The Booie Pair of Nuts

Booie / Crawford, Queensland, Australia

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A playful pair of giant chainsaw-carved peanuts on Booie Crawford Road, celebrating the South Burnett peanut industry and the Crumpton family’s long connection with local peanut production.

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The Booie Pair of Nuts

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Site-level location · 26.5044° S, 151.8678° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

Two peanuts, carved with a chainsaw, commissioned by the family whose processing plant is just down the road.

Visit South Burnett describes them as a cracking pair of chainsaw-carved peanuts on Booie Crawford Road, a friendly nutty duo commissioned by the Crumpton family, fourth-generation peanut producers behind the industry-leading processing plant at Crawford, and a 2025 regional itinerary recommends stopping for a photograph with them.

Fourth generation is the detail that gives the object weight. This is not a business decorating its frontage; it is a family that has grown and processed the same crop in the same district for a century marking the fact.

Chainsaw carving is also worth noting as a method. It is a genuine Australian and New Zealand vernacular craft – competitive, fast, done in public at shows and festivals – and it produces work with a rough faceted surface completely unlike moulded fibreglass. The South Burnett already uses it: Yarraman, up the road, has seven large carved timber heads around town celebrating its timber origins.

The pun is the other half. Pair of Nuts, and the objects are cheerful rather than monumental, which is a rarer register than it should be. Most Big Things are earnest. These are a joke the family is happy to be in on.

That gives the South Burnett three separate peanut objects – the crowd-funded scrap-metal peanut in Kingaroy's Lions Park, the three concrete Peanut Marketing Board silos on Haly Street built between 1938 and 1951, and this carved pair.

The decade it belongs to, the builder and the dimensions remain blank.

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Visit South Burnett confirms the Booie Pair of Nuts as chainsaw-carved peanut sculptures commissioned by the Crumpton family and promotes them as a photo stop. A 2025 South Burnett Regional Council planning record independently identifies 258 Booie Crawford Road as the same rural property as 117 Pederson Road, Cushnie. The 11 September 2026 Land of the Bigs snapshot independently maps its Big Peanuts marker at approximately -26.504374, 151.867756 on that corroborated property.

ACCESS

The Pair of Nuts is associated with the rural property at 258 Booie Crawford Road (also legally addressed as 117 Pederson Road, Cushnie). Production now uses the corroborated property marker at approximately -26.504374, 151.867756 as a site anchor, not as a claimed sculpture centroid. A lawful visitor pull-off or driveway point has not yet been independently verified, so direct navigation remains withheld.

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Find another Big Thing nearby

A 3.4-metre scrap-metal peanut sculpture in Lions Park, Kingaroy.

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5.5 km away

TRANSPARENCY

Sources & research

Visit South Burnett – 2025 regional itinerary: Pair of Nuts

Visit South Burnett · recorded 2026-08-22

Tourism

Visit South Burnett – regional attractions and sculptures

Visit South Burnett · recorded 2026-08-22

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What we're still checking

Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

The Pair of Nuts is clearly an enlarged peanut sculpture, but exact dimensions are not yet documented.

The Pair of Nuts is confirmed on Booie Crawford Road, but Project Big Things has not yet verified the exact sculptures or a safe stopping point.

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