84 year old sawmiller still going strongFriday 21 Nov 2014 Most retirees cut back their hours and take up a hobby. But for 84-year-old sawmiller Ralph Affleck, his hobby and his work have always been the same thing. At the age of 60, he designed and built a sawmill which could be run by just one person - him. Locals around Killarney in south-east Queensland think he's a legend - and they're right.Three mornings a week, 85-year-old Ralph Affleck heads from his farmhouse at Legume on the New South Wales-Queensland border across the paddock to where he feels most at home - his sawmill. Remarkably, Ralph designed and built it himself, a little retirement project which took four years to build. Ralph didn't finish school. His only qualifications were 50 years of timber cutting and sawmilling. For more of this story and interview with Ralph Affleck, click here >>. Source: ABC Landline |
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