Buckshot Bear Posted June 22 Author Posted June 22 THE CONVICT TREADMILL- 1825 Hyde Park Barracks As a punishment, convicts were made to step continuously on treadmills to power wheels that ground grain. The men were rotated on and off the treadmills with rest periods of about 20 minutes per hour. This monotonous task was supposed to be a reformative punishment, unlike flogging. It also put convict manpower to good use, as they were helping to feed themselves. In 1825 Sydney’s treadmills were praised for producing 40 bushels (1000 kilograms) of ground corn per day. Doctors and humanitarians were concerned that this type of punishment might be damaging to health. An overseer recorded in the ‘House of Correction Register’ each man’s weight as they went on and came off the treadmill to make sure they weren’t wasting away. Two punishment treadmills were installed at Carters’ Barracks in 1823 and were used for the next 25 years. The larger treadmill was worked by 36 prisoners at a time, with 18 on each side. The smaller had ten men on each side. 2 1 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted June 23 Posted June 23 4 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: THE CONVICT TREADMILL- 1825 Hyde Park Barracks As a punishment, convicts were made to step continuously on treadmills to power wheels that ground grain. The men were rotated on and off the treadmills with rest periods of about 20 minutes per hour. This monotonous task was supposed to be a reformative punishment, unlike flogging. It also put convict manpower to good use, as they were helping to feed themselves. In 1825 Sydney’s treadmills were praised for producing 40 bushels (1000 kilograms) of ground corn per day. Doctors and humanitarians were concerned that this type of punishment might be damaging to health. An overseer recorded in the ‘House of Correction Register’ each man’s weight as they went on and came off the treadmill to make sure they weren’t wasting away. Two punishment treadmills were installed at Carters’ Barracks in 1823 and were used for the next 25 years. The larger treadmill was worked by 36 prisoners at a time, with 18 on each side. The smaller had ten men on each side. Now people pay big bucks to health clubs to spend hours on treadmills and stair steppers. 2 2 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted June 25 Posted June 25 23 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Kerosene heater golly they used to stink! ..... wore out more than one of them ...... On 6/24/2025 at 9:51 AM, Buckshot Bear said: .......... I might be in it too ......... 1 3 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted June 25 Author Posted June 25 27 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: ..... wore out more than one of them ...... You can still buy replacement mantles for them, so folks must still use them Wallaby. Did used to sleep good with the fumes though didn't we........and was lucky that we woke up! 1 2 1 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted June 26 Posted June 26 6 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: North Queensland, Port Douglas .......... looks like somewhere in the South Pacific .......... ............. oh yeah!! 1 3 Quote
Alpo Posted June 26 Posted June 26 That is something I had not thought about. So I pull up maps. Australia is surrounded by water. To the left of Australia, on the maps, it says INDIAN OCEAN. To the right it says PACIFIC OCEAN. Hmmm. Is it like America, where it has one ocean on one side and another ocean on the other side? Or is it more like Hawaii, where it is sitting in one ocean so it is one ocean all the way around? More research. It appears that the Indian Ocean stops at Australia. So Australia is in the Pacific. Golly gosh. That might actually be why it looks like it's in the South Pacific. Because it's in the South Pacific. 👍 1 Quote
Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 Posted June 26 Posted June 26 On 6/23/2025 at 6:51 PM, Buckshot Bear said: I couldn't tell if it was you cause you had your eyes closed when they took the picture 7 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted June 26 Posted June 26 7 hours ago, Alpo said: That is something I had not thought about. So I pull up maps. Australia is surrounded by water. To the left of Australia, on the maps, it says INDIAN OCEAN. To the right it says PACIFIC OCEAN. Hmmm. Is it like America, where it has one ocean on one side and another ocean on the other side? Or is it more like Hawaii, where it is sitting in one ocean so it is one ocean all the way around? More research. It appears that the Indian Ocean stops at Australia. So Australia is in the Pacific. Golly gosh. That might actually be why it looks like it's in the South Pacific. Because it's in the South Pacific. 👍 According to the all knowing government of OZ, it is bounded by the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Southern Ocean. Australia's oceans and seas 1 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted June 27 Author Posted June 27 The Golden Star Milk Bar Hay Street, Perth, WA, mid-1930’s The proprietors, Stavros and John Coufos, are in the centre of the photo. Stavros is on the left. Within five years of the opening of Mick Adams’ Black & White 4d. Milk Bar in 1932, some 4,000 milk bars were operating in Australia. 4 Quote
Cactus Jack Calder Posted June 27 Posted June 27 (edited) 1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said: Mom had a friend from Nursing School, Annette. We would visit her up in Connecticut. My brothers and I loved seeing her and listening to her stories. One year we visited her at her new house, a nice cottage on a lake near Old Lyme. She took me and Dad down to the basement to show us something funny. The unfinished ceiling was punctured every 4” by a nail in every direction. She had decided to lay her own subfloor and went to the lumber yard to get supplies. The counterman told her drive nails ever 4” and the floor would be “good and tight”. When she returned to the lumber yard for more nails, he asked what she had done with all the nails he had sold her. Once she explained about the pattern she had followed, on his advice, he gave her enough nails to finish the job just nailing into the beams. She was some proud of her work and happy to show off her mistake on the first quarter of the floorboards. 🙂 CJ Edited June 27 by Cactus Jack Calder 1 1 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted June 29 Author Posted June 29 The big goon bag. Cottesloe, Western Australia. 2 Quote
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted June 29 Posted June 29 46 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Per the description, Milo is similar to Chocolate Ovaltine. Makes a great chocolate milkshake. 2 2 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted June 29 Posted June 29 50 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: Dang Straight ! 😍🥰🙃 1 1 Quote
Kid Rich Posted June 30 Posted June 30 Ya'll seem ta have an obsession with them giant two legged rats. kR 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted June 30 Author Posted June 30 39 minutes ago, Kid Rich said: Ya'll seem ta have an obsession with them giant two legged rats. kR Paddock Rats 2 1 Quote
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