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The Murtoa Stick Shed- WW2 Emergency Grain Store #1 Australian Agricultural Wonder & Farming Icon

Difficult to capture on video, the sheer scale and majesty of the stick shed has to be seen to be appreciated. Come have a look, a walk through and a drone flight inside this Historical, agricultural gem. Plus a look at some of the history and reasons for it's construction. A testament to Aussie ingenuity, determination and hard work. Measuring 265 metres long, 60 metres wide, 19 metres high at the hip , covering 16,000 square metres. Capable of holding 3.5 million bushels or about 92,500 tonnes of wheat when full. Planned , designed, approved & constructed in just 4 months The Stick Shed (previously known as the Murtoa No. 1 Grain Store) is the only remaining emergency grain store built during World War Two. It is an enduring testament to Australian bush ingenuity and a symbol of the growth and strength of the Australian wheat industry. Opening Days & Times Seven Days10:00am - 3:00pm https://www.thestickshed.com.au/ Admission Cost Adults: $12 Concession: $10Children Under 16: $5 Family Ticket: $24 In my humble opinion, the best $12 value you could possibly spend ( unless it's the $9 for entry into the Murtoa Water Tower Museum) - see my other video here- Coach Tours and Groups by appointment: 0434 227 921 [email protected] The Stick Shed is the 101st Australian icon included on the National Heritage List. Completed in 1942, the unique and dramatic structure of The Stick Shed has captured the imagination of everyone who has seen its serene and evocative cathedral-like interior. Referred to by some as the ‘Cathedral of the Wimmera’. The Murtoa Stick Shed’s ghostly unmilled tall timber poles and central aisle draw the eye upward towards the roof as light spills into the space through skylights as if through a stained-glass window. There was a wheat glut in Australia beginning in the late 1930s. Australia’s main wheat export market was Asia and the Pacific. This came to an abrupt halt when Pearl Harbour was bombed in December 1941. The UK was buying its wheat from Canada. In the previous two years bumper crops in both Western Australia and South Australia meant based on the way wheat was sold then the expected large 1941-2 Victorian crop would need to be stored for a number of years. Those good wheat crops in S.A and W.A had led to grain stockpiling and a shortage of storage facilities. This prompted the Australian Wheat Board to design and build the first large bulk storages in Western Australia. They were referred to as ‘bulkheads’ originally, then commonly known as Emergency Wheat Storage Sheds. Victorian wheat storages, including the many concrete bulk silos built in the 1930s filled up. Countless railway sidings around Australia began to overflow with bagged wheat brought in directly from farms. Finally, with the large 1941-2 Victorian crop looming, it had become critical that an immediate solution to this massive problem was found. The Victorian Grain Elevators Board decided, despite much opposition from many quarters involved in bag-handling, to construct the first Victorian Shed at the important railway site of Murtoa. In 1941, the Grain Elevators Board commissioned The Stick Shed. It happened in a rush. On September 6th Cllr H.H. Evans’ offer of 5 acres of land in Murtoa was accepted, between the 10-15th of September tenders for everything except the concrete floor were open and on the 27th of September work started. The designs for The Stick Shed were prepared in the months before the final site was chosen. Other bulk wheat storages were built around Australia before and after the Stick Shed but only it, and the now demolished shed at Dunolly, had the same level of receival and dispersal technology built in. The shed as designed was approximately 265 metres long, 60 metres wide, 19 metres high at the hip and held 3.5 million bushels or about 92,500 tonnes of wheat. Green Bros contractors of Bendigo undertook construction on this site in September 1941. Much of the building was constructed with little mechanical aid and a limited workforce due to the war. A steel shortage meant the shed was built largely from readily available timber, some 560 (56 rows of 10) unmilled mountain ash poles erected into the auger-dug footings in the ground. Concrete was manually poured around the footings. Galvanised hoop-iron was used in most structural joints. There is over 150 tonnes of corrugated iron on the roof, which covers 16,000m2 of land. The roof angle was sloped to reflect the same angle a pile of wheat forms naturally. This has a rainfall run-off of about 35 megalitres of water per annum. Incredibly, the massive Stick Shed was constructed in only four months: a real display of persistence and dogged determination by a Government who wanted a valuable commodity protected as soon as possible.