The late Len Hanrahan, who died last June aged 62, had been a tireless contributor despite a decades-long battle with illness.

"He was always first to put his hand up to do any work around the place," friend Garry Collins told The Border Mail.

The plaque will be erected at the town's picnic area but this week's rain has seen Saturday's noon ceremony and barbecue moved to Daysdale Football Ground.

Mr Collins said about 170 people were expected to attend the event, with funds raised through a naming competition to support Cancer Council.

"The original Daysdale water pump over there that supplied the town in the 1880s, it was horse-drawn, the horse walked around in a circle and it pumped water," he said.

"Doug Munro's made a metal horse and Jimmy Hewson's made the man to sit on the pump and it sits over on the creek and there's going to be a competition to name the horse."

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But a stipulation is "practical working horse names only".

"We didn't want Pixie or Dixie or something like that," Mr Collins said with a laugh.

"And it is a draught horse, it's by no means a racehorse, it's a big horse.

"I would think some of the names would be fairly interesting."

Daysdale's hard working horse was erected late last year, enhancing the park.

"That was Lenny's pet project over there so that's why we're putting the plaque over there, he was one of the main ones setting it up," Mr Collins said.

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