Out at woop woop at Lake Cargelligo NSW so probably will go with 1 x bid. Currently $500.
Looks like a pretty rust free V8 auto factory A/C WB tonner with original Alcan tray. Has a pair of original WB buckets in it for anyone looking for a pair. Would be a good thing out there, minimal rust.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Holden-wb...item1c4c774bdb
Buy it now for a grand!
Probably worth more than that in parts.
It IS in the middle of nowhere though. Back in the late 70's I worked for Telecom (Telstra now) and Lake Cargelligo was the place you got transferred to if you got in the bad books of management! (or that was the threat anyway).
Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!
When we did the electrical upgrade design and commission for the Euabalong West Graincorp silos the guys stayed out there. I handed that one off to the new guys for a reason!
to be honest, the further isolated a community is the more genuine the people are. Also the stronger the community spirit is. I would rather be in Euabalong West (I raced through there in the Condo 750) than living in a suburb with my neighbours gutter touching mine.
That one tonner has what appear to be factory buckets and seat belt stalks too. Unusuall in a one tonner if they are original I would have thought.
So true James. we skied out there for years. Went there in the original panel van and I am sure we prob know the owner. If anyone is genuinely interested we could go for a drive out there for a look it's 1.3/4hoursOriginally Posted by wbute
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The reason I handed it on to the other guys wasn't because of the people, it was the remoteness as it was at the opposite end of NSW to where most of the rest my work was. At the time I was doing the designs and commissioning for silos in areas with much worse social issues like Walgett. The small sites up there were pretty remote too but closer to the bigger sites I was working on so I could move from site to site in an hour or so, places like Weemalah, Cryon, Garah, Merrywinebone, Burren Junction, Gurley, Edgeroi, Croppa Creek etc. When the southern sites like Euabalong West and Condobolion came up I gave them to the new guys we took on as it became too much for me alone. One year I did a batch of mid NSW sites like Nyngan, Coonamble, Trangie, Narromine etc.
Weemelah, theres a name I haven't heard in a while, spent 3 weeks there in the late 90s carting grain. Used to put the board strapped to the front of the trailer across the seats and roll out the swag. Silo's ran 24 hours, thank goodness it rained a couple of times so we could get some sleep.Scan0001.jpg
That shed in the background looks like Weemelah, we upgraded that in maybe 1997. New switchroom and bigger motors on the elevator and conveyors if memory serves me correctly. I think we put machinery on a bunker too at Weemelah from memory, new grain elevator, conveyor and a stacker (I think they called them Dragons). I stayed at a pub in Mungindi when I was doing Weemelah, the accommodation were little ATCO huts out the back of the pub. Biggest T-bone steak I ever had was there!
That is Weemelah alright HK1837, and was the pub the Two Mile just over the border? The first day I arrived, rain had washed out proceedings for a couple of days and I got sent there to wait, broke as usual. A pub with no beer is bad, pub with beer and no money is worse.
Oh. That wasn't the "reason" that sprang to mind....
You might be interested to know that GrainCorp shut all the silos East of the Newell highway last year. Wheat is now only really grown in the marginal farming areas west of the Newell.
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