Russell Crowe

And they were big longhorn beasts and they were quite difficult to deal with.

So that made me decide to go with Angus.

But here's another story.

I had 20 little calves down in the yards that were being picked up the next day.

And at this stage, I was living in a caravan because I hadn't started building or anything on the property.

And so I go to bed, and at about 2 o'clock in the morning, I'm waking up because it's raining.

And I'm trying to get back to sleep.

But all I can think of is these 20 little calves down in the yards and how the floor of the yards will turn into muck and these guys are being picked up the next day and they'll spend the whole night slipping over and sort of get covering each other with shit and they'll be in great distress and blah, blah, blah.

So about 2.30, I got up, got dressed, went down to the yards trying to figure out how to get them out of the rain.

I had a shed down there, but it was about 30 meters away from the edge of the yards.

And I looked around in the shed and I had enough bits and pieces to make a fence for one side.

so i could make one side of this alley so that's just me on the other side so i got these big long pieces of wood and then what i had to do was i had to get them running towards me then i had to redirect them along that fence line so they would go inside the shed now while this is happening it's pissing down right absolutely like tropical right you know and it took me about

I don't know, 40 minutes, something like that.

So it's deep in the middle of the night now to fix the fence.

And then I got them running and they're coming towards me.

I could see one was about to jink away.

So I had to sort of dance along with my, but it was amazing.

You know, I stopped that one little bloke and he rejoined.

the rest of them and then they just went like clockwork just so smooth straight into the shed right so then in the shed I laid out some hay and stuff and I left a little light on yeah you tell stories like that to farmers and they think you're an absolute idiot what are you doing mate you had to learn how to do it some way but I think that's

But just for me, the next day when the truck came to pick them up, they were all happy and healthy and not covered in brown shit.