Miners huts

[kiwifred]

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

 

[kiwifred]

 

[Mackka]

Air BnB anyone?

 

[grubstake]

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

 

[fwdoz]

"Gardens already well established"

 

[Martin]

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

 

[Skiffed]

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Thanks for sharing this. Makes one think...

 

[kiwifred]

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

 

[kiwifred]

 

[kiwifred]

 

[grubstake]

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

Built like the proverbial!

 

[kiwifred]

This old boy has seen better days

 

[Mackka]

It could tell a few stories mate.

 

[Skiffed]

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

 

[Lost Adams]

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.

 

[Skiffed]

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