Victorian fires... how are you all coping

[Keith Webb]

Looks to be a Ford F60L, or rather was...

[Shakey985]

In 1927 Glenburne station Conbanaine Victoria, built new shearers quarters and kitchen. On the 7th of February 2009 (Black Saturday) the 82 years of history went up in smoke.


This is the shearers side were many a tale tail was told and a few cans were drunk .


The cooks side with a slow combustion stove.

On the 27th 0f April 2009 the chimney was donated and moved to my place were after a lot of cleaning of bricks I have rebuilt a fire place worthy of more tall story’s and a few more cans

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Shakey985

In 1927 Glenburne station Conbanaine Victoria, built new shearers quarters and kitchen. On the 7th of February 2009 (Black Saturday) the 82 years of history went up in smoke.
On the 27th 0f April 2009 the chimney was donated and moved to my place were after a lot of cleaning of bricks I have rebuilt a fire place worthy of more tall story’s and a few more cans

Nice work!

We should arrange a get-together sometime.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

I was sent this beautiful picture of this terrible event a while ago. I hope enough time has passed to show this picture.

[Shakey985]

Keith just PM me when your coming past on the way to Pucka

Hanno its a good picture as it incapacitates fire and the suburbs, life in Australia, as I was saying on Friday night over a quite drink by the fire, in 1939 they would of been talking about the same thing.

[Scrivo18]

Hi Everyone

Time is passing but we will not forget what happened that day and it is with pictures and story's such as the one's in this thread that we remember.

On a positive note, we have had a horrible noise in my Stuart engine since Black friday and the rush to remove the tank from the path of the fire. During the first week of our school holidays Adrian and myself worked up enough courage to start the Stuart and try and find the problem, 2 cyclinders were not firing at all.
The first step was replace spark plugs on those pots, we then had one cyclinder not firing, and the noise still there.
We then removed the engine deck and and removed the tappet cover's on that cylinder, the tappet adjusting nut on the inlet valve had worked it's way loose and fallen off, a magnet and a mirror and re adjust the clearance on that valve removed our noise and the Stuart is again running as it should.

Tim

[Keith Webb]

The Melbourne Herald-Sun has an article on problems bushfire victims being charged high rates for what are obviously devalued properties, with this pic of a Ford CMP.



Here's an upload in case the link goes away: