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<blockquote data-quote="Dave79" data-source="post: 506255" data-attributes="member: 12713"><p>Haven't found a picture of anything similar, but my favorite theory is that it's a chandelier lowering windlass, stolen from an aristocratic English mansion by the gardener, who was transported to Van Diemens Land for his crime. He somehow managed to smuggle the pulley out here on the convict ship and after escaping through a hail of musket balls he made his way to the goldfields and used his gardening skills to become one of the greatest diggers in the colony. Promoted to chief mining engineer, he repurposed the pulley to lower smoko and a Billy to the workers down the shaft. A long shot maybe? Or not!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave79, post: 506255, member: 12713"] Haven't found a picture of anything similar, but my favorite theory is that it's a chandelier lowering windlass, stolen from an aristocratic English mansion by the gardener, who was transported to Van Diemens Land for his crime. He somehow managed to smuggle the pulley out here on the convict ship and after escaping through a hail of musket balls he made his way to the goldfields and used his gardening skills to become one of the greatest diggers in the colony. Promoted to chief mining engineer, he repurposed the pulley to lower smoko and a Billy to the workers down the shaft. A long shot maybe? Or not! [/QUOTE]
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