Apparent shortage of ropes and straps in Malta.
oily
A 1915 Knox tractor unit in Salt Lake City with a variety of trailers.
oily
oiltreader:
Roadtrains in Australia.
oily
Nice one Oily, although the Shell B-double and 2 dogs is very attractive and smart the interesting one for me is the old cattle train at Louisa. A real old fashioned train and a bit of a puzzle. The body truck + 2 odd trailers and single deck crates put it for me in the early 60s (or even earlier) but the fact that the prime mover has a sleeper box makes it unusual for the period.
Also I am trying to drag from my memory what the snub nose wagon is. It looks a bit like a KW but the angle is wrong and, again, a bit early for one of those.
The picture prompted me to read up on Louisa and I was amused to learn that a light aircraft was used in the late 60s for roundups but CBs were soon discarded as a means of communication with the ground due to rough handling damage by the mounted stockmen and replaced by handwritten notes on toilet paper dropped from the plane. 
Classic loading of the period though, you can see the ‘goalposts’ of the crush through which the cattle are threaded above and beyond the last trailer. The body and the 1st one have already been loaded. The driver will soon be on his way, possibly overnight (semi-wild bush cattle were/are usually loaded late afternoon when they were reckoned to be a bit more ‘calm’), to his destination after spending the day feasting on beef and billy tea organised by the station owner and his wife, and sleeping.
I can taste the bulldust even now. 
Spardo:
oiltreader:
Roadtrains in Australia.
oilyNice one Oily, although the Shell B-double and 2 dogs is very attractive and smart the interesting one for me is the old cattle train at Louisa. A real old fashioned train and a bit of a puzzle. The body truck + 2 odd trailers and single deck crates put it for me in the early 60s (or even earlier) but the fact that the prime mover has a sleeper box makes it unusual for the period.
Also I am trying to drag from my memory what the snub nose wagon is. It looks a bit like a KW but the angle is wrong and, again, a bit early for one of those.
The picture prompted me to read up on Louisa and I was amused to learn that a light aircraft was used in the late 60s for roundups but CBs were soon discarded as a means of communication with the ground due to rough handling damage by the mounted stockmen and replaced by handwritten notes on toilet paper dropped from the plane.
Classic loading of the period though, you can see the ‘goalposts’ of the crush through which the cattle are threaded above and beyond the last trailer. The body and the 1st one have already been loaded. The driver will soon be on his way, possibly overnight (semi-wild bush cattle were/are usually loaded late afternoon when they were reckoned to be a bit more ‘calm’), to his destination after spending the day feasting on beef and billy tea organised by the station owner and his wife, and sleeping.
I can taste the bulldust even now.
Nice bit of interesting feedback.
oily
Abandoned.
oily
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