Bull Buggies - Mad Max Machines of the Kimberley

well the day starts with a wake-up call I pass three to four o'clock gonna wait to cook up round about 4:30 and breakfast I'm Lois Dolby and many are meant to be a station hundred kilometers east of fitzroy crossing in the Kimberley's mustering cattle and I think we get a few few Bulls - yeah we call a bull buggy a bull catcher yeah I'm we're not a few Bulls down you're gonna keep fixing it every day and sometime you you're gonna pull out we get too hot but yeah get it get the job done ties it a year - so that they're on their own Brewster bull or whatever cattle we knock down it's a dangerous job and you need a good man on the winter this is our man this is Stanley Stanley the man we call he look a bit of while Russia but that's him you know he's a bush mechanic he's you know you cross something there to get it going you boys go up then get them horses bring my horse back to and then we'll give them cattle a drink as well as divorce it's possible you got that right before we had the Mad Max vehicle we should grab the bull we should get off the horse run behind the bull once we grab all at the time we wrap the tail in a hand like so we put a weight on that bull start swinging on that tail throw that ball down once a bull then we time up well the normal turn is one go with a bull buggy goes most of the time you know the buggies can go any way the aim is to get captain mainly mainly bullish if we can hold them in the coaches will knock them down with the buggy put them on the truck and bring them home if we can sell them we'll sell him unmarked not knowing on the on the cattle until you put a mark on them so whatever we get we gonna put a mark on them we have to settle them down sir so that we can have control of the of the head just having a bit of cover without bullying you couldn't start it I'll just probably leave them there and time for him tomorrow now we run a pretty tight ship because you know I can see we can see people dying left right and center you know with sugar diabetes heart attack all from alcohol no good they said there's no grog in the camp and if I if I find out there's drugs or alcohol in the cab they want to be aware of me I respect them they respect me um you know we we don't we don't swear it one another I don't swear them they don't swear at me unless something went wrong most of time we're we're pretty good pretty good team young and old well yeah they gotta stop young eh I'm gonna start taking them one day well they're young yeah you learn of your the old people yeah the game for a cattleman not a game for a city boy ever

Channel: Rebel Films

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Keywords: Louise Dolby, Kimberley, Kimberley cattle station, Bull Buggy, Bull Buggies, station life, ringers, cowboys, cattle stations, mad cars, bush cars, australia, australian documentaries, david batty, david batty filmaker, documentary, down under, films, rebel, rebel films, rebel films documentary, Kimberley cattle country

Id: A0YxZfiX2uE

Length: 5min 37sec (337 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 07 2016