Clayton & Shuttleworth Wollomombi, New South Wales, Australia
By geono. on 03-Aug-14. Waypoint GC5A4TC

The old steam engine has gone. Sounds like it's been sold at a clearance sale, presumably with the cache.

7 /3 /15 found this cache with earthly65

Seeing as I went back to check out the grid, I decided to give this one a shot too. A family had just finished herding their cattle across the road on horseback. What a cool sight.
There wasn't really any space to park with the caravan without blocking the driveway so I tried to be quick abs pretended i was checking out the fire sake sign.
I had read the clue abs had an idea where to look, but no, it was not where I expected. If I interpreted the clue correctly, I would say the engine had eaten the cache.

Thanks.

I usually approach these types of hides with trepidation, they can be quick and easy or can take ages. Lucky for us today it was the former. Many thanks geono

Thanks

Found

Nice break in the drive
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Guess I just found a use for my old popups. Thanks.

Stopped here while touring the New England area along with ilook4geo. It was a quick and easy find as there were not a lot of places to check. All was good with the container and its contents. Many thanks go to geono for placing this cache for us to find and enjoy.

Came looking for some more smiley faces with goingplaces2. This was one of the caches we found. Cache retrieved, log signed, all replaced! TFTC.

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Heading home and grabbing a few caches.
This was one of them.
Nice container, and fun putting my hands in places I couldn’t see. Haha
Cheers
Seemyshell

Excellent cache is a beautiful spot. Love the caches with plenty of space for geopoodle to have a break from the trip. TN left a turtle.

Very steampunk. Tftc tnln

Nice piece of machinery and history! Thanks geono

Lucky the wife wanted a photo opp here. We parked and I was able to grab the cache. SL and replaced. Nice history. TFTC.

Found it

Great specimen here. Loved the machinery. Thankfully the find was quick. Tftc.

Find #73 (29/6/2020) on a trip around to Maitland, Armidale and back with JessYoung96.

Easy find but couldn't slow down fast enough and make the turn (had to do a u-turn about 500m later), thanks to a Queenslander tailgating me for most of the drive.

Regardless TFTC.

Found with TheProdigalGoat on 29/6/2020. Heading back to Coffs Harbour today to finish our caching trip
Easy find, great location and GPS led straight to the cache
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Tftc. Doing a bit of catching with dad. #69

On the way home from walking the Lyrebird Track in the New England National Park, I stopped off for this cache. It came up sooner than expected, so I had to do a u turn & come back. Once at GZ, I made a quick find, wondered what the hint meant & continued on my way. TFTC!

Good find on our way to Coffs from armidale!

We escaped the drought and heat in Armidale for the green glory of Dorrigo today, with Scruffy the geodog and a little caching on the way.

TFTC, geono.!

Found during a road trip from Brisbane to Adelaide with five days travelling and four overnight stops, via Ballina, Armidale, Tamworth (staying overnight), Bylong, Sofala, Bathurst (staying overnight), Cowra, Young, Cootamundra, Junee, Wodonga (staying overnight), Echuca (staying overnight), Kerang, Ouyen, Pinnaroo and on to Adelaide. With limited time for stops along the way , we targeted one or two caches in each of the LGA's we traversed, and a few extras at the overnight stops to boost the tally. Thanks for the cache geono.!

Found TFTC
Our #2699

That was a stuff one....just given up and then found it lol

Found while on a geocaching holiday with tmann421.
Enjoyed the trip around and all the great hides.
Stamped TM/WW NZ, or if in pen our full names

Another very nice find today with woolwood9.
*Thanks for helping make our tour around fun!*
Stamped logs as TM/WW NZ or our full user names or tm421/ww9 in pen.

Very good - love visiting old relics like this.

Found tyftc first for our mystery in the museum day.

TFTC Have been going to do this one for a while. Finally got to it.

TFTC great little hide

TFTC- great spot

nice bit of history. thanks

Normally machinery caches are much harder to find, this one was quite easy! TFTC

Such hides are never easy, but in the end, the cache was much larger than I expected. Still took me a while, but got there in the end.

Usually we struggle with caches on machinery but this wasn't too hard to find.
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A nice park and grab tor my last find of the day. TFTC.

Enroute to Grafton for a school holiday meetup with GroGrandparents & the kids were actually awake when we went past! Took the rare opportunity to stop in here and have a look at the old steam engine & finally find & log this cache that we have had our eye on for a long time. Nice easy one - perfect for travelling - kids made some small swaps & we’re on our way again. Thanks Geono for another great spot & cache

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Spent a couple of days in the Armidale district with geoson. Enjoyed the challenges. Found it TFTC

Spending a couple of days caching in Armidale and surrounding areas with Geodad Whitey Wiskas ..
Hint didn't seem to help, but we found it ..

All Good .. TFTC ..

Heading North for a short holiday and collecting some caches along the way.
Thanks for placing it for us to find.

TFTC geono.
Find 5900 logged from c:geo.

Our boys loved checking out the old engine. TFTC

I love how people leave these old pieces of hardware on the roadside so we can all appreciate them. And when there's a cache hiding close by, appreciate it we did. Took us a few minutes, but we quickly had the cache and signed the log. It's a shame this old girl will rust away one day. Great cache Geono!

We are on a 5 day camping trip around Dorrigo and Armidale, grabbing some caches along the way.

Machinery caches are not our forte, we always seem to struggle.
This one however was a little different, we located the container after just 30 seconds of searching, if only all machinery caches could be this large.
Thanks for the cache

First stop of the morning as we made our way down to Bellingen.

Cheers

I’d like to shout out to my friend, Morgan, for seeing what I couldn’t. Great cache!

On a caching weekend from Kempsey to Armidale with Ozglory.

Love these historic relics left around Aus. Thankfully wasn't too long a search before the cache was in hand.

Thanks so much for the cache!

Some logs may be signed S & O representing Staybe & Co and Ozglory.

6926 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1405 on our way north. As we were proceeding towards this cache baby was wondering where he has heard that name. There was a Clayton & Shuttleworth engine at the flour mill in Swan Hill Victoria back when he was a teenager. There was the container and in good condition.SL Tnx geono

Thank you! This was a great little stop and cache with a few ‘treasures’ to swap. Excellent!

Spent 15 minutes stuck in traffic because of storm-fallen trees blocking the road. A massive shout-out to the Armidale Council workers for their efficient response in clearing the trees and debris.

Have to agree that it’s a shame this tiny piece of history is left to simply rust away...Swapped the key ring for a fireman.

Thanks for the interesting stop, geono

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Tftc. A great spot.

Found it on the return trip heading back to Brisbane.
I saw the same machine in Mcclean after doing this cache. It was a complete unit,a huge massive machine, all painted red.
Thank geono for the hide
RVC
#2409

Shot passed this one because I wasn't listening to geowife's instructions so had to do a U turn up the road. Once at GZ it was a quick easy find. Shame to see these old engines just rusting away. TFTC geono

MUCH easier find than I expected when I pulled up. Something lives inside. With a thud it jumped; then I jumped. It thudded again. I peered through holes, but couldn't spot what it was. Interesting history, but I thought it was unknown who had actually shot down the Red Baron.
An extract from Wikipedia:
"The RAF credited Brown with shooting down the Red Baron, but it is now generally agreed that the bullet which hit Richthofen was fired from the ground."
TFTC geono.

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Thanks for stopping us here and the history was great to find out about. Kids had a great time

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Nice fun geocache, thanks

New England Roadtrip day 2: to Armidale to Brisbane via Ebor, Nymboida, Grafton, Ballina and Tweed Heads. On the road early for the long trip home across the foggy range and up the coast.

I'm a sucker for old equipment, so a stop here was a must even though it was cold wet and dark. A quick find due to the hint. Thanks **geono.** for bringing us here, this find makes #3791. Discover our trackable TGQNRV.

TFTC quick find

TFTC nice one

Got it!

Couldn't get this one yesterday as council workers were stopped having lunch ,but all quiet today.TFTC.geono.

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Gotcha !!! TFTC

Great hiding place. TFTC

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the Land Down Under" ...
On our way from Georges Junction to Dorrigo picking up a few caches along the way. Lots of cattle on the road and around GZ. Some seemed very curious as to what we were doing but muggle cows don't count right??
Thanks for adding to our fun geono. - great container!

A quick find as we make our way back to Armidale after some hiking in the national parks. TNLN TFTC

Found @1:53:00 PM.

A quick find on my way home after a few days in Tamworth. I'm normally terrified when I see a cache hidden on these types of contraptions.

Thanks to geono. for the cache

On a caching adventure to Uralla/Armidale/Hillgrove with pprass we set out to see some country side and some interesting caches.

Peter found this cache as Cat and i were too busy picking wild flowers, we were just about to help but he had the cache in his hand.

Thanks for the cache geono

Found at 11:49 AM GAFF1 in the company of NurseHayley on a 3 day weekend touring Uralla/Armidale/Hillgrove.
Last day of our weekend after another fantastic evening and meal at Geono HQ and now on our way home.
Oh so pleased that it wasn't a nano on this structure! Even though it was just a 1.5/1.5 which should have alerted us to the fact that it was going to be a caching friendly type of hide, we have done caches that have been impossible nanos and still rated just 1.5/1.5 - boy do we give those caches a blast [:(!]
Roy Brown! That was the Canadian captain that was credited with shooting down the Red Baron that I was talking to you about on the Saturday night when we got onto the cache called Bluey in Brooklyn! Gosh - what a coincidence.
Thanks geono..

Visiting the Waterfall Way from Sydney and heading from Armidale to Dorrigo. A fun and educational stop on our way to Cathedral Rock. T a marble L a trinket and a tiny elephant SL TFTC Cheers... Gaztek

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TFTC, quick park and grab.

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Easy

Home today after lovely geo week end with Magpiecottage and geocompany . Nice easy find this morning. Many thanks
TFTC geono.
Baby Birt's find no. 388

Gevonden! We had to laugh about the log of Ozglory Thanks and greetings from the Netherlands!

Quick find. Thanks for showing this piece that I've otherwise would've passed without noticing.

Nice old piece of machinery. I let mrs oz out first. poor dear had been given a scare at a previous cache when she stuck her hand into a wasp nest. so when we determined where it could be she went back to the car to get her gloves. As soon as she was out of sight i grabbed the cache and was able to give it to her when she returned. She had that confused look on her face as she wrestled with relief at not having to put her hand into the unknown and wanting to kill her caching partner for not telling her he had it. log was quickly signed and my kind offer to let her return it was ignored. I gathered from that reaction that to return it was truly my job. Loved reading the history of this company. Thank you geono for placing this cache. cheers ozglory

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Tftc nice quick find

Great cache.

Driven past this many times, but have never stopped to have a look at it. That is one of the things I like about caching.

TFTC

What a beaut. A favourite point. TFTC

Today we left Dorrigo & headed to Hillgrove. We found a few caches before we stopped to camp at Wollambi
I suppose if you blinked you would drive straight past this machinery.
I think we caused a traffic jamb as the owner was comming out of his drive as we were pulling over & another car was wanting to pass. Parking was done in safety.
Had a quick look over the engine before finding the cache.
Thanks for placing this cache geono.

Found Friday 5/2. Good spot! Thanks!

Quick stop to check if fridge working. Added bonus to grab a cache on our way to the coast.

Yes, interesting machine. TFTC!

TFTC- found with nudge74 on the way back from Hillgrove camping ground. Cool cache!

Very ticky

TFTC 1655#

Interesting to read about this object. Our last cache of the day before setting up camp nearby for the night. TFTC!
Cheers,
The Hancock Clan

Found it together with dule. TFTC.

Second stop on our tour. TFTC