Forrest Creek Images , Castlemaine

Don't  know if these have been up before, found them in an Australian Art book.
















Cheers, Harry.

Cheers harry, Interesting, any Ideas what the clothes line looking contraptions are in the 4th picture?

Wayne.

Digginerup wrote:Cheers harry, Interesting, any Ideas what the clothes line looking contraptions are in the 4th picture?

Wayne.

Hi Wayne, looks like some sort of wind powered quartz crushing windmill. If it is, then it's the first one I've ever seen. H.

Gday that fourth picture shows cattle one end and carcasses the other so those things are like a windlass crane to lift them then the wagon to take the meat away. Just my opinion. Old time abattoir.
Regards big fella

My grandfather had a similar contraption on the farm which I was told was for lifting the slaughtered carcass up for cutting up .... I never saw it used but then I was not around in the 1st and 2nd or 3rd decades of the 1900's when things must have been tough on the land... dundiggin

Thanks to Big Fella and Dundiggin, for clearing that up.
I wonder if there ever was any wind powered hammers?

Good call fellas, now that I take a proper look  you can see a couple of joes processing a carcass, thanks, wind powered hammers......interesting thought Harry

Wayne.

Doubt very much it would be wind powered hammers as they wouldn't set up butchers shop underneath it. You can see stone for sharpening knives also underneath it. At a guess it may even be a hand windlass to lift the beef carcass as note it looks like it's at a gate of the stock yard. A carcass could weigh near on a tonne for a big animal and they would need to be lifted to be bled out after being killed . Just guessing ?

Sorry Dundiggin just read your post after posting ...................... yeah think were on track here