I was out in the Whipstick Goldfields today <Eaglehawk/Neilborough area> and came across this historically significant 'puddler' from the mid/late 1800's...
Some amoeba brain has chosen this site to dump his trailer load of rubbish.......we can't blame back-packers/itinerants as this puddler is some distance from any of the unmade roads or tracks..this moron has gone to considerable trouble to desecrate this site as he/she would have driven past hundreds of 'easier' sites to dump his load....
I went through quickly to see if there was any discarded identification as I would have returned with my horse float and delivered it to his/her front yard......
I'm a member of the Victorian Prospectors Assoc and they hold clean up days typically for this type of dumping vandalism.....I will now report this one..
There was another 'puddler' further on that this moron has not found to date....photos of both puddlers and also what the original 'puddlers looked like in the mid/late 1800's...used for breaking up the gold bearing soils and was 'manned' by a pony/horse or even several prospectors........and usually adjoined a purpose built dam for the essential water required...
Why do rubbish vandals do it?....I know we often see the results of their activities/laziness/filth at camp sites etc.....it can't be the magic of the moment...as they leave no magic for anyone except a mess to clean....
I'm reminded of Einstein's famous comment: "There is a major difference between intelligence and stupidity....intelligence has its limits".......
Central Victoria seems to be a happy hunting ground for rubbish dumpers & bogan campers. We were going to stay at Majors Creek Reserve near Nagambie a while back but there was so much rubbish there that it would take a bulldozer & a couple of dump trucks to clean it up & take it all away. Morons!
Happywanderer said
06:43 PM Feb 1, 2016
There were photos in Today's Riv, Echuca of rubbish left by campers at the junction of the Goulburn River. Disgusting.
rockylizard said
07:12 PM Feb 1, 2016
Gday...
Given the type of 'rubbish' I reckon your feeling it is a 'local' is pretty accurate. That is 'household rubbish' ... too cheap to pay to take it to the tip.
Have you seen - been to - the puddler at Waanyarra ?
Cheers - John
goldfinger said
10:33 PM Feb 1, 2016
Yes John, the surrounding Golden Triangle areas of Tarnagulla, Dunolly, and Laanecoorie have been some of my prospecting 'haunts' for last few years..each year a bunch of us prospectors, with our partners, meet up at the Laanecoorie Lakeside Caravan Park and share latest detector/prospecting info, and have an auction that raises money for the Peter Mac Cancer Clinic/Melbourne...
The owner of the Laanecoorie Park who was a well known local prospector for many years, passed in recent times from cancer and was looked after in his final days at the Peter Mac Clinic...
Beautiful Park and you can take your dogs and have nightly fires etc....Hoo Roo
Magnarc said
01:12 PM Feb 2, 2016
I am no apologist for these vandals but I make the point that if the tip fees that some councils impose were more realistically priced maybe, just maybe it would help alleviate the problem??
dorian said
01:41 PM Feb 2, 2016
How about a tip fee of $0?
The morons on my local council charge a "waste management levy" on a vacant block of land. How much waste does a vacant block produce?
jules47 said
02:29 PM Feb 2, 2016
goldfinger wrote:
I was out in the Whipstick Goldfields today <Eaglehawk/Neilborough area> and came across this historically significant 'puddler' from the mid/late 1800's...
Some amoeba brain has chosen this site to dump his trailer load of rubbish.......we can't blame back-packers/itinerants as this puddler is some distance from any of the unmade roads or tracks..this moron has gone to considerable trouble to desecrate this site as he/she would have driven past hundreds of 'easier' sites to dump his load....
I went through quickly to see if there was any discarded identification as I would have returned with my horse float and delivered it to his/her front yard......
I'm a member of the Victorian Prospectors Assoc and they hold clean up days typically for this type of dumping vandalism.....I will now report this one..
There was another 'puddler' further on that this moron has not found to date....photos of both puddlers and also what the original 'puddlers looked like in the mid/late 1800's...used for breaking up the gold bearing soils and was 'manned' by a pony/horse or even several prospectors........and usually adjoined a purpose built dam for the essential water required...
Why do rubbish vandals do it?....I know we often see the results of their activities/laziness/filth at camp sites etc.....it can't be the magic of the moment...as they leave no magic for anyone except a mess to clean....
I'm reminded of Einstein's famous comment: "There is a major difference between intelligence and stupidity....intelligence has its limits".......
Hoo Roo
Great to see you Goldfinger!
Magnarc said
03:10 PM Feb 2, 2016
Dorian we used to have a couple of free passes if you were a ratepayer but they canned that a while ago. Anything to make buck these days and stuff the people who voted them in!
TowBall said
01:30 PM Feb 6, 2016
While I don't condone rubbish dumpers at anytime, it cost me $90 to drop a single axle trailer of rubbish at a Melbourne tip. didn't matter if it was a full trailer or only a couple off bags. I can see why some low life people drop it all over the country side.
I was out in the Whipstick Goldfields today <Eaglehawk/Neilborough area> and came across this historically significant 'puddler' from the mid/late 1800's...
Some amoeba brain has chosen this site to dump his trailer load of rubbish.......we can't blame back-packers/itinerants as this puddler is some distance from any of the unmade roads or tracks..this moron has gone to considerable trouble to desecrate this site as he/she would have driven past hundreds of 'easier' sites to dump his load....
I went through quickly to see if there was any discarded identification as I would have returned with my horse float and delivered it to his/her front yard......
I'm a member of the Victorian Prospectors Assoc and they hold clean up days typically for this type of dumping vandalism.....I will now report this one..
There was another 'puddler' further on that this moron has not found to date....photos of both puddlers and also what the original 'puddlers looked like in the mid/late 1800's...used for breaking up the gold bearing soils and was 'manned' by a pony/horse or even several prospectors........and usually adjoined a purpose built dam for the essential water required...
Why do rubbish vandals do it?....I know we often see the results of their activities/laziness/filth at camp sites etc.....it can't be the magic of the moment...as they leave no magic for anyone except a mess to clean....
I'm reminded of Einstein's famous comment: "There is a major difference between intelligence and stupidity....intelligence has its limits".......
Hoo Roo
Gday...
Given the type of 'rubbish' I reckon your feeling it is a 'local' is pretty accurate. That is 'household rubbish' ... too cheap to pay to take it to the tip.
Have you seen - been to - the puddler at Waanyarra ?
Cheers - John
The owner of the Laanecoorie Park who was a well known local prospector for many years, passed in recent times from cancer and was looked after in his final days at the Peter Mac Clinic...
Beautiful Park and you can take your dogs and have nightly fires etc....Hoo Roo
I am no apologist for these vandals but I make the point that if the tip fees that some councils impose were more realistically priced maybe, just maybe it would help alleviate the problem??
The morons on my local council charge a "waste management levy" on a vacant block of land. How much waste does a vacant block produce?
Great to see you Goldfinger!
Dorian we used to have a couple of free passes if you were a ratepayer but they canned that a while ago. Anything to make buck these days and stuff the people who voted them in!