Day 18 - More Cleaning Up
This morning we went back to my father's house to do more of the clean up. I picked up Anita's sister from hospital and drove her home. Rob from the local Ham Radio club came to collect some of Graham's equipment to sell at auction. I told him any money he raised could go to the club.
This equipment is in a scrappy room built onto the back of the house. I had not had a good look in there until today. Anything of use or value has been taken by my brothers. The Junkman can deal with most of what's left, but I found unknown chemicals that were probably to do with Graham's gold mining hobby. There are also various leaking batteries, some of which look like they could be decades old. Apparently I can take these risky items to a waste transfer station for free, but I will need to get some secure storage bins to transport them.
The ham radio equipment brought over from England 60 years ago is apparently worthless and will end up in e-waste where at least the metal can be recycled. This equipment has valves rather than transistors or computer hardware. My parents moved house 10 times after arriving in Australia, so this junk has been moved that many times. Not once was a removal company ever used!
There is a good supermarket in Upper Ferntree Gully called Maxi's. We stocked up there, then delivered some paperwork to the conveyancer handling the sale. We found ourselves in a traffic jam 30kms from the city.
Back at camp we had new neighbours. I had noticed these women camped at Crystal Brook because unusually they had two vehicles parked beside their van which was hooked up to a third tow vehicle. Their car and van were damaged in a recent hailstorm at Crystal Brook - we are lucky we didn't arrive earlier. Their damaged car had no number plates and was towed away as it had been written off. The second grey car was a temporary hire car. They had to get a brother to tow the caravan to Lilydale because the hire car has no tow bar. It gets complicated when tow vehicles or caravans get damaged.
We watched the motorhome towing the builder's trailer, but the female driver didn't reverse the trailer onto her site. One of the men who work here did that for her. There is a for sale sign on the motorhome but we don't know the history of this unusual arrangement - yet.
This equipment is in a scrappy room built onto the back of the house. I had not had a good look in there until today. Anything of use or value has been taken by my brothers. The Junkman can deal with most of what's left, but I found unknown chemicals that were probably to do with Graham's gold mining hobby. There are also various leaking batteries, some of which look like they could be decades old. Apparently I can take these risky items to a waste transfer station for free, but I will need to get some secure storage bins to transport them.
The ham radio equipment brought over from England 60 years ago is apparently worthless and will end up in e-waste where at least the metal can be recycled. This equipment has valves rather than transistors or computer hardware. My parents moved house 10 times after arriving in Australia, so this junk has been moved that many times. Not once was a removal company ever used!
There is a good supermarket in Upper Ferntree Gully called Maxi's. We stocked up there, then delivered some paperwork to the conveyancer handling the sale. We found ourselves in a traffic jam 30kms from the city.
Back at camp we had new neighbours. I had noticed these women camped at Crystal Brook because unusually they had two vehicles parked beside their van which was hooked up to a third tow vehicle. Their car and van were damaged in a recent hailstorm at Crystal Brook - we are lucky we didn't arrive earlier. Their damaged car had no number plates and was towed away as it had been written off. The second grey car was a temporary hire car. They had to get a brother to tow the caravan to Lilydale because the hire car has no tow bar. It gets complicated when tow vehicles or caravans get damaged.
We watched the motorhome towing the builder's trailer, but the female driver didn't reverse the trailer onto her site. One of the men who work here did that for her. There is a for sale sign on the motorhome but we don't know the history of this unusual arrangement - yet.
