a drawback to this property was the volume of public traffic passing over the run. it lay on the overland route to melbourne and mount gambier, and about 60,000 sheep crossed the best part of the station during the first three months of every year. bullock teams passing from victoria and the tatiara district were continually breaking gates and pulling over the posts. accordingly, brown had posts at one gate put eight feet into the ground, and awaited the arrival of the next delinquent. before long a teamster appeared, and carelessly ran a wheel against one of these deeply embedded posts. it would not budge, and much to brown's delight, the "bullocky" had to take out his team and pull the waggon back. retribution followed, and brown later had the mortification of finding that his stout posts had been burnt to the ground.