Topics for discussion!

[Michael Alexander]

The following topics were put to me as possible discussion topics.... anyone want to comment?

"Who remembers the tanker ( not by road)  bringing fuel by sea to Oranjemund.
Who remembers the farm at Helmeringhausen where the meat for the town was brought from?
Who remembers the farm in the area of Grootfontein where meat for the town was brought from?
Who  remembers the old timers working at Port Nolloth Harbour?
Who remembers old timers working at Kleinzee? "

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Here the Tanker

and the support/service ship causeway adventurer


Sorry about the bad quality, but it is from 8mm film

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Althought my pics are bad quality, it shows me all the adventures i had while at CDM

Never again dit anything come near all that in my later life

I think many have also experiences that are unsurpassed by the possibilities we had at CDM.....

[Chris Macpherson]

i worked in magazine mine stores and was  sent to tank farm with a guy by the name of stoffel and pat ray"mike rays'dad torecieve and calculate the amount of fuel being pumped ashore to the tanks. we had to work the night shift and climb up those tanks in the cold and mist with only a torch. we took adepth reading then the figures would be caculated on one of those old calculating machines that looked like a typewriter with a roll of paper in it,printing the figures. then the amounts were radioded out to the ship by two way radios. the voices always sounded rough, not at all like our cell phones of today.

[Carl Wrbka]

Didn't the meat come from Beavallon farm? I remember going on a tour of their abbatoir once whils't at OPS. They even showed us the pneumatic device they used to shoot a bolt of steel into the pigs brains to kill them painlessly.

[Michael Alexander]

Before the days of Beauvallon, the meat came down by lorry from the Aus..... but even before that I have it on good authority that there were cattle drives down throught the desert, thus all the old watering holes that were constructed down the Sperrgebiedt..... Imagine that... a cattle drive through the desert....

[Carl Wrbka]

Something straight out of the wild west. I wonder if they made it past Brokeback mountain without too much scandal...lol

[georg ruf jr.]

Somehow this here reminds me of a Monty Python scetch. Terry Jones and his wife eric Idle in a restaurant. They waiter hands them the menu with discution topics.

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

Before the days of Beauvallon, the meat came down by lorry from the Aus..... but even before that I have it on good authority that there were cattle drives down throught the desert, thus all the old watering holes that were constructed down the Sperrgebiedt..... Imagine that... a cattle drive through the desert....

Hey Mike, just had to let you know that I have just had my months supply of meat delivered to my door (how's that for service) and have just finished portioning it up into meals.  the meat looks lovely, the chicken I'm a bit worried about it looks like turkeys, wonder if they been feeding them steroids.  Bacon looks great lamb and pork looks like SA and we going to have a braai tonight, yes, we got SUN!!!!

braai swim 

[georg ruf jr.]

Lucky you Paula and boys.

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

everyone's invited!!!!



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[georg ruf jr.]

Hey Paula. I just noiced you're in every topic now. Geez!
Bu I remember there's this one topic hidden deep down in the board...
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[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

ja, were no one dares to go!


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[Michael Alexander]

@Paula, how come when you were living 5 minutes from my house, you never invited me for a braai...and now that you live 7000km away, there's an invite.......   

[georg ruf jr.]

Cause she knows no-ones coming...  :emot19: