Here's a link to a video of tying up a live scrub bull. I'd rather have the little TV screen thingo on this site. Any help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9nx26a7hUMThe bull has been chased by the bull catcher, the 4wd you can hear ticking over and see parked where it hit the bull. The bloke tying the back legs and doing the talking is Jason, an Aboriginal man who in this vid is catching for the money but also training some young blokes to keep them off the grog and the hooter (dope). The bigger bloke is Brett a mate of ours who wanted to have a go.
The bull is knocked over. In this case one Aboriginal boy has the tail but he is pretty casual about it because Brett is pulling the back legs back far enough to keep the bull off balance. Jason ties the back legs and then moves to the head, jams his foot on the bottom horn to limit head movement and then tells another yopung bloke where to stand and how to tie etc. Some of what Jason is saying is in the local Aboriginal language and some is in English. See if you can guess the English words...
Once the legs are strapped, that's it.
Some of the noise at the beginning is the chopper moving off to get more bulls and you can see the tying straps hanging off the roll bar of the bull catcher...
The Aboriginal guys are all guts when dealing with animals. They amused themselves by walking across the holding pens full of these things to provoke charges. They were showing one another how much ticker they had and how well they could move. The bulls are like lightning and they are definitely trying to kill you. One hooked my shirt through the rails and ripped it like a razor.
It's no bloody joke putting your hands on a live scrub bull.
Cheers.
