Peter Bannan
FOR 73 years, Philip ‘PK’ Templeton has watched the Mallee change and grow from the seat of his header.
Now 88 years old, PK drives a header that’s a far cry from the stripper he worked with the help of a team of horses in 1940.
He and fellow grain grower Rob Allen – who just completed his 64th consecutive harvest – tell a story of droughts, mouse plagues and kerosene tractors.
They recall hunting rabbits to buy a tractor and shoveling dust from the house during wild dust storms.
It’s the story of more than six decades and 140 harvests.
For more on this story, pick up a copy of Friday’s Guardian (December 12).
