Keith Moschetti is looking good at 80.By Kath Gannaway
KEITH Moschetti had a narrow escape a few years ago.
“I was at the wheel of a timber truck hauling 12 tons of logs and was run off the road by another truck,” he recalled.
“I was hanging upside down for a while.”
It was just one close call in a lifetime of working in the great outdoors.
Keith who lives at Launching Place with Joyce, his soul mate of 25 years, celebrated his 80th birthday at the Woori Yallock Hotel recently.
It was a milestone worth marking for someone who says he is both lucky and happy to be alive at such a respectable age.
Keith was born in Silvan on 7 April 1928 and has been a hard worker all his life.
“I used to cut wood with an axe in the Silvan forest when I was 17, before I went into the army,” he said.
He worked on the Silvan to Upper Yarra Pipeline and on the construction of the Upper Yarra Dam, carted logs all around the Upper Yarra region, Mansfield and Matlock, and tried his hand at roof tiling.
Working on gas pipelines took him around Australia and to New Zealand.
“I’ve been around a bit,” he volunteered.
“I loved working in the bush, carting logs and timber. My dad used to work on the Silvan Dam and in the wood cutting industry and it’s what I’ve always done too.”
Keith was joined by his good friends and family, including his daughters, grandchildren and two great-grandchildren for the occasion.
