Exploring/Detecting a 100 Year Old Shearer's Barracks & Manager's House.

In this video we were invited to explore and detect a sheep run that dates back to the 1860s. In this first recon sortie we have a look and a bit of a scratch around the abandoned shearer's barracks and Manager's residence. No great finds but a look at some great Australiana from the heyday of the wool industry.
Thanks for watching and subscribing! Warren and Colleen.
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[@AviationSafety101]

Great video Warren and Colleen. The outside stove looks like a copper for doing the washing. The copper bowl has been removed. I saw heaps of them when I was a kid.

[@67hr74]

100% correct

[@jaymannewell]

I would suggest it was not just for washing as they had multiple uses, the proximity to the chicken run for broiling is an example.

[@JayInOz1]

My Dad was a shearer, as were my grandfather and a bunch of other relatives. We had a six stand shed and shore up to twenty four thousand sheep at home. I was a crappy shearer- bad back and bad temper. I've never heard the shearers accomodation referred to as anything other than the shearers quarters, occasionally the shearers hut on small, old properties. There's an old hundred stand shed a few miles from Merriwa- would have hated to be a rouseabout in that one. :) In the very early nineteen hundreds one of my great uncles had a standing bet for years- two hundred quid- that he could shear a hundred sheep with the blades and cut an acre of wheat with a scythe in one day. Nobody ever took him on. Cheers mate. Keep 'em coming!

[@davidcoote4831]

Great video as always. Fascinating stuff. Wishing I was there! 👍☺

[@arleaf216]

Great video thanks, knob and shaft at 3:52 looks like the wick adjuster off a kerosese lamp

[@paulpeople9178]

Cheers guys good stuff

[@mickpapa72]

Another great video, thank you 🍻

[@richardbeee]

Cool explore. Can't wait to see some more!😊

[@brushitoff503]

That would make a beautiful little bush retreat! Thanks for the explore!

[@briansparks8528]

Thanks for the video.Yes Australia did ride on the sheep’s back.One of the biggest buyers of Australian wool was the old Soviet Union When that collapsed in the early 90s so did the wool price and as they say the rest is history. A lot of money was spent on constructing those buildings so it gives some idea of the wealth generated by wool .Thanks again for a glimpse into Australian history which is very unique and resourceful

[@phillipgriffin7]

Great video mate When I was a kid my dad ran the shearing shed off the PTO of an old Massey Ferguson

[@waynegiles2873]

Reminds me off the shearers quarters we stay at has the old home stead there 100 plus years that wool press the one there was 1920s look very similar to the one in your video great video can't wait for more

[@jimmymalone3494]

That's awesome place to hunt' I enjoyed your video Warren good luck to you.

[@aussieauntynette6892]

G'day, good vid mate 👍 The outside stove behind the laundry, IS a copper. I have one exactly the same. The big copper bowl is still in mine whereas there, with the timeline and remoteness, the copper bowl was probably reused elsewhere to replace a worn one or used to patch up something else that was copper too or even melted down to make something else. The worst would be if some mongrel got there and had stolen a bunch of metal that was easy to remove and walk away with. I grew up exploring old huts and sheds etc. We always treated them with respect and left them as they were, always discovering what was left behind fascinating. Never removing anything. If there were anything particularly valuable or in good condition we'd let the owners know as it's their inheritance, many were happy to be told of particular items. Love to see a close up of the stove inside,in the kitchen. I have a very old Metters, it has a built in hot water side, holds about 6 litres with a tap so you have hot water for a pot of tea and hot water for the dishes. It has a very narrow fire section for sticks and small wood only a hands width in height, my favourite feature though is the unusual oven door handle. It's a fist. You grab the hand/fist and rotate to unlock the oven door. It's beautiful really. The old owner didn't want it, couldn't care less about it, had it sitting outside, half in the rain for over 50years. I asked about it and worked his sheep for a week for crutching and it became mine. Thanks for posting, have a great day from Southern NSW 🇭🇲🦘🙏🦘🇭🇲

[@dirtclodmetaldetecting]

Neat spot to explore! The thing you found outside the window at 8:40 mark looks the same as something I found a few days ago in our yard on a ranch in Oregon, USA! My dad said maybe part of a sprinkler but now that I see yours...You think it's a footing for an old lamp? That's interesting!

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

That was interesting Warren , thank you. 👍

[@terrystewart2070]

Hi Warren and Coleen from Northern California. I really enjoy your videos of these vintage Aussie homesteads and in this case sheep stations. I will be looking forward to many more videos from this locale. It was neat to see the barracks and the house built on stumps. Up until a few years ago I owned an old house in a nearby town that built in 1885 on sawed off tree stumps of trees that were originally growing where the house was built. After about 130 years all the perimeter stumps rotted away and the house settled, so I jacked it all up and put concrete piers under it, but all the interior support stumps were still rock solid! Were those caps on the stumps lead covers to keep the water out of them? I hope that the shearing shed still has the old equipment as I find that stuff very interesting. Thanks for all your sortie vids! Happy fossiking my friends!

[@clintoncyrilvoss4287]

It's a shearers quarter's not a barracks .

[@Journeyman53]

The cast iron fire pit held the copper pot for washing. Some were cast iron, some were made of concrete. They were just referred to as the "copper". As for electricity, it may have been a 32 volt plant. Great video Warren, as usual.

[@davidfisher7440]

Yes definitely a copper for doing the washing. Someone has removed the actual copper bowl as they are quite good scrap value. These were quite common here in NZ back in the day. We had one when I was a nipper in the fifties.

[@Journeyman53]

@@davidfisher7440 Yes David, I think every household had one. Also the push out window may have been the place where the boiled clothes were loaded into the tubs for rinsing, The tomahawk and the big bars of soap. Brings back old memories.

[@peterwhelan6144]

No stew cooked on that “ Stove “ - it is a WASHING COPPER ( as another comment said the copper insert which held the water is missing . I’m surprised someone your age and hobby / job didn’t recognise it .

[@roderernst9990]

Lined with Tongue&groove.

[@craigdutton6072]

Old boiler for washing ! It’s just missing the copper insert 🇦🇺

[@brucenenke-vk5nk]

I had one Uncle that had sheds for 150 shearers and I had another Uncle who could shear 300 sheep in a day.

[@edwardsmith7363]

I would love the metal detector

[@laurieboyle3338]

8.41 Sprinkler spinner head. I noticed all the calcium leaks on the outside of the rainwater tank. That would have been cemented on the inside to make it last longer. in my plumbing days we would spread some chook wire all around the inside d render all over the inside. This would make the tank last for years but where ever you see that calcium outside it is nothing to worry about that is where holes were That is the copper the yard for heating the bath water, That would have had a copper bowl inside and the fire heated the water from below This was often in the bath room or bath room ours kept us warm in the winter time while having a bath

[@brettellis1837]

Any cracks under building floor under ya go lol😂 take the 12 gauge. 😂

[@mick00000000002]

Most people these days have no idea. . Cheers mick.

[@roderernst9990]

Thats a Wash Boiler would have had copperdish in the top of it.

[@brettellis1837]

It's a wonder ya didn't find a wasp nest the size of a dinner plate.😂

[@pkgoldopalhunting]

nice

[@helennicholson9530slim]

Great video would have been a fine pace in its day thy longdrop toilet where is thy location

[@mick00000000002]

Where did the gray water go

[@mick00000000002]

Where did the gray water go. Geo where was the flowing

[@peterbaylis2111]

That Would of been an Old Copper

[@edenaus]

I thought it might be an old fat rendering boiler they used to make candles from the sheep fat, id never seen a cast iron copper boiler surround. Most of the ones ive seen were bricked in boxes, you lot must be well to do. Live and learn What that have cost in the old catalogues

[@Greypolly]

HB Dalby

[@jorge89metal]

HB Dalby I think the outside stove had on it

[@keithjames9654]

Not a stove, a copper boiler for the laundry

[@ericperry4735]

Definitely a copper.