Quambatook Heritage Working Machinery Association members have been working on various projects in readiness for their annual Harvest Working Days to be held on the Australia Day weekend, 25th and 26th of this month. 

The Shearer header, which has had most of its woodwork replaced, is ready to run and so members have been able to turn their attention to other items of machinery. 

In August of last year, the Association was offered the pick of some farm machinery on a farm in central New South Wales. 

Some of its members travelled north with three trucks and four trailers (one road train) and spent a day looking and then loading five old trucks and four tractors! 

The trucks were a F600 Ford, a Jailbar Ford, a Kew Dodge, a Maple Leaf Chev and an “O” model Bedford. All trucks except the F600 are fitted with gravity grain bins. 

The tractors were a Chamberlain Countryman (with 354 Perkins), a Fordson Super Major, a 35 Massey Ferguson and an “N” model Fordson. 

The Chamberlain was the previous owner’s main tractor and is in excellent order.  

The 35 Fergy has had a new starter-motor fitted as well as spark plugs and coil replaced. The old “N” model Fordson may take a little longer to restore! 

The Fordson has needed a new lift pump and the injector pump has been repaired and a hole in the fuel tank mended. We think this tractor will work well pulling the Shearer header.  

These machines, as well as many others will be on display, and some put to work in a wheat crop grown for the purpose, at the Quambatook Heritage Working Machinery Association’s Harvest Working Days to be held on the Australia Day weekend, 25th and 26th of January. There will also be a vintage tractor-pull on Saturday afternoon. The event is fully catered for. 

Accommodation is available at the Quambatook Caravan Park, phone 0428 85712 

For more information contact Doug on 0427 346634 or Ian 0427 571381.