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11 years 2 months ago - 11 years 2 months ago #102987
by kenny-mopar
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amazing stuff .... never realised horses could help you build a dam ! ... well ill be dammed its good to see how they used to do it also theres quite a few old horse drawn implements still around
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11 years 2 months ago #102989
by Mairjimmy
Time to get up andd get going.......todays bad decisions aren't going to make themselves!!!
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elgindale,
I would like to buy the property where they grew those corn cobbs,and the size of the pig,and the saw bench with two blades, : : : : :
Colin
I would like to buy the property where they grew those corn cobbs,and the size of the pig,and the saw bench with two blades, : : : : :
Colin
Time to get up andd get going.......todays bad decisions aren't going to make themselves!!!
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11 years 2 months ago #102990
by Swishy
OF ALL THE THINGS EYE MISS ................. EYE MISS MY MIND THE MOST
There's more WORTH in KENWORTH
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OF ALL THE THINGS EYE MISS ................. EYE MISS MY MIND THE MOST
There's more WORTH in KENWORTH
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11 years 2 months ago - 11 years 2 months ago #102992
by Mairjimmy
Time to get up andd get going.......todays bad decisions aren't going to make themselves!!!
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Swishy.
Must be worth a bit ,has a armed guard
Bugly911
why is there not someone to help the poor girl
Must be worth a bit ,has a armed guard
Bugly911
why is there not someone to help the poor girl
Time to get up andd get going.......todays bad decisions aren't going to make themselves!!!
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11 years 2 months ago - 11 years 2 months ago #102993
by Roderick Smith
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100 years ago, construction started on Trans Australia Railway. The work continued through WWI (known as Great War then: it wasn't WWI until WWII came along).
Track laying was highly mechanised for the era, including world records for distance laid in a day.
Earthworks used animals.
My memory is of horses rather than camels: there is a wonderful documentary which I have seen many times and at many places, but I can't find it online.
They hauled scoop skips which grabbed up soil, then hauled them to a dumping spot, where the driver upended the skip like a wheelbarrow. They were used two ways: to grab earth/gravel to build up an embankment for the track, and to create dams to hold bore water for locomotives. These were roofed, to reduce evaporation.
The only video which I can find fast has two glimpses of horses. In one of them, two horses are hauling a foreman's buggy.
aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/transcontinental-railway/clip1
The centenary of the first sod at the eastern end was celebrated in Sept.12 at Port Augusta (SA); the centenary of the first sod at the western end will be celebrated in Feb.13 at Kalgoorlie. I have placed an advance alert in the events thread, as it would be a great weekend for anything vintage to rally to Kalgoorlie.
Rail Heritage WA is renovating rollingstock from different eras (including some 1917 originals) to provide a heritage train for the centenary of completion.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
Track laying was highly mechanised for the era, including world records for distance laid in a day.
Earthworks used animals.
My memory is of horses rather than camels: there is a wonderful documentary which I have seen many times and at many places, but I can't find it online.
They hauled scoop skips which grabbed up soil, then hauled them to a dumping spot, where the driver upended the skip like a wheelbarrow. They were used two ways: to grab earth/gravel to build up an embankment for the track, and to create dams to hold bore water for locomotives. These were roofed, to reduce evaporation.
The only video which I can find fast has two glimpses of horses. In one of them, two horses are hauling a foreman's buggy.
aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/transcontinental-railway/clip1
The centenary of the first sod at the eastern end was celebrated in Sept.12 at Port Augusta (SA); the centenary of the first sod at the western end will be celebrated in Feb.13 at Kalgoorlie. I have placed an advance alert in the events thread, as it would be a great weekend for anything vintage to rally to Kalgoorlie.
Rail Heritage WA is renovating rollingstock from different eras (including some 1917 originals) to provide a heritage train for the centenary of completion.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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11 years 2 months ago #102995
by bund126
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There is a 5km long tunnel built in the early 1900's to join the Millbrook resevoir and little Para resevoir
the story goes that the horses didn't see day light for 8 hrs a day pulling a cable plough
the story goes that the horses didn't see day light for 8 hrs a day pulling a cable plough
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11 years 2 months ago - 11 years 2 months ago #102996
by Roderick Smith
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I was at Wonthaggi (Vic.) on the day when the last pit ponies were brought out of the closing black-coal mine (Dec.6*). I don't know what the spell of duty was below the surface, and it may well have been a whole working life. Gooey newspaper readers were warned not to offer to adopt one: they had the wrong temperament. It seems that they were brought out after every shift, or perhaps on a weekly rotation. There are many references by googling. One which keeps giving downloading errors reports an event when fire caused the failure of the main lift. The pit ponies had to be brought out through a ventilation shaft: ok for miners, but not the right size for horses.
I have stacks of books and magazines from Light Railway Research Society of Australia showing horse teams hauling logs on forest tramways; the were the norm, rather than the exception.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
I have stacks of books and magazines from Light Railway Research Society of Australia showing horse teams hauling logs on forest tramways; the were the norm, rather than the exception.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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