Shack Rebuild Lake Rason

Here are some pic's that all have been waiting for of the Lake Rason 7Millers Shack rebuild.
I hope there in the right place for all to find.

Ready for traverlers of Oz again. hope you all enjoy our hard work. every day was over 40 Deg.
Hi Guys,
as said, we rebuilt the Seven Millers Shack. better than before. on inspection of the area, we found many new trees that had been blown over from the Easterly storm that Trashed the Shack.

We got there at 5pm and began the clean up, a bit disapointed that no one else picked up the mags and loose paper to prevent a big clean up turning into a huge one!... anyway as the pics show, build it bigger and better, no wood for the white ants, more stays, concrete, and star pickets driven over a meter through rock into the ground then welded to the posts.

The temp only once fell below 40 in the day, Australia Day was 46 Deg. no wind we pulled the pic and went for a drive up the other end of the lake ( The Big Rabbit Patch) as we turned to come back there were clouds, which got darker as we got closer to camp. our beds, power tools clothes bags and so on were out-side ( due to the fact that there was no in-side YET!) On our arrival to camp we found Rivers of water 6inches deep running through the shack area down into the Lake. I've never seen that much water flowing out there. Our swags were soaked, pillows, dripping wet, clothes bags full of water and so on. All we could do was laugh. It went from Blue skys Hot and dry 46 Deg's to Cyclonic winds and downpoor all in 3 and a half hours! one big section of roof was relocated 40 meters away.from where it was when we left........ An AUSTRALIA DAY I won't forget. An hour later our mates from Mandurah Adrian and Peter Arrived. We Got stuck into the rebuild .
A lot of hard yakka, and a big effort from all.

Note the new lighting in the Shack.

Note:
We took over a ton of damaged tin etc to the tip along with 28 garbage bags of rubbish....... 7 of which contained Bottles/ Beer stubbies.
Please take your glass back out with you, the Shack isn't a dumping ground.

It was a hard 8 Days,hot dry ( execpt for the storm) 2 of us were consuming over 25 liters of water a day.

Many thanks to all,

7Millers Shack Rebuilt by:
Darryl, Brian ( 7 Millers)
Adrian and Peter
Between 25th Jan 2010 to 3rd Feb 2010

Desertcruiser
I have never been to the area, but all I can say is "BLOODY GOOD JOB, WELL DONE!!.

All fair dinkum travellers will appreciate your work.

Cheers, Dave

That's a sensational effort guys; thanks very much.

I am hoping to get out in 2011. Am commited to the southern CSR this year. This will be a highlight.Well done.

Cheers.

Its a great job guys and good to see you fitted the fly screen door before the rest went up. Got to keep those blowflies out.

Yep sensaational effort!!! And your willingness to share the shack is generous to say the least.

I've driven past it 3 times - we enjoy travelling through Plumridge Lakes and like the Lake Rason Road, and the sandalwood story. Will definitely call in next time.

Cheers
Phil

Hi Darryl
Got your e-mail this arvo.A great job by you and your mates,
I bet there will be a lot of relived people happy to see the shack standing prouder than ever.Cant wait for the opportunity to get out there again
Norm

You Blokes are LEGENDS, I hope to catch up with you down the track and shout you a beer. Brilliant rebuild, what else can I say. Cheers to all of you, Kanga1.

It's already been said, but worth saying again;-)

You blokes are to be congratulated, not only for the re-building effort, but for your un-paralleled generosity in making this available to all comers, most of whom you'll probably never meet...

Next time I'm passing by (planning to be in the area mid-year), I'll drop in and dust the furniture for ya ;-))

PS.. Gotta love that chandelier ;-))

:)

Gotta agree with everyone else, top effort guys. of course all the steel would have been cool to touch LOL ......

Brian

Congratulations & well done!

QUOTE:

For the life of me, I don't understand why people take glass into the bush or Outback.

good on you dags I was a bit worried that our beloved shack had met the end of the road , but you guys have done yourselves proud and I take my hat off to you. As you know it was a lot of hard work when we first went up there 14 years ago to build the shack and it has grown a lot since then. As I say, I take my hat off to you guys for doing a great job all the best to you all.
your old mate the fossil.

Hi Dags,

Mum told me about the damage to the shack. great pics and good to see it up again. Good memories of the Shack and it would have been a shame to see it gone for ever.

I reckon the 7 millers should have a re-union party one day and get some pics of you all and have it resined and put on a plaque.

regards

Storm
(daughter of one of the 7 millers - The Fossil)