{"id":3439,"date":"2018-12-20T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:05:15","slug":"how-frustration-with-oyster-baskets-led-to-an-innovation-award-for-a-sa-grower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/how-frustration-with-oyster-baskets-led-to-an-innovation-award-for-a-sa-grower\/","title":{"rendered":"How frustration with oyster baskets led to an innovation award for a SA grower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Garry_3x2-large.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Oyster Farm\" class=\"wp-image-149\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garry Seidl became so frustrated with the durability of his oyster &nbsp;baskets, he set out to create a more robust design capable of lasting &nbsp;years longer than those that had failed and were stacking up in his &nbsp;shed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it wasn\u2019t an overnight process for the South Australian oyster grower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The design process took two years \u2014 another eight years were spent perfecting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr &nbsp;Seidel, from Ceduna on the far west coast, and a small team came up &nbsp;with the design after finding that the baskets he was using were only &nbsp;lasting five to 10 years, and often needed maintenance and repairs to keep them working. &nbsp;Read the ABC article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/rural\/2018-12-20\/oyster-basket-innovation-for-sa-grower\/10614438\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Seidl became so frustrated with the durability of his oyster &nbsp;baskets, he set out to create a more robust design capable of lasting &nbsp;years longer than those that had failed and were stacking up in his &nbsp;shed. But it wasn\u2019t an overnight process for the South Australian oyster grower. The design process took two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexcylsystems.com.au\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}