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Wreck Of The Week

by Robbo on May 26, 2010

in Wreck Of The Week

This is the last of Dave’s wrecks. Well besides putting a photo of him in the blog. How is the collarbone mate?

This one was abandoned in the billabong cos it had a bad knock in the engine. About 30 years ago we urgently needed a truck, so rescued it, new battery, petrol, fired her up. Still going 30 years later, still knocks like a bastard.

Chevy Blitz

Dave has plenty of pics including magnificent bush sunsets up at his Flickr site

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Wreck Of The Week

by Robbo on May 19, 2010

in Wreck Of The Week

More from the Merrylees of Murrumbidgee.

One rainy day we decided to change the oil in the crane engine thinking the old girl deserved a bit of TLC. It would not start with new oil. We drained the new oil out, put back the ancient black sludge and she’s never looked back. Won’t make that mistake again.

crane engine wreck of the week

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Wreck Of The Week

by Robbo on May 12, 2010

in Wreck Of The Week

This is the second week in the Month of Merrylees. Farmers usually have all sorts of rubbish around their property and Dave fits the stereotype!

We have a couple of stationary engines today. One is well and truly stationary buried to its axles and the old grader won’t be going anywhere in a hurry.

stationary engine - wreck of the week

grader - wreck of the week

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May is the Merry Month of Merrylees.

Dave’s a farmer up on the Murrumbidgee. And like all good farmers he has wrecks just lying around paddocks and even still uses a wreck or two.

He’s taken pictures of a heap of his wrecks and I thought I might put them in the blog. So no more remote desert wrecks from me for a bit. Not that there is a lack of them out here.

Early on in the series I put up a shot of my ‘Mitre 13‘. Here’s the farm’s version:

machine wrecks

Sunshine Harvester

Sunshine Harvester

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