'6 Decks To Darwin' - Climates Of The Places In the Song...
Feb 23, 2023 6:47:41 GMT -5
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Post by greysrigging on Feb 23, 2023 6:47:41 GMT -5
Funny old sorta climate battle.... it's the climates of places mentioned in a song by a C&W artist named Dean Perrett.
www.deanperrett.com/
His song '6 Decks To Darwin' gets a fair bit of airplay on local radio stations.... and is an accurate telling of the modern 21st Century way of moving cattle for sale.
Lyrics:
6 decks up to Darwin hauling up the Duncan Road,
I’ve just pulled out of Newry with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea,
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory
On the stations in the Top End, they are mustering the steers,
For live export out of Wyndham and the Darwin harbor piers.
so we’ve got the road trains rolling and we’re heading out to load,
In this Sable Series Kenworth I power up the road.
When the soft daylight of morning comes a creeping through the sky,
The trailers are a rattling, and we load the cattle high.
180 head of Brahman beauties are ready for the ride,
And to tell ya that I love the job should come as no surprise.
Yeah, I’ve got 6 decks to Darwin, hauling up the Buntine Road,
Just pulled out of Camfield with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea,
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory.
I glance back in my mirrors where the trailers track behind.
I see a dust cloud rising and filling up the sky.
I stop to check the cattle now and then along the way,
And when we hit the bitumen the wind will fill our sails.
From the red dust and ranges to the ocean deep and blue,
You’ll hear the old girl growling as the gear shift changes through.
There’s a song of travelling cattle to the rhythm of the road,
While the horses ‘neath the bonnet knuckle down and bear the load.
Yeah. I got 6 decks to Darwin, hauling up the Barclay Road,
Just rolled out of Lake Nash with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea.
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory.
Yeah, I’ve got 6 decks to Darwin, hauling up the Duncan Road,
Just rolled out of Rosewood with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea,
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory.
The Territory cattle industry is in the top three of the economic powerhouse pastimes alongside mining and tourism.
Some fascinating reading re the history of the first pastoral runs and exploration in the 1880's.... if Taylor Sheridan of Yellowstone, 1883 and 1923 TV series fame was an Aussie, he woulda made a series of the Duracks, Kilfoyles, Hays, Buchanan and MacDonald family expeditions droving thousands of heads of cattle from NSW and QLD to the wild untamed and remote NT and Kimberley districts in the early-mid 1880's... up to 2 years on the trail on unexplored country... epic journeys....
It's a long read, but check this out....
An analysis of the social profile of the Kilfoyles of Rosewood ...https://ro.ecu.edu.au › cgi › viewcontent
PDF
ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2464&context=theses
Also the book 'Kings In Grass Castles', by Mary Durak
www.penguin.com.au/books/kings-in-grass-castles-9780143790730
So I've gotta say I have never worked in the pastoral industry, and while I have a fair bit of long distance trucking and heavy haulage experience, I was never tempted to get a job hauling 'shitters'... as everyone else in the transport industry calls carting cattle.... lol.
A generation or 2 ago, cattle were sold to local slaughterhouses/abattoirs mainly for domestic consumption... nowadays the cattle are live exported to south east Asia... Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam etc, hence the song referring to the export ships and the 'drovers of the sea'.
These export cattle ships are fucken huge !!
Darwin and Townsville are the major live export ports, with Port Hedland and Wyndham also shipping cattle north into Asia
Anyways.... the places mentioned on the song; climatically....
WYNDHAM:
DARWIN:
NEWRY and ROSEWOOD STATIONS:
Using climate data from nearby Kununurra, WA
Rosewood Homestead
CAMFIELD STATION:
Using climate data from nearby Wave Hill/Kalkarindgi and VRD
LAKE NASH STATION:
Using climate data from nearby Urandangie and Camooweal
www.deanperrett.com/
His song '6 Decks To Darwin' gets a fair bit of airplay on local radio stations.... and is an accurate telling of the modern 21st Century way of moving cattle for sale.
Lyrics:
6 decks up to Darwin hauling up the Duncan Road,
I’ve just pulled out of Newry with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea,
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory
On the stations in the Top End, they are mustering the steers,
For live export out of Wyndham and the Darwin harbor piers.
so we’ve got the road trains rolling and we’re heading out to load,
In this Sable Series Kenworth I power up the road.
When the soft daylight of morning comes a creeping through the sky,
The trailers are a rattling, and we load the cattle high.
180 head of Brahman beauties are ready for the ride,
And to tell ya that I love the job should come as no surprise.
Yeah, I’ve got 6 decks to Darwin, hauling up the Buntine Road,
Just pulled out of Camfield with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea,
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory.
I glance back in my mirrors where the trailers track behind.
I see a dust cloud rising and filling up the sky.
I stop to check the cattle now and then along the way,
And when we hit the bitumen the wind will fill our sails.
From the red dust and ranges to the ocean deep and blue,
You’ll hear the old girl growling as the gear shift changes through.
There’s a song of travelling cattle to the rhythm of the road,
While the horses ‘neath the bonnet knuckle down and bear the load.
Yeah. I got 6 decks to Darwin, hauling up the Barclay Road,
Just rolled out of Lake Nash with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea.
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory.
Yeah, I’ve got 6 decks to Darwin, hauling up the Duncan Road,
Just rolled out of Rosewood with a load of Top End gold.
Heading for the export ships, those drovers of the sea,
6 decks bound for Darwin, big heart of the Territory.
The Territory cattle industry is in the top three of the economic powerhouse pastimes alongside mining and tourism.
Some fascinating reading re the history of the first pastoral runs and exploration in the 1880's.... if Taylor Sheridan of Yellowstone, 1883 and 1923 TV series fame was an Aussie, he woulda made a series of the Duracks, Kilfoyles, Hays, Buchanan and MacDonald family expeditions droving thousands of heads of cattle from NSW and QLD to the wild untamed and remote NT and Kimberley districts in the early-mid 1880's... up to 2 years on the trail on unexplored country... epic journeys....
It's a long read, but check this out....
An analysis of the social profile of the Kilfoyles of Rosewood ...https://ro.ecu.edu.au › cgi › viewcontent
ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2464&context=theses
Also the book 'Kings In Grass Castles', by Mary Durak
www.penguin.com.au/books/kings-in-grass-castles-9780143790730
So I've gotta say I have never worked in the pastoral industry, and while I have a fair bit of long distance trucking and heavy haulage experience, I was never tempted to get a job hauling 'shitters'... as everyone else in the transport industry calls carting cattle.... lol.
A generation or 2 ago, cattle were sold to local slaughterhouses/abattoirs mainly for domestic consumption... nowadays the cattle are live exported to south east Asia... Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam etc, hence the song referring to the export ships and the 'drovers of the sea'.
These export cattle ships are fucken huge !!
Darwin and Townsville are the major live export ports, with Port Hedland and Wyndham also shipping cattle north into Asia
Anyways.... the places mentioned on the song; climatically....
WYNDHAM:
DARWIN:
NEWRY and ROSEWOOD STATIONS:
Using climate data from nearby Kununurra, WA
Rosewood Homestead
CAMFIELD STATION:
Using climate data from nearby Wave Hill/Kalkarindgi and VRD
LAKE NASH STATION:
Using climate data from nearby Urandangie and Camooweal
