A sprocketty tale

n 1982 I was living in Glenbrook (Blue Mountains NSW) and scored a job as a station mechanic through the government employment agency in Penrith – in those days, via a 3 x 5 white card on the noticeboard – on Scott Creek/Willeroo, a run-down million-acre cattle station 50km west of Katherine, NT, run by a Texan called Luke (who had flown a single-engined plane solo across the Pacific to Australia). There was some excitement at the time in the Penrith Job Centre, as I was their first client to land an interstate