"This would certainly rank right up there in terms of unusual requests," mused Professional Farm Services service manager Graham Baldwin. "He came in here with his leg under his arm and It took us a while to figure out exactly what he needed.
"But we like to think we can turn our hands to anything and we took this as a challenge."
After two hours in the workshop, Cameron's leg emerged as good as new, maybe better. Turns out prosthetics aren't so dissimilar to effluent and water pumps, after all.
"We do a lot of little one-off things for the rowing club," said Baldwin. "People send us here, because we'll have a crack at anything."
And since it was Anzac Day, there was no charge for our trans-Tasman cobber.
"I was very surprised and grateful for their assistance," said Cameron. "Without it, I would have been sunk."
Although Cameron lost his leg through a workplace accident, the Townsville native likes to tell people he had it chewed off by a local water-dwelling reptile, hence his "Crocodile Dundee" nickname in the rowing community.
