Five Trangie locals are carting three prime movers 1200 kilometres to assist drought-stricken farmers in Central Queensland.
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These local farmers have a single, B-Double and Road Train truck chock-a-block with hay to give it to the farmers who need it most as a part of the Burrumbuttock Hay Runners.
Kate and Al Kennedy, Simon and Amanda McCutcheon and Joe McCutcheon left for Illfracombe in Queensland early on Thursday morning and are expected to arrive in Queensland today.
Mrs Kennedy was delighted by the efforts from the region donating almost 160 bales of hay.
"We have 158 bales of hay from Trangie and Nevertire," she said.
Mrs Kennedy is thrilled to be a part of the Burrumbuttock Hay Runners this run.
"We've followed the Hay Run from the start and we thought about doing the last run in January and this time I said nope, we're doing it," she said.
The McCutcheon's joined the Kennedy's when talks about their plans came up at the pub one night.
"So I put an SOS out to all the local farmers and the hay started coming in from everywhere and then during pub talk, Simon and Joe said they'd come along too," she said.
Burrumbuttock Hay Runner organiser Brendan "Bumpa" Farrell said there's a huge amount of hay going up to Central Queensland.
"We have more than 13,000 hay bales have been donated for teh trip, 1000 more than expected and another 30 trucks have joined in the effort in the past few weeks," he said.
Two hundred and fifty prime movers and 400 trailers will make their way up north which will be donated to around 600 farmers.
Mr Farrell also welcomed the news $65,000 has been donated to the cause in fuel.
"We had BP donate $50,000 and Caltex has come on board with $15,000," he said.
This time is expected to be a little different with the hay runners carting more than just hay. Hundreds of bunches of roses have been organised for the farmers' wives along with a free pop-up health check at Illfracombe.
"We wanted to do more than just deliver hay and that's why we're doing the extra stuff like the flowers, just to let the farmers and their families know that some people care about them and what they're going through," Mr Farrell said.
"People can still donate because there are many more hay runs to do, the drought is going away any time soon."
Mr Farrell directed interested parties to the Burrumbuttock Hay Runner's Facebook page for information on how to donate.
Mrs Kennedy is very grateful to the people in the district who have donated hay to the worthy cause;
Brad and Sara McRae, Angus and Meredith Andrews, Paul Kerin, Roo Russ, Tony and Sally Quigley, Kevin and Jill Flinn, Darren and Trudy Ferrari, The Brennan Family, Scott and Simone Purseglove, Phil and Ash Miles and the McCutcheon Bros.
