Great Southern
Rock under Albany, and karri over the road to Walpole
Stock held for Albany and the Great Southern is chosen for the pad you can level. Granite at Mount Clarence will not take a shovel, and a fall toward Princess Royal Harbour can skew a shell coming off a tray.
- Where it is loaded
- Matched on this coast, then sent to the gate you name
- What sets the day
- Whether the track is still firm, and which shell fits the pad
- Usual truck
- Tray on an easy drive; crane on the steep streets and the rock
Places
Harbour town, then forest
Frenchman Bay and Goode Beach want a crane on the rock. Yakamia and Bayonet Head, still in 6330, often do not. Denmark is 6333, Mount Barker and the Porongurups 6324, Walpole under the karri 6398. Salt works hardest at Middleton Beach, Emu Point and Torndirrup.
The pad
Pack the low end, do not dig
Measure the level patch and the door swing, not the whole block. On granite you crib the low corner. The climb on Mount Clarence often leaves the crane in the street. Clay and gravel farm tracks go soft once the wet is in, and a ute is a poor test of them.
Uses
Port, sheep country, beach garages
Grain and woodchips leave through the port. Inland it is sheep, cattle, then cropping toward Kendenup and the Porongurups, once the gate is honest. Town calls are garages that filled up at Middleton Beach and Spencer Park. Ocean-side door rubbers need a look more often than the same steel would at Katanning.
Nights
The ceiling weeps when the air cools
A still February afternoon will cook a shut box, but the usual complaint is the other way. Cool nights bead the roof and drip on whatever touches the floor. Vent the shell, keep goods up off the ply, and leave wet nets outside. How long a unit may sit at Mount Barker is a question for the Shire of Plantagenet.
Slopes, drips and forest roads
Cool mornings leave the roof dripping. Is that a leak?
Usually it is condensation. Warm air meets cold steel and the water comes down. Lift goods off the floor and do not shut damp feed in overnight. Daylight through the roof, doors pulled to, is a real hole, and that unit should be swapped before it travels.
The block falls toward the harbour. Can you still place it?
Yes, once the grade is known. A tray can let the shell walk sideways on a fall to Princess Royal Harbour or the Sound, so those jobs become a crane in the street. Crib the low end. The rock will not take a bucket cut just to make a level.
Denmark, Mount Barker or Walpole: same arrangement?
The shell is chosen for the pad. The road changes. Denmark is the shorter hop. Walpole and Nornalup are winding, wet and cut into hillsides. Mount Barker and Kendenup are farm gates on clay that softens. Say what a loaded truck last did, not what the ute does.
Get a price
Name the slope and the trees
Town, a Mount Barker farm, or the track toward Walpole. We price the truck to that gate.
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