LAND IMAGES

 The entrance to BARVENNON is a hand painted sign.
 

Up behind this dam is the beginning of a stringybark forest,
inhabited by wild pigs, foxes, deer, kangaroos & other wildlife.
 

This view is looking West over the house dam.
In the distance is the road that leads back to civilization.
 

This picture shows a couple of Wattle trees in flower.
 

Two views of our creek (the Styx) after rain.
 

Another view of the Styx

THE INHABITANTS
 

This is a picture looking South over the Abercrombie Wyangla-Dam Valley.
 Three merino's keep a watchful eye on the human.
 

Some sheep at the Eastern edge of the property.  The eucalyptus stringybark forest in the background
continues for many tens of kilometres through the rugged country of the Abercrombie Wyangla-Dam Valley,
once the haunt of bushrangers and prospectors.
 

We share Barvennon with four Herefords.  They really are lovely animals.  They will wander
up and watch any human activity, puzzled that anyone would take the effort to do anything
except eat and play.  They seem to delight in going where they are not intended to go.

Muster time.  Sheep should have a regular check for parasites.

FARM MACHINERY

The All terrain transport & light prime mover vehicle.  It has an old perkins diesel under the bonnet.
Below is the Furphy water carrier & spray equipment.

Here is a Furphy.   This Furphy is mounted on wheels.

In Australian, a "furphy" is something that looked like a good idea,
but did not live up to expectations, or a story that is exaggerated or is not true.

(There is one version that a man called Furphy delivered water.  As he delivered water, he gossiped with his customers.
Due to frequent innaccurate reporting, the misinformation that he often spread became known as a "furphy")

 In the background is the woolshed.

THE BUILDINGS
 

In the Woolshed.  This photograph is looking over the Ajax woolpress towards the two shearing stands.
The leather belt hanging from the overhead shaft to the floor connects to the engine.
The shearer connects his handpiece to the covered shaft which hangs from the overhead shaft.
Pulling on a piece of rope or leather engages the mechanism that drives the clippers.
The shearer from N^o 1 stand catches sheep from the pen which is behind the broom.
After removing the fleece he pushes the sheep down the chute dimly seen at the far right of the photograph.
While the shearer fetches another sheep the rouseabout picks up the fleece and flings it over the classing table.
The shorter lengths of wool are "skirted" from the fleece and any defective parts removed.
The fleece is then rolled up and placed in a bin, or placed directly in the woolpress.
 

This is the engine that drives the shearing gear.  It is a Lister.  No oil circulation except by splash.  Starts with a crank.
The carbeurettor (to the left of the engine) is a piece of pipe with petrol dripping in to the airstream.
 Single cylinder.  No rings.  About 300cc & 600 RPM.  Might be half a horsepower.
But - it does the job!

Early Homestead.