Start thinking about it

[Wood Borer]

Wow, turning mud and turning wood.

The event is for everyone who wants to make it so let me know what long term preparations I need to make.

I think I will start with a new workbench and maybe set up the radial arm and the SCMS, perhaps the second bandsaw.

What do people think of holding it in the cooler weather or would you prefer to wait until it gets a bit warmer? Meg and I are easy either way although if anyone was thinking of sleeping in a tent it might be cool.

We have two spare bedrooms with double beds, a double bed in the loft and heaps of floor space in the loft, a double bed in the cottage, two bunk beds in the cottage and two single beds that can be set up in the house or the cottage.

We have heaps of room for parking including space for caravans etc.

There is no mobile phone reception here.

It is bitumen all the way apart from our drive (which is only about 400m). It is an easy 3 hour drive from Melbourne.

GPS maps aren't very good around here. Plenty of amusing tales about them including sending cars up some steeper 4WD tracks when they could have gone bitumen all the way.

Anyone coming from interstate can be picked up at Benalla station or Mansfield Bus depot.

Send me a PM if you are concerned about how to get here - we'll figure out a way.

[RETIRED]

including sending cars up some steeper 4WD tracks when they could have gone bitumen all the way.

Who'd do that?

[echnidna]

I'd love to go but I'm not keen on camping in the snow.

####ing done that once, just south of the Queensland border in the bush out back of Tenterfield. It was so cold I couldn't start me diesel landcruiser till I poured some petrol down its guts. ####ing packed up and went south to the warm weather in Vic.

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oops wrong forum

[Wood Borer]

Who'd do that?

The most recent report involved sending a car and caravan up McDonald Spur Track. This track is no overly steep by 4WD standards.

If you are descending it about 1/3 it involves being in first low range 4WD, 2nd low and you have to use your brakes in a diesel. It drops about 400m over about a Km but it winds around a bit.

Not quite suitable for a 2WD car towing a caravan attempting to get up!

Fortunately they turned around before they got anywhere near the steeper bits and used an ancient forms of navigating - common sense, hard copy maps and map reading skills.

[Wood Borer]

The temperatures can get a little bit low here but it doesn't seem quite as cold as say Melbourne. Perhaps the air is drier and perhaps people tend to dress a bit better for the cold.

[Waldo]

What do people think of holding it in the cooler weather or would you prefer to wait until it gets a bit warmer?

No one else has chimed in, so I will. Think my SWMBO and kids are off to her folks for two weeks over the later half of August, which gives me lots of free play time.

But if it's another time, no biggie.

[echnidna]

I'd like to come after the ice on the creeks thaws out.

[RufflyRustic]

I'd have a better chance at making it in late October

[tea lady]

I think I'd rather have it when it starts warming up again.

[Sturdee]

As much as I'd like to come Rob I think I must decline.

At this stage I'm not yet certain as to when my radiation treatment will start but at least it would be 3 months before it's finished.

Also my continuing interrupted sleeping habitcis not conducive to sleeping anywhere but at home so staying overnight is not an option and neither is driving up and back on the same day.

But have fun guys.


Peter.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

If I start hitching now, you got room to put up a boarder until the Big Event?

[Groggy]

Rob, cold weather doesn't bother me, I'll sleep in the box in the yoot.

(snow beats bushfires any day in my book)

[funkychicken]

What do people think of holding it in the cooler weather or would you prefer to wait until it gets a bit warmer?

He's lying, it doesn't get warm there, it just gets less colderer.

We have two spare bedrooms with double beds

I ain't sharing

[Wood Borer]

The first Bulletin Board get together I held was in August 2004 when we were in Melbourne. CraigB was visiting from Sydney. There were only a few of us huddled in my small shed. That was easy to organise because he was in town on a definite day.

In December 2004, Wongo was visiting Melbourne and again it was easy to oganise because of the small window of opportunity.

With a clean canvas it is more difficult.

We are available in both August and October although late October might interfere or complement the Timber and Working with Wood show. It is normally held late October.

[AlexS]

FWIW, the Melbourne Fringe Furniture exhibition is usually in October, followed by the TWW show.
Melbourne Fringe Furniture