Thread: series 2-2a colors

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

John you will also remember that the later in the series 2a the Forrestry Commission ones were orange as well and PMG (Telstra) were red in both the S2a and S3 models.

One thing I seem to remember was that the early series 2/2a had ivory for the hard tops and sometimes wheels and went to the limestone later probably in the early 1960's

Diana

I don't remember Forestry Commission - but of course I remember the red PMG ones. There are almost certainly other organisations that had their own colours - my list was meant to be examples, not a complete list. I'm afraid that my memory does not distinguish between Ivory and Limestone!

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I don't remember Forestry Commission - but of course I remember the red PMG ones. There are almost certainly other organisations that had their own colours - my list was meant to be examples, not a complete list. I'm afraid that my memory does not distinguish between Ivory and Limestone!

John

The ivory was a little more vivid white - to describe it I would have to say the ivory had a blue base while the limestone had a yellow base.

I only remember the Forrestry Commission ones because of almost buying one from up at Oxford Falls.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Sure I can!

It look's O.K. BUT!!! There were sooooo many bronze green ones.

Diana

Hopefully in 50 yrs or so we shall be saying "white was such a great colour for the Defender". Nar - I like it

Nice photo of the dog though Diana. Might do the same thing with my dog (if he will stay still for a minute - bl**dy red heeler)

Originally Posted by olmate

Nice photo of the dog though Diana. Might do the same thing with my dog (if he will stay still for a minute - bl**dy red heeler)

Poor little Douglas - he's disabled you know! (He hasn't realised it yet).

The pic was taken at the LROCS Expo a couple of years ago and he had found the BBQ sausage sandwich tent, so off he would go and look cute for everyone to feed him. These days he would jump out like your cattle dog.

Did you know that I also have a "cattle pug", we have between 100 and 200 weaned Friesan heifers ajisted on our property while they are still on calf pellets. The pug bitch thinks she is a cattle dog and tries to herd the heifers and the animals are too young to know what's going on, so they actually herd to her directions. The Hereford cows and the rest of our own herd have Daphne's number and chase her out of the paddocks.

Diana

Well it sounds like your Cattle Pug is good for something. My Cattle Dog rounds up Michelles Poodle thing and the cat; taking to destruction of the plants in the backyard when he is really bored. I walk him each arvo but he just gets tired of waiting for the old boy to get home each day. I am hoping that he soon grows a brain and behaves slightly better. My previous dog (Blue Heeler) took a couple of years but was my best mate in the end; he lasted 13 yrs.

Currently this one is trying very hard to round up the rabbits that are taunting him thru the fence at the golf course in Wodonga; very amusing.

Originally Posted by olmate

Well it sounds like your Cattle Pug is good for something. My Cattle Dog rounds up Michelles Poodle thing and the cat; ...

... Currently this one is trying very hard to round up the rabbits that are taunting him thru the fence at the golf course in Wodonga; very amusing.

Herding is so instinctual in heelers isn't it? The big problem with heelers is that they are also cunning, they will never touch your own sheep or cattle but will go to a neighbours place and do it. They frequently need to be chained up overnight.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Herding is so instinctual in heelers isn't it? The big problem with heelers is that they are also cunning, they will never touch your own sheep or cattle but will go to a neighbours place and do it. They frequently need to be chained up overnight.

I have a soft spot for heelers - two actually, one on the knee, one on the thigh. The only breed of dog I have ever been bitten by, which rather dims my admiration for them.
In the first case I was helping with a bottle drive for the school my sister's kids went to - picked up about half a ton of bottles from this house, and the third load went a few inches closer to the tied up dog.....
The second time was years later, I had pulled up at a property out of Surat in a rental car. I had been warned to make sure that the brown dog was tied up before getting out, and I had checked that it was. I opened the driver's door as the owner approached from the left front of the car, so I was looking at him, and as soon as I opened the door the blue dog, which I had not seen, bit me on the thigh, just above the knee, below the shorts I was wearing.

John

I am pulling Daisy apart to repair her chassis, & a few other things, she is going to get a paint job when she starts getting put back together, I like the yellow, but I am thinking of going Valiant orange(Vitamin C).