Michael Davis and his daughter Tanaya accepted the accolade for the Ropey Cattle Cable – a third win for the business having taken out two other Farm Inventor of the Year awards. 

The Ropey Cattle Cable was developed over a six-month period and was designed to save time and money with re-tensioning wires for stock yards and feedlots that are manufactured by the company.

“It came about because there was lots of time wasted having to come back and re-tension wires that have slipped because of the conventional way, and we found this product saved time and money,” Mr Davis said. 

“When you’ve got a feedlot situation or a stock yard, where you’ve got to spend man hours going back and re-tensioning wires, it’s a very, very big job when you’re talking about thousands and thousands of strands of wires that needs re-tensioning.

“This [ropey] is a very, very quick process of hooking your wire strainers onto the cable, pulling your short end and within seconds you’ve got a tight cable again.” 

Six thousand units have already been manufactured.

Mr Davis won $750 for taking out first prize.

Second place was awarded to Currabubula brothers James and Tom Filby of “Surrey Farm” with their bale transporting trailer.

It has been designed to be pulled behind a vehicle or quad bike and can pick up and transport round or square lucerne bales.

The trailer can be operated by remote control, and can pick up a half a tonne bale. There is also an electric and hand winch.

“We had a need for it on the farm because we were struggling running the loader tractor back and forth,” Tom Filby said. 

“It took lots of time to get the balance and shape.”

He said to win the runner-up prize was a total surprise.

“To win was amazing because there’s some really good designs in the competition.”

The Filby brothers won $350.