All of this information ties this story together nicely. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard of these ovens in the past but have had no real confirmation on their whereabouts. As it happens I have a photo of another one of these ovens that was owned by a collector in Warick in Queensland who passed away some years ago, who knows what has happened to that oven, but it is identical to the ones shown on this post. Its a shame that the one on the fence has been bolted down and drilled through but it makes a great display piece, I'm assuming it's Ned Winters you are referring to when you say Ned?
Astro.

On closer inspection I reckon that this is the same as the lid on these big ovens, and Mook had mentioned he had seen just a base as well as a complete oven at the museum at Mt Isa.
http://www.aussiecampovenforum.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1348137253/all

Saltbush Bill wrote on Jun 30^th, 2013 at 8:04pm:


Should have gone to Specsavers.  They have both always been in the history section

On 1976 I drove a truck from Alice Springs via Three Ways, Mt Isa, Julia Creek, Winton, Longreach, Blackall, Tambo to property south of Augathella.
On the way I stopped at Barry Caves Roadhouse before Cammoweal, I was intrigued by the huge camp oven 3ft in diameter sitting on the ground outside the Roadhouse.
In 2008 I pulled in at Avon Downs Police Station at 7 in the morning, no-one about, a there was a 3ft camp oven out the front. I reckoned then it must have been the same one as Barry Caves Roadhouse was the next stop & it had been demolished some years before, surely there wasn't 2 outsize ovens on the same area.
Have always wondered about it until I saw the posting when I was looking on this forum
Riddle solved I reckon

That camp oven is huge
Need a bushfire to get it up to temp.