Thread: The Proserpine Turnout 2009

Yeah, I can help with the Dean Finish too

Jeff, get in to the ruck there for me.

BTW the stuff's called Acacia Tetragonophylla (= 4 angled leaves) in the Centre.

First time I've been to a do like this so I dived in with the camera for a minute or two and then completely forgot about it for the rest of the weekend - too much to see, too many ears to chew etc, etc .
36 lathes and 60 or so blokes in a tent with a trailer full of wood, perfect weather, good food and Dave Dreschers mobile toy-shop parked right next to the tent - what more could a bloke ask for .
Gordon Ward was flown over from WA and provided some good entertainment, on AND off the lathe .
The pro's like Ken (KenW), (!), Jim (PowderPost) and others were always available to help anyone that needed it. A bit of wood swapping going on around the utes and trailers. Shaving and dust flying everywhere - geez it was nice!
Of course Cliff had to go grabbin' the limelight by hammering a chunk of wood into his eye and having to go into Prossy to have it surgically removed but I'll let him tell ya's the full story
Easy to see why most of the crew keep going year after year - I reckon I'll be back next year
Some pics....
1. The tent.
2. The 'supplies' - more Mango and Leichardt than you could poke a stick at!
3. and Ken harassing Jefferson again
4. Cliff attacking some Brigalow.
5. Gordon in a rare moment without an audience.
6. A lathe-line.

Originally Posted by rsser

Yeah, I can help with the Dean Finish too

Jeff, get in to the ruck there for me.

BTW the stuff's called Acacia Tetragonophylla (= 4 angled leaves) in the Centre.

It's actually archidendropsis basaltica Ern but I'm just picky with these things

Heheh, prob botanists themselves disagree.

I was going off one book and the labelling in two semi-arid botanic gardens: Pt Augusta and Alice. Mebbe there's regional variations in naming too.

Good man, TT for taking & posting the pics

Originally Posted by TTIT

First time I've been to a do like this so I dived in with the camera for a minute or two and then completely forgot about it for the rest of the weekend - too much to see, too many ears to chew etc, etc .
36 lathes and 60 or so blokes in a tent with a trailer full of wood, perfect weather, good food and Dave Dreschers mobile toy-shop parked right next to the tent - what more could a bloke ask for .
Gordon Ward was flown over from WA and provided some good entertainment, on AND off the lathe .
The pro's like Ken (KenW), (!), Jim (PowderPost) and others were always available to help anyone that needed it. A bit of wood swapping going on around the utes and trailers. Shaving and dust flying everywhere - geez it was nice!
Of course Cliff had to go grabbin' the limelight by hammering a chunk of wood into his eye and having to go into Prossy to have it surgically removed but I'll let him tell ya's the full story
Easy to see why most of the crew keep going year after year - I reckon I'll be back next year
Some pics....
1. The tent.
2. The 'supplies' - more Mango and Leichardt than you could poke a stick at!
3. and Ken harassing Jefferson again
4. Cliff attacking some Brigalow.
5. Gordon in a rare moment without an audience.
6. A lathe-line.

Great photo Vern many thanks.
Just one Tent must have pinched it of a traveling circus lots of clowns stayed with it, and the Ring Master.

Mango looks great any chance of it heading south.

hasn't got his scythe or a gouge in his hand

Cliff nice to see your Jet looks a neat as mine, lamp looks familiar to, be warned those damn globes although terrific for light quality also cause lamp/sunburn I found working so close even at 500mm away.

Vern, trust you to post the first reply, sorry I did not get to say goodbye yesterday. There are so many story's, but I think Gordon Wards triple tool, the bowl gouge/skew/scraper, was the highlight of the weekend for me.We were hoping to get a group photo of all the Fourmites that were there, to show everybody, but when exploded that bowl, they all went gun shy
Anyway, catch you all next year,
Crocy.

Originally Posted by rsser

........... Mebbe there's regional variations in naming too.

Many, many, many . Common names are the greatest possible tool for misleading the semi-educated. Names like Black wattle, Dogwood etc get used over and over, even within one region. I know of at least 6 species of wattle around here that the locals just call 'Black wattle'.
I've always been amazed at our lack of imagination in naming things in Oz - ever noticed when you're travelling around the bush how many times you cross 'Stony Creek', 'Deep creek', 'Five-mile creek' and 'Nine-mile creek' ?????? bloody dozens of 'em

Breakfast Ck, Camp Ck, Running Ck (which usually isn't any more) ....

So maybe we're talking about two or more 'Dead finishes'.

And there can be intergrading and hybridising. And reclassifying, like Eu becoming Corymbia.

The guide I tried to use in the field was A Guide to Inland Plants of Australia by Moore.

Could be all sorts of reasons for the confusion Ern - one explanation I could give you would take take too long to tell here. Acacia Tetragonophylla is also known as Western Dead Finish up here - I think it's the one KenW prefers 'cos he reckons it holds it's colour better. Another cause for mix-up is that archidendropsis basaltica was once in the acacia genus - hence the other common name of Spearwood wattle - must have played up a bit and got the boot from that family . Just to mix it up a little more, it's also known as Purple Needlewood by the forestry guy's . . . . . . . . never ends!

Looks like everyone had a good time, one day I'll make it up there.

Originally Posted by rsser

...Running Ck (which usually isn't any more)

The one down here is still. The bridges over it are known as Running Creek 1, Running Creek 2, ....., Running Creek 12

Originally Posted by TTIT

It's actually archidendropsis basaltica Ern but I'm just picky with these things

That's what I know it as. I also know Dead Finish as Red Lancewood

Originally Posted by TTIT

Of course Cliff had to go grabbin' the limelight by hammering a chunk of wood into his eye and having to go into Prossy to have it surgically removed but I'll let him tell ya's the full story

That'd be right, can't help himself can he, has to be the centre of attention

Hope he is healing well and has no long term effect from it

Originally Posted by rsser

Heheh, prob botanists themselves disagree.

I was going off one book and the labelling in two semi-arid botanic gardens: Pt Augusta and Alice. Mebbe there's regional variations in naming too.

Hmmm... saw the same mistake in the botanic gardens at Broken Hill, but will take Vern's nomenclature as more authoritative...

Originally Posted by wheelinround

hasn't got his scythe or a gouge in his hand

Perhaps he was giving the scythe a rest after giving his hair and beard a light 'trim'....

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