Bathurst, NSW
A frost hollow, then one week when every road fills
The Great Western Highway brings Bathurst orders down off the range on the shared tablelands run. That descent is a real grade, so the day is planned. Two local facts matter more than the box. The town is a frost hollow, foggy on winter mornings, and one week in October the place fills until a schedule is optimistic.
Shared tablelands booking
Bathurst bookings travel inland and share the tablelands run with the rest of the central west. Photos go out before a Bathurst truck is loaded. Name the frost, the October week, or both, if either one is in the way.
Plain and range towns
Bathurst and Kelso share 2795. Oberon is 2787. Lithgow is 2790. Blayney is 2799. Portland is 2847. Perthville, Sofala and Wattle Flat sit on the same tablelands pattern. A Kelso estate and an Oberon timber track should be named as the different jobs they are.
Wide streets, cold edges
Town blocks, industrial yards and firm rural tracks suit a tilt-tray. Where the yard is tight, or the spot cannot be reached, book a crane. Older streets are wide enough for a rigid to stand, yet heritage frontages still mean short drives, verandah posts, low limbs and old gates, so many of those are crane jobs. Kelso, Eglinton and Windradyne narrow up, with parked cars, kerb pits and thin turf on young fill. Granite outside town is firm and rarely level, often ledged under the pad. Frost sets a paddock track overnight and thaws it slick, and fog can hold a start, so unsealed winter drops are not booked at first light. Low ground beside the Macquarie stays soft after rain. The eastern approach is still that Great Western descent.
Hay, pines, motorsport
Hay and fencing through Perthville, Rockley and O'Connell. Tools at Kelso and Raglan. Site stores at Eglinton and Windradyne. Timber around Oberon. Motorsport kit locked for most of the year. Workshop gear at Sofala and Wattle Flat. Belongings while a heritage cottage is repaired.
Reading on the frost hollow and that crowded October week.
What does the frost hollow do inside a closed steel box?
Winter fog sits on the plain, and a shut box wets the inside of the roof unless air can move. Settle that before the truck is booked.
Is that crowded week in October a bad time to book?
If the date can move, yes. Roads fill and a scheduled truck is optimistic. The rest of the year the wide older streets are the simpler half.
Why are some wide heritage streets still crane jobs?
The carriageway lets a rigid stand. The frontage may not let a tilt bed work. Short drives, verandah posts and low limbs are the usual mix.
What should someone expect on granite outside town?
Firm footing, little level ground, and ledge where the pad was planned. Eglinton and Windradyne are the other pattern: narrow streets and thin turf on young fill.
Room for more.Less mucking around.
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Plan around the plain
Say if the date falls in that busy October week, and whether the drive is sealed.
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