Transporting of fridges

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Wednesday Jan 25, 2006 11:24 pm

B&S Balls, what a top weekend!!!!! Used to go to one in WA called the Inseminators Ball, was a ripper!! Never got many Kiwi's there though!!!

plenty of booze

heaps of lovely young ladies

and donuts in the back paddock!!!!

yehaw!!!

On a different tack, when working on a shearing team in out back WA, we used to come across the old kero fridge in some sheds. If it would work we'd bung it in the ute and drive it around the paddock the shake the crap out of it, then stand it up for an hour or two before firing it up again!

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Thursday Jan 26, 2006 2:57 am

Ok, I'll bite

What is it?

Dogger

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Thursday Jan 26, 2006 7:36 am

I guess you would never have needed a kero fridge in your neck of the woods Dogger, but when I was a lad that is all we had in the bush. You see we had no mains power and in the early days only had 32v power suplied by batteries that where charged by an early wind generator, or a little diesel engine with a generator on it. For refridgeration we had kero fridges, shits of things really, cold as buggery in the winter and only cool in the summer, but that was all we had. They are the same type of unit as the modern day gas/electric fridges you find in mobile homes etc. but these ran on lighting kerosene, ( think you blokes call it paraffin or something) They have a tank underneath that holds the kero, and that has a wick arrangement similar to the old kero lamps, this supplies the heat to get the liquid to become gas (which I think is ammonia) it then circulates through the system and cause cooling...........sort of!

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Thursday Jan 26, 2006 8:50 am

Yeh Ross

Am all over that chum My grandfather used to light his pipe off them, watched him dick around with an electric bulb trying to light his pipe when I was only wee. We still use them here actually if you have to fly in anywhere

I am not following the Band S Ball thing

Dogger

Boozer · Post by **Boozer** » Thursday Jan 26, 2006 9:28 am

Lesson in Aussie "culture" for you Dogger:

B & S Balls (Bachelors & Spinsters Ball) are a huge event on the rural social scene. Originally they were held to give single country people the opportunity to meet potential suitors and expand their circle of aquaintances.

These days, they are simply an excuse for a huge piss-up somewhere in the bush, loads of sex, fights, and "circle work" in the mornings. Circle work involves doing lots of "donuts" in high powered utes (pickup trucks) in the mud or dust of the nearest paddock, sometimes towing a party goer behind them on a piece of cardboard.

If you're an Aussie & haven't been to a B & S Ball then you haven't lived!!!

grabman · Post by **grabman** » Thursday Jan 26, 2006 10:38 am

When you come to Oz Dogger we'll find one to take you to!!!

Great weekends!!!

Or at least used to be, I may not be able to keep up now!!! IT's a young mans sport!!

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Thursday Jan 26, 2006 11:06 am

they can be quite taxing.

Dogger Dan · Post by **Dogger Dan** » Friday Jan 27, 2006 3:45 am

Like I need an excuse for a piss up in the bush

Like today is fine, it is the 26th day of 2006 and there wont be another

By the way, Happy Australia Day

Dogger

yardglass · Post by **yardglass** » Friday Jan 27, 2006 4:48 am

cheers Dogger, goodonya cobber.