Tractor Trekkers to embark on ambitious outback tour

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Coordinator Richard Jeffery is leading a group of 10 tractor drivers and five support crew on the trip, leaving Bourke on August 11 and finishing at Birdsville. Video by Toby McGee.

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00:00Hello my name is Richard from Parks and I'm driving tractors all the way from

00:04Burke to Bursall to raise money for prostate cancer awareness.

00:06High Power support prostate cancer really well so I just thought I'd pick that charity.

00:10To support the awareness for men to look into getting tested and my old man's got it.

00:17So we're doing about 25 kilometres an hour. It's going to take us 13 days.

00:22We'll be doing 100 kilometres a day. There'll be five people doing the support for the food

00:27and setting up camp etc and there's a there's probably 10 tractors on the road driving.

00:32When you're out there the tractors are pretty noisy the engines are revving the wind noise is there

00:39so you just put earmuffs on and listen to ACDC all the way there.

00:41So when we bought this acreage out here there's a tractor here with a slasher on it

00:45so we got it going and fixed it up and we mowed grass with it that's where all this started

00:48but most of the other tractors were just garden ornaments that we picked up in different towns

00:52and they they didn't go but we made them go and they drive well.

00:57Let's go.

01:01Let's go.

01:03Let's move the top.

01:08Let's move the top.

01:11Look what's up.

01:17Let's move 1972 through amillimeter

01:20about weight loss,

01:21and either we cannot are due to a soccer well.

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