Tractors we never saw in Australia

Coming from a tractor background where mainly European built tractors found their way to Australia, as a Ford tractor dealer 1955 - 1989 I find these old films illuminating.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOV-m_qheX0

Sonalika Tractor Manufacturing

Something new in the International tractor industry, this is a company I knew nothing about until researching the industry today. I will post another piece on them when I have had time to discover more.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX-tPTIwVok

Lamborghini Original

During my time as a sales rep I spent some time with Inlon and they are the Australian Distributors for Lamborghini Trattori at the time. This is an interesting film from Jay Leno's Garage.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wjL7lDtxW8

Sometimes you need to bring the old stuff outta the shed

The wheat harvest was decimated by drought throughout Victoria's Wimmera and other regions last year. This is one family's answer to making the best of a bad situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fte-3RaDtq0

#drought #harvesting #ruralaustralia #tractors #masseycombineharvester #farms #farming #aussie

Ford Tractor Film From the Sixties

Tractor and Machinery history has a part in all our lives, minute of everyday. Whether it's the food in front of us, or the textile on our back, or the table we sit at a machine operating in primary production provided the raw material to make it.

To educate and prepare sales and service teams to understand the machines they were either selling or servicing, manufactures produced training films to get the message across. This is one film from the sixties that Ford Tractors produced to show their dealer body what was coming.

Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asea8ZFm-JQ

Terry

Bury Your Carbon Emissions and Let Your Soils Benefit

Is it possible to bury your exhaust emissions to feed the micro-organisms in the soil and fertilise it with carbon and nitrogen? Alastar Dennis thinks it might.

Check out ABC Landline's report from 2016 it may surprise you.

https://www.abc.net.au/local/archives/landline/content/2016/s4510359.htm

Massey Ferguson Men and Women

I am writing a biography on one of the giants of our Australian agricultural machinery industry and have found a wonderful pictorial collection of the people and places Massey Ferguson operated in the late 1950's through to their plant closures during the 1980's. For anyone interested in the history of the factory take a few minutes to check it out.

In this link, it shows a very young Ian O'rourke who was part of the harvester test team for the MF 585. The photo shows him operating a self propelled unit: https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/1476906

More on Ian's story can be found here: https://machinerymen.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-01-14T10:34:00%2B10:00&max-results=7