salvage starts

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by hrpearce

NRMA has payed the blitz out so now I can pull it to pieces and see what is still usable.

Hi Robert,
A sad task after all the work you put in to it, but let us hope you can resurrect her or at least salvage a lot of the parts. It will be like Phoenix rising from the ashes. Good to see you again at Corowa this year.

regards, Richard

[Dinty]

Yes, I had heard that some members had been affected by the fires, with property losses etc, I know I would be utterly gutted if it happened to me, I really feel for you and anyone else who has been through the fires, I hope you can salvage some of it, I have always liked your Chev, it was a bench mark one for me, all the best mate cheers dennis

[blitz]

It took a big toll on my father, including having to shoot a lot of his sheep, with burnt teets etc, when we got burnt out in the 1960’s Robert, when I was very young and I was told my grandfather got burnt out in different parts of the property, twice in the one year in 1930’s. It is a hard thing to get over.

The good thing is you are safe, have been through the worst of it and it should be all onwards and upwards from here.

We rebuilt some of our machinery after the fires and the metal work on your blitz, looks quite straight. With all the bush around Kinglake and with the heat that the timber generated in the black Saturday fires, a lot of the vehicles were not rebuildable. Let us know if we can assist with some parts. I scored another chev with chassis damaged by the winch recently. Your blitz will be better second time around, for sure.

[hrpearce]

A bit more off today. Slow going the heat wrecked the cages on a lot of nuts and the slotted screws don't want to turn even with an impact driver.