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Old 01-04-2010, 04:02 PM   #1
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Jan 5, 2009: trucks like caterpillars



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!
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Old 01-04-2010, 04:23 PM   #2
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If you have more photos of the same event / trucks, please post them. IoTD's strength tends to be in its completeness.
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Old 01-04-2010, 07:54 PM   #3
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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.





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Old 01-04-2010, 08:05 PM   #4
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excellent, thanks
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Old 01-04-2010, 08:11 PM   #5
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Amazing pictures!
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Old 01-04-2010, 08:31 PM   #6
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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.
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Old 01-04-2010, 09:01 PM   #7
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Wow each truck is pulling 3 of those things?!?!?!??! Holy crap, thats gotta be a bitch to control.
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Old 01-04-2010, 09:04 PM   #8
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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.
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Old 01-04-2010, 09:06 PM   #9
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Maybe a mod will take care of that. Personally I think its fine to add them in a subsequent post.
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Old 01-05-2010, 05:38 AM   #10
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It can't be smelling too great in that last cab...
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Old 01-05-2010, 06:22 AM   #11
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Now THAT is a cattle drive!
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Old 01-05-2010, 07:17 AM   #12
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I bet they kick up some dust.
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Old 01-05-2010, 07:33 AM   #13
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Now that's trucked up.
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Old 01-05-2010, 05:17 PM   #14
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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.
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Old 01-05-2010, 06:52 PM   #15
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When they crash, a lot of cattle die.
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