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FARASTONE FARM – FARADAY

Situated in Faraday on the Southern slopes of Mt Alexander, Farastone is a mixed
Agribusiness with a focus on sustainability.

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MOVING – A BRIDGE TOO FAR?

It’s funny how these things tend to sneak up on you; Birthdays, Anniversaries,
moving days. Our moving day came up on us very quickly, probably partly due to
the settlement date moving at least 3 times over the duration. We ended up
moving a lot of our stuff ourselves, with the van and disco + trailer making
many trips up and down the Calder over the previous months. It’s probably one of
the reasons I now catch the train up and down when I can.

But, for the final move of furniture and other larger stuff we decided to call
in the professionals. We’d moved from Glen Iris to Avondale Heights ourselves,
and decided there was no way in hell we’d do that again. I still remember our
first canine visitor to our place trying to run down the driveway and falling
over as with each joyful bound its back legs bounced higher and higher until the
inevitable happened. Its steep, and its pain to load and unload vehicles. You
either park at the top and lug everything up – or park at the bottom, and have
the fun of trying to load the vehicle with everything trying to fall out the
back (makes for fast unloading though – open the doors and stand back).

With the stairs and steepness of the drive in Avondale Heights, and only two of
us to do the work, we’d already determined this just wasn’t going to happen – at
least not for the large stuff. Who says age doesn’t bring wisdom? We did make
sure someone from the mover came out to the old place so they knew what they
were getting into…they must have understood, as they turned up with what looked
like a very large team of 8 or so fit and healthy folks.

Once it was all loaded, it was time to mention the elephant in the room –
unloading at the other end. We had mentioned this to the guy who did the
original checking, but we thought it best to mention it to the people actually
doing the work – especially the guy driving the truck.



Access to the new place is via 600 or so meters of slightly rutted driveway
around the side of the hill. It looks deceptively easy from the front gate.

For the most part, it is pretty easy – especially now we’ve cleared the ditches
and repaired the table drains. The road just winds its way around the hill, with
a deceptive absence of wheel swallowing potholes or ruts.

It does get a little more interesting at the end as after a short climb, the
drive drops down over a bridge, and into our house paddock. The bridge is pretty
solid – its an old railway freight carriage on some concrete. But, it is only
2.7 meters wide.

If you decide that you don’t like the look of the bridge, the only way out is
backwards up the hill, and if you can’t turn at the top of the hill, all the way
back out the drive. Its been done – but it takes a while.

The removalists were obviously brave, or just buggered after a morning of
running up and down the hill, and decided they’d have a crack.

So we’re here – and with our very own (load tested) troll bridge. Visitors are
welcome – just not in anything bigger than a medium rigid.




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