This pin marks the Big Thing itself. If stopping, choose a safe and legal place nearby.
Site-level location · 33.5253° S, 148.7057° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
Pete Stacey saw a photograph of a giant wooden clothes peg standing in a field in Belgium, and decided the paddock at home needed one.
His version weighs 750 kilograms and is made of metal rather than timber. The Stacey family designed it and Jake Willis of Canowindra fabricated it, and it was installed in the family's paddock beside the Cargo Road, between Canowindra and the village of Cargo in the New South Wales central west.
There is no commercial motive here at all, which makes it rare. It advertises nothing, marks no business, commemorates no industry and was not funded by any council or tourism body. It was put up by a farming family who thought a giant clothes peg in a paddock would make passing travellers smile, and that is the entire brief.
The Belgian original is a nice detail, because it shows how these ideas travel now. A photograph of a European land-art piece reaches a farm in the central west, and a version appears in the Australian landscape – designed by the family, built by a local fabricator, using local skills.
One clear caution. This is private property. The peg is intended to be seen from the roadside and not entered, climbed or approached across the paddock, which is why this entry marks it restricted. It has been confirmed in place by specialist material in 2026, a licensed photograph from December 2024 and a field photograph in October 2025.
It is doing exactly what it was built to do, to anyone driving between Canowindra and Cargo.
Photograph
This is a photograph, shown separately from the illustration artwork.
Current 2026 specialist material, a December 2024 licensed photograph and an October 2025 field photograph all confirm the Big Peg remains in place. It is on private property and is intended to be viewed from the roadside rather than entered or climbed.
ACCESS
View the Big Peg only from a safe legal public location; do not enter the private paddock. A conservative pull-off has not yet been verified.
