AFTER two cancelled years due to COVID-19 the Quambatook Heritage Machinery Association will hold a single day event this Saturday, January 29.
The club’s latest acquisition is a 45KA Chamberlain upgraded to 55KA.
This tractor was bought at the clearing sale of recently deceased and fondly remembered club member Tom Pilkington.
In the early years of our harvest days Tom loved to demonstrate this tractor he called ‘old Bob’ pulling his International GL200 header which the club has also acquired as well as a Horward Bagshaw HB 168 header.
“Tom loved this old tractor, so buying it at his clearing sale was a must,” club member Ian Fisher said.
“‘Bob’ has scored a couple of new front tyres and had the drawbar replaced with an original one but has otherwise needed little work doing to it.”
The very latest change visitors will notice at the harvest day site is the erection of a new shed.
The new building, beside the existing one, is the same length and width but a bit higher and will have a gravel floor which will be more suitable to house the steel-wheeled harvesters.
The various classes of exhibits will not be judged this year, but all makes of cars, trucks, tractors, stationary engines and other machinery are all welcome to be brought along and displayed.
The club’s extensive collection of tractors and harvesting machinery will again be on display and many put to work in the wheat crop sown for this occasion.
Entry costs $10, while exhibitors enter for free. For more details ring Doug 0427 346 634, Graeme 0429 346 110 or Ian on 0427 571 381.
