Big wheels: MOVE volunteers Lorraine and Roger Secomb are dwarfed by the 3m-high Furphy water tank.
We’d like to see the horse that can pull this 2.5 tonne Furphy water tank.
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A giant version of the iconic tank has been installed outside the Museum of Vehicle Evolution in Kialla.
The 2.3-times-scale horse-drawn water cart is a nod to history, and a big statement that — after five generations and 156 years — the Furphy business started by John Furphy in 1864 is still thriving.
The Big Furphy Water Cart ends are steel tank ends from Furphy Engineering that were used as the signs on the original museum. The tank is 2m in diameter and stands 3m tall and 9m long.
The tank was a labour of love for employees at Furphy Engineering, and was created for the Furphy Foundation and the Furphy Museum at MOVE.
Electrifying your mail delivery
Beep beep: for those who complain about silent and stealthy delivery men, it’s about to get way quieter as Australia Post forges ahead with electric vehicle adoption.
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Tegan Evans
Australia Post has welcomed its first electric trucks into the national delivery fleet.
Three of the 20 Fuso eCanters will deploy immediately to Melbourne to meet the Christmas chaos while the rest will spread across other capital cities.
AusPost already has 2100 electric delivery cars and 1400 electric bicycles in its fleet after trialling the technology in 2019.
This makes AusPost the largest electric fleet operator in Australia.
AusPost is the first Aussie customer for the Fuso eCanters, which are built by the Mercedes-Benz group.
Here’s an idea we’d like to float past you
Dairy nice idea: The Floating Farm Rotterdam. Photo: https://floatingfarm.nl/
Since May 2019, a floating farm raising dairy cows has been operating in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
Peter Van Wingerden, founder of the Dutch property development company that built the dairy, said by building on the water, the dairy was climate adaptive.
“So, no matter how much rain falls or how high sea levels rise, we can always produce healthy food,” he said.
The modular building is scalable — the structure can go deeper under the water and much higher on top of the water.
The 40 cows on the farm produce 320,000 litres of milk a year. Their diet consists of organic waste from the city including brewer's grains from a number of Rotterdam breweries, bran from Schiedam windmills, grass from nearby sports fields, and potato peelings from a local processor.
The farm uses robots for automated milking, feeding and data tracking on the herd.
Does the future hold more floating farms for cows or other animals?
“We will have 7000 chickens to produce two million eggs per year, and a 2000 square metre vegetable growth surface where we will produce herbs, leafy greens, etc,” Mr Van Wingerden said.
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