Tag Archives: Australia

Fastest time to pull a thresher over 15 m (team)

The fastest time to pull a thresher 15 m (49 ft 3 in) by a team of 15 is 13.78 sec set by Team Thiess at the Kingaroy Showground in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia, during the 2008 Peanut Festival on 2 August 2008. The team members were: Christopher Dennis, Matthew Wason, Michael Hammond, Douglas Thompson, Owen Stewart, Aaron Marsh, Stephen Jensen, Mathew Wilkes, Kerry Frame, Peter Tudman, James Carty, Mick Newby, Michael Gerblich, Gary Rinehart, Peter Fairfull. Previous record holders King Fit Dreams also took part Continue reading →

Fastest time to shear one sheep

The fastest time to shear a single mature sheep is 39.31 seconds by Hilton Barrett (Australia) at the Wellington Show 2010 in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 May 2010. The record was set as part of a competition at the annual show, in which six different participants had two chances each to attempt to break the world record. Barrett was the only one to finish with a time below 40 seconds.

Fastest VW Beetle engine swap

Stephen Muller, Adrian Muller, Julian Price-Jones and Jeremy Vant Spyker (all Australia) managed a time of 1 minute and 6 seconds for the fastest VW Engine exchange on the set of Guinness World Records at Seven Network Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 27 August 2005. The engine was manually removed from a 1976 VW Beetle, placed 1 meter away from the car and then manually put back into the car. Finally the car was driven 5 metres.

First country to ban incandescent light bulbs

The first countries in the world to announce plans to ban incandescent light bulbs (and to then replace them with more energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs) were Cuba and Venezuela (in 2005). Two years later, Australia’s environment minister announced their plan on 20 February 2007. These moves could potentially reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 800,000 tonnes by 2009 or 4 million tonnes by 2012.