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  tussuck

  1 year ago

  Quoting obisteve on 06 May 2023 10:56 PM

  Nice link.  The original linked article also mentioned a family address in Ivanhoe, I'll have to go back and check that too.

  But yeah, not short of a quid, they also had the Mia Mia property running 1000 head of sheep, with the youngest son managing it and the older son wasting his time on his flying machine and beating around the bush on his motor bike. Not a bad life if you can get it.

  Quoting Baloffski on 07 May 2023 01:11 AM

  Mia Mia is within cooee of my joint. A beautiful part of NE Victoria, views higher up are amazing.. Agree wat a life.

  Quoting brucefxdl on 07 May 2023 05:03 AM

  brother in law lives at Mia Mia.

  Father in Law live s in Mai Mai too! 'Coombe'  

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  Rextheute2022

  1 year ago

  Geeeez is , I’m gonna stay low and under the radar if all you fellas in the back blocks ! 

  
  

  Nah , I was referring more to ‘ why not st kilda in the sense of publicity , as mentioned this was 1910 , engines were new tech , flying was like , I dunno space ship techno . 

  This was a man , before the advent of internet - he was an engineers and a quite clever one by all accounts .

  Probably a bit later that the ‘ Victorian era ‘ but still an enlightened fella . 

  And yes , I’m sometimes in awe of what some people achieved - I work with young people - like half my age and some are amazing , some , fuck Me dead  I dunno how they continue to exist . 

  Unrelated and another brilliant engineer ‘ the sewage king’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossness_Pumping_Station

  
  

  Always blows me away , more Harley Davidson related is the engineering behind some of those early motorcycles . 

  I love watching’ wheels through time ‘ on YouTube .

  
  

  No , I’m not an engineers bum hole , but I’ve worked with some clever clogs . 

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  Rextheute2022

  1 year ago

  Sorry , no pics of sheds - but this was quite the disaster adventure 

  
  

  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-15/blythe-star-shipwreck-found-50-years-later/102289524

  
  

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  keith

  1 year ago

  After a cold morning start yesterday to the second day of winter, turned to a sunny 18/19ish, great day to be out and about, a few picks along the ride Northeast of Perth's farming country.no plane crash or shipwreck sites found. Only a few old buildings with a tale to tell from days long past.

  

  Machinery/shearing shed

  

  Old service station, garage.cafe.

  

  Stock feed, farm, general store.

  

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  obisteve

  1 year ago

  Wasn't much happening at the old Proston butter factory today.

  And on the road near Wondai I saw a sign post pointing down a dirt side road to the air crash memorial. I didn't have time to detour, but will be back. When I got a bit closer to town it seemed like the site would be aligned with the length of the Wondai airstrip. The strip's around here were all WW2 training strips; there would have been casualties. In fact, Kingaroy airstrip used to have its own morgue.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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  B0nes

  1 year ago

  Quoting obisteve on 15 Jun 2023 10:52 AMedited: 15 Jun 2023 11:17 AM

  Wasn't much happening at the old Proston butter factory today.

  And on the road near Wondai I saw a sign post pointing down a dirt side road to the air crash memorial. I didn't have time to detour, but will be back. When I got a bit closer to town it seemed like the site would be aligned with the length of the Wondai airstrip. The strip's around here were all WW2 training strips; there would have been casualties. In fact, Kingaroy airstrip used to have its own morgue.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  Wouldn't be this, would it

  https://southburnett.com.au/news2/2020/07/22/wondai-tragedy-wont-be-forgotten/

  
  

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  obisteve

  1 year ago

  Yeah, the 1990 King Air crash looks like the one, still in line with the runway, pilot just seems to have become disoriented at night, thought he was climbing and just flew it into trees then the ground.

  I'll detour and take a pic of the monument next time I'm up that way.

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  evo94

  1 year ago

  Wondai nice town - yummy bakery
  

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  obisteve

  1 year ago

  Had a steak and kidney pie there for lunch, not bad at all but not quite as good as Blackbutt bakery. The coffee was surprisingly good.

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  keith

  1 year ago

  Perfect winters day around 19c, bit of wind chill but still nice riding in the Northern areas of Perth. More pic's from the bush blocks.

  

  Gillingarra homestead

  

  

  

  Made by HV McKay Vic

  

  Renovator's dream.

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  Far Canal

  1 year ago

  Nice one Keith.

  19 degrees is a summer day here, half your luck.
  

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  obisteve

  1 year ago

  Up the road about 40 km from me. On a cattle property about 8 km from the house. Probably an old stock man's hut. From the signage, definitely not a shooters camp.

  
  

  

  

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  keith

  1 year ago

  A shot of the Coondle wheat bin now mothballed and a JH ballast plough parked in the siding,bin still appears in good condition. All other support buildings a bit run down including the weighbridge and workers quarters,nice weather yesterday to be out for a scoot.

  

  

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  obisteve

  1 year ago

  They're not pics of rusty out of use sheds, but how about bridges? Not too many out of use sheds around here, no matter how rusty. They're still in use, a lot of them being lived in. Not the richest part of the country.

  The first couple are of what used to be the D'Aguilar highway, now its an out of use bridge on an out of use part of the highway over an out of use railway line.

  

  

  

  Bit further down the old railway.

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  Grease Monkey

  1 year ago

  Bridge's are good, I like bridge's 

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  Baloffski

  1 year ago

  Bridges are good unless- ya sliding across em sideways cause of the fucken frost. Wooden that is.

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  Grease Monkey

  1 year ago

  Splinter city, ouch!

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  obisteve

  1 year ago

  Quoting Baloffski on 03 Aug 2023 01:55 AM

  Bridges are good unless- ya sliding across em sideways cause of the fucken frost. Wooden that is.

  Spilt diesel makes the boards pretty slippery too. Learned that the hard way.

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  Grease Monkey

  1 year ago

  Quoting Baloffski on 03 Aug 2023 01:55 AM

  Bridges are good unless- ya sliding across em sideways cause of the fucken frost. Wooden that is.

  Quoting obisteve on 03 Aug 2023 10:05 AM

  Spilt diesel makes the boards pretty slippery too. Learned that the hard way.

  As does cow shit

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  T4

  1 year ago

  Ten minutes out of town
  

  

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