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As did the storepeople - selling picks, spades, panning dishes, pots and pans, tents, boots, hats, flannette shirts, moleskin trousers, bedrolls, pistols, tobacco, and all the stuff that miners need to survive in rugged terrain. Leather pouches for holding gold nuggets were a must, and even small gold scales were in high demand. https://www.teachersuperstore.com.au/assets/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Australian-Gold-Rushes-Daily-Life-in-the-Goldfields-Sample-Pages.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOoognpJMnehL-vguNxLwGH8D-mVtaStuRkHpYIh5fYWxlKe1IS01

He's a class act, our Willie. He's very selective with his scrap bin exploits. Only the finest bins meet his exacting standards. 😄

Better than finding a half eaten pie, that's for sure.

What sort of scrap bins do you hang around?? That's high quality scrap!

Back in the day, many Chinese made better money by growing market gardens and selling food to european miners.

Thanks very much onetrack, I've been wondering about it's origin for a fair while now. I found it in a scrap bin.

A large, moisture-laden air mass is feeding into a trough in front of a huge high pressure system, over Western Qld and Northern NSW. As you say, any decent amount of rain originates from the Northern maritime region latitudes. This tropical air mass is feeding in from the Northern section of the Indian Ocean, and it's bound to carry some reasonable amount of rain to SW Qld and Northern NSW. When the Bureau say there's a "100% certainty" of rain, they're not often wrong. Only the total amount of rainfall is in doubt, and that can vary widely over a relatively small area. I thought the weak cold front that came through W.A. on Thursday morning had nothing behind it. But the tip of another cold front followed it, and we got 8mm of rain in the City on Thursday night. However, the rain didn't penetrate very far inland. http://satview.bom.gov.au/

Willie, it's a Lake LA-4 amphibian yoke. https://baspartsales.com/lake-la-4-amphibian-control-yoke-assembly/?srsltid=AfmBOopFfbDmE4BcC52kNRcV9IE4eU08wTVYK_YIUP5JflOc0h75eehh They come up nicely when beab blasted. https://baspartsales.com/lake-la-4-amphibian-control-yoke-assembly-bead-blasted-diameter-7-8/?srsltid=AfmBOorPMarLKq9xxaiWzt0qwUAzBaC7XoZgtZcGp-SEWSt8LwPP4XzO

Just wondering if anyone recognises what this yolk would belong to. It's only small, about 240mm across and has a logo in the centre that looks like an 'L'.

Yes there's funny things happening in a couple of Places . It's hard to Predict the Amount of rain. from the Information I have. 1 inch won't do much. Nev

It was well known amongst the farmer clients I did contract work for in the 1970's and 1980's, that trusts were necessary to avoid paying tax. They were rampant in that period, with many "smart" accountants promoting them.

OME is gonna be drookit on Monday and Tuesday, nothing surer. https://www.bom.gov.au/places/nsw/gilgandra/forecast/

The Biggest HIGH That I've ever registered on my Barometer is over New Zealand right now. 1041 mbs. These days, forecasts 2 weeks away are stretching it. Air Mass analysis is what's needed. Lots of water can only come from tropical maritime air. You will never get much rain from way down south and the Polar regions are as dry as deserts.. Air masses are Modified by what they Pass over. Nev

Many Trusts are tax dodging RORTS. That's what They are aiming at. Nev.

Boy Scouts Know their Knots.. Nev

Foreigners visiting our country say they often have difficulty with the Aussie vernacular. For example, the shortening of words. Arvo, servo, g'day, footy, etc. Another is the great Australian "NOT" - how the answer to many questions is what it's not - How are you today? Not bad. How much further? Not far. How many of those lollies did you eat? Not many. What did you pay for those sneakers? Not much. When are you knocking off? Not long.

All bullshit to scare about making trusts not dodge tax.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/death-tax-hidden-in-the-budget-set-to-accelerate-inheritance-trend-do-it-earlier-005525441.html

Which means you have all the gear to build that rat bike

It needs some juvenile deliquent boot camps to be set up, with decent instructors teaching these kids the basics of acceptable social behaviour, so they can learn to be useful citizens. Remember a lot of these kids just fend for themselves, they get fed poorly, get no boundaries set for them, follow no routines, stay up all night, get abused, get involved with drugs and alcohol. A lot of young girls indulge in bad behaviour because they're being sexually abused, get angry about it, and take out their anger on anything they can lay their hands on. Boot camps with strict but fair discipline, instructors who can teach the kids about relationships, behaviour, how to handle emotions, how to handle abusive behaviour - in general, all the life skills one needs to survive in the big bad world - are needed. But where you get these people from, I don't know. Most parents have their hands full with their own offspring playing up. The W.A. Govt started a few remote region boot camps for young Aboriginal criminals, but most fell over after a while as the people running them threw in the towel due to the demands on them. Getting the kids away from the city and into the bush takes away a lot of the source of the criminality problem. The cities are breeding zones for criminality.

I seem to remember reading something about the Chinese doing a lot of crevicing in the old days.

Yes, it is. He's a good bloke, a Kiwi originally and a machinist by trade. I used to do volunteer work with him at our local air museum. They sold their house in a hinterland town to move into a unit near the hospital, so between that and the health issues, he sold off all his workshop equipment. I bought most of it, a lathe, mill, bench grinders, steel welding bench, a press and heaps of other stuff. Being a machinist his lathe came with a lot of extras, a keyless chuck and heaps of tooling he'd made plus a lot of rounds in steel and ali for turning.

I understand what you say, but just dropping everything and letting her go isn't going to teach her anything either. She has to learn there are consequences.

Just seems like a summation of the facts at the time, to Me. Nev

Move to Queensland. They have already done that. I don't consider it the Appropriate response. Education in Bluestone college at a young age is No answer to anything... Nev