on โ05-04-2014 07:44 PM
on โ06-04-2014 11:05 AM
wow amazing pics! thank you for sharing them.
on โ07-04-2014 06:20 AM
For contrast 1934 picture of an uncle driving a bullock team & dray. Was drought & depression.
on โ07-04-2014 06:21 AM
His father who thought he was driving the team.
on โ07-04-2014 08:01 AM
I was going to chat about child labour. Talk about cracking the whip. Then I saw picture no.2. I note a dog under the waggon. Are you aware of the names of the beasts. (I mean the bovine beasts)
Now, back to the "load". I think I see a cast iron pot. I am assuming this is the supply/cooks waggon. Did they hitch another one on for the "pay load" of bagged wheat? Sort of B-double? And would Longreach have been the destination? For the train or a flour mill"
DEB
on โ07-04-2014 08:04 AM
thanks for the photos and the stories C4. City folk like me never see things like that
on โ07-04-2014 08:19 AM
In a normal year they would carry wool bailed to the rail heads & supplies & building material out to the stations.
They carried their "camp" which was their home.
I will try to find photos with wool loaded as it makes one wonder why they did not just fall over.
Sorry but I was never introduced to the team.