fertiliser shed, he was only there for 3 days and the job was done.

Mildey explains that people on the Eyre Peninsula are competing with the mining industry for tradesmen and so it’s difficult to get a building contractor. If he tried to build it himself, he admits he hasn’t got the equipment and it would be so inefficient. “I know we have to pay for the service but at the end of the day, if we had to muck around and do it ourselves, we’d be there for a month!”

And Mildey’s Advice On Shed Building For Farmers:“ If you’re going to spend money on farm machinery and equipment, they will just deteriorate too much. It’s a huge investment to go and buy machinery and then leave it out in the weather. Especially where we are. We get a lot of damp nights and salt air and the machinery just depreciates so much in a short period of time if it’s not protected.”

Mildey’s opinion on the Grant Sheds office team? He says, “They are a good crew to deal with. I feel like I’ve known you for years, but I’ve only just met you face to face for the 1st time.”

Builder Steve says they have become firm friends and has led to close friendships with the other families as well. As Mildey wrote to Grant Sheds after a past shed was built, “Your sheds are a very good product and Steve’s professionalism as a builder is faultless. We enjoy the guys’ company and look forward to catching up again soon.”

Mildey’s Advice On SHED BUILDING FOR FARMERS

Experienced builders who are prepared to travel and have excellent workmanship are very difficult to find. Milton Chandler (left) of Penong has become very firm friends with Grant Sheds expert shed builder Steve Charnstrom (right). As Mildey wrote to Grant Sheds after a past shed was built, “Your sheds are a very good product and Steve’s professionalism as a builder is faultless. We enjoy the guys’ company and look forward to catching up again soon.”

Penong farmer, Milton (Mildey) Chandlershares his views on the problems he faces finding building contractors in his remote area of the Eyre Peninsula during a video interview with Brenton from Grant Sheds.

You can view the interview on You Tube. Just go to www.YouTube.com and in their search section, type in “Grant Sheds Milton Chandler” and the video should appear.

Experienced builders who are prepared to travel and have excellent workmanship are very difficult to find. Steve, pictured here with his partner Debbie, SND Constructions, has worked with Grant Sheds for over 20 years and is well respected wherever he goes.

“BEING ABLE TO GET A TOP-NOTCH SHED BUILDER WHO IS HAPPY TO TRAVEL TO US” That’s what Penong Farmer Milton Chandle likes about Grant Sheds and why he’s built 5 new “Grant” Farm Sheds in 17 Years.

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SHED BUILDER WINS HEARTSOf West Coast Farmers

This large group of West Coast farming identities travelled 10 hours to attend the Riverland Dinghy Derby, on invitation from Grant Sheds shed builder Steve Charnstrom.

Steve is a long term sponsor of the event and has erected a lot of sheds in the Eyre Peninsula region over the last 17 years.

Seven Penong farmers made the long journey with their families. All but two of them have bought a Grant farm shed and had them built on their Penong properties by Steve.

Shed builder Steve has been travelling to the Eyre Peninsular for 17 years to build the super strong Grant Sheds farm sheds for local farmers. He has recently spent so much time there that he has rented a house in Penong rather than continue with short term hotel accommodation.

Steve says, “The farming families are always inviting us to stay for a BBQ and join in fishing or with family events. In fact, when I decided to rent a house here recently, they banded together and lent me all sorts of household stuff to fit out the unfurnished house ... Kitchen gear, beds, a lounge and BBQ. How kind is that?”

To return the favour, and the friendship, Steve invited the Penong mob back to his home-town of Renmark for a weekend stay and to attend the Riverland Dinghy Derby.

Grant Sheds owner, Danny Halupka, provided his ski boat so the families could experience a taste of water skiing on the River Murray. This was a different experience for people more used to salt water activities and thoroughly enjoyed by children and adults alike.

Anthony Nicholls, whose family water skis near Penong says, “It was a great experience and I’d definitely like to go back and do it again. Riverlanders are lucky that they don’t have to spend hours washing the salt water off their

boats and cars after a day on the water like we do here.”

Steve Charnstrom also took each of the Penong blokes on a lap of the Dinghy Derby race course which runs through creeks and backwaters off the River Murray just north of Renmark. This is a full-speed, twisting and turning, heart-stopping experience which some of our Penong farmers loved. In fact, some of them want to return next year to enter the proper race themselves because they found it so exhilarating.

And there was another interesting thing experienced between the Penong group and our Renmark shed builder. Steve and his partner Debbie were in Adelaide and met a couple they didn’t know. They got talking with Bev and her husband Garry.

Steve and Garry were talking about cars and Garry mentioned some car types that his son-in-law owned. Steve butted in, “Hang on, I’ve seen those very cars where I just built a new shed on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula for a bloke named Mario. What’s your son-in-laws’s name?”

Garry said his son-in-law is Anthony Nicholls . Guess what? ... Anthony’s nickname is Mario and

it was Steve who had built that shed at Penong. It’s a small world!

The Penong district can expect to see Steve Charnstrom and his shed building team for some time yet as he has a few more Grant Sheds to build there. The local guys reckon Steve is a Penong bloke now and that Renmark is just his holiday home since he spends so much time in Penong.

But if you think you can call him to erect any shed you’ve bought, think again as he only builds Grant Sheds. “I’ve been building Grant Sheds for 20 years. I know their sheds are super strong, easy to build and the people at Grant Sheds care about their customers. That makes it easy for me and I’m sticking with them,” enthuses Steve.

Buy yourself a Grant farm shed now and you’ll become another proud owner of an “Aussie Tough” Grant Shed ... And with “FREE BEER for a Year” when you buy your farm shed before March 31,

You can really celebrate. But Beware ... your neighbours might just expect it to be your shout at your shed-warming party!

Sam Shippard, Butch Dunn, Milton Chandler & Anthony ‘Mario’ Nicholls of Penong, Eyre Peninsula enjoyed a weekend in Renmark thanks to Grant Sheds, shed builder, Steve Charnstrom

This enthusiastic bunch of West Coast Farmers travelled 10 hours to enjoy Renmark.....Left to right: Danny Halupka, Grant Sheds, Monash; Milton & Tracey Chandler (Penong); Debbie (partly obscured) & Steve Charnstrom, Shed Builder, Renmark; Anthony ‘Mario’ Nicholls (Penong); Shane & Nyree Trowbridge (Penong); Bav Charnstrom (Renmark); Ben & Andrea Polkinghorne (Penong)-back; Bronwyn & Darren Shippard - front & back (Penong); Jodie & Butch Dunn (Penong); Ali & Sam Shippard (Penong).

Shane Trowbridge of Penong and his 15m x 27m x 5.7m (50’ x 90’ x 19’) “Aussie Tough” Grant Sheds Machinery Shed.

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the IrIShManWhile peter was sunbathing naked at the beach in Jamaica. For the sake of civility, and to keep it from getting sunburned, he had a hat over his private parts. A woman walks past and says, snickering, “If you were a gentleman you’d lift your hat.” he raised an eyebrow and replied, “If you were better looking it would lift itself.”

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CANiNE THOUGHT

When you feel dog

tired at night, it may

be because you’ve

growled all day long.

“Quote”“If you are irritated by every

rub, how will your mirror

ever be polished?”

Rumi (1207–1273) Persian poet and

philosopher

MONTHLY HUMOUR

GRANT SHEDS 60 Year Anniversary

2012 is the 60th year of business for Grant Sheds. Started in 1952 by Ali’s father Grant Telfer the business has had a close affinity with all rural areas of South Australia and western Victoria and New South Wales.

Over the months of this year, we’ll bring you some interesting stories on the history of Grant Sheds. Lots of farmers have multiple “Grant” sheds on their properties, so stories of “the old days” may be of interest.

1949 Grant Telfer & friend on Velocette LE motorbike and his Dad, Reg Telfer at the back

1958 Grant Sheds 1st office at Monash

30’ span Farm Sheds ... Considered large in the 1960’s but dwarfed by some farm sheds today which can be up to 30m (100’) span x 60m(200’) long x 8m (25’) high or even more! 1958 Grant Telfer with pipe cropper

1958 Grant Telfers house under construction. A shed frame of course! But clad to look like a conventional house & he still lives here on the hill in Monash