Clarence
Jacarandas over the grid, silt on the flats, sand at Yamba
Stock held for Grafton and the Clarence covers both banks, Maclean and Yamba, and the truck is quoted to the street or the farm gate. The older streets north of the river are deep blocks under a canopy. Ulmarra and the flats toward Maclean are alluvial, very good when dry and soft after rain.
- Where it is loaded
- Clarence allocation for both banks and the river towns
- What sets the day
- Weather on the flats and the back roads; otherwise the valley round
- Usual truck
- Tilt bed for a 10ft or 20ft; side loader or crane for a 40ft where there is room to set up
Streets
Limbs where a rising deck wants to travel
Grafton, South Grafton, Junction Hill and Coutts Crossing are 2460. Mature jacarandas and camphors make the northern grid what it is, and their limbs sit in the air a tilt bed needs. A shorter shell, or a crane from a clearer point, is how those streets finish. South Grafton industrial ground is the easier surface.
Height
The levee does not look after the box by itself
A container keeps rain off from above. It does not stop water that reaches the sill, and an empty shell can lift. On the town side of the levee, placement still follows what your block did in a big river, not a general comfort that the levee exists.
West
Gravel, grids and cattle on the road
Through Coutts Crossing and the Orara, and on the climb up the Gwydir, access turns rural: long unsealed drives, grids with no plate, culverts that have sat for decades, and a turning area that has to be real. Send the gate width and a photo of the grid before the day is fixed.
Coast
Yamba is not a Grafton street with a view
Yamba is 2464 and Iluka 2466. Coastal sand and side access that may only suit a crane, plus the odd low tree over a beach street, are the Yamba problems. Ulmarra and Maclean are river-flat bookings, weather-tied. A 40ft for an engineering yard in South Grafton wants a side loader and length of hardstand. A 10ft under a camphor is a different truck.
Canopy, levee and the Orara
The job is on the northern grid, not at the saleyards. What changes?
Headroom. Jacarandas and camphors catch a rising deck. Measure the clear air, not just the driveway width. A crane from a gap in the canopy, or a shorter shell, is the usual way through.
We are on the town side of the levee. Does height look after itself?
No. The steel will not keep floodwater out once it reaches the sill, and an empty shell can move. Use what your street did in the big years, and put the floor above that, levee or not.
An Orara drive is gravel, with a grid nobody has rated. What first?
Photos of the grid, the gate width, and the turnaround. Cattle on the road and a tired culvert belong in the same note. If the truck cannot enter, we set down on firm ground near the bitumen.
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Grid, flat, or a beach street at Yamba?
Name the bank, the Orara, or Yamba, and what the trees do over the drive.
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