The first clip of the road train hauling 2 trailers full of cattle is awesome. That dust is like talcum powder and can be deep. Once you commit, you keep your boot in it until you're through. That thing stopped in the middle of that, you'd probably need a bulldozer to pull it out. Shout out to all the truckers that keep this country moving! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@@ozymandias7940 Its called bulldust....choking and dangerous...except for the truckie whos protected in air con comfort. Its a despicable practise...just like animals transported by ship....its all about the mighty $$$$$...a very sad depiction of even modern day Australia.
I am not sure how often the road trains make trips on roads like this but I would hope that it is not very often; I don't think I'd like to be ingesting dust while being buffeted around in the back of a truck on a hot day. But there is good news for us animal lovers. The beef industry in northern Australia represents 64% of the total Australian beef cattle herd. Queensland alone accounts for some 11.3 million head, or 45% of the total Australian cattle population, whereas the Northern Territory totals approximately 2.1 million head or 8% of the total Australian cattle population. Based on those numbers alone one would think that the roads that they use to transport large numbers of cattle around would be sealed. In any case, it's good to know that the Northern Australia Beef Roads Program, which is a suite of projects designed to deliver targeted upgrades to key roads for transporting cattle in northern Australia, is well under way. Funding by the Australian Government is up to 80% of total costs, with the remainder being met by state, territory and local governments. The initial funding allocation by the Australian Government was $100 million, most of which has now (in April 2022) been expended on the identified projects, most of which have been completed or are nearing completion.
Some of those map markings aren’t even townships Ian, depends on the maps used. Out ‘there’ you can be a couple hours from the nearest ‘road’ - that poor bugger could just be trying to get from the station (as in homestead) yards to the road! Reminds me of FNQ in the dry thirty years ago.
The aboriginal spear fisherman is using a woomera to launch his spear. Similar to those ball throwers you exercise dogs with except the woomera has been around for god knows how many thousands of years. It gives the spear enhanced speed, range and accuracy. Our rocket testing facility is called, you guessed it, Woomera.
I was about to look up the spear because I noticed the extra sheath at the back stayed in his hand. You could see it still stayed perfectly lined up as he let his left hand go
Now you know why we are so much happier than the rest of the world, because we have a bird that laughs and when you hear them laugh you can't help but laugh as well 😅
Thanks bud for reminding me how good a life I have had. I'm almost 70 years old and I have done 3 of your list. I have caught wild buffalo, in my day we used a rope noose and dropped it over the horns. I've have fed a Kookaburra on my arm. And I have seen the roadtrains and driven the roads. Damn I've been lucky. 👍❤️😇
I love our sunburnt country... gee Ive been lucky to... Groote Eylandt at 16 , banana prawns 1977.... Been all over... just got me fourbie and off to Kimberlies next year...the Aussie story goes on... cheers cobber.
Bill Morgan had an accident in his work truck, had a heart attack at the scene then the ambulance paramedics gave him a shot of something to revive him but turns out he was allergic to that and had another heart attack, so they put him in an induced coma till his body settled from the trauma. Shortly after being released from hospital, his wife told him to buy a lottery ticket to celebrate his luck (from not dying) so he bought the first ticket he came across and that was to win a brand new Toyota Corolla... and he won. That was when his wife took the story to the media and you saw what happened next.
I have been a mechanic on a few stations, the bull catches have been around since the 50s early ones were made using dodge weapon carriers newer ones Toyotas normally end of life vehicles, ringers are a curse they can roll anything. Motors and gearboxes are chained in because the chassis are stupid bent from abuse. I used to lock them in low range to keep the speed down the collar is either a lever or the new flash ones are electro hydraulic. If you can get more than 4 seasons out of one you are doing well . They pay for themselves on the first muster the armour can be mostly transferred from vehicle to vehicle with lots of choice words , a oxy and sledgehammer often a welder helps . If you can you should go up on a chopper during a muster those guys are crazy but incredible pilots the places i have seen them put a chopper skid would make your eyes water .
Just recently some Kookaburras have moved in locally I hearing them laughing in the early morning and sometimes in the evening if you get some visit your home you can set off laughing by trying to imitate their call and if there is more than one it's like they try out do each other, to me it is a wonderful sound and they are a beautiful bird. Sometimes they are called 'Laughing Jackass' and 'Bushmans alarm' Your quote "what in the Mad Max" totally cracked me up... cheers Ian
We would be nothing without our truckers... Our show 'outback truckers' is something else... then they build up the momentum on the Plenty hwy they'll usually get through. It's the dry season.. but if it rains it turns into mud! so JUST DON'T STOP. Tyre pressure is paramount!
The Australian sky is the best spit on earth to see the Milky way as it's directly above us in the night sky and not low in the sky as with the northern hemisphere. Also with no or little light pollution depending where you are.
Been out camping deep bush and in the dead of night with no fire or light the land is pitch black and the sky is alight like you wouldn't believe. It makes you dizzy to look up, like you've fallen into a void black sky yourself and everything that's alive with light is hanging far above you on a land of its own.
the first clip of the truck ,, first time my dad drove from south australia to darwin NT,, 1971,,, the truck kept coming on the wrong side of the dirt road ,, he tryed to stay left as the road rules .. turns out the truck driver wanted him to pass on the wrong side so he wouldnt be driving in the massive dust cloud left by the road train.. later ,, clip 2 ,, he became a cattle station manager on the daly river ,, we had 3 bull catchers ,, 1 mechanical and 2 hydrolic ,, thats the arm that goes around the cattles head .., plus several herding 4wd;s to push them to the capture 4WD .. it was crazy herding cattle in the north ,, first time i was part of that ,, i was 10 years old ..1980.. Milton good ,, my father has passed ,, but ill never forget the adventures he took me and my 3 brothers on.... even way back then,, he called us boys , his little hillbillys .
It’s great watching helicopters mustering. They no longer do it on horseback! Even more recently graziers have started mustering with water. They progressively turn off the water sources, and the cattle follow the ones that are working until they are gathered at the mustering point. Then that truck you saw on the Plenty Highway was a cattle truck - they transport the cattle to town.
Aerial mustering, which involves using helicopters to herd cattle, is a hazardous activity. Between 2008 and 2017, there were 15 fatalities in aerial mustering crashes in Australia. The accident rate has been decreasing, but it remains a risky endeavour due to the low-level flying and the inherent dangers of the job. For instance, a recent tragic incident occurred at Mount Anderson Station in Western Australia, where two pilots lost their lives after their helicopters collided shortly after take-off.
The snake eating a croc is REAL. This happened in 2014 at Lake Moondarra, Mount Isa in NW Queensland where I grew up as a kid. The snake is an Olive Python which is quite common in the rivers and lakes in northern Aus. The croc is not a dangerous 'salty' it is just a juvenile 'freshy'. Freshies are much smaller, more timid and only eat fish but it was great for the cameras and sensationalised for overseas TV. The pic only shows the end where the snake ate the croc. The real drama was the fight and strangulation that went on for hours before. The croc is dead at this stage, having been crushed by the python. The snake lived and didn't need to eat for a long time. I used to swim and canoe in Lake Moondarra. I loved growing up there ... never a dull moment. When I was about 11 yrs old, I was swimming in the Gregory River at Gregory Downs Station and an Olive Python brushed up against my back and swam past me before I even knew it was there. It couldn't have been hungry as it left me alone and kept on swimming. True story. 😎
I've got an awesome photo of an olive python near Darwin when I lived there years ago. It almost takes up 2 lanes across a road and it's not stretched out straight, still slithering along. Big fuckers
Busted the exhaust near the rear of my Toyota Prado turbo on the Plenty Highway. Pulled into Jervois Station (ranch), we used their pit in the mechanic shed to pull it off and they welded it for me.
Hahaha the fact you have not seen a video of them rounding up cattle like that after all your reactions to Australia I am shocked. This is super commen
That would be an olive python eating a very young crocodile. Olive pythons get up to 4m (13ft) long. It may have taken it some time to get that croc down, but it would have managed it if left in peace.
@@katetoner3077 That can happen, but it's rare because it can be harmful to the snake to do it, and snakes aren't totally stupid, they don't measure up their meals, but they do have a pretty good idea what will fit down their throat. Snakes are very vulnerable whilst eating and so will give up their desired meal if they're being harassed whilst trying to swallow it. If your other ducks were picking on a snake whilst it was trying to eat, it would regurgitate whatever it was trying to swallow in order to escape. That's far more likely the reason than it found the ducks too big to eat.
Australia's Highway 1 is a network of highways that circumnavigate the country, joining all mainland capital cities except the national capital of Canberra. At a total length of approximately 14,500 km (9,000 mi) it is the longest national highway in the world, surpassing the Trans-Siberian Highway (over 11,000 km or 6,800 mi) and the Trans-Canada Highway (8,030 km or 4,990 mi). Over a million people traverse some part of the highway network every day. It is the longest continuing highway in the world as the Pan-American Highway is separated by the Darién Gap and AH1 is separated by the Sea of Japan.
12:14 "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one!" he said "Yes, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one" But still they cooooooome!
Only in Australia! Untamed, Keeping up with the Joneses, Coolabah Station! A 3 year old boy can drive a car, helps fix the trucks, and is learning to drive a helicopter! 🙋
I worked as a cook on a cattle station in the Kimberly's, the managers two sons aged 10 and 12 could ride every bike, horse and drive every vehicle on the station from the bulldozers to graders. After the work day was over, the ringers would practice their rodeo skills and the boys did that too, great life for kids. 😂
@@kevo6190 amazing isn't it 😁 I used to love watching the kids driving the grader. Rather them than me, I stuck to the quad bike and horses. It's a really great adventurous life for kids. ❤️😁
If you're gonna laugh, your whole body needs to get into it! I visited San Diego Zoo when I was in the US and they had a kookaburra in an enclosure. It was quiet so I started up a kookaburra call and it started to laugh. It never got into the full call and I asked it "What's up mate? You're not getting into it!" and an American guy who is a friend of the zoo like volunteer said that's the most he'd heard the kookaburra laugh. This video demonstrates a proper kookaburra laugh not just the first bit of wind up. Love this!!! Anne 🦘Tassie
@@skeeta71 In Australia the Land Cruisers with seats on the side have always been called Troopies in my experience. They are definitely not Utes as that is short for coupe utility which is based on a sedan - like falcons or Commodores.
People don't appreciate that Australian aborigines were the leaders in aeronautics ... they invented the woomera (used here in this video at 13:10) which was the world's first missile launcher, thousands of years before any other culture. They also invented a stick that came back to you when you threw it away, the boomerang. How crazy is that. 😎
calling it a missile launcher is a little far..... It's just an extension of your arm, to give you better speed and linear velocity. Sling's were invented tens of thousands of years ago, and work on the same principle.
@@PBMS123 It’s a lever, a mechanical catapult, which amplifies the primary force, his arm. Go and study physics. Leonardo da Vinci understood the launching power of the lever. The Woomera has long been called the world’s first missile launcher even by rocket scientists. Just because it predates gunpowder and propellants doesn't mean it is not a launcher. Australia’s rocket and missile test site at Woomera in South Australia, founded in the 1950s as an Anglo-Australian military site to test rockets, missiles and nuclear weapons, is named after it for that very reason. The site is now known as RAAF Woomera Range Complex and still used to test locally designed HIMARS and other missiles and rockets. It is rocket science whether you understand or not. 😁
@@butchphillips873 Yes, Woomera was established in 1947 but initially it was just used for artillery testing. The first rocket/missile launch was not until 1957 with the Black Knight which was a test ballistic missile and part of the British Blue Streak missile project. My comment was in the context of missiles and rocket launches. Woomera also became famous in 1956 as the base for the Aus-Brit atomic tests at Maralinga. Other cultures certainly had similar devices for the same purpose. The Aztecs had the atlatl (similar to the woomera), the ancient Romans and Greeks had a leather sling that fulfilled the same purpose - don't forget the biblical story of David and his sling bring down Goliath. All similar but different but they weren't called a woomera, that is an aboriginal word from the tribe in the Sydney area. Aborigines and Aztec/Mayans were probably the first to invent the device. Archeological records put the use of the woomera being in common widespread use 4,000 years ago which predates any European or Middle Eastern use. Mungo Man's skeletal remains (43,000 years) show signs of osteoarthritis in the elbow which is a condition associated with use of the woomera.
@@RobNMelbourne Exactly, 43,000 years ago, No mayans or Aztecs back then.... The Aboriginals invented the aerofoil as well, or as we know it, the Boomerang.....
A crocodile has very little power to open it's jaw, but closing it's jaw is a whole different story, so as long as the snake can swallow it's head, there is little the croc can do at that point.
Kookaburra is the cutest bird ever. We were having a picnic at Kings Park Perth and my son had his barbecued sausage on fork ready to eat and as he went to take a bite the kookaburra flew in and took his food, it was so so funny
The Plenty Highway connects Boulia in Western Queensland with the Stuart Highway, just 60 kilometres north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. ‘The Plenty’ offers an adventurous, partly unsealed shortcut. At just over 850-kilometres long, the journey can be completed in one day of driving.
The crock is dead at that point, squeezed tight until something vital breaks, it dies of internal bleeding, suffocates, or the blood flow to it's brain is cut off to the point of death. Whichever comes first. Constrictor snakes can feel the heartbeat of their prey when they are wrapped around it and they wait until it stops and then some. Then they can eat their catch in peace
So do I, they sit on the antenna right above my window and try to out compete the kookacrew 2 blocks away. Can't say I'd be unhappy if they chose another one a few houses up or down, but no, has to be mine.
I reckon it's CGI and if it's not I don't understand why you would want to have that sort of thing on a supercar, carrying extra weight probably compromise the handling. That sort of nonsense belongs on a low rider!
I think I’ve seen this jumping on(maybe) a Mercedes G Wagon. Maybe I’m wrong! But an off roader to bounce its way out of stuck in a hole. But why on a supercar??? I don’t know?! Chinese! They eat weird stuff! Why? I don’t know!!! Let them eat weird stuff and bounce supercars! If that makes them happy then enjoy!! I’d love a 1991 Proton 1.3 GLS but rear wheel drive! Nobody else would!! But let me live my life!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Jumping supercars???? Who knows!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@richardparker56 It's purely a gimmick, just found this "One such trick driving on just three wheels for short periods in case of a tire blowout, just like the old DS. The U9 probably can’t drive on three wheels for long, but it’s enough to get its driver home or to a repair shop in a pinch. However, the U9’s main party trick is its vertical leap. The suspension system can raise or lower the car at each corner independently, but if it raises each corner quickly, the kinetic energy is enough to jump the U9 an inch or two off the ground. If you’re wondering what the practical application for hopping a car is, stop being a square. It’s just cool." < No it is not cool!
The first clip he is driving through what is called bull dust. It is dirt that is finer than talcum powder and it blows into the corrugations and washouts. Looks like a smooth road until you are in it.
MY SON USED TO DO THIS ON MOUNT HOUSE STATION ON THE GIBB RIVER ROAD IN THE KIMBERLY. HE WAS ONLY 17 THEN . THEY CALLED IT THE BULL BUGGY. THEY WOULD ALSO MUSTER ON HORSE BACK. HE LOVED IT
That "dirt" is known as bull dust. Gets in everything. Australians are known for our ingenuity. As John Williamson sings "tie it up with wire". Australians fighting in trenches in WWI invented viewers with reflecting mirrors so they could view their foes without sticking their own heads up! Clever right!? That guy with the spear was Tom Hank's trainer 😂
The Plenty Hwy runs through eastern Northern Territory to NW Queensland. When it reaches the Qld border it changes name to the Donohue Hwy and then heads SE to meet the sealed road at Boulia. Then they would take the sealed road to Longreach to put the cattle on the railway. The dust the roadtrain is troughing up is called Bulldust. It is like fine talcum powder and no matter how tight your windows are closed it will get into your vehicle.
Yeah that stuff gets in everything you can have a good sealing esky inside the car and you'll have dust on top of your tinnies and crunchy sandwiches haha
The snake eating a crocodile was filmed in Lake Moondarra Mount Isa in western Queensland. It's a public lake with boating, fishing etc. Videos are available on the net. The snake won the battle.
We used to use a 3 pronged spear for fishing. My lil brother was in the back yard trying to stab the garden hose with it. He managed to punch it through his little toe, through the hose and embed it in the dirt. When he got brave enough, he lifted his foot and the hose came up still under his toe. He did not appreciate the 'you are such a dick' comment he got from me. The truth hurts though 😆
3:24 a lot of trucks did come by...thats how the road got like that. the grounds hard up there but lots of traffic it just turns to powder, then a rain and a grading and its back to flat again for like 3 days
Basically, with trucks on an unpaved road and sandy like that 1st clip. Foot to the floor, hold on and keep as straight as possible. The alternative is getting bogged, with say 200 cattle and waiting, with no cattle feed or water and waiting at least 2 days for assistance. Push through, get to a more secure road and fix the problems later.
Australian truckers are next level I have no idea how they do their job driving those road trains in the hottest part of Australia on what are nothing more than tracks that are feet deep in what we call 'Bull Dust' miles and miles from nowhere so if you experience a breakdown you only have your self to fix the problem and in this particular case you have a couple of hundred head of beef to worry about aswell, I have no idea what they earn but from a Google search it's nowhere near enough.
The centercaps are on bearings with weight down low, so while wheel rotates they stay static except the wiggle from bumps etc. I made DIY centercaps like this for my wheels - I have a video on my channel and in another video they're visible cruising the highway speeds still just wiggling a little
The truck is driving through what we call Bulldust and yes it is a bastard because it is so thin and hides holes so you never know what you are going to hit as far as holes, the upside is that it is a different color to the rest of the road, a truck would be bad but in a car…and yes chopper mustering is very exciting although I have been involved in using the grabs.
Check out the Mercedes Benz bounce mode. You can even lift up the rear or front and visa versa with a touch screen that selects wheels with a sliding action. Easier for you to check it out rather than me tryna articulate it! Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 👍
16:30 Apparently a number of Luxury brands like Rolls-Royce have been using center caps like that for a few decades. (I read somewhere that it's weighted on the bottom to Always remain upright)
The jumping car is just a bi-product of it's computer controlled hydraulic suspension, great for ride and handling but hellish expensive when it goes wrong. Stationary centre caps are nothing new, Rolls Royce have been using them for decades and yes they remain upright when the car is rolling, overcoming first world issues.
The road in the first video is in the northern Territory and it's a mostly unsealed road that goes for 498km between the Stuart highway and north Queensland
Yes Rolls-Royce have been doing it for years but I don't know why you would want your supercar to jump! Seems stupid to me carrying extra weight and probably compromising the handling. It would be more appropriate if it was fitted to a low rider
ALL my life, born 1957, i've lived in various semi rural places all around Australia due to dad being in the Airforce and posted to different bases. We most often drove there on outback roads and interior highways. All dirt then, apart from the Gun Barrel highway up the centre. So I've lived out amongst fields for acres around due to airforce bases needing potential emergency crash landing sites of sparse pooulation. I've seen stock animals loaded and unloaded at farms and abbatoirs in all conditions and various climatic weathers. I've seen in earlier years, many trucks loaded with fallen animals and travelled behind these stock trucks and passed them when the driver has been able to let us. Like looking at a horror show behind bars and planks. When I was 7 I stated I didn't want to eat animals anymore and of course was told "No." At 14 in early 70s, when vegetarianism was not thought of as trendy but as a personal decision and there was no such thing as vegetarian meals (you just ate the vegies and no meat) I became a vegetarian. Though I still ate fish so as to ease my parents worries. Now there are delicious vegetarian meals everywhere but it was pretty boring before the late eighties. So definitely not just a virtue signalling fad as thought of today. Now it is possible to produce no kill meat with stem cells but the Big Economy would suffer from all of the by sales product businesses that go along with it. Big Ag, Big Corps win again and people can barely afford to eat meat as regularly as they used to now. Also meat contaminated purposely for higher yeild, as well as with pesticides in herd feed. Factory farming is worse cruelty than even the old days. Anyhow, enough of me and my hobby horse. Each to their own.
That truck driver knows how to handle a bull dust hole. You slow down, you stay there.
“What in the mad max is this?” You crack me up 😂😂😂
The first clip of the road train hauling 2 trailers full of cattle is awesome. That dust is like talcum powder and can be deep. Once you commit, you keep your boot in it until you're through. That thing stopped in the middle of that, you'd probably need a bulldozer to pull it out.
Shout out to all the truckers that keep this country moving! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
It's a triple trailer!
@@ozymandias7940 Its called bulldust....choking and dangerous...except for the truckie whos protected in air con comfort.
Its a despicable practise...just like animals transported by ship....its all about the mighty $$$$$...a very sad depiction of even modern day Australia.
@@stephenkirton9921 Sorry to say but it was 4 trailers.!
I'm no vegan but those poor cows would be hating life on the back of that road train.
if i was a cow, i want top bunk
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I am not sure how often the road trains make trips on roads like this but I would hope that it is not very often; I don't think I'd like to be ingesting dust while being buffeted around in the back of a truck on a hot day. But there is good news for us animal lovers. The beef industry in northern Australia represents 64% of the total Australian beef cattle herd. Queensland alone accounts for some 11.3 million head, or 45% of the total Australian cattle population, whereas the Northern Territory totals approximately 2.1 million head or 8% of the total Australian cattle population. Based on those numbers alone one would think that the roads that they use to transport large numbers of cattle around would be sealed. In any case, it's good to know that the Northern Australia Beef Roads Program, which is a suite of projects designed to deliver targeted upgrades to key roads for transporting cattle in northern Australia, is well under way. Funding by the Australian Government is up to 80% of total costs, with the remainder being met by state, territory and local governments. The initial funding allocation by the Australian Government was $100 million, most of which has now (in April 2022) been expended on the identified projects, most of which have been completed or are nearing completion.
Some of those map markings aren’t even townships Ian, depends on the maps used. Out ‘there’ you can be a couple hours from the nearest ‘road’ - that poor bugger could just be trying to get from the station (as in homestead) yards to the road! Reminds me of FNQ in the dry thirty years ago.
The cows think it's better than walking
The aboriginal spear fisherman is using a woomera to launch his spear. Similar to those ball throwers you exercise dogs with except the woomera has been around for god knows how many thousands of years. It gives the spear enhanced speed, range and accuracy. Our rocket testing facility is called, you guessed it, Woomera.
I was about to look up the spear because I noticed the extra sheath at the back stayed in his hand. You could see it still stayed perfectly lined up as he let his left hand go
Also fun fact; there's like a 90% chance the cameraman is an aboriginal too, i love that they have smartphones 😂
Abos don’t use spears now ?. Goones yeap
I blood love that the Woomera rocket range is is named after a spear chucker. It doesn't get more poetic than that ❤
@@suzimooreakathegadgetlady907sorry what the f*ck???
Now you know why we are so much happier than the rest of the world, because we have a bird that laughs and when you hear them laugh you can't help but laugh as well 😅
Thanks bud for reminding me how good a life I have had. I'm almost 70 years old and I have done 3 of your list. I have caught wild buffalo, in my day we used a rope noose and dropped it over the horns. I've have fed a Kookaburra on my arm. And I have seen the roadtrains and driven the roads. Damn I've been lucky. 👍❤️😇
I love our sunburnt country... gee Ive been lucky to... Groote Eylandt at 16 , banana prawns 1977.... Been all over... just got me fourbie and off to Kimberlies next year...the Aussie story goes on... cheers cobber.
The catching the bulls with the Utes it’s been around for years way before Jurassic Park was even thought of.. 🧐😊🇦🇺
Remember watching "Cowboy in Africa" on TV when a kid and they would catch rhino and buffalo using the same method, so not unique to Australia.
Easier than using a horse and lasso I reckon.🤠
its disgusting
The bull catchers is a TV show and it's fabulous. Women catch them as well. Quite an eye opener how the bull catchers live. Amazing people! ❤❤
Bill Morgan had an accident in his work truck, had a heart attack at the scene then the ambulance paramedics gave him a shot of something to revive him but turns out he was allergic to that and had another heart attack, so they put him in an induced coma till his body settled from the trauma. Shortly after being released from hospital, his wife told him to buy a lottery ticket to celebrate his luck (from not dying) so he bought the first ticket he came across and that was to win a brand new Toyota Corolla... and he won. That was when his wife took the story to the media and you saw what happened next.
I remember this. At the time $250,000 was almost enough to buy a house.
We all cheered for Bill.
I have been a mechanic on a few stations, the bull catches have been around since the 50s early ones were made using dodge weapon carriers newer ones Toyotas normally end of life vehicles, ringers are a curse they can roll anything. Motors and gearboxes are chained in because the chassis are stupid bent from abuse. I used to lock them in low range to keep the speed down the collar is either a lever or the new flash ones are electro hydraulic. If you can get more than 4 seasons out of one you are doing well . They pay for themselves on the first muster the armour can be mostly transferred from vehicle to vehicle with lots of choice words , a oxy and sledgehammer often a welder helps . If you can you should go up on a chopper during a muster those guys are crazy but incredible pilots the places i have seen them put a chopper skid would make your eyes water .
Just recently some Kookaburras have moved in locally I hearing them laughing in the early morning and sometimes in the evening if you get some visit your home you can set off laughing by trying to imitate their call and if there is more than one it's like they try out do each other, to me it is a wonderful sound and they are a beautiful bird. Sometimes they are called 'Laughing Jackass' and 'Bushmans alarm'
Your quote "what in the Mad Max" totally cracked me up... cheers Ian
We would be nothing without our truckers... Our show 'outback truckers' is something else... then they build up the momentum on the Plenty hwy they'll usually get through. It's the dry season.. but if it rains it turns into mud! so JUST DON'T STOP. Tyre pressure is paramount!
The Australian sky is the best spit on earth to see the Milky way as it's directly above us in the night sky and not low in the sky as with the northern hemisphere. Also with no or little light pollution depending where you are.
Been out camping deep bush and in the dead of night with no fire or light the land is pitch black and the sky is alight like you wouldn't believe. It makes you dizzy to look up, like you've fallen into a void black sky yourself and everything that's alive with light is hanging far above you on a land of its own.
the first clip of the truck ,, first time my dad drove from south australia to darwin NT,, 1971,,, the truck kept coming on the wrong side of the dirt road ,, he tryed to stay left as the road rules .. turns out the truck driver wanted him to pass on the wrong side so he wouldnt be driving in the massive dust cloud left by the road train.. later ,, clip 2 ,, he became a cattle station manager on the daly river ,, we had 3 bull catchers ,, 1 mechanical and 2 hydrolic ,, thats the arm that goes around the cattles head .., plus several herding 4wd;s to push them to the capture 4WD .. it was crazy herding cattle in the north ,, first time i was part of that ,, i was 10 years old ..1980.. Milton good ,, my father has passed ,, but ill never forget the adventures he took me and my 3 brothers on.... even way back then,, he called us boys , his little hillbillys .
It’s great watching helicopters mustering. They no longer do it on horseback! Even more recently graziers have started mustering with water. They progressively turn off the water sources, and the cattle follow the ones that are working until they are gathered at the mustering point. Then that truck you saw on the Plenty Highway was a cattle truck - they transport the cattle to town.
Aerial mustering, which involves using helicopters to herd cattle, is a hazardous activity. Between 2008 and 2017, there were 15 fatalities in aerial mustering crashes in Australia. The accident rate has been decreasing, but it remains a risky endeavour due to the low-level flying and the inherent dangers of the job. For instance, a recent tragic incident occurred at Mount Anderson Station in Western Australia, where two pilots lost their lives after their helicopters collided shortly after take-off.
When I was in the NY, I loved to sit on my balcony with a few, ahem, beers and watch the ' light shows '. Brilliant mate.
I love the guy driving with the rolli cigarette hanging out his mouth catching bulls 💪 u just know he rolls with one hand
Those chopper pilots get so low they are down between the trees bumping the Scrub Bulls with the skids.
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Mustering cattle - bull catchers
The snake eating a croc is REAL. This happened in 2014 at Lake Moondarra, Mount Isa in NW Queensland where I grew up as a kid. The snake is an Olive Python which is quite common in the rivers and lakes in northern Aus. The croc is not a dangerous 'salty' it is just a juvenile 'freshy'. Freshies are much smaller, more timid and only eat fish but it was great for the cameras and sensationalised for overseas TV. The pic only shows the end where the snake ate the croc. The real drama was the fight and strangulation that went on for hours before. The croc is dead at this stage, having been crushed by the python. The snake lived and didn't need to eat for a long time.
I used to swim and canoe in Lake Moondarra. I loved growing up there ... never a dull moment. When I was about 11 yrs old, I was swimming in the Gregory River at Gregory Downs Station and an Olive Python brushed up against my back and swam past me before I even knew it was there. It couldn't have been hungry as it left me alone and kept on swimming. True story. 😎
It's real. I was living in Mt Isa at the time.
I've got an awesome photo of an olive python near Darwin when I lived there years ago. It almost takes up 2 lanes across a road and it's not stretched out straight, still slithering along. Big fuckers
Busted the exhaust near the rear of my Toyota Prado turbo on the Plenty Highway. Pulled into Jervois Station (ranch), we used their pit in the mechanic shed to pull it off and they welded it for me.
That first vid, I can tell you it's like driving on a deep layer of talcum powder over corrugated iron.
Depends where your from it's also called bull dust
Hahaha the fact you have not seen a video of them rounding up cattle like that after all your reactions to Australia I am shocked. This is super commen
That sand is so fine we call it bull dust! 🇦🇺
Kookaburras are alright birds until they roost within earshot of your bedroom and start cackling at 4 am every friggin morning .
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The price you pay for living in the best country in the world!
That would be an olive python eating a very young crocodile. Olive pythons get up to 4m (13ft) long. It may have taken it some time to get that croc down, but it would have managed it if left in peace.
I used to have bantam mallard ducks and there was a time when I found a couple dead, and the snake had found them too big and he spat them out!
@@katetoner3077 That can happen, but it's rare because it can be harmful to the snake to do it, and snakes aren't totally stupid, they don't measure up their meals, but they do have a pretty good idea what will fit down their throat. Snakes are very vulnerable whilst eating and so will give up their desired meal if they're being harassed whilst trying to swallow it. If your other ducks were picking on a snake whilst it was trying to eat, it would regurgitate whatever it was trying to swallow in order to escape. That's far more likely the reason than it found the ducks too big to eat.
The snake might have had a tail handing out of its mouth for a while. I watched one eat a large Goanna, beautiful but slow process.
Looks more like green anaconda eating cayman
Could be olive python eating croc. But far more likely happens far more often. Green anaconda eating cayman. Could be Aus. Most likely south America
Afternoon Ian & all. The sun is setting over the mighty Brindabella Range & beer o'clock has been declared.🎉
But late aren't you. Beer o'clock midday. Or do you mean 5th beer o'clock for the day?
Was meant to be bloody bit not but.
Australia's Highway 1 is a network of highways that circumnavigate the country, joining all mainland capital cities except the national capital of Canberra. At a total length of approximately 14,500 km (9,000 mi) it is the longest national highway in the world, surpassing the Trans-Siberian Highway (over 11,000 km or 6,800 mi) and the Trans-Canada Highway (8,030 km or 4,990 mi). Over a million people traverse some part of the highway network every day. It is the longest continuing highway in the world as the Pan-American Highway is separated by the Darién Gap and AH1 is separated by the Sea of Japan.
In theory the 1 is separated by bass Strait, but the government considers the spirit of tas as part of the highway.
My uncle is a trucker from Australia, and yeah, he's told some stories! 😂❤
That's called Bull dust. Some of those hole's are deep enough to take the whole front end out of a car or even a truck. They can be up to 6' deep.
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"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one!" he said
"Yes, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one"
But still they cooooooome!
that is why the indigenous population have been able to survive and flourish over 60000 years
I remember the days when it was 40,000 years, how time flies
@@theGreyhoundKeeper being facetious is not sarcasm
@@bodybalanceU2 Just pointing out the inconsistency in "the truth"
@@theGreyhoundKeeper what inconsistency? you dont believe indigenous Australians have been around for over 60000 years?
@@theGreyhoundKeeperAnd now I hear they made pottery too!!
Have a look at our Outback Ringer, its a tv show about mustering cattle with utes that you were interested in.
Only in Australia! Untamed, Keeping up with the Joneses, Coolabah Station! A 3 year old boy can drive a car, helps fix the trucks, and is learning to drive a helicopter! 🙋
I love' keeping up with the Joneses'👍🤠
@@kevo6190 Me too, what a great traditional outback family! 💕
I worked as a cook on a cattle station in the Kimberly's, the managers two sons aged 10 and 12 could ride every bike, horse and drive every vehicle on the station from the bulldozers to graders. After the work day was over, the ringers would practice their rodeo skills and the boys did that too, great life for kids. 😂
@@SueNicholls-95 the first vehicle I learned to drive at 8 years old was a Front end loader! Bush kids🤣
@@kevo6190 amazing isn't it 😁 I used to love watching the kids driving the grader. Rather them than me, I stuck to the quad bike and horses. It's a really great adventurous life for kids. ❤️😁
I drove the plenty highway back in the 90's in a ford Fairmont ..2 wheel drive !!!...got some great photos...
Man, that bird must've heard the dirtiest joke ever!
what’s really cool is all of our fellow aussie’s giving out facts about every video in this
If you're gonna laugh, your whole body needs to get into it! I visited San Diego Zoo when I was in the US and they had a kookaburra in an enclosure. It was quiet so I started up a kookaburra call and it started to laugh. It never got into the full call and I asked it "What's up mate? You're not getting into it!" and an American guy who is a friend of the zoo like volunteer said that's the most he'd heard the kookaburra laugh. This video demonstrates a proper kookaburra laugh not just the first bit of wind up. Love this!!! Anne 🦘Tassie
Most of those trucks on the bull catching videos were Toyota Landrcuiser troop carriers.
No there not trucks they are Ute's and they are not troop carriers either 😂
@@skeeta71 In Australia the Land Cruisers with seats on the side have always been called Troopies in my experience. They are definitely not Utes as that is short for coupe utility which is based on a sedan - like falcons or Commodores.
That's thick. Bull dust goes thru everything
Those Bulls are 100% free range
People don't appreciate that Australian aborigines were the leaders in aeronautics ... they invented the woomera (used here in this video at 13:10) which was the world's first missile launcher, thousands of years before any other culture. They also invented a stick that came back to you when you threw it away, the boomerang. How crazy is that. 😎
calling it a missile launcher is a little far..... It's just an extension of your arm, to give you better speed and linear velocity. Sling's were invented tens of thousands of years ago, and work on the same principle.
@@PBMS123 It’s a lever, a mechanical catapult, which amplifies the primary force, his arm. Go and study physics. Leonardo da Vinci understood the launching power of the lever.
The Woomera has long been called the world’s first missile launcher even by rocket scientists. Just because it predates gunpowder and propellants doesn't mean it is not a launcher.
Australia’s rocket and missile test site at Woomera in South Australia, founded in the 1950s as an Anglo-Australian military site to test rockets, missiles and nuclear weapons, is named after it for that very reason. The site is now known as RAAF Woomera Range Complex and still used to test locally designed HIMARS and other missiles and rockets.
It is rocket science whether you understand or not. 😁
@@RobNMelbourne Woomera was established in 1947.
Other cultures had the woomera also.
@@butchphillips873 Yes, Woomera was established in 1947 but initially it was just used for artillery testing. The first rocket/missile launch was not until 1957 with the Black Knight which was a test ballistic missile and part of the British Blue Streak missile project. My comment was in the context of missiles and rocket launches.
Woomera also became famous in 1956 as the base for the Aus-Brit atomic tests at Maralinga.
Other cultures certainly had similar devices for the same purpose. The Aztecs had the atlatl (similar to the woomera), the ancient Romans and Greeks had a leather sling that fulfilled the same purpose - don't forget the biblical story of David and his sling bring down Goliath. All similar but different but they weren't called a woomera, that is an aboriginal word from the tribe in the Sydney area.
Aborigines and Aztec/Mayans were probably the first to invent the device. Archeological records put the use of the woomera being in common widespread use 4,000 years ago which predates any European or Middle Eastern use. Mungo Man's skeletal remains (43,000 years) show signs of osteoarthritis in the elbow which is a condition associated with use of the woomera.
@@RobNMelbourne Exactly, 43,000 years ago, No mayans or Aztecs back then.... The Aboriginals invented the aerofoil as well, or as we know it, the Boomerang.....
That is a cattle triple trailer road train - 6 decks of cattle on each road train
Cows are only 2 decks high.
Sheep usually 3 decks high.
Watch the first Video again.
One full size single followed by two "A" trailers on a tandem axle dolly with a full size trailer at the back.
@@MelodyMan69 One full size single pulling a tandem axle dolly with two "A" trailers and a full size single on the back.
That Metor shook my house, and the noise was incredible
I have a bunch of kookaburras going g off as an alarm clock every morning in my trees.
The town of Muswellbrook in the hunter valley of New South Wales had five earthquakes in less than 48 hours.
A crocodile has very little power to open it's jaw, but closing it's jaw is a whole different story, so as long as the snake can swallow it's head, there is little the croc can do at that point.
Kookaburra is the cutest bird ever. We were having a picnic at Kings Park Perth and my son had his barbecued sausage on fork ready to eat and as he went to take a bite the kookaburra flew in and took his food, it was so so funny
The Plenty Highway connects Boulia in Western Queensland with the Stuart Highway, just 60 kilometres north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. ‘The Plenty’ offers an adventurous, partly unsealed shortcut. At just over 850-kilometres long, the journey can be completed in one day of driving.
And you might just see the Min Min lights as you're sliding along the plenty highway.
THAT "DUST" IS CALLED "BULL DUST" ITS SO FINE IT FLOWS LIKE WATER, AND YOU CAN'T SEE HOW DEEP IT IS TILL YOU HIT IT.
That was one of Australia's best road's!
That first semi is ploughing through Bulldust it’s fine dry powdery dust that coats everything
The crock is dead at that point, squeezed tight until something vital breaks, it dies of internal bleeding, suffocates, or the blood flow to it's brain is cut off to the point of death. Whichever comes first. Constrictor snakes can feel the heartbeat of their prey when they are wrapped around it and they wait until it stops and then some. Then they can eat their catch in peace
The Plenty highway is in the NT.
North of the Simpson Desert from Alice Springs, east to Queensland.
Proper outback mate 😎
Some BMW and VW also have the center cap that is independent from the wheel to be visible upright all the time
I wake up to kookaburras every morning, and I wouldn't change it for anything.
So do I, they sit on the antenna right above my window and try to out compete the kookacrew 2 blocks away. Can't say I'd be unhappy if they chose another one a few houses up or down, but no, has to be mine.
I love hearing the Kookaburras outside or on my balcony, they always make me smile! 🤗
@@jenniferharrison8915 Not at 5am every morning. Once or twice a week I can accept but every morning.
@@FromTheGong Unlucky, mine don't arrive until 8am and maybe after 4pm! 😄
Bull catchers in the NT rounding up wild cattle. They tend to be pretty crazy. The bulls are mad too 😂😂😂
G'day, The "Plenty highway" (1st clip) is the short cut from Mount Isa to Alice Springs,
Imagine the truck navigating those ruts in the wet!
Next to impossible
Rolls-Royce have used stationary center caps on the wheels for years. Maybe they are just showing off how strong and fast the active suspension is?
I reckon it's CGI and if it's not I don't understand why you would want to have that sort of thing on a supercar, carrying extra weight probably compromise the handling. That sort of nonsense belongs on a low rider!
I think I’ve seen this jumping on(maybe) a Mercedes G Wagon. Maybe I’m wrong! But an off roader to bounce its way out of stuck in a hole.
But why on a supercar??? I don’t know?! Chinese! They eat weird stuff! Why? I don’t know!!!
Let them eat weird stuff and bounce supercars! If that makes them happy then enjoy!!
I’d love a 1991 Proton 1.3 GLS but rear wheel drive! Nobody else would!! But let me live my life!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jumping supercars???? Who knows!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@richardparker56 It's purely a gimmick, just found this
"One such trick driving on just three wheels for short periods in case of a tire blowout, just like the old DS. The U9 probably can’t drive on three wheels for long, but it’s enough to get its driver home or to a repair shop in a pinch. However, the U9’s main party trick is its vertical leap. The suspension system can raise or lower the car at each corner independently, but if it raises each corner quickly, the kinetic energy is enough to jump the U9 an inch or two off the ground. If you’re wondering what the practical application for hopping a car is, stop being a square. It’s just cool." < No it is not cool!
Spear fishing skills? That's 60,000 plus years of bloody hungry, honed.
I remembered that night lighting strike in Perth, Western Australia. It was extremely humid and hot. Thunder noises all over the place.
The snake is a python which has suffocated the croc before swallowing it whole. It dislocates it's lower jaw in order to swallow the croc.
Well done bro your almost on 200K SUBS 👌
Just think of the animals in the back😊
Yes that cow Russifying is crazy.
I remember that story with the lottery scratchy.😊
you should try and get some footage of the corrigated road in outback Australia, now thats a bumpy ride! Welcome to the land down under.
Those Toyotas are catčhing wild Brahma cattle. I think they use the same thing to catch the wild water buffalo that are feral in the outback.
The first clip he is driving through what is called bull dust. It is dirt that is finer than talcum powder and it blows into the corrugations and washouts. Looks like a smooth road until you are in it.
I'm a retired Australian truck driver been over most of Australia it's the toughest job one can have and most Australian people don't appreciate us 🎉
Watching your channel is always a fascinating and educational journey. Keep leading us into the world of your creativity and inspiring us!🐕🎇🟡
MY SON USED TO DO THIS ON MOUNT HOUSE STATION ON THE GIBB RIVER ROAD IN THE KIMBERLY. HE WAS ONLY 17 THEN . THEY CALLED IT THE BULL BUGGY. THEY WOULD ALSO MUSTER ON HORSE BACK. HE LOVED IT
That "dirt" is known as bull dust. Gets in everything. Australians are known for our ingenuity. As John Williamson sings "tie it up with wire". Australians fighting in trenches in WWI invented viewers with reflecting mirrors so they could view their foes without sticking their own heads up! Clever right!? That guy with the spear was Tom Hank's trainer 😂
The Plenty Hwy runs through eastern Northern Territory to NW Queensland. When it reaches the Qld border it changes name to the Donohue Hwy and then heads SE to meet the sealed road at Boulia. Then they would take the sealed road to Longreach to put the cattle on the railway.
The dust the roadtrain is troughing up is called Bulldust. It is like fine talcum powder and no matter how tight your windows are closed it will get into your vehicle.
Yeah that stuff gets in everything you can have a good sealing esky inside the car and you'll have dust on top of your tinnies and crunchy sandwiches haha
I crossed from Perth to Sydney and took some "shortcuts" I was cleaning red dust out of my XY Falcon for about 9mths
Lot of Kenworth’s in the outback
The snake eating a crocodile was filmed in Lake Moondarra Mount Isa in western Queensland. It's a public lake with boating, fishing etc. Videos are available on the net. The snake won the battle.
When you go through that BULL DUST!!! It swishes up under the wheel arch and sounds exactly like driving through water.
We used to use a 3 pronged spear for fishing. My lil brother was in the back yard trying to stab the garden hose with it. He managed to punch it through his little toe, through the hose and embed it in the dirt. When he got brave enough, he lifted his foot and the hose came up still under his toe. He did not appreciate the 'you are such a dick' comment he got from me. The truth hurts though 😆
3:24 a lot of trucks did come by...thats how the road got like that. the grounds hard up there but lots of traffic it just turns to powder, then a rain and a grading and its back to flat again for like 3 days
Basically, with trucks on an unpaved road and sandy like that 1st clip. Foot to the floor, hold on and keep as straight as possible. The alternative is getting bogged, with say 200 cattle and waiting, with no cattle feed or water and waiting at least 2 days for assistance. Push through, get to a more secure road and fix the problems later.
Australian truckers are next level I have no idea how they do their job driving those road trains in the hottest part of Australia on what are nothing more than tracks that are feet deep in what we call 'Bull Dust' miles and miles from nowhere so if you experience a breakdown you only have your self to fix the problem and in this particular case you have a couple of hundred head of beef to worry about aswell, I have no idea what they earn but from a Google search it's nowhere near enough.
The centercaps are on bearings with weight down low, so while wheel rotates they stay static except the wiggle from bumps etc. I made DIY centercaps like this for my wheels - I have a video on my channel and in another video they're visible cruising the highway speeds still just wiggling a little
At first i thought the snake was slowing up a tree branch lol
The truck is driving through what we call Bulldust and yes it is a bastard because it is so thin and hides holes so you never know what you are going to hit as far as holes, the upside is that it is a different color to the rest of the road, a truck would be bad but in a car…and yes chopper mustering is very exciting although I have been involved in using the grabs.
Check out the Mercedes Benz bounce mode. You can even lift up the rear or front and visa versa with a touch screen that selects wheels with a sliding action. Easier for you to check it out rather than me tryna articulate it! Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 👍
16:30 Apparently a number of Luxury brands like Rolls-Royce have been using center caps like that for a few decades.
(I read somewhere that it's weighted on the bottom to Always remain upright)
I can assure you, I am no paid actor, have lived in Australia for 60 years and have travelled around much of it. Australia is definitely real. lol.
I can still remember the guy winning the lottery on our news stations
M8 THATS JUST A NORMAL DAY IN AUSSIE LAND LOL
The jumping car is just a bi-product of it's computer controlled hydraulic suspension, great for ride and handling but hellish expensive when it goes wrong.
Stationary centre caps are nothing new, Rolls Royce have been using them for decades and yes they remain upright when the car is rolling, overcoming first world issues.
That dust is like powdered silk or Talcum powder & it's feet deep. Then it rains..... Another crazy Australian Invention, the Bull Catcher.
There is dust, and then there are those pockets of bulldust of varying depth. So dry and fine-grained it's like talcum powder.
The road in the first video is in the northern Territory and it's a mostly unsealed road that goes for 498km between the Stuart highway and north Queensland
MAD MAX IRL
You would love the auto gate opener's they make in the outback
That Bulldust is deep mon
I get woken every morning by kookaburras beside my bedroom at 5 in the morning
Some cool content shown in this reaction video
😂, the car does La Cocaracha😂😂 what they did in the movies 😂
I think you are right about the centre caps maintaining the logo upright as the wheels turn. Pretty sure Rolls Royce has been dog this for a while.
Yes Rolls-Royce have been doing it for years but I don't know why you would want your supercar to jump! Seems stupid to me carrying extra weight and probably compromising the handling.
It would be more appropriate if it was fitted to a low rider
ALL my life, born 1957, i've lived in various semi rural places all around Australia due to dad being in the Airforce and posted to different bases. We most often drove there on outback roads and interior highways. All dirt then, apart from the Gun Barrel highway up the centre. So I've lived out amongst fields for acres around due to airforce bases needing potential emergency crash landing sites of sparse pooulation. I've seen stock animals loaded and unloaded at farms and abbatoirs in all conditions and various climatic weathers. I've seen in earlier years, many trucks loaded with fallen animals and travelled behind these stock trucks and passed them when the driver has been able to let us. Like looking at a horror show behind bars and planks. When I was 7 I stated I didn't want to eat animals anymore and of course was told "No." At 14 in early 70s, when vegetarianism was not thought of as trendy but as a personal decision and there was no such thing as vegetarian meals (you just ate the vegies and no meat) I became a vegetarian. Though I still ate fish so as to ease my parents worries. Now there are delicious vegetarian meals everywhere but it was pretty boring before the late eighties. So definitely not just a virtue signalling fad as thought of today.
Now it is possible to produce no kill meat with stem cells but the Big Economy would suffer from all of the by sales product businesses that go along with it. Big Ag, Big Corps win again and people can barely afford to eat meat as regularly as they used to now. Also meat contaminated purposely for higher yeild, as well as with pesticides in herd feed. Factory farming is worse cruelty than even the old days. Anyhow, enough of me and my hobby horse. Each to their own.
Did you ever see any UFOs your dad in airforce and living different places in the middle of nowhere. 🙏🙏🙏