Freeling farmer Harry Schuster brings back Australia Day stunt for second year running
A giant Australian coat of arms has been drawn into an SA grain paddock, with the Freeling farmer responsible explaining how he pulled it off.
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For the second year in a row, even the aliens can celebrate Australia Day thanks to the work of South Australian farmer Harry Schuster.
Using a tractor, the 27-year-old engineering graduate mowed a giant Australian coat of arms into his grain paddock off the Thiele Highway.
Spanning 900 by 600 metres, it follows a similar stunt in 2024 with a map of Australia, which Mr Schuster said was done “all for a good purpose”.
“Australia Day is important because it’s about having another level of community above the local one,” he said.
“It’s nothing to do with me, it’s something people can point to and say, ‘I’m represented by that’.”
To accomplish it without mistakes, Mr Schuster said he punched the design into a GPS monitor and followed the path with his tractor.
Bringing it to life took roughly eight hours all up, beginning on Thursday night and finishing Friday, and he likened the process to “driving in a video game”.
The seventh-generation grain farmer planned to spend Sunday go-karting and golfing with friends, hoping to take his mind off the state’s worst grain yield in 15 years this past harvest.
“My grandfather is in his nineties and said it’s cyclical, he went through droughts as well,” Mr Schuster said.
“You have to just trust the plan and have faith.”
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