Peter Towle shares how he became an internationally sought after camel trainer. Video by Gareth Gardner
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 We did the Royal Easter show not last year, the year before.
00:09 So we did 14 performances and 2 rehearsals.
00:12 So we'd harness 10 camels up, go out around the arena and then out and then the next night
00:18 do it again for 14 nights.
00:24 That's what we do to make them so we can harness them up?
00:27 I don't know.
00:28 Camels can pull as much as a horse, as a draft horse.
00:40 Around Tamworth and the Undulating Hills out onto the plains you want a horse team
00:44 where you've got water.
00:46 When you haven't got water and it's reasonably flat, it's camel teams.
00:51 And there's just no comparison.
00:54 Horse guys can go for 2 weeks without a drink when they're working in summer.
00:59 A horse can go 3 days and if he hasn't got a drink at the end of the 3rd day he's had
01:03 it and a bullock team has got to be watered every day.
01:07 One of the things with camels, a camel can supply you with wool to make clothes, leather
01:14 to make harness.
01:17 You can ride him and you can put him in harness and pull stuff with him.
01:22 Camel does everything.
01:23 We had a great year in 2013 and we went out in the Simpson Desert.
01:29 [BLANK_AUDIO]