5372 Bourke-Wilcannia Road

Gunderbooka NSW 2840

16,371.4 hectares or 40,442.24 acres, made up of 16,363 hectares (40,433.84 acres) of Western Lands Lease and 8.4 hectares (20.76 acres) of freehold.
Charges:
Bourke Shire Council rates: $6,206.65
Western Lands Rental: Currently Waived ($881.89 in 2019)
Wild Dog Destruction Board Rates: Currently Waived ($834.51 in 2019)
LLS Rates: Currently Waived ($1,059.10 in 2021)
Country:
The western boundary is 21km of darling river frontage running onto heavy black country that floods out at times. This country grows a good body of grasses and herbages in season. The red country is open to semi open with areas of woody shrubs. The timber consists of Coolibah, River Box and the river country running into Mulga, Gidgee, Whitewood, Rosewood, Leopard Wood, Box, Belah and Wild Orange in the red country that is interspersed with flats and swamps and the Stuart Creek. The country is carrying a good body of grasses herbages and salines.
Improvements:
4-bedroom homestead built in 1961, in original well-maintained condition that has been freshly painted on the outside. There is dining and adjoining lounge room, kitchen and office, all bedrooms have built ins and lead onto a sleepout or enclosed verandah.
There is numerous outbuildings also including 2x meat houses, outdoor laundry and old engine room, 2 bay lock up car garage, car garage with 5x7m skillion.
8x9m workshop with 9x9m skillion with power connected.
14x10m timber frame storage shed.
12x12m Aeroplane hanger.
The woolshed complex is set up within a couple of kilometers of the homestead. The steel cyclone woolshed was built in 1951 and has a large undercover area for penning up sheep and is equipped with new Evo electric shearing stands, wool table and Maclodge King pinner Wool Press, serviced by good steel sheepyards.
Adjacent are the shearer's quarters that are very well maintained and fully equipped. The kitchen and dining room is alongside the cook's room with ablution, meat house, shower block and 8 room quarters close by.
Downstream from the house there is a very well-maintained fishing camp on a great stretch of the darling river.
Water:
Water is supplied to the house and shearing complex pumped from the river to a 3000-gallon overhead tank. There are 2 x 5000-gallon poly tanks and a 1500-gallon rainwater tank at the house and 2 x 3000-gallon rainwater tanks at the hanger.
There is a 4km 1 " poly pipeline from the river to the 3-mile tank servicing a trough and tank in the goat paddock.
Balance of the paddocks are watered by the river or dams, of which there are 1-3 in each paddock depending on the size. There is also a share tank on the eastern boundary.
Fencing:
Majority of the boundary fence is hinge joint with an internal 550-acre goat paddock also hinge jointed. Internal fences are good steel suspension fences. There are 3 ground tanks that are securely fenced with goat traps and small handling facilities. The cattle yards are both steel and timber construction with a Carinya Cattle Crush.
Carrying Capacity:
LLS Rating of 4,040 DSE