Location
'Mt Shaw' is situated in the Harrami district 53* kilometres south of Biloela and 60* kilometres west of Monto.
Area and tenure
Lot 15 on Crown Plan RW329, area 1862.768 hectares - 4,603 acres. Tenure is freehold.
Local authority
North Burnett Regional Council, ½ year rates from July to December 2024 $4,132.55 after early payment discount.
Country
The property is a mixture of brigalow softwood scrub, silverleaf forest and bluegum hollows. Approximate breakup of land types is: -
Brigalow, belah and softwood scrub 960* hectares - 2,375* acres
Broken scrub 320* hectares - 790* acres
Narrow leaf ironbark and spotted gum ridge 107* hectares - 264* (acres with Farm Forestry Practice in place)
Balance silverleaf ironbark, bluegum and appletree creek flats and hollows
Development
The property has been extensively developed with stick raking, blade ploughing and planting of improved pastures and legumes including buffel, rhodes grass, creeping blue, sirato and sea style. A paddock of green panic is harvested for seed production.
Water
The property is very well watered with all main paddocks having multiple watering points from different sources.
House pump on the creek with electric pump supplies 5,000 gallon tank and waters the houses, yards and surrounding paddocks.
Solar bore at the house supplies an elevated 5,000 gallon tank that gravity feeds to another 5,000 gallon tank and troughs.
Front solar bore supplies elevated poly tanks and will gravity feed to the last trough at the back bore.
Back bore equipped with electric pump supplies 5,000 gallon tank and is connected to the front bore pipeline.
Dam at the back has a pipeline to the back bore tank.
Windmill in the front road paddock supplies tank and trough.
Permanent and semi-permanent creeks and springs.
Structural improvements
Modern 2 story 5-bedroom homestead with attached steel frame garage, workshop and storage shed of approximately 530 square metres
The original lowset 4-bedroom homestead
Hay and machinery shed
Steel renovated cattle yards with cooler paddocks, vet crush, calf cradle and plunge dip
Carrying capacity
Mt. Shaw is used as a breeding and fattening property with the lead of the steers fatten as bullocks and the balance sold at feeder weights. Below end of financial year numbers.
