Orchards for Sale - ABC 1959

Orchards for Sale - ABC Documentary



Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 01 Panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 02 Panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 03 Panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 04 Panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 05 Panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 06 Panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 07 Roof Tiling

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 08 Tree removal: Two men digging out a fruit tree at R&D Johns family orchard. (via Danielle Carr)   Who ?

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 09 Woodhouse St Subdivision

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 10 Subdivision

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 11 panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 12 Spraying Tractor:
Almost certainly Lindsay White:

RECOLLECTIONS BY LINDSAY WHITE:

When tractors took over from the horse around 1950, the shafts were removed and a single tow bar to the tractor added and operated by one man using a 120 ft hose with a double nozzle. We had 52 acres of orchard and it took two weeks to spray the property using this method.

Next was a three cylinder, high pressure pump 20 gallons per minute @ 600 P.S.I.. P.T.O. drive from the tractor with a 300 gallon cylinder shaped wooden vat. A platform on the back where two men each held a three or four head boom and drove past while directing the spray to the trees. This method was costly with manpower. We then mounted an eight nozzle boom on one side of the outfit dispensed with two men and drove past with the boom set. This was very costly with spray material.

In 1954, we purchased an airblast sprayer driven by a Holden motor with a similar, 3 cylinder high pressure pump used at 400psi with the assistance of a 28 inch fan creating 33,000 cubic ft of air per minute or approx. 110 M.P.H. wind directed behind the nozzles creating a misting effect being double sided it used about the same amount of spray material as the single sided high pressure sprayer. So from 1950, taking 2 weeks to spray the orchard, by 1954 it took 18 hours to achieve a complete spray and was a more efficient job.

Extracts from "Fruits of the Orchard - The Family of Henry White and Elizabeth Raney" https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1320774


Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 13 panorama

Doncaster Orchard for Sale ABCTV 02 04 1959 14 Pear Picking Family Activity:
April 1959. 90 Old Warrandyte Road Donvale Vic 3111 Fruit tree orchard picking. Lindsay White's extended family picking the pear harvest. Men, woman, children, baby, dogs. Tea break. (Ollie White seated with back to camera). Tractor driven by Lin White c child. Manual tree picking pears. Voices.
Oliver White picking pears into bag. (LG White on bags). Male & female (Lin's wife's sister ?) tipping pears into trailer. Tractor returning pear trailer to shed (still exiting in 2018 at back of property). Stacking pear pallets.

90 Old Warrandyte Rd Oorchard was about 60 acres, and they sold out after the hail storms in the early 1960s. The 1962 fires came to the back of the property down by Mullum Ck.

Info from: Robert Latimer, Lorraine Rose. Facebook 2018




Full Length (all clips combined)


Lindsay White, with his father Ollie White (grandfather of Robert Latimer), cameraman and presenter.

Orchard for Sale Film Shot List 1959







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