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Oct 1^st, 2016 at 7:50pm

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In no way am I claiming credit but in previous years I have eMailed the committee of the Millmerran Camp Oven Festival and abused them for being lousy with the prizes and the cheap souvenir ovens they had on on sale.

Remember the year they had Chinese camp ovens with little aluminium plates pop riveted to lid stamped with Millmerran 2012 or was it 2010 ? Maybe it was earlier than that KB.

Prior festival to that they had aluminium lids on cast iron bases, very cheap and nasty !

Well this year they have what look like quite decent souvenir ovens for sale, I don't know about the prices, maybe someone out there knows ? Rob.

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #1 - Oct 1^st, 2016 at 7:58pm

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They are made by Larges Foundry in Toowoomba. Last Festival and the one before that were the same but they were not cheap from memory.

Jeff is up there somewhere so no doubt he will have more info.

I remember those ones with the little plates pop riveted on them. They were Chinese Furphy ovens as well.

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Reply #2 - Oct 1^st, 2016 at 8:37pm

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I'm up here with saltbush bill and purchased a 14" the price was $285

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Reply #3 - Oct 1^st, 2016 at 8:39pm

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I have a 2012 Millmerran oven and i love it.

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Reply #4 - Oct 1^st, 2016 at 8:41pm

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Alert Board Moderator about this Post! Mark & Quote Quote I'm up here with saltbush bill and purchased a 14" the price was $285

I thought you were going for a ten?

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Reply #5 - Oct 1^st, 2016 at 8:45pm

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Derek wrote on Oct 1^st, 2016 at 7:58pm:

Last Festival and the one before that were the same but they were not cheap from memory.

I didn't mean cheap to buy Derek, just an overpriced very ordinary oven.

When I die I hope my missus doesn't sell my camp ovens for what I told her I paid for them. pd

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Reply #6 - Oct 1^st, 2016 at 8:49pm

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Looks like it weighs a ton Rolly.

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Reply #7 - Oct 2^nd, 2016 at 2:51pm

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Not that heavy shackles

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Reply #8 - Oct 2^nd, 2016 at 7:10pm

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poddy dodger wrote on Oct 1^st, 2016 at 7:50pm:

I don't know about the prices, maybe someone out there knows ? Rob.

They had three sizes Poddy, 10's, 12's and 14's.
There wasn't a lot of difference in price, from memory the 10's were about $230, 14's $295....12's somewhere in the middle.
Rolly got lucky and found one with a small blemish and knocked them down on the price a bit.

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Reply #9 - Oct 2^nd, 2016 at 7:28pm

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Here are a few photos that I took while there. It was a bigger event than I imagined.
At one stage I was talking to the head cook in the area that feeds everybody out of the huge ovens.
He told me that they had used all of the meat that they had bought for both Saturday and Sunday by late Saturday afternoon. 600kgs of it to be exact.
At that stage they where ringing around trying to find a butcher to deliver more meat so that they could feed people on Sunday.
There are a lot of interesting things going on at once at this festival.
Poets and singers on stage, Demonstrations by Blacksmiths, Rope Makers, Wheelwrights doing their thing and other old trades.
I'll defiantly be going back again and would like to see if next time we can get a team together from this forum to cook in the comp.

Ovens of a different type

The biggest cast iron frying pan Ive ever seen, made in Germany apparently and still available if you can find where they are sold. It looked bigger than a 24 inch oven by a fair bit.

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