Re: (VIC) Salt harvest

[lbrown2@bigpond.com (Brown Family)]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:14:28 +1100, "Stuart Thyer"
<s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

>Usually the tonnage estimates are optomistic, but even so there is enough
>there to make it worthwhile. I suppose it depends on whether they use
>containers to load into, if so, easy handling for rail. If they wanted to
>dump straight into trucks, then there would need to be rail at the site.
>
Yeh, but what if it rains? Trains leaves with a full load and arrives
with not enough to sprinkle over your fish and chips. 

Expensive too. need to replaced rusted out the rails real fast.

Les Brown