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Field Marshal Restoration Part 2

In the last issue #192, you would have read that I had to decide as to what level of restoration I was heading for with the Field Marshall, and the final machine spec that it would end up being. I also started chasing the rust out of it using the...

05 May 2024

Field Marshall Restoration Part 1

I am your typical farm boy with an underlying mechanical aptitude. As soon as I was big enough, probably 8 years old, Dad taught me to drive the farm tractor. It was a Gold Belly Ferguson and it was our sole tractor around the farm on Mt. Tomah. I...

02 May 2024

Allis-Chalmers on Display at Allora

The Allora Heritage Weekend organised by the Warwick Veteran & Vintage Vehicle Club over the Australia Day long weekend on 26th and 27th January 2019 brought together a great display of Allis-Chalmers (AC) as the feature tractor. There were 25...

28 Apr 2024

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2023 TADOMS Oakey Rally - Tractors

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Centenary of Rail Coffs Habour

On 30 August 1915, the section of rail between Coffs Harbour and Glenreagh NSW was opened and, to celebrate the anniversary, Coffs Harbour held the ‘Centenary of Rail’ as part of the ‘Smoke on the Water Transport Festival’ held from Friday...

09 May 2024

Brown Automatic Release Spring

This is a picture of a spring we own that is called The Brown Automatic Release Spring and dates back to the period before the invention of the stump jump plough. It was placed between the tractor, or more likely, the horse, and the non-stump jump...

08 May 2024

Old Time Festival Enthuses the Next Generation

I have just finished Year 6 at primary school and I wanted to make my last year special, so on Saturday, 25th November, 2017, my friend, Benn, and I went to the Mont De Lancy Draught Horse and Old Time Festival. We took Chitty, the Mamod...

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