Big Merino

Hawkesbury Council's announced a plan to build a large structure in North Richmond in an effort to boost tourism.

The structure's inspired by the big attractions around the country, such as the Big Banana and the Big Merino.

The council says it'll build a big duck, but unlike the other so-called big attractions, this one will be mechanical.

The duck will regularly preen itself, will quack loudly it passes by, and every hour will drop the names of prominent people on cards spitting out of its beak.

On the Coast Zone, 107.7, Triple M.

Well, look, who doesn't like something big? I've posed that question to you before because, you know, we've got the big banana, the big prawn, the big merino.

Well, now Mildura, the Victorian town of Mildura, is celebrating more than a century of Sultana production and they've unveiled yesterday the big bloody Sultana.

Big sultana.

you.

And then, but I've never done the big things in New South Wales except the big banana.

I've been to the big merino and got the token photo under the ball sack.

Under the ball sack.

I don't think you understand the nature of big stuff.

If that was the case, the Giant Merino shouldn't be as big as what it is, Betty.

It's huge.

Well, they're not all to scale, obviously.

No, no, but what I'm saying is proportionately the Giant Merino is very well made.

Yeah, it's big.

And it is hard to get the proportions right.

We've got the big tractor in Karnamar, which is 11 and a half metres tall.

Where's the big merino? Is that here?

So there's one – yeah, so we have the giant ram in Wajin.

Big ram.

What does I need to see a picture of a big bogan?

We'll have to Google that.

There is, oh, the big merino is in Goulburn.

Oh, okay.

Number four, we have the big mosquito in Hexham, New South Wales, nicknamed Aussie the Mozzie, the giant mosquito on top of a local business there.

Number five, the big merino in Goulburn, New South Wales, the 15-metre tall ram named Rambo, complete with enormous testicles.

Nice.

Surprised they haven't been knocked off yet.

There's a big banana and a big pineapple, which you can actually go inside.

The big merino, the big prawn, the big lobster.

He's got a name.

He's called Larry.

He went looking for the sexiest banana in Australia.

That was his job.

The Big Merino, 97 tons of concrete sheep, is based on a real ram.

We did a school excursion to the Big Merino.

There's a big banana and a big pineapple, which you can actually go inside.

The big merino, the big prawn, the big lobster.

He's got a name.

He's called Larry.

He went looking for the sexiest banana in Australia.

That was his job.

The Big Merino, 97 tons of concrete sheep, is based on a real ram.

We did a school excursion to the Big Merino.

Because at some point, somebody apparently looked at Goulburn's proud fine wool history and thought, you know what this place needs? A bloody enormous shape.

Enters the big merino Rambo.

In 1985, Goldman unveiled the big Merino.

Around 15 metres high, 18 metres long, and weighing approximately 97 tonnes.

That's not a sheep, that's a block of flats with horns.

But there was still one important question.

What do you call a 97 tonne concrete sheet? Well, they asked the locals and that's how Rambo got his name.

When the Big Merino opened in 1985, a local newspaper ran a competition to name Goulburn's newest and definitely largest resident.