673 Laceys Creek Road

Laceys Creek QLD 4521

Ludwig Lindenberg migrated from Prussia in 1878 and worked as a farmhand in the area before selecting land for himself in 1884. His eldest son Christian Frederick Lindenberg married in 1899, and selected Lot 123 comprising 355 acres in 1919. He and his new wife lived in a tin hut on this land initially, the current residence being built in 1926 from timber growing on the property by Charlie Merker and Alf Wirth. Basil Lindenberg was born in that home, and went to the Laceys Creek School, but had to leave at age 11 to help his father on the farm, his mother having died 2 years earlier. Basil worked growing bananas and then pineapples in the neighbouring district, married in 1945 and bought the property where he was born from his father in 1946. He raised his 3 children there living in the family dwelling, running a dairy farm for milk production (not cream) and growing small crops to earn an income. Basil was a widower when he sold the property to the current owners in 1999 but remained resident in the family home over 10 years until he was no longer able to care for himself.

The House
In 2010 a major $120,000 renovation of the family home was undertaken converting it to the comfortable and delightful "workers cottage" that it is today. Comprising of 2 bedrooms plus a sleepout and office and a gorgeous country style kitchen, the property is currently rented by an excellent tenant at $400 per week with a lease until 31 March 2023.

Surrounding the home is a steel posted, barbed wire fence to prevent livestock from entering from the surrounding paddocks. Galvanised iron open sheds on the western side function as carports and storage. A large galvanised iron red shed is located adjacent to the house, and has provided storage for farm equipment.

Improvements
* To drought-proof the property in 2000, a $120,000 thirty mega litre dam was constructed on a natural watercourse with Pine Shire approval the Civil Engineering expertise of Edminston Taylor of Samford.
* At the same time the grazing land south of Laceys Creek Road was divided into six separate paddocks each with their own dams with fencing arranged so that access can be gained to the 30 mega litre dam during times of water shortage. These are enclosed with barbed wire and split timber star post supports, plus supplementary stand-off electric fencing as necessary, and fitted with galvanised pipe 5 bar gates. The area of creek flats has access to the main block via a subway which can be closed off. Laceys Creek provides water to this block.
* Pangola grass has been planted in the House paddock, and there is mixed improved pasture and native grasses on the creek flat. Native grasses with some Rhodes grass predominate in the other paddocks.
* In an average season the property carries 80 head of beef cattle, there being a feedlot area with small adjacent weaners paddock and dam permitting finishing of these stock for market. The stock is rotated from one paddock to the next at appropriate intervals to allow tick and worm treatment to be minimised, and to avoid pasture degredation and erosion.
* The western side of the feeder is available for the main herd as a mustering aid. Gravity fed water and a trough is included in the RPM pipe yards designed for 80 head, with an RPM All Rounder crush and an adjustable steel loading ramp (cost $20,000 1999).
* A quiet purebred PP (High Country Eskdale) Droughtmaster Bull purchased as a 2 year old for $5,500 in 2020 with a reduced breeding heard of 20, aged 2 to 9 years will be sold with the property. The cows are the product of a 20 year breeding program, the foundation Droughtmaster herd being infused with Brangus, Red Angus, Limousin and Blonde d'Aquitaine to improve fertility, calving ease, milk production and muscling. These cattle are used to being mustered by voice and the prospect of some Riverina pellets on a weekly basis. As a result, they are quiet to handle.
* In 2005 a Titan Oz barn 20 metres x 11.6 metres x 4.8m x 3.6m was built adjacent to the existing old dairy building to provide storage room for hay and machinery. There is a basic lunch area in the SW corner of the shed. Two tanks collect rainwater and a pump provides water pressure to the Titon and dairy shed. Electricity is installed in both buildings, and an electric fence mains-powered energiser is in the dairy shed. Water is gravity fed from this site to the cattle yards which lie at a lower level further to the SW.

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