Post by smiles on Mar 22, 2015 14:42:42 GMT 10
Yangan Heavy Horse Day is held yearly to raise funds for the Westpac care flight helicopter. The one day event on Sunday 3rd May is held on Mick Bradford’s farm near the small township of Yangan about 22kms from Warwick in the middle of the Darling Downs. Many of his mates bring along their teams of heavy workhorses and all tasks on the day are horse powered using farm machinery from 1800’s & 1900’s. Mick has specially grown paddocks ready for grain harvesting/reaping, mowing, raking, winnowing, hay making/baling, ploughing, plus there’s firewood sawing, a forge making/repairing wagon wheels, you name it!
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Near Mick’s house there are HUGE camp ovens about 3ft across, with stew & damper for sale. This is the 14th year Mick has had this event and it’s great to see the old blokes training up the young guys to do the work, as they are desperate to keep these skills alive. This is a ridgy didge day, not a glamoured up commercial reproduction of farming life.
So wear appropriate footwear, big horses leave big footprints & you know-what-else!
I’ve phoned up Mick and he is happy to have some vintage vans come & camp on the Saturday night 2nd May in the grassy paddock next to his house. No power, no showers but we can use his Porta Loos. Mick will just charge us the $10/person admission price to his Heavy Horse Day so that means we will camp for free. I didn’t ask him about making fires but I reckon fires will be alight anyway.
You may have noticed that Saturday 3rd May is the last night of the Toads n Roaches tour, so I’m suggesting this as an alternative to Saturday night at Jondaryan. Its pretty much the same distance to travel from previous destination on Saturday morning & it puts the Southerners just a little bit further south & closer to home! Most of the events are over just after lunch so it’s possible to have some travel time on the Sunday.
smiles
heavyhorseday.com/#
Near Mick’s house there are HUGE camp ovens about 3ft across, with stew & damper for sale. This is the 14th year Mick has had this event and it’s great to see the old blokes training up the young guys to do the work, as they are desperate to keep these skills alive. This is a ridgy didge day, not a glamoured up commercial reproduction of farming life.
So wear appropriate footwear, big horses leave big footprints & you know-what-else!
I’ve phoned up Mick and he is happy to have some vintage vans come & camp on the Saturday night 2nd May in the grassy paddock next to his house. No power, no showers but we can use his Porta Loos. Mick will just charge us the $10/person admission price to his Heavy Horse Day so that means we will camp for free. I didn’t ask him about making fires but I reckon fires will be alight anyway.
You may have noticed that Saturday 3rd May is the last night of the Toads n Roaches tour, so I’m suggesting this as an alternative to Saturday night at Jondaryan. Its pretty much the same distance to travel from previous destination on Saturday morning & it puts the Southerners just a little bit further south & closer to home! Most of the events are over just after lunch so it’s possible to have some travel time on the Sunday.
smiles
