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KL Bulldog - Off the Lead

Friends of ours started farming around the same time our family was allocated a ‘War Service Land Settlement Scheme’ farm back in 1949. Machinery, and especially tractors were hard to come by and the choice was limited. Through the scheme, we...

24 Apr 2024

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Sealing the Pipes Water-tight Mephan Ferguson?

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In the article Lives of the Engineers - Mephan Ferguson by Peter S. Evans in TOMM #202, in the section about making steel pipes, there is a drawing of two halves joined together by a flange. How did the engineers seal the pipes together to make...

22 Apr 2024

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Greg Williams’ Tractor Trek

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Although I have been around tractors all my life, I only got hooked into collecting them three years ago. A friend suggested I might like to get a tractor going, so I bought one for $800 and fixed it up, and have been doing that ever since. My hobby...

17 Apr 2024

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A Handy Gadget

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This photo is of a very easily made little gadget which is very handy. When working on old engines, I often find I have to make up special pipe fittings by silver soldering together various bits and pieces. Holding these pieces in place with normal...

15 Apr 2024

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David Brown Tractors of Australia Viitt the far world field day

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The theme for the Lardner Park Farm World 2016 Field Days in Warragul, Vic, was Dairy - An Industry on the Move. A view of the David Brown Tractor Club’s line-up including A. Gubbin’s fully restored 850 Implematic and Darryl Light’s white 990...

11 Apr 2024

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The Old Butter Factory Museum Busselton WA

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The Old Butter Factory Museum, is an iconic heritage listed tourist attraction situated at 76 Peel Terrace, Busselton, Western Australia, and visited by approximately 7,000 people each year. The Museum complex is situated on one hectare, and...

08 Apr 2024

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Unique Letterbox

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I recently came across this cleverly made letterbox on my travels and thought your readers may enjoy seeing it also. I wonder if any of your readers have letterboxes which display their hobby or job? I would love to see some more. *Peter, QLD. Very...

08 Apr 2024

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#207 Identity – 2 Metal Detector Find – but what is it?

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My grandson has recently bought a metal detector and through his enjoyment of using it, has found lots of unknown items. I have included a photo of something he found in the Golden Grove area of Adelaide and was wondering if any readers would be...

03 Apr 2024

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Reply ID #206 Identity - 4: What is this mystery item?

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Hi Chris, This mystery item is used in the wet building trade. It is used to hold a straight edge (a piece of very straight timber which is re-used) when plastering any external corner of a brick or stone wall. You hammer the square pin into...

01 Apr 2024

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The Hobby of Collecting Can Assist Positive Wellbeing

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What is your passion? What is your pleasure? What do you do when at your leisure? I will assume, if you are reading this, that your passion and pleasure to fill your leisure time concerns a type of machinery or an aspect of it, and that covers...

27 Mar 2024

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Golden Fleece Collector

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I wanted to let you know that my Husband LOVED his new Golden Fleece Sign bought from the TOMM giftshop. My Husband worked for Golden Fleece as a young man and has hundreds of Golden Fleece signs and other memorabilia all around our garage walls. I...

Record-breaking auction

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The sale of a private collection of over 100 classic and vintage tractors drew crowds from all over Australia and sold for $1,177,312 in a packed warehouse-turned-salesroom in Geelong, Vic, in April, 2019. Over 600 collectors and enthusiasts - as...

20 Mar 2024

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Sunshine 3 Farrow Stump Jump Plough

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I thought your readers might like to see my Sunshine 3 farrow stump jump Plough which was used by my grandfather in the late 1920s and into the early 1930s. The plough was used to prepare the soil on his farm for the growing of crops for his dairy...

18 Mar 2024

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British Wallis #1425

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Have just been reading the article in Issue #201 about the Boultham Works. I turned the page and there is a piece about the “British Wallis” tractor made by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd. We have one at “Hope Cottage” Museum, Kingscote, Kangaroo...

13 Mar 2024

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Triple Expansion Engine

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In Issue #201 was an article by Peter S Evans regarding Buchanan and Brock with reference to them building the triple expansion engine for SS Gippsland which was built at Paynesville. Attached, from the files of Paynesville Maritime Museum...

11 Mar 2024

By The TOMM Team