AUSTRALIA'S ORIGINAL AND BEST CAMP OVEN AND OUTDOOR COOKING CAMPING AND LIFESTYLE FORUM

Sep 20^th, 2012 at 8:34pm

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Stole this photo off Facebook.

Story has it that a station hand was going into town and was told to order three new camp ovens. Measured the circumference instead of the diameter and three months later, three HUGE camp ovens arrived.

Photo taken at The Drovers Camp Camooweal.

Would love to see the rest of it.

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Reply #1 - Sep 21^st, 2012 at 8:47am

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Imagine the work required to keep coals up to that.

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Reply #2 - Sep 21^st, 2012 at 10:09am

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this isnt bad size

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Reply #3 - Sep 21^st, 2012 at 7:48pm

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I saw a couple around the the size of that lid many years ago now - huge!!!

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Reply #4 - Sep 22^nd, 2012 at 5:38pm

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Ive heard that story about the confused measurements many times over the years, I always considered it a rumor, maybe its not after all, Thats the first time Ive ever seen positive proof of an oven that big. Can you get any more photos of it or infomation on it ??????

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Reply #5 - Sep 25^th, 2012 at 7:30pm

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So what WAS the diameter?
Who was the Foundry?
That would be interesting on eBay...............
So would the postage............... Grin

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Reply #6 - Sep 25^th, 2012 at 7:46pm

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A follow up to this story:

http://www.droverscamp.com.au/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

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Reply #7 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 9:53pm

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I believe the station was Alexandria and they were actually that bid to keep the bread up to the large stock camps of the era.

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Reply #8 - Oct 27^th, 2012 at 9:07pm

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I saw a similar sized oven, two actually in a museam in Mt Isa in the early ninties one was complete and one was a base only and they would have been about 3 1/2 to 4 foot across both the same size.
I remember being just able to reach out and lift the lid just, seems like there might have been someone knocking a few of these gems out, what a treasure
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Reply #9 - Oct 28^th, 2012 at 10:37am

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TBF wrote on Sep 21^st, 2012 at 8:47am:

Imagine the work required to keep coals up to that.

Aart

Just thinking about that again. Maybe not. Once you got the big bugger hot would take forever to cool down perhaps.

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