This pin marks the Big Thing itself. If stopping, choose a safe and legal place nearby.
Site-level location · 41.5224° S, 146.6305° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
The Big Coffee Pot is a grain silo with a handle and a spout welded on.
That is the entire construction, and it is a small work of genius. A silo is already a tall cylinder with a domed top – which is to say it is already, structurally, a coffee pot missing two parts. Somebody at 155 Mole Creek Road looked at a redundant farm structure and noticed the resemblance, added the two elements required to complete the illusion, and produced a landmark for a fraction of what building one would have cost.
Australia has a modest tradition of this. Grain silos across the country have been repurposed as canvases for mural art over the past decade, but converting one into a different object altogether is rarer and, arguably, better. The mural silos are silos with paintings on them. This one has stopped being a silo.
It also solves the problem that defeats most small-town Big Things, which is money. An oversized object commissioned from a fabricator costs tens of thousands of dollars. A silo you already own, plus steelwork for a spout and a handle, does not.
It stands on a commercial property near Deloraine, and finding it is straightforward: from the Great Western Tiers Visitor Centre in Deloraine, follow Emu Bay Road west away from the roundabout for a kilometre, turn left at the roundabout into Mole Creek Road, and continue 900 metres with the coffee pot on your left.
Current Discover Burnie material continues to list it. Its maker and date are not established in the record.
Photograph
This is a photograph, shown separately from the illustration artwork.
The Big Coffee Pot is a converted grain silo with a spout and handle at the 155 Mole Creek Road commercial property. Current Discover Burnie material continues to list the landmark, while specialist/current listings identify the same address.
ACCESS
The Big Coffee Pot is visible at the 155 Mole Creek Road commercial property in Deloraine. The host business is current, but the property should not be treated as a public sightseeing attraction and no dedicated lawful visitor/photo parking point has been established. View only from lawful public areas or when legitimately visiting the business; direct navigation is withheld.
