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A BIG thank you went out from Darryl Lee, organiser of The Lost Arts Heavy Horse Field Day, to everyone involved who helped make the event a success in more ways than one.

Held for the first time on his property out at Wallu, Darryl planned the day to teach local kids “how granddad did it” and to raise money for Angel Flight.

Children learned how to milk cows and make butter with the butter churns, watched demonstrations by a blacksmith on the construction of wooden wheels for horse-drawn carriages, and learned the old way how to make bales of hay with an antique hay bale maker.

“All the kids came in clean and went home very dirty - they all had a lot of fun,” Darryl told The Gympie Times yesterday. “Organising the whole thing was a bloody nightmare - I catered for 1000 people and when 5000 came, I got a bit of a fright - but it worked well.”

Draft horses demonstrated the old way of working a field and Tin Can Bay's Eric Sonter put on a really good display of little steam engines.

“The main thing was, we raised $42,700 - it all goes to Angel Flights.”