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Reply #10 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 8:47pm

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Reply #11 - Nov 7^th, 2007 at 9:59pm

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Oh, Soot, enlighten an ignorant Canuck, please. What's a lister? Somebody tell some tales.......

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Reply #12 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 12:07am

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Lister is the brand name of the engine in the photo. We had a Lister in the dairy when I was a kid.

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Reply #13 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 5:41am

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Hi,
Can't agree more fellers.
Having spent a good part of my life in around the Sheds, some the best days of my life, met some wonderful characters and the not so wonderful but in all a very good bunch of men and a good many are firm friends today but sadly all the old ones have pasted. Going through some old color slides a few weeks back I came across some photos, I will see what I can do about getting some on site. I have some black & white photos I will scan some big sheds. The biggest shed I was in 16 stands T board Signed on for 54,000 grown sheep, the breakdown 16 shearers 1 pen-er up and two good dogs 6 roustabouts 4 wool rollers 3 piece pickers 1 classer assistant 1 wool classer 2 wool pressers 2 cooks 1 cooks assistant 1 hut keeper groom 1 over-sear expert (the boss of the board). But most were 10 to 14 stands but as was said those days are gone. Sadly one can only reflect on times past.

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Reply #14 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 5:59am

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Guys
at least some areas are trying to hold onto some of the past there is a massive shed that is a live display at Jongaryan between Toowoomba and Dalby south Qld that also has all old machinery camp ovens and old school equipement etc covers about 20 acres well worth visiting they have a site

http://www.jondaryanwoolshed.com/

been there a few times and enjoyed
cheers Furphy

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Reply #15 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 7:32am

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Reply #16 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 8:12am

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I have a story about a shearers cook .
I always got up early and went to the kitchen and one mornong the cook was peeling a sack of spuds, for dinner that night we had boiled potatoes cut in half . The next night we had baked potatoes . The next morning I saw the cook peeling the crispy outside off the baked potatoes, and mashing the up That night we were having mashed potatoes , I hapen to mention that I wasn't going to eat the potatoes that night and the shearers asked why? The cook was sacked and we stopped work and waited about 3 days for another cook to turn up. I was a boardboy.

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Reply #17 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 10:19am

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I worked in a camp years ago where the cook was called "One spoon Jimmy", as we all shuffled past with our plates he would dish out that nights dinner from several serving trays without ever changing the spoon. By the time the last bloke got served you couldn't tell what was what not that it really mattered I suppose, it certainly wasn't gourmet tucker.

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Reply #18 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 10:29am

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I remember the story of the new lad from England helping the shearers cook. They had sausages for dinner and the lad had never cooked them before so he asked the old cook how to cook them and he said "just like fish me lad" ........... so he gutted them. Grin

Great pics guys. That old shed sure has been well preserved.

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Reply #19 - Nov 8^th, 2007 at 12:25pm

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[quote author=Derek Bullock link=1194423125/15#18 date=1194481758]
I remember the story of the new lad from England helping the shearers cook. They had sausages for dinner and the lad had never cooked them before so he asked the old cook how to cook them and he said "just like fish me lad" ........... so he gutted them. Grin

Youv'e been reading Jack & Reg's book again, havn't you. Shocked

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