discoveries

[ron]

Hi Guys,
Just back from a trip that tool in over two thousand kilometres.
Here are a few pics.
The first seven show the remains of a South Australian railways carrier
Enjoy,
Ron

[ron]

notice just how brittle the floor must be

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They have not had any decent rain here for over 5 years

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another pic

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brittle floor

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pic

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This is how I found it no dust no leaves

[Plushy]

Interesting Find Ron where there any other carrier parts lying around ?

[ron]

This is the other one at the same place

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Another angle with the station owner in the pic

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showing other side

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showing a bit more

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Hope that you found these pics of some interest,
Regards,
Ron

[ron]

Hi Plushy,
Yes there are quite a few parts and I have them here but have not had time to sort them out, will advise at a later date,
Regards,
Ron,

[Keith Webb]

Were there hull numbers visible?

[Darren Witty]

Hi Ron,

The British carrier that I just recovered was from the Blackall area and station owner said that he knew of others on a nearby property and that he was going to get back to me. I know it a big area but the ground looks that same as the area I was in. See my photos!! It might be the carriers he was talking about. You can see from the photo there was junk laying all over the place. I could have spent days there going through the bits trying to ID carrier parts amongst farm gear and rubbish.

Thanks
Darren

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hello Ron
Don't you just love these field trips, especially when you locate all these old war horses. I've captured and safely stored away all your images. Keep hunting and have fun.
Bob

[Jordan Baker]

Im not trying to hijack this thread but what would cause the floor and front bow plate to fracture like it has. Had it been through a brush fire?

Just wondering as I have never seen that before.

[ron]

Hello Jordon,
No they had not been through a fire all of the rubber is still intact, its mainly to do with the type of work that they were used for in this area where they are, they were run up to small trees( Mulga trees} in time of drought and used to push the trees over so that the stock who had nothing else to eat could eat the leaves of the trees, and more often then not they bottomed out on rocks, if you do this often enough the steel as it is hard will crack, I have seen many of these carriers with holes in the floors and very large cracks, although this South Australian one i
s by far the worst example that I have seen
Regards,
Ron,
PS, Jordon as you can see rust is not much of a problem,

[ron]

Hi Keith,
Sorry for the delay with the answer to your question regarding the number of the South Aust carrier, I have been away again looking at another one, pics soon, the S A one is number 2522, there was no number on the LP2 carrier it had been cut off,
Regards,
Ron,

[Poppy's Carrier]

Gday ron,

Another S.A.R. discovery 2522, this carrier is rather close to my S.A.R carrier 2564, what i also found interesting was the cracked hulls, my carrier has had a lot of cracks welded up in the hull , i assume that this was done to it while in service as i couldn't see a farmer welding it up. The welds on my carrier appear to have been done with stainless rods, was this usual for the army?

Cheers for now.

Matt Baker

[ron]

Hello Matt,
I am glad that you bought up this subject of stainless steel welding, I had forgotten to mention it in the original posting, If you have a good look at Picture #6, you can clearly see that the original welds are done with stailess steel rods as are all of the original welds, some of the on farm or station welding has been done with normal rods(not stailess) its not possable to see the front part of this carrier interior to well but all of the original welds are the same, I have seen this before in the South Australian carriers,the welds I am refering too are original welding,I only mention this to you as an observation that I have made over 30 years or so ,and to be fair any other conclusions can be drawn by the reader, these little bits of information are what makes our hobby all the more interesting, maybe some of our South Aust members might like to comment?

Regards,
Ron