We've bought enough guns bro. Buy a hat

@@bonnypop5764 This Texan is awaiting his first Akubra Cattleman now (first hat beyond a baseball cap in fact). Our sun is not unlike what this fellow has to endure on the daily. I'm sold

Pauly, I do the same, only i soak a folded up hanky and put in on my head. Protects from the sun and a soaking wet hanky is only wet for a bit, then it's moist and damp. Cools amd protect my head. Requires a periodical re-wetting, perferably at a pub . . .

Imagine being Spanish and wearing an Aussie hat. Nobody wears hats here, but whatever, I never liked caps.

Haha it did get long, but thank you for all the tips! 🙂👍

@Salt Shack ... looking for advice on a felt hat. My Australian Army slouch hat, had been in the cupboard for 30 years, I decided to 'rebash' it, it now looks like an Akubra 'Cattleman'. My question, it is now too small for me, I am 30kg bigger, than when I was in the Army, my head doesn't appear to be fatter, like my body is, can I stretch the hat?🤠

@@Rohan-go4oo yes you can easily stretch your felt hat but it’s very difficult to make smaller. The difficulty comes with the sweatband and ribbon or hat band around the outside of your hat. If you need to increase the size a lot you’ll need to replace those components after resizing. Start simple and cheap. Heat up a teapot so it produces good steam out the spout. Take your hat with the sweat band and ribbon or any other band that would be damaged by removing it and put it in the steam focusing on where the crown meets the brim. Be careful not to get burned. While the entire circumstance of the hat is still good and warmed from the steam put it on your head. If it sits down without excessive force or too much discomfort you’ll need to go to plan B. If you can get it on leave it on until it is completely cool and dry say 1/2 an hour or longer if you can. You may need to repeat this process. Plan B require removing and replacing both the sweat band and any non adjustable hat band. A cheap and available on Amazon hat stretcher can aid in both stretching the hat off the steam and keeping it from shrinking back too it’s original size when not worn. This process will also ruin the “break” in the brim, no longer having a nice 90 degree angle between the crown and the brim. If you have a stretcher with it installed you can put more steam on the hat then lay it on a clean flat surface and work the “break back in, an ordinary cloths iron with steam can be helpful too. This will of course ruin the shape of the brim, but after it’s is allowed too cool and dry more steam steam at the area you want to reshape say a quarter at a time, front is a quarter, back a quarter each side a quarter. Start at the sides finish with the front and back. Now all this reshaping is like art or sculpting. You might not get it right even after several tries but steam will undue any mistake and it can be fun but if your not inclined to endure the hassle I’m sure Akubra has a service to resize and recondition your hat for you.

@@SaltShack Wow ... you are a good world citizen. I was not expecting an answer, or even a very thorough answer. Is it 1am, in your part of the world? It is 6pm Friday evening in Australia, I have read your response, I get the basic jist, however I have had a couple of beers here, watching the sun go down. I will read again, Saturday morning. Thank you for replying, and spreading your knowledge!👍

i think akubra advise you not to steam the inside of the hat, especially around the sweatband, because some of them are made of leather and they will shrink if you apply steam to them

Honourary Aussie you are Bjorn👍

@@saltydog888 Thanks mate. When I got it new, some colleagues gave me some strange looks. Next day it was pooring rain and the looks changed to envious😉

I wear a territory in Ireland, great on that Thursday in August when the sun shines and outstanding in the rain every other day. Wore it to menorca last week, really stood out among the bare headed lobsters 😂

Agree. The lower crown and rounder shape fit your face. The new one is nice though. I have a Riverina. The wide brim is good for Arizona sun.

It could be because we are use to seeing him in it, but I agree 100%, and he has SO many memories in his Cattleman!! :(

@@sparky5543 Likely so. I'm sure the new hat will grow on us viewers. After all its a custom, hey?

@@utahjohnnymontana3373 Very true. Newer subscribers won't even know its a different hat, but a lot of us will.

If you made that up, Great. If you are reciting, cool.👍🖖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@@frankwbeveridge An old English nonsense verse, Cheers

As a friend of mine once said, "But you can't wear a bunnings hat to the pub" 😂 The bunnings hat is an aussie classic though 👍

I’d sooner wear a Bunnings than a baseball cap!

I wear the bunnings hats at work but they're lucky to last a couple of months

I found when you get the bunnings straw hat damp with sweat, it makes your skin/scalp itch like crazy.

Also the air gaps near the top allow enough Sun in to burn your scalp for those of us who don't have a luscious head of hair

As a born and raised Texan, I can confirm that real men wear hats :)

Tread lightly. Some Akubras you can’t wear unless your Aussie😂

@@Twowheeleddevil haha, when I tried it on, it was guite a large hat.

Brett, And you know what causes that...pinching the brim between your fingers whilst putting it on or off. Placing it on your head holding the sides of the brim, then pulling down either the front or back of the brim will set it just right and prevent the well-worn ventilation/bullet hole at the crown point . . .

You just called him fat and ugly! Hahaha.

@ Lbjezza Berveling akubra.com.au/

In videos with Meischa, you see them store their hats behind them. They ran two cords from one side of the truck to the other that are attached to the upper grab handles. They made a hammock like system and the hats rest upside down suspended from the ceiling between the two doors in the back seat area...

Mine barely leaves my head until I shower and sleep

This particular one is bran colour.

When you put your hat on it reminds me of Independence Day when the alien ships arrived and cast a giant shadow over the landscape.

$160-180 for the felt models. Try Australian Hat Outlet, they will ship and seemed like nice folks.

@@etcghostgaming3639 Thanks mate, I appreciate the reply. After much deliberation I went with the Riverina, only because they had it in stock and not the Territory. Turns out that after buying it, I much prefer the style of the Riverina. Thanks again.