Horses
11 years 3 months ago #102997
by Lang
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Wouldyou,
John Menzies at the Birdsville museum had one of those gear drives set up and his mules walked around in circles to drive a shaft that ran a chaff cutter. Suppose you could say the mules worked for their supper.
Lang
John Menzies at the Birdsville museum had one of those gear drives set up and his mules walked around in circles to drive a shaft that ran a chaff cutter. Suppose you could say the mules worked for their supper.
Lang
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11 years 3 months ago #102998
by greenie
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11 years 3 months ago #102999
by BK
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There was a short (5 mile) narrow gauge line in our area years ago, it started where the timber was and ended at the sawmill, but, there was no loco.
The line was built so that the loaded wagons would roll to the mill on the power of gravity, then they were pulled back to the bush with horses, circa 1900.
The line was built so that the loaded wagons would roll to the mill on the power of gravity, then they were pulled back to the bush with horses, circa 1900.
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11 years 3 months ago #103000
by jeffo
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Saw some photos showing construction of the irrigation canals at Griffith. (NSW)
Horse drawn scoops involved and blokes with shovels.
Everyone worked so hard in those days, don't think I'd last long.
Horse drawn scoops involved and blokes with shovels.
Everyone worked so hard in those days, don't think I'd last long.
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11 years 3 months ago #103001
by wouldyou
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Greenie, That's interesting, the exact unit, apart from a stamped serial no there is nothing to identify it. I wonder if Sunshine made it or were agents. Didn't know there was an over running clutch there, will have to get it working. Your catalogue could be earlier as the one I am looking at is pre war, has the newer Sundial engines and no horse works. Regards, David.
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11 years 3 months ago #103002
by scratcha
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There was a very good series of photos at the Hume weir resort (I think? it was a while back) of the horses with the buckets & being used to compact the earth when building the weir wall.
I believe its the only wall of that construction type left in the world!
I believe its the only wall of that construction type left in the world!
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11 years 3 months ago #103003
by scratcha
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11 years 3 months ago #103004
by Mairjimmy
Time to get up andd get going.......todays bad decisions aren't going to make themselves!!!
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wouldyou,
I wondering how many times those horses had to pull that scoop up out of the dam to build a dam of that size.How many cubic metres in the dam and how big is the scoop. : : : :
Colin
I wondering how many times those horses had to pull that scoop up out of the dam to build a dam of that size.How many cubic metres in the dam and how big is the scoop. : : : :
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11 years 3 months ago #103005
by Roderick Smith
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Which dam?
Lake Hume didn't need scooping as such, and the role of horses was very limited.
It was built in a mechanised era, and the public works departments from both states had construction railways of three gauges to do the bulk of the transport of material from the excavation site to the deposition site.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
Lake Hume didn't need scooping as such, and the role of horses was very limited.
It was built in a mechanised era, and the public works departments from both states had construction railways of three gauges to do the bulk of the transport of material from the excavation site to the deposition site.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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