Wayne McCulloch interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1116071
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McCulloch, Wayne, 1950-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2001, July 13
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 67 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Wayne McCulloch, born in Brisbane, talks about his early interest in livestock; his father's background and family history; his education; leaving home at 15, to work on a dairy farm; his first experience of an outback stock camp on a station south of Windorah; learning riding and stock skills from head stockman, Merv Watley; developing good horse-tailing skills; responsibilities, rounding up horses in the morning; horse bells, hobbles; stock camp procedure; settling horses for the night; greenhide and peg hobbles; transition to harness leather; treatment of valued camp horses; sorting cattle after mustering, role of 'face' horses; comparison of traditional open drafting to camp horse competitions; recognising and developing a horse's cattle skills; cattle work, skills; Gordon Gadd; Augathella Station; running an outstation on Miranda Downs; the struggle to find work with his own mustering plant, transition to motorbikes, challenges; stockmanship; stations returning to horse work; shortage of experienced stockmen to pass on traditional skills; developing the confidence to manage other men; his techniques when teaching young stockmen, discipline, mentorship; the modern pastoral industry and adapting to modern cattle working methods; impact of modern economics on the cattle industry; wage levels; a poem by Mark Kleinsmith; mustering rogue bullocks on Virgemont Station; an attack by a charging bullock.
- Partial contents:
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- Story of riding Dick Smith's camp horse
- Story of McCulloch's first attempt to throw a wild bullock by the tail.
- Notes:
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221250030
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and timed transcript (60 p.) available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Drovers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Until 2071 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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