Jan 5, 2009: trucks like caterpillars

sandypossum · 01-04-2010, 04:02 PM

A friend emailed me this photo today. At a first glance I thought it was a circle of caterpillars following each other in the dust. But no, it's a photo of a whole lot of road trains, queuing to collect cattle from an outback cattle station in the NT (that's Northern Territory for we Aussies). There were three other aerial shots in the email.

I found more info on them here, which says

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At a rough count of 200 head of cattle per unit = 3400 head in the one lift.

I've experienced being buffeted by one of these road trains when driving through the outback. Hate to be driving on an outback road when this convoy was passing by!

gvidas · 01-04-2010, 04:23 PM

If you have more photos of the same event / trucks, please post them. IoTD's strength tends to be in its completeness.

sandypossum · 01-04-2010, 07:54 PM

Well then, since you asked...

Oh, and my apologies for the size of the first photo. I forgot to resize it to within the iotd limits.

monster · 01-04-2010, 08:05 PM

excellent, thanks

glatt · 01-04-2010, 08:11 PM

Amazing pictures!

Elspode · 01-04-2010, 08:31 PM

Three or four more roundups like that, and we've got a pretty good start on supplying the tailgating before an average American football game.

classicman · 01-04-2010, 09:01 PM

Wow each truck is pulling 3 of those things?!?!?!??! Holy crap, thats gotta be a bitch to control.

sandypossum · 01-04-2010, 09:04 PM

Hokay, why aren't the other 3 pics that I uploaded showing on the main IoTD page? (post #3) I always forget how to do this right.

classicman · 01-04-2010, 09:06 PM

Maybe a mod will take care of that. Personally I think its fine to add them in a subsequent post.

SPUCK · 01-05-2010, 05:38 AM

It can't be smelling too great in that last cab...

ferret88 · 01-05-2010, 06:22 AM

Now THAT is a cattle drive!

Alluvial · 01-05-2010, 07:17 AM

I bet they kick up some dust.

Sheldonrs · 01-05-2010, 07:33 AM

Now that's trucked up.

Gravdigr · 01-05-2010, 05:17 PM

Yep, if the guy in front taps his brakes, every single driver will be "trucked up". 'Cept the guy in front, and he gets trucked up the ass.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-05-2010, 06:52 PM

When they crash, a lot of cattle die.

01-04-2010, 08:05 PM	#4
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01-04-2010, 08:31 PM	#6
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Three or four more roundups like that, and we've got a pretty good start on supplying the tailgating before an average American football game. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

01-04-2010, 09:01 PM	#7
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Wow each truck is pulling 3 of those things?!?!?!??! Holy crap, thats gotta be a bitch to control. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-04-2010, 09:04 PM	#8
sandypossum tri-continental dag hag Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 247	Hokay, why aren't the other 3 pics that I uploaded showing on the main IoTD page? (post #3) I always forget how to do this right. __________________ you're never too old to have a happy childhood

01-04-2010, 09:06 PM	#9
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Maybe a mod will take care of that. Personally I think its fine to add them in a subsequent post. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-04-2010, 04:23 PM	#2
gvidas Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 286	If you have more photos of the same event / trucks, please post them. IoTD's strength tends to be in its completeness.

01-04-2010, 07:54 PM	#3
sandypossum tri-continental dag hag Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 247	Well then, since you asked... Oh, and my apologies for the size of the first photo. I forgot to resize it to within the iotd limits. __________________ you're never too old to have a happy childhood Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 01-05-2010 at 01:33 AM.

01-04-2010, 08:11 PM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Amazing pictures!

01-05-2010, 05:38 AM	#10
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	It can't be smelling too great in that last cab...

01-05-2010, 06:22 AM	#11
ferret88 (This space left intentionally UN-blank.) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 604	Now THAT is a cattle drive!

01-05-2010, 07:17 AM	#12
Alluvial Phenomenologist Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Central Mississippi Posts: 270	I bet they kick up some dust. __________________ “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.” - Louis Adamic

01-05-2010, 07:33 AM	#13
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Now that's trucked up. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

01-05-2010, 05:17 PM	#14
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Yep, if the guy in front taps his brakes, every single driver will be "trucked up". 'Cept the guy in front, and he gets trucked up the ass. Attached Images __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

01-05-2010, 06:52 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	When they crash, a lot of cattle die. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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