The Yard.
The turning circle between the grain store, the workshop and the back of the shop. Nothing here is staged and nothing is scheduled. It is where the farm actually happens, and what mostly happens is reversing.
- Angle
- Fixed · 24 mm
- Live
- All year · Live
- Uptime, 90 days
- 99.4%
What it is actually pointed at.
The camera is bolted to the gable of the grain store at four metres, pointed north-west across the concrete apron. In frame: the workshop door, the fuel bowser, two trailers that have not moved since 2023, and whichever tractor is in the way.
It is the busiest feed on the estate between seven and nine in the morning and it is the one people leave open in a browser tab while they work. That is not a guess. It is the only camera here with a median session over eleven minutes.
There is no audio. There is no pan, tilt or zoom for anybody outside the farm office. What you see is what the bracket points at, and nobody has touched the bracket since it went up.
Worth watching when.
| When | What you get |
|---|---|
| 07:00–09:00 | The day starting. Deliveries, the shop team arriving, and somebody driving faster across concrete than concrete deserves. |
| 12:30 onwards | Nothing at all. The yard empties completely for about an hour and stays empty. |
| 16:00–18:00 | Machinery coming back in, and the daily argument about who left the workshop open. |
| After dark | Infrared, a security light on a passive sensor, and a great many moths. |
Across the year, on this camera.
Mud.
Genuine, structural mud, and a pressure washer running most Fridays.
Trailers going out to the fields, and lambs in the near pen for a fortnight.
Harvest traffic.
Grain trailers in and out from six until it is too damp to cut.
Quieter, and the only months of the year the concrete is visible.
The rig on this one.
The Yard
- Mount
- Grain store gable, 4.1 m
- Lens
- Fixed, 24 mm equivalent
- Stream
- 1080p at 25 fps, 2.2 Mbps
- Night
- Infrared to about 18 metres
- Audio
- None, deliberately
- Uptime, 90 days
- 99.4%
Uptime is the rolling ninety-day figure. When the stream is not available this page shows the last good frame instead: The last good frame, stamped with the minute it was taken and the reason the feed stopped.
The four things every camera here promises.
Fixed
No pan, tilt or zoom for anybody outside the farm office.
Silent
No audio on this camera or any other.
Pointed at us
No footpath, no neighbour’s land, no public highway in frame.
Fallback
The last good frame, stamped with the minute it was taken and the reason the feed stopped.
The other cameras.
Nine others, all fixed, all silent, all pointed at this farm.
What is worth watching this month.
A table of the whole year, camera by camera, so you are not opening ten tabs to find the one with something in it.
