Watcha Dooen at Dooen - 27, 28 & 29 GTG 2017

​2017

Jerilderie Jaunt was held at Dooen and was a real success. This time we are looking at 3 jam packed days
Fri 27
Sat 28
Sun 29

That places it a little over 400 km w / sw of the previous 2

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It is about 1/2 way between Adelaide and Melbourne on the northern edge of Horsham.

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Not for the faint hearted, this will be the second year at the property and well, lets say she may still be a little rough when it comes to living quarters. I do hope to have some green grass this time round

There is a shed and will be at least 4 lathes on hand to use.

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For anyone who wants to rough it there is plenty of room for a swag, tent or caravan.

If you want to or can demonstrate anything over the event please let me know either on here or by PM

What will be

show and tell
Buy, swap, sell & give away
A yarn or three
Food, food and more food
Oppurtunity to use or learn on a lathe
Fire heap challenge
Oldgreybeard may give some photograpgy and photoshop lessons
Maureen is talking of bringing her spinning wheel
Raechell will have her dolls and be happy to show anyone interested

Demo's and Lessons
Plans are to have a morning and afternoon demonstration each of the three days. This is seperate to crafting demo's which may appeal mainly to the women.
I hope to have the following
1) Production Turning
2) Finishing
3) Box making Incra Jig. Doug3030
4) Thread Chasing

Open to other suggestions here above and below

In the crafting section
1) Pyrography
2) Painting (dolls making)
3) Hair Rooting (doll making)
4) Spinning Yarn

There maybe some evening tutorials as well such as photography if we can get oldgreybeard to assist again


What to bring

Anything for the above
A chair
A wood working project/s to do or show off
Metal working as well if so inclined
Areo guard and a hat
Some of your work

Scrap Heap Challenge

There is a heap of fire wood and cut branches as well as sheet material & scrap metal etc. The challenge to make something from that heap. What ever is made must be minimum 90 % from that heap and the scrap metal heap.

Two prizes will be awarded
1st place as judged by those in attendance
1st place as judged by the forum (if I work out how to do a poll. Should 1st both be taken by the same piece then the forums choice award will go to second place. If Springwater makes it he will be allowed to enter the piece he started on last year)

Any ideas or donations as to what the prizes may be are most welome.

Accommodation

Horsham will provide the greatest range and closest accommodation for those who do not wish to rough it. This is a wotif link but feel free to look up locations by other means
https://www.wotif.com/Hotel-Search#d...ria,+Australia


The house would be on offer but not sure where I will be with the Reno's

Any demos or workshops are more than welcome as would be a lesson on how to use a mill or metal lathe.

Please let us know your level of interest in attending.




Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Food

Likely many will take advantage of the public holiday on Thursday for travel
Thursday night there will be a BBQ for whoever is there

Breakfast

Cereal
Toast
Bacon & Eggs
Baked beans

Lunch

Sandwiches
Rolls
Pies and Pasties
Hot Dogs

Tea

BBQ
Spaghetti Bolognaise

Drinks

Tea
Coffee
Water
Juice
Soft Drink
You are welcome to bring alchol, please drink in moderation and not if you will be using tools



There is a pub virtually next door for any who want to go and get a couner meal (at your own expense). Not encouraging a booze up but likely will be a drink or two in the evening for any who BYO

If you have special dietary needs you can bring your own or let me know and if I can I will accommodate.

If you want to bring anything to contribute to the supplies you are welcome to do so. As some are travelling some distance this is by no means expected.

Life has a way of throwing all sorts of challnges at us. If you cant afford to contribute finacially or with provisions dont be put off, come anyway.

For those who want to donate a few $$ there will be a tin or jar somewhere. I dont need to know who did or didn't donate or how much. Just come and have a good time.






Dave TTC
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Attendees for 2017

I will try and have this post updated and corrected by the Mods over time

Going off what has been said I believe all from the forum that attended the last one will come again plus a few who missed out

2) Pittwater Pete & Susie
4) Dirk_Pittwater & Sis
6) Oldgreybeard & Maureen
8) Simplicity & Sally
10) Doug 3030 & Jools
14) Ron & Debbie
16) Keith_1 & Kathy
20) Raechell, TylerTTC, SammyTTC and Tommy
21) Gabriel (have to work on plus 2)
22) Reploconics
23) KBs PensNmore
24) Sprinwater
25) Uncle Al
26) Springwater
27) RayG
28) Dave TTC
29) Billy (local club)
30) David Mitchell
31) Treecycle
32) rwbuild
33) crowie
38) Claudia (SIL) & Adam plus 3

Rememeber wives and children welcome. If you bring children you just need to be responsible for them

Dave TTC
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Thanks Dave and Raechell for running this event this year.

Jools and I are looking forward to the next one for sure and will try to get some leave time from work to be there for the whole weekend this time.

As the time gets closer we can talk about what to bring along and how we can help out.

Cheers

Doug

Add me too please

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Add me too please

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I thought Ihad you and crowie on there all ready ... consider it fixed

Dave TTC
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Plus maybe

39) pawoods

Dave TTC
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Wow
We should have your shed sorted by 10 am Friday
With all that help
I'm going to get me and Dirk clipboards right now

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Originally Posted by Simplicity

Wow
We should have your shed sorted by 10 am Friday
With all that help
I'm going to get me and Dirk clipboards right now

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What about the Thursday crew

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Uncle Al could be plus Ann and two other women

42) Ann plus 2 ?


Dave TTC
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Uncle Al could be plus Ann and two other women

42) Ann plus 2 ?

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Careful, I might get a reputation!

Alan...

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Originally Posted by Uncle Al

Careful, I might get a reputation!

Alan...

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Too late

Thursday crew will be doing pre work for the Friday crew

If my maths is right we could have 13 woman this time plus Sammy princess of the cave

Dave TTC
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Do we really need to seperate between woman and men?
If so ,I'm coming as a bit of both(no not in drag) it is 2016.
Can't we just have 20 plus people coming
Please.

Well some women are lut off coming because they think there wont be any women coming. This is a fine thing that we have so many

We have around 40 people in total now

Dave TTC
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Ok I'm coming as me then

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Ok I'm coming as me then

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And what is that. We have a princess already

Dave TTC
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Lol
Bugger looks like Sammy and me are on for young and old
I would place my bet on her tho
She's mean on that lathe

I think she is going to be demonstrating thread chasing at the next gtg

Dave TTC
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Metric or imperial or just British pipe standard or my favourite acme

Acme

Dave TTC
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In another 10 years it will be acne

Dave TTC
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I'm a definite maybe...this years trip knocked me up a fair bit, but I did enjoy the company and the time so it was very much worthwhile.....

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I'm a definite maybe...this years trip knocked me up a fair bit, but I did enjoy the company and the time so it was very much worthwhile.....

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I hope to see you again. If you are able to make the entire time without rush and I have a retreat somewhere for you it may knock you round less. It is a big drive for some.

Loved having you the last couple of years (broken Fix Or Repir Daily and all)

Dave TTC
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Spring is here. Before we know it summer will be here and Christmas will have been and gone.

That means .... we're getting closer to the next Australia Day Get Togethet.

Things are moving along here. May even be an airconditioned kitchen and longe this year round.

We seem to be on schedule to plant some runners in the coming weeks so the area between the shed and house could well be lush and green gor the day.

Im working on killing the forest in the parking area. This was several weeks ago

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Since then it grew so high little Tom got lost in there for a day or two lol.

I got bogged with all the rain and had to be pulled out by a 4wd. For thoae who saw the sry barron desolate waste land last year it may be hard to imagine water on this parched dry hard land but it happened

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Dave TTC
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G'Day Dave, Stop playing in the mud and get back to work fixing up the new digs.....:roll:.....

On another note please....

Who brought the toy similar to the one in the attached photo....
Tracey found it and got it for me for Father's Day.....
I'm hoping that whoever it was can give me a pattern for the toy please....
Cheers, Peter



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Crowie. Try Uncle Al. He may have a plan for that

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

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Originally Posted by crowie

G'Day Dave, Stop playing in the mud and get back to work fixing up the new digs.....:roll:.....

On another note please....

Who brought the toy similar to the one in the attached photo....
Tracey found it and got it for me for Father's Day.....
I'm hoping that whoever it was can give me a pattern for the toy please....
Cheers, Peter

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Guilty as charged, your honour!
There is no plan, this is the original which I traced and made templates from. I created some templates and cut out a couple of dozen units from 19mm Pine and bits of about 4mm plywood. Give me a day or three, and I will dig out the bits and pieces and knock up a scale drawing for you.

Oh, and a belated Happy Father's Day to you!.

Alan...

Sally is very much looking forward to it

Cheers Matt
Not shed cleaning this year

No shed cleaning. Thats cool. Plenty of weeds to pull instead

That said ... for those keen to lend a hand there could be a tree house raising for the kids if there is any interest.

They have a tree chosen up the back corner of the block that over looks the railway line.

Dave TTC
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You grooming your kids to become train spotters!! [emoji45]

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You grooming your kids to become train spotters!! [emoji45]

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They dont need grooming. Tommy wakes up to the 3am cargo train and then wakes me to take hime outside so he can wave to it as it goes by

Dave TTC
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Found the deepest puddle. Been more rain over night

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On another note was woken at 04:12 to watch another goods train go by in the dark cold wet night.

Dave TTC
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Sounds like it will be a ripper of an event.
I doubt very much I'd be able to make it, we expect little Miss to be about 4 weeks old by that weekend.

Well the bungalow should be built and have A/C. Im sure there would be a number excited to see a small bub if you decide to make the journey and we could organise a quiet spot for mum and or bubs to have a snooze through the day.

Either way congratulations and hope it all goes well.

Dave TTC
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How is the grass down in your part of the world these days Dave?
Last GTG the game was to find a blade of grass, looks like there has been a fair bit of wet stuff falling all over Victoria in the last couple of months. If your ride on mower is a goer, we could organised timed laps of the backyard as one of the activities, or whipper snippers at 20 paces?

Anyway, Ann and I will be there, and hopefully Chris will be a starter, she may ride her bike down and stay with us in Horsham, haven't finalised that as yet.

Chris and I are going to FenceFurnitures GTG at Katoomba, then looking forward to your GTG in beautiful downtown Dooen.

Happy renovating,

Alan...

Looking forward to seeing you

Dave TTC
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Crikey, that was quick! One minute after I posted!
A record?

Alan...

Just happened to be here

Dave TTC
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