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We used to do that when we kids on Fraser Island,no such thing as a car fridge and dual batteries in those days.Quote:
Originally Posted by windsock
But it wasn’t tinnies,it was tallies for the adults and margarine for all of us[biggrin]
We always camped near a creek or lake.
Yep, old school that works through the ages. Two things I always looked for when setting up a bush camp. Fresh flowing water so proximity to a creek out of any pending flood zone and also an easy roll downhill from a wind fall Tawa tree for firewood.Quote:
Originally Posted by scarry
When bush camping over here over the warmer months I used to have an old large steel rubbish bin I used in camp for a food store. I collapsed the lid so it sat flat or slightly dished and would place a 10-litre bowl of water on top and use old towels to drape down the side of the bin and these would wick the water down and cool the sides through evaporation. Steel bin also kept the food safe from chewing critters. I also used a hanging mesh food safe but had to watch this with the possums dropping down onto it occasionally and making havoc.
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It's not even a 10mm!
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Originally Posted by V8Ian
You'd think today that if you were going to really **** summat up you could get the correct size spanner to do the job proper like. ****ing amateurs!
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I bet that made a bit of a racket. What RPM would that have been doing, any idea? Don't say it "not many now".
Idle would be enough.
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Originally Posted by windsock
So a Coolgardie Safe then?
Coolgardie safe - Wikipedia
My thoughts as well. Plus a water bag on the roo bar.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4bee
Good to have a name for it. Nothing new under the sun huh? Never had a name for it before other than a 'wet dry' or evaporative cooler. My old aunty showed me the trick something like 50-55 years ago now. She had a couple of them behind the house under the grapevine trellis. Then the 'new' frigidaire showed up and the steel drums disappeared. The food safe stayed as my aunty liked airflow around some foods.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4bee
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Originally Posted by Tins
You don't see those around anymore [bigsad], always lovely to drink from if you ignore the sometimes taste of crappy Canvas.
The Safe is one of my earliest recollections of living in our Torrensville house. It sat in the "side", lane the narrow side of the house where it had a great breeze over it. Then the folks got an Ice Chest until we moved & I worked as a Fridgie & was able to find them a 5 cft BRS Refrigerator & they thought they were king of the heap, them being brought up & lived through the Great Depression Years of the early 1930s.
To make Ice cream at home we had a wooden pail (like a small wine keg but a bucket shape) with a gear assy across the top with a handle. This in turn rotated a vertical Galvanised open-able cylinder attached to the horizontal gear train which rotated in a bed of slush ice & Butchers Salt. et voila la Glace..
The next ICE Cream Maker was a metal drum made by Willow that worked on the same principle but in that one you poured in the Kraft mix in one end, the other end was a lever locked lid where the Ice & Salt went in. You closed it up & two kids rolled it back & forth instead of turning a handle. Slave labour??
Both made excellent Ice cream & both used Ice & Salt as the transfer medium.
OLD ANTIQUE RARE WOODEN AND IRON 2 QTS SUDDAL HAND - CRANK ICE CREAM MAKER | eBay Thus.
2 qts = 4 pints=1/2 gallon for those a bit dim about the olde measurements.[bigrolf]
Then we got the fridge & later on, Ice Cream was in packets & now plastic tubs.[bigsad]
One of the most necessary items for a trip, in the early days. Also, one of the most water wasting devices known to man, other than garden hoses![biggrin]Quote:
Originally Posted by Tins
