Miners huts

Dont know if there is a thread on this
(If there is mods please move?
Post up your pics of the ol time homes etc that we find out in the bush
Found this beauty today

Air BnB anyone?

"Single bedroom fixer-upper, with excellent ventilation and 360° bush views - suit handyman"

"Gardens already well established"

Would of been some hard living in some of these huts in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Seen plenty of them out there.

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Thanks for sharing this. Makes one think...

Must have been a good spot by the river in its day...... a solid little bugger this one

kiwifred said:

Must have been a good spot by the river in its day...... a solid little bugger this one

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Built like the proverbial!

This old boy has seen better days

It could tell a few stories mate.

Thanks for posting these pics. It was certainly a rough existence. One would only hope that along the way they hit paydirt.

Why theres nothing wrong with that one that a little plumbing of walls and some bracing to keep them true. Then a Pole Roof with some Sod to SLOW the rain till it could DRIP off the back of the roof. with a Tin barrel stove and some scrounged stove pipe you'd have a Nice SHACK to live in!!!
In the winter of 1981-82 I lived in a 7' x 7' x7' cabin all winter while panning and sluicing for gold on the Middle Fork of the Yuba River in Califrornia. I HAD to make $80 to have enough money to buy gas and such to make it out and back to the Gold Exchange in town to sell my gold.

Good man. Thanks for your story. Hope you struck it rich.

I did Strike It Rich Skiffed! My reason for staying all winter on the River was to See it Rise in Full Flood in the Spring Run off. I knew where I had gotten a lot of gold Dredging that Summer and I wanted to see how that correlated with where I Thought it should accumulate!
To keep myself from Going Loony I packed an extra 12 volt Battery down across the Dutchman Cable Car into the Cabin and used it for the Radio and my Dome light I stole out of the '68 Dodge van. I used some Blasting Cap wire to hook them up. for the switch for the radio I just stripped the insulation for a 1/2" and bent into a S hook so the other end that went to the radio would turn it on and to turn it off I just bent an S with the insulation still on to hang it on.
I needed to know When I had enough gold to go to town and back, so I would snuffer up all the gold I got from the black sand and use my gas torch and baking soda to refine it. Then I would weight it out on my RCBS Powder Scales and know how much weight I had. I would listen on the Radio to hear what the Spot price for gold was and then I would know how much money I had. I had to have $80.00 or more to pay for the trip to town and back.
While I was reading Taggarts Handbook of Ore Dressing on the Deister Bump Table I thought I wold try that in the gold pan and By Gosh it worked. Tapping the top of a tilted pan send the gold to the top corner of the pan ala the 'Blueberry Bump'. In 1980 I thought I was pretty Smart to figure that out. Well some 20 years later I watched a video from GPAA and I was offended that they didn't give me credit for the "Bump Method". Well some 10+ years later I was reading De RE Metallica and on page 336 in the upper part of the woodcut it shows a man bumping the pan with the palm of his hand. In the text it explains what he is doing and why. WELL I was flustered and had to admit to myself that I wasn't so "SMART" after all, if they knew how to do this in 1547 and Before.
It's ALWAYS good to have those Ego Deflating Moments in your life its just what you do with them afterward that Counts.
Sincerely
Bill aka "Lost Adams"

Here is the page from De Re Metallica!

These were taken at the town of Austin located on the Island in WA.

This is the remains of the town.



This one built on top of the claim.





This was the explosives shed...don't know what happened there

This is one that still stands at Moliagul Vic.
Next to Commissioners gully I think if my memory of its name is correct. Its on the road into Moliagul area towards the Welcome monument turn left from the flying Dr one driving with Surface gully on your right. Clear as mud Blame my age.


Some say it was later, not much, some say it was and someone many many years ago made it livable with what was left depression days. Im of the mind that as its seriously old but does have remnants of later add on. Still a history classic.
The bummer though is. On the Specimen Gully surfacing is the remnants of a 100% miners hut. It was I remember in my early days detecting Moliagul with Vlfs very much intact. In fact it was considered the most intact remaining Miners Cottage left in Victoria.
Parks did a burn there many yrs ago.
They burnt it leaving just skeleton remains destroying it. It used to have the windows, door and was an amazing thing to see. They destroyed it.
If your ever walking over surface gully and see brick remains of something, sadly that was it.
Edit.
The Welcome Stranger Monument.
At the time weeks ago when we took that picture we went to the Welcome Stranger Monument. It was an utter disgrace given its historical significance. The road in was deep pot hole ridden and washed out with deep chanel's all over the place. A normal car would struggle getting to it.
The monument was utterly neglected to the point you struggled to read the wording.
So much for the Dunolly historical society. Its been like this for several yrs and is a disgrace and no excuse. This place is of huge historical significance yet utterly neglected.
This is it right now.