The Tradies’ Night is held each year with The Property Shop inviting all its associated trades people along for a night of drinks and a barbecue, as well as charity auctions.

This year, Bateman and Palmer were offered up at auction to do ‘handy-work’ for the winners.

Sharon and Peter Lovett had the winning bid, donating $2000 for the pair’s services, which will go towards funding the Mudgee Hospital and the local SES.

The project itself was an addition to the Lovett’s house, where they are adding a concrete pergola area, with Bateman and Palmer to add the base slab.

“It’s about 50 cubic metres that we poured, around 7 metres of concrete,” Bateman said at the site of the project.

“We came up to pour the concrete at around 7am and after about an hour and a half of hard work it was in. It was a good pour.”

Although the five hours was long, Bateman was in good spirits about the handy work.

“Derek Kearns from DCD Concreting is working on it all with us, but it was his brother Damian Kearns that actually put up the idea, and David Goldring – unfortunately – auctioned us off at the event,” he said.

“There’ll be severe punishment for both of them once it gets to the New Year.”

All other money raised by the Tradies’ Night will be donated to the McGrath Foundation to support breast cancer research and education charity in Australia.