"Spot the Spot"

[rhs58 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close rhs58]

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No, not a grain store.
And sorry it's come through as a link and not an image.

[lofty Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close lofty]

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I have seen these type of buildings before, built as explosives stores around mines. The ones i am thinking of are around the copper mine at Burra, but these are not those.

[Violet Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Violet]

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I've seen this somewhere... Possibly the Atherton Tablelands. Just North of Atherton.

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Cordillo Downs

never been there but have seen enough trip reports to feel like I have

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Onya HG.
Cordillo Downs it is. NE South Aust. Between Innamincka and Birdsville.
Not now in operation, this was the largest shearing shed ever built in Australia.
Up to 88 shearers could shear at once. In 1878 a pastoral lease was taken up for Cordillo Downs Station and by 1883,
10,000 sheep were being run on the property.
In 1900 Cordillo amalgamated with Cadelga and Haddon Downs and the property spread across 102,400 sq km,
shearing 100,000 sheep a year.
Shearers caught the old Central australian Railway train to Lyndhurst or Farina (600km south)
and then cycled or walked the rest of the way! Some may have been lucky enough to have a horse.
The wool clip was transported by Afgan camel train to the railway.
The domed roof of this old shearing shed is characteristic of the buildings on Cordillo Downs station.

On the flat gibber plains of the region, wood is very scarce, and a method of construction to minimise
the use of roofing timber was sought.
The solution was a domed, corrugated iron roof structure, supported by butrussed
stone walls more than half a metre thick. Up to 88 shearers could shear at once; 4 shearers to a port hole.

The sheep were penned down the middle. Other buildings on the station were built in the same style.
Dingos and drought took their toll on the sheep. Since 1942 Cordillo Downs has only run cattle.

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Onya HG.
Cordillo Downs it is. NE South Aust. Between Innamincka and Birdsville.
Not now in operation, this was the largest shearing shed ever built in Australia.
Up to 88 shearers could shear at once. In 1878 a pastoral lease was taken up for Cordillo Downs Station and by 1883,
10,000 sheep were being run on the property.
In 1900 Cordillo amalgamated with Cadelga and Haddon Downs and the property spread across 102,400 sq km,
shearing 100,000 sheep a year.
Shearers caught the old Central australian Railway train to Lyndhurst or Farina (600km south)
and then cycled or walked the rest of the way! Some may have been lucky enough to have a horse.
The wool clip was transported by Afgan camel train to the railway.
The domed roof of this old shearing shed is characteristic of the buildings on Cordillo Downs station.

On the flat gibber plains of the region, wood is very scarce, and a method of construction to minimise
the use of roofing timber was sought.
The solution was a domed, corrugated iron roof structure, supported by butrussed
stone walls more than half a metre thick. Up to 88 shearers could shear at once; 4 shearers to a port hole.

The sheep were penned down the middle. Other buildings on the station were built in the same style.
Dingos and drought took their toll on the sheep. Since 1942 Cordillo Downs has only run cattle.

Well cut off me legs and call me shorty!! Who would have thought :lol:
Thanks for the write up rhs58, amazing stuff.

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Onya HG.
Cordillo Downs it is. NE South Aust. Between Innamincka and Birdsville.
Not now in operation, this was the largest shearing shed ever built in Australia.
Up to 88 shearers could shear at once. In 1878 a pastoral lease was taken up for Cordillo Downs Station and by 1883,
10,000 sheep were being run on the property.
In 1900 Cordillo amalgamated with Cadelga and Haddon Downs and the property spread across 102,400 sq km,
shearing 100,000 sheep a year.
Shearers caught the old Central australian Railway train to Lyndhurst or Farina (600km south)
and then cycled or walked the rest of the way! Some may have been lucky enough to have a horse.
The wool clip was transported by Afgan camel train to the railway.
The domed roof of this old shearing shed is characteristic of the buildings on Cordillo Downs station.

On the flat gibber plains of the region, wood is very scarce, and a method of construction to minimise
the use of roofing timber was sought.
The solution was a domed, corrugated iron roof structure, supported by butrussed
stone walls more than half a metre thick. Up to 88 shearers could shear at once; 4 shearers to a port hole.

The sheep were penned down the middle. Other buildings on the station were built in the same style.
Dingos and drought took their toll on the sheep. Since 1942 Cordillo Downs has only run cattle.

Hi We went through SA last year and guess what the one place we missed was Cordillo Downs. The information you have provided is amazing, size, distance, and hardship, we are going back that way again in October 2010 on the Drive 4 Life tour (if you want a great trip with great people have a look here drive4life.com.au ) this is now a must see, thank you.
Regards Richo.

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thanks rhs58... good info!

this one should be easy!

[johnv Member Find all posts View Profile Close johnv]

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Magnetic Hill just off the Peterborough - Orrorroo Road. Past through there last year.

johnv

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see, it was easy!

over to you John

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No, not a grain store.
And sorry it's come through as a link and not an image.

you had the [img]...............[/img] brackets in there twice - remove one set and it should be fine.

not that it matters now.

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Magnetic Hill just off the Peterborough - Orrorroo Road. Past through there last year.

Our in-laws live in Wilmington and whenever we visit, the kids love to visit this spot. This also has another name... :shock:

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Magnetic Hill just off the Peterborough - Orrorroo Road. Past through there last year.

Our in-laws live in Wilmington and whenever we visit, the kids love to visit this spot. This also has another name... :shock:

Bruff's Hill, named after James Bruff in 1897. Not sure if that is the name you have heard NTPryce?
http://www.peterboroughsa.com.au/magnetic.php
http://www.eureka4you.com/magnetichi...borough-SA.htm
http://www.about-australia.com/trave...magnetic-hill/

Didn't someone else post a Spot the Spot here a while back about a gum tree with an incredible girth?

There are some really good properties out this way for 4WDing. Bendleby Ranges isn't far away and Horseshoe Ranges is also close by cosisting of two properties I think as I have read about tracks at both Horseshoe Top-End and Horseshoe Rim. These tracks are all within about 45minutes of Orrorroo

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Didn't someone else post a Spot the Spot here a while back about a gum tree with an incredible girth?

In Orroroo? yep, that was me. here it is



Michael

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Sorry, no Prado in pic. Many PP'ers would have been here I think.



johnv