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Some old and new photos of Australia

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Riverside

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These are some photos that I thought you might like to look at of our 3 different propeties.

This is me standing in our oaten crop about 8 weeks ago at one of our South Australian properties.
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This is my mum in the same crop but in a different area of the paddock, about 6weeks ago.
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This is the oaten crop on our other South Australian property. (Dad is doing the mowing ready to bail). We had alot better rain fall at this property so the crop was excellent.
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This is a young 12 month old calf that we purchased as a calf at foot to use as one of our sires to put over the heifers, he is now 2 years old.
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This is a nice scenery shot of Mt Fraser which is on our Station in the Northern Territory
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Our B-Double truck rolling into the station in the N.T. ready to load up stock to take South to the market a few months ago.
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Truck again (my dad's the truck driver)
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My brother loading the truck
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Another scenery shot of Mt Fraser looking out from my brothers backyard (which is where I grew up, and Mum and Dads old house)
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My brother running out Km's of poly pipe from bores to watering points on the station. (this photo is probably about 2 years old)
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Lastly a google map of our Station Mulga Park which my dad and I thought you might like to look at. (my dad is also a member as Mulga although he hasn't posted much yet)
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Good looking gal, proud looking Mom, Brother I would not want to wrestle with, good crops, nice cattle, great scenery and Dad trucking the lot.

Looks to me like you are a wealthy young lady - and I am not talking money or property assets - work hard, play harder and enjoy that life.

Have a good one,

BC
 
Very interesting pictures, Riverside. The cattle are of high quality and well cared for. How many pounds of cargo can you load on the truck? Does the front section load from the rear, or is there a side door? The "bull guard" on the front appears to be heavy duty and well made. Good looking rig. Thanks for sharing your photos.
 
You must have something bigger than those white birds (?) on the road-(kangaroos?) judging from the grill guards. Lots of rubber under that load--what is the capacity weight wise on the truck? The field your dad is mowing looks pretty big. What is the rainfall?? Temperatures?? Seasons?? Very interesting, thanks for the post, and hope you don't mind a lot of questions that are sure to come.
 
Great Pictures! You live in neat country :D .

When is your calving season? Do you market your cattle direct through an auction barn? Shortgrass is right, you're going to get LOTS of questions :D . Thanks for sharing your ranching operation with us all :D .
 
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing the photos. Look forward to seein more of your country and cattle. Are those cockatiels?

Ya'll sure do have alot of red dirt. Growin up, we spent a couple years, in Midland Texas (west texas) and we had red dirt like that. When it rained it turned to sticky mud because of the clay content. When it was dry.....it was in every crack and crevice in the house because the wind never stopped blowin. I would imagine your red dirt does the same LOL
 
Well I guess you can tell, your Photo's and information have made a big hit on Ranchers.net..
Your going to get Questions:
Total Land, Years/Generations in the business, Number of Stations, Distance apart, No Sheep?...

Because of my age I can ask for the Younger ones. :wink:
Are you Married? Your Age? Are you looking? :oops:
There are many here that will want to Know! :wink:

But Then, That may be why your here. :shock:
Fish'n :?: Your using the right/good Bait :!:
Watch your step and good Luck. :cboy:

Hope you don't mind my "Jerkin your Tail" just a Little :roll: :D :D
Test'n your science of Humor :wink:
 
Nice to see pics from other countries..What is a "oaten" crop? Is it just oats? How many acres do you crop? You probably use hectors there I suppose eh?.Are your fields as big as some of the huge ones you hear about?
 
There certainly are alot of questions to answer and I will do my best to answer them all!

The weight capacity of the truck that we can load is approx 36 tonne or about 72000 pounds. We normally load the trailers from the back but there are also side doors if we need too. It's a double deck trailer and to load the top deck from the back, we lower the ramp which is part of the floor of the top deck.
Yes we do have animals bigger than those white birds (which are Cockateils)! there are alot of Kangaroos, brumbies, cattle, sheep, camels and Wedge Tail Eagles on the roads, hense the bull bar on the truck. Alot of the station in Northern South Australia and the Northern Territoy are yet to have fenced the side's of the highway, so alot of cattle graze the edges of the road as well as the brumbies and camels.
Again, we have 3 properties one in the Northern Territory which is approx 2700sq Km's, its average rainfall is 10-12 inches, the wet season for there is normally Summer, the temerature for the station is winter time -3 degrees celcius to about 24 degrees celcius and summer time rangesfrom about 10 degrees celcius at night to 46 degrees celcius during the day.
The other 2 properties in South Australia are about 2800 acres, the one of the oaten crop (yes just oats) being mowed is abou 400 acres, the average rainfall for both properties are 15-17 inches, although the propety with the oats that I am standing in, (in the photo) has only had about 1/2 the yearly rainfall as well as the Territory station, this has been the case for the past couple of years. The 2 South Australian properties are about 150 km's apart and they are then about 1700kms from the station in the territory. The South Australian properties usually have a wet winter season and dry summer season with temp ranging similar to the N.T. but not quite as hot in the summer.
Our calving season for the S.A.property is February to May and the N.T is all year round.
We cropped approx 1000 acres this year mostly for hay and about 330 acres was excellent, the rest is not good enough to mention! although we should get somthing off of it.
On the S.A.propeties we can run about 10 acres to the cow and on the N.T property about 250 acres to the cow.
We don't have sheep!
Last but not least Yes I am Married :) (sorry guys) :( , I am 28 years old (nearly 29), I have 3 kids my oldest is nearly 6yrs, middle son is 3yrs and baby is nearly 1yr. So I'm not looking (but you just never know what can happen in this world)! :wink:
Sorry if I've gone on too much but there were alot of questions.
 
34 tires on the ground, and 72,000. Wow, we have 80,000 on 18 wheels. So that raises questions about your roads in my mind. Are they bad, or just well cared for? Perhaps spreading that weight out will allow a lighter apron of asphalt. Some of each I'm sure. Brumbies are wild horses if I'm not mistaken? 10 acres/cow sounds good to me, but 250/cow sounds like pretty rough country. I need about 40/pair, and thought that was desert. Sounds like you have a nice family. I really appreciate your sharing with us folks. Very intresting.......
 
Thank you for your pictures, I often compare parts of the USA with my home in Africa, so I can identify with the comparisons made by forum members with Australia. My parents place was on red clay, my ranch was Kalahari sand, and we had 'bluegums' as plantation trees for selling as commercial posts, so your pictures bring back some memories of home!
Do you run Shorthorn on all your properties? We ran Tuli in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, and again for the 5 years I was in the USA.
 
OldDog/NewTricks said:
REALLY enjoyed your your Post
I love to learn about your great country!
Hope you keep the Information coming.

How much Help Do You Have
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We are a family operation so it is My parents, myself, my brother and his wife and they have 1 person helping them on the station and one person helping to teach there children on School of the Air, although for some reason it is very hard to find and keep good help here, especially on the stations because people don't like the isolation, so the station help come and go quite abit.
 
andybob said:
Thank you for your pictures, I often compare parts of the USA with my home in Africa, so I can identify with the comparisons made by forum members with Australia. My parents place was on red clay, my ranch was Kalahari sand, and we had 'bluegums' as plantation trees for selling as commercial posts, so your pictures bring back some memories of home!
Do you run Shorthorn on all your properties? We ran Tuli in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, and again for the 5 years I was in the USA.
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Yes we only run Shorthorns, but on the station we still get the odd white face through the herd from the cattle that were there before we bought the place.
 
Thanks for the tour................very interestin! I'd really like to visit Australia, but I've seen photos of some of the snakes down there.......they'd eat that bull hauler :shock:
 

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