Host: Wongawol Station 6 am- time for the the sale cattle to go on to a road train to take them from the station to the farm down south. At the farm they will be grown out on pasture and grain for the domestic and live export markets. One of the Mitchells Transport drivers preparing […]
Host: Wongawol Station Meet ‘Jiminiminy cricket’ the poddy calf (originally called Thomas the Tank Engine). He started getting tired during muster because he was only a young bub, so the boys picked him up and he got to ride in the car with me! Once we yarded up the cattle I picked him up and […]
Host: Wongawol Station It’s early morning and ‘Moose’ is waiting for the engine in his mustering buggy (called the ‘Beer Fridge’) to warm up Meanwhile Graham and Dusty are trying to warm up by having a morning smoke, while we wait for the chopper to find cattle. Dusty with his rolled smoke looking like an […]
Host: Wongawol Station In the pastoral industry, a “scrub” (also known as a “scrubber”, or “scrub bull”) is a male cattle who escaped castration early on in life. Or, as once said on McLeods daughters ‘A bull with balls’. You see, on a cattle station, during the annual muster (when we round up all the […]
