The Big Peg – Bridgetown

That attribution is the best thing about it. Men's sheds and similar groups produce a great deal of public work across both countries – benches, playground equipment, restorations, sculptures – and almost none of it is credited anywhere. A shire art-trail booklet naming the Grumpy Old Men is unusually good practice.

Marri is the right timber and a local one. It is a Western Australian eucalypt, common through the South West forests around Bridgetown, and it is a difficult wood to work – prone to gum veins and splitting – which makes a large clean form out of it a genuine piece of craftsmanship.

A clothes peg is also a good subject for timber specifically. The traditional dolly peg is a wooden object, so an oversized wooden one is the material and the subject agreeing, which a fibreglass version would lose entirely.

This is the second Big Peg in the catalogue. The other is at Canowindra in New South Wales – 750 kilograms of metal in a farm paddock, designed by the Stacey family after Pete Stacey saw a photograph of a giant wooden peg in a Belgian field, and fabricated by Jake Willis.

Bridgetown sits on the Blackwood River in the South West, on the highway between Donnybrook and Manjimup.

The installation date were left unrecorded.