FARMER BROWN'S WHEAT FARM MUSEUM CLEARING SALE, NARRABRI NSW

FARMER BROWN'S WHEAT FARM MUSEUM CLEARING SALE, NARRABRI NSW

Info Lots 73

Overview

Auction No.
NO. 128310
Category
Machinery
Auction Type
SIM
Total
73 lots
Auction Location
Auction Start
Thu, 14 May 2026 8:00 AM (SYD, NSW) AEST
WA 6:00 AM - NT 7:30 AM - QLD 8:00 AM - SA 7:30 AM
NARRABRI, NSW 2390

Lot 1 - 1965 John Deere 5010 Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Works. Specifications: Made in USA 1966. 520 cubic inch diesel engine. 108 max drawbar horsepower. Undisputed biggest and best 1963-1966. Very expensive, impeccable reputation. This tractor has done many years of heavy work and is still in regular use. History: Sold new into Bellata district in 1967. Bought by Syd Brown in 1984.
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Lot 2 - 1967 Minneapolis Moline G-705 Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Works. Specifications: Made in the USA about 1967. 504 cubic inch diesel engine. 93 max drawbar horsepower. It's enormous engine crankshaft torque enabled the G-705 to easily out-perform all old-style large tractors. Last of the purely hand-clutched, wheeled tractors available in Australia. History: Previous owner Jim Brown, "Wallon", Moree. A mishap, caused by a rat- damaged water hose, ruined the original engine in 1970. A Perkins 6-354 conversion has allowed heavy work to continue for nearly 50 years. This tractor was the first one owned by the Browns to have power-steering and remote hydraulics.
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Lot 3 - 1959 Case 900 Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Needs repair. Specifications: Made in the USA in 1959. 377 cubic inch diesel engine 60 maximum drawbar horsepower. Extremely durable with big horsepower. This tractor was very expensive with an impeccable reputation. History: Original owner from Mullaley. Bought by Syd Brown and used occasionally until the coolant leaked into the sump during storage and seized the crankshaft bearings. There is obviously a hole rusted through a cylinder sleeve. The sump oil and coolant were drained, but the problem was never repaired and the tractor became a static display only.
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Lot 4 - 1957 Massey Harris 745 Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Needs repair. Specification: Made in England in 1957. 270 cubic inch diesel engine. 40 maximum drawbar horsepower. History: Original owner 'Belarah', Baan Baa. Retired from heavy work late 1960's. Drove an irrigation bore pump for over 10 more years. Still in use seasonally, raking hay, sawing firewood and driving a PTO welder. Requires engine overhaul. There is no serious “blow by”. The fuel injection system has been thoroughly overhauled to no effect. Apparently, there is valve trouble.
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Lot 5 - 1955 Case LA Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Needs repair. Specifications: Made in the USA. 404 cubic inch engine. Petrol-kerosene fuel. 46 maximum drawbar horse power. Extremely durable big horse power with an impeccable reputation. This particular tractor is unusual for the Narrabri area. It was originally sold into Victoria and is fitted with full cast iron Australian-made wheel rims. History: Previous owner 'Shamrock' Narrabri.
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Lot 6 - 1953 Massey Harris 55K Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Needs repair. Specifications: Made in the USA about 1953. 382 cubic inch engine. Petrol-kerosene fuel. 49.5 maximum drawbar horsepower. 49.5 maximum drawbar horsepower. History: Syd Brown's first tractor, bought second-hand in 1962. Re􀆟red from heavy work in 1969. Was still used until recently seasonally as a bin tractor, but needs a radiator repair now.
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Lot 7 - 1940s Case D-EX Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made in the USA in 1945. 260 cubic inch engine. Petrol-kerosene fuel. 34 maximum drawbar horsepower, Extremely durable 'popular' size. A highly desirable, 'state of the art' machine, featuring electric starting, lighting and individual turning brakes. History: Originally owned 'Sylvania', Boggabri. Retired from heavy work in the 1960's. Continued on light duties doing belt pully work into the 1990's. Bought by Syd Brown, not going (engine dismantled). The pistons are in a box on the rear platorm. The connecting rods are missing. There is also a wrecked one which came from a clearing sale. It had had 2 Maules Creek floods go over it and was never cleaned out – just abandoned.
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Lot 8 - 1937 Case L Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Works. Specifications: Made in the USA. 404 cubic inch engine. Petrol-kerosene fuel. 42 maximum drawbar horse power. Bought new with steel wheels and converted to rubber tyres in the late 1940s. Undoubtedly the biggest and best tractor available in the 1930s. This one retired from heavy work in 1960. Still used for post hole digging on this farm. History: Original owner 'Fairview' Maules Creek.
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Lot 9 - 1937 Case C Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Works. Specifications: Made in the USA in 1937. 260 cubic inch engine. Petrol-kerosene fuel. Approximately 25 max drawbar horsepower. Extremely durable 'popular' size, replacing 8 Clydesdale draught horses. History: Bought by Fred Brown in 1939. Originally on steel wheels, converted to rubber tyres late 1940s. Retired from heavy work about 1952.
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Lot 10 - 1925 Hart Parr 15.30E Tractor

Used
• Agriculture
• Tractor
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made in the USA in 1925. 232 cubic inch engine. Petrol-Kerosene fuel, Approximately 25 maximum drawbar horsepower. Regarded as 'big' by Australian wheat farmers of that day. Reliably replaced 8 draught horses. History: Original owner George Brown of 'Midlands', Grenfell, and from 1929 'Nivarna', Maules Creek. Retied from heavy work 1938 and operated a belt driven saw bench until 1958.
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Lot 11 - 1930s H.V.McKay Sunshine ''Sunbow'' One-way disc plough 6-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: 6-disc heavy disc plough. Could do good work in virgin soil or hard-set fallows. History: Original owner from Boggabri.
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Lot 12 - 1930s H.V.McKay Sunshine ''Sundercut'' No.8 One-way disc plough 10-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made at the Sunshine Harvester Works (Melbourne), they could be pulled by 8 draught horses (or 10 in heavy going). History: Previous owner from Narrabri. Extremely popular machine and far outsold opposition brands.
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Lot 13 - 1950s McCormick International GL-90 One-way disc plough 12-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Sold quite readily, these machines looked very innovative in design and had an excellent automatic winch lift that made them a pleasure to operate. Their big failing was the light-built frame that was too easily damaged, especially when pulled at speed by big tractors. History: Bought new in the 1950s by a farmer in Harparary. This plough has big discs and is still in good working order.
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Lot 14 - 1950 John Shearer ''Light'' One-way disc plough 14-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: This machine was a very good plough. It came to me in its “twilight years” and I never needed to use it. History: It was bought new by a farmer from Baan Baa. He was a share farmer on “Glen Patrick,” along our southern boundary.
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Lot 15 - 1960 John Shearer ''King'' One-way disc plough 18-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• History: An excellent example of the “big time” from the 1960’s or late 1950’s.
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Lot 16 - 1959 Horwood Bagshaw ''Crackerjack'' One-way disc plough 14-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: These ploughs had strongly built all welded frames and Timken tapered roller wheel bearings. Ball bearings were standard issue in the discs. This was not successful and the agents recommended paying extra for Timken bearings in the discs as well. History: Mum had found this nice second hand 12 disc Horwood Bagshaw plough advertised in the newspaper.
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Lot 17 - 1960 Horwood Bagshaw ''Standard'' One-way disc plough 16-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• History: I think this plough was found abandoned in a paddock with a broken off front furrow wheel stub axle. I had a wheel and stub axle at home, so it was no trouble to restore it to working order. I don’t remember that I ever used it, but it’s here and useable.
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Lot 18 - 1960 Shearer ''Sovereign'' One-way disc plough 18-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Built in 1960, this is possibly best of the one-way ploughs from the 1960's - these machines featured all Timken bearings and could plough the hardest ground, harder that what our Chamerlain chisel plough could manage. History: Bought very cheaply at a local farm clearing sale in the 1990s, it was unsed quite often where needed at "Beringa".
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Lot 19 - 1963 Case One-way disc plough 18-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: A very well-built machine! One of several makes of heavy disc ploughs which came onto the market after the patent (10 years) ran out on Chamberlain ploughs. Chamberlain industries designed and marketed the first big heavy ploughs available in 10-ft, 14-ft, and 18-ft sizes. The Case ploughs came in 10-ft, 16-ft, 18-ft, 20-ft, and 22-ft disc sizes and although appearing identical to Chamberlains, they had 16-inch wheel rims instead of 18-inch which enabled truck tyres to be used, a longer end beam and claimed more undercut.
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Lot 20 - 1975 Chamberlain One-way disc plough 24-Disc

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• History: Bought new from Ewing and Co. of Moree. Usually recommended to be supplied with a full set of frame weights, but there was none available at the time. Syd Brown made up a frame to carry a 44-gallon drum of water instead. He fitted an 11 x 16 wheel and tyre to the land wheel so it could get a better grip to help hold the side draft.
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Lot 21 - 1968 Connor Shea Scarifier 23 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Originally, 21 tynes with each tyne having a 7-inch cut. History: Bough new by Syd Brown in the late-1960s. The usual spacing was 6 inches on all opposition makes. Inclined to “crab” easily, this was cured on Syd Brown’s machine by adding two extra tynes. The wheel ran in those tyne tracks and made the scarifier track perfectly straight under any conditions.
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Lot 22 - 1970s Massey Ferguson 120 Scarifier 29 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: The Massey 120 Scarifier were about as near perfection as could be found. They did not bother with a level lift and left a nice even finish pattern. They were easy to pull for their size. History: This machine bought second-hand at a farm clearing sale.
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Lot 23 - 1960s Horwood Bagshaw Scarifier 25 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Very strong, all-welded frame resulting in a practically fool-proof, rugged machine. The finish pattern left behind was irregular and obviously of no importance to the designers. There was a very active and popular Horwood Bagshaw dealer at Bellata who saturated the district with these machines and combine seed drills. Chamberlains were the popular ploughs to have and DS headers made by David Shearer were the PTO (tractor drawn) harvesting machines of choice, having a greater capacity than any opposition makes. For some reason, Horwood headers were not popular in the area, partly because capacity handle heavy crops was “pathetic” compared to the Shearer DS. History: Early history unknown.
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Lot 24 - 1950s Mitchell Scarifier 24 Tyne (modified)

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: 24 tyne, modified so it could be hitched to two others. Not all tynes present now. History: Owned by Boggabri farmers.
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Lot 25 - 1950s Mitchell Scarifier 24 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: 24 tyne, with some missing now.
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Lot 26 - 1950s H.V.McKay Sunshine ''Sunduke'' Scarifier 18 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made in various sizes to suit tractor horse power available, the “SunDuke” at “Beringa” has 18-tynes. Sold prolifically wherever there were Sunshine agents (everywhere). Very effective overhead bridles.
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Lot 27 - 1940s John Shearer Scarifier 19 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: They sold in considerable numbers and were reported to penetrate hard soil better than some competitors. The underslung bridles inhibited the flow of surface trash which was a disadvantage. History: Original ower was a farmer from Boggabri.
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Lot 28 - 1938 Mitchell Scarifier 16 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Described by George Brown as “the best machine that ever came on the place!” Capable of handling considerably more stubble or surface trash that a spring-Tyne cultivator or combine seeder – this avoided in most cases the need to replough using discs. History: Original owner Fred Brown, Maules Creek. Developed during the 1930's and released onto the market with little or no field testing. By the time Fred bought this machine in 1939, the troubles had all been sorted out and it proved an excellent implement. A very active machinery agent in the Boggabri sold dozens of them in the surrounding area.
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Lot 29 - 1940s Gaston Scarifier 14 Tyne

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Gaston scarifiers were well designed and fairly popular especially in southern areas. This one is very small, having only 14-Tynes. History: This particular one was wrongly assembled by its non-mechanical original owner. It was written off as a useless failure. Given to his neighbour, who did not want it or need it, it was eventually given to Syd Brown after standing idle and unwanted, it then became part of Syd’s Wheatland Farm Machinery Museum.
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Lot 30 - 1930s HV McKay Sunshine Suntyne Combine 14 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made at the Sunshine Harvester Works, Victoria, late 1920's.
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Lot 31 - 1920s / 1930s H.V.McKay Sunshine ''Suntyne'' Combine 16 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made at the Sunshine Harvester Works, Victoria, late 1920's. History: Came with the Browns when they moved to Narrabri.
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Lot 32 - 1950s H.V.McKay Sunshine 500 Series Combine 16 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made at the Sunshine Harvester Works, Victoria. Combined spring tyne cultivator and seed drill 9 foot 4 inches working width, sowing 16 rows.
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Lot 33 - 1940s H.V.McKay Sunshine ''HiBox'' Combine 20 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made at the Sunshine Harvester Works, Victoria. 20 row. Forward screw lift.
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Lot 34 - 1950s H.V.McKay Sunshine ''Suntyne'' Disc Drill 20 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Converted to sowing discs only, for over-sowing lucerne into existing pastures. History: Previous owner was a farmer from Turrawan.
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Lot 35 - 1950s H.V.McKay Sunshine ''Suntyne'' 500 Series Combine 20 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by H.V. McKay, in Sunshine Victoria. 20 row.
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Lot 36 - 1955 Horwood Bagshaw Spring Release Combine 24 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by Horwood Bagshaw Farm Equipment Inc., Mile end, South Australia, in 1955. Combined 'Stump Jump' cultivator and seed drill.14 foot working width, sowing 24 rows. A big-sized implement in the 1950's and '60's, Horwood Bagshaw combines used spring-release tynes for many years, before all the other manufacturers adopted the system during the late 1950's. This machine has seed, fertiliser and Lucerne boxes and optional rubber tyres instead of steel wheels. History: Original owner 'Manamoi', Bellata.
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Lot 37 - 1950s Horwood Bagshaw 20 row combine

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Not working. No fertilizer stars.
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Lot 38 - 1963 Massey Ferguson 500 Series Combine 24 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by Massey Ferguson in Sunshine, Victoria. 14 feet working width, sowing 24 rows. Combined spring-release cultivator and seed drill. This combine has been extensively modified using model '55' tyne pivots, 6 bar trash flow one-piece under carriage, rear ridge splitter tynes and improved rear platform and steps. History: Bought new by Syd Brown as 'old stock' in 1966. It had been superseded by the model '55'
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Lot 39 - 1960s John Shearer ''HiLift'' Seed Drill 28 Row

Used
• Agriculture
• Seeding/Planting Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Came from a clearing sale at Boggabri.
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Lot 40 - 1967 David Shearer CS-105 Header 14ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by David Shearer Pty. Ltd Mannum, South Australia, in 1967. 14-foot harvesting width, PTO driven. An upgrade of the 'Type CS' of the early 1960s, it was considered big for that time. The CS-105, by the late 1960s, was a very popular 'popular sized' machine, sold in huge numbers. Heavily constructed specifically for bulk handling grain and using a remote hydrostatic control box mounted on the tractor, it was considered 'state of the art'. History: Purchased 2nd hand by Syd Brown, Maules Creek in 1974. This header possibly harvested more acres over 30+ seasons than any other CS-105 in Australia.
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Lot 41 - 1962 Shearer MS Header 12ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by David Shearer Pty. Ltd. Mannum, South Australia, 1962. 12-foot harvesting width featuring inbuilt hydraulically operated comb lift, pre-lubricated low friction ball bearings throughout and 'open' style threshing concave. A magnificent popular sized machine, being the final upgrade of the model '36' header from the 1940's. History: The MS headers were being discounted and heavily discounted in price to clear away any still in local agents' yards. Mr Sid Cain, the manager of the Narrabri Shearer agency, took Syd Brown to Warialda to look at one and his father Frederick Brown agreed to buy it, even though he was perfectly happy with his 10yo Sunshine No.6. The bagging box was replaced by the trailer bin, so grain could be bulk handled. Retired in the 1983 harvest season.
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Lot 42 - 1960 Massey Ferguson 506 Header 10ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made at Sunshine, Victoria, in 1960. 10 foot harvesting width (considered small for the 1960s). Featured one man operation, comb height adjusted by remote hydraulic ram powered from the tractor's hydraulic system. A 'V' belt replaced the traditional flat leather belt driving the straw walkers. Superseding the Sunshine No. 6 header the 506 was the final update of Headlie Taylor's original 1914 design, continuously improved and manufactured for 50 years at the Sunshine Harvester Works. History: Original owner a farmer from 'Rosedene' Willala.
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Lot 43 - 1960s H.V.McKay Sunshine No.7 Header 12ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by the H.V. McKay Massey Harris Pty. Ltd. at the Sunshine Harvester Works, Victoria, in 1956. 12-foot harvesting width. Driven with PTO. One man operation with inbuilt hydraulic comb height, and cleaning fan adjusting controls within the tractor driver's reach. The No. 7 was an upgraded No. 4 header, featuring larger cleaning sieves and fan. History: Sunshine 12-foot header genealogy: Sunshine auto header of 1924, became the No. 2a PTO header in 1940, which became the No. 4 header in 1948, which became the No. 7 header in 1955, which became the Massey Ferguson 508 header in 1957.
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Lot 44 - 1940s H.V.McKay Sunshine No.2A Header 12ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Has a 12-foot comb front. History: Went out of fashion in 1948 when the No4 came out. It worked in the MaulesCreek are until pirchased second-hand by Syd Brown in the late-1990s.
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Lot 45 - 1953 H.V.McKay Sunshine No.6 Header 10ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by H.V. McKay Massey-Harris Pty. Ltd. at the Sunshine Harvester Works, Victoria in 1953. 10-foot harvesting width Tractor driven by PTO shaft. Replaced the famous Sunshine H.S.T. header. The No. 6 was a very robust and reliable 'popular' sized machine still based on H.S. Taylor's 1914 design. History: Original owner was a farmer from 'Daisy View', Yarrie Lake.
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Lot 46 - Early-1950s Disc Harrow Offset on tandem hitch

Used
• Agriculture
• Tillage Equip
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Sunshine Disc Harrows 8-ft + IH Disc Harrows 10-foot on Dual Hitch. History: A Turrawan farmer had three of the 8-foot disc harrows on a trandem hitch. They were sold separately at their clearing sale, and Syd Brown purchased one of them in the early-1970s. The 10-foot Harrows came from Baan Baa.
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Lot 47 - 1936 H.V.McKay Sunshine HST Header 10ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Has the new type comb front which came out in 1936. It came with a bagging platform, which needed two men to bag, plus a driver on the tractor and one to work the header. But this one was fitted with a grain box when WWII started due to the lack of man power - grain box made by Boggabri Engineering Works. History: Original owner from Boggabri. Purchased by Syd Brown in 1980s.
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Lot 48 - 1922 H.V.McKay Sunshine Header 8ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made at the Sunshine Harvester works, Victoria around 1922. 8-foot harvesting width. Pulled by 8 draught horses, mechanism driven by ground wheel. Oil pot lubricated through oil boxes and wicks. The biggest and by far the best cereal crop harvesting machine available then. History: Originally owned by Uncle Tom Elsley of Curlewis, then by Fred Brown of Maules Creek. Retired in 1954 after a long and reliable 30 years of working life
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Lot 49 - 1918 H.V.McKay Sunshine Header 6ft

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Made by H.V. McKay Pty. Ltd. Sunshine, Victoria about 1918. Mechanism operated by ground-driven wheel, designed for horse team use. The six-foot comb front was the smallest offered and was ideal for very heavy yielding or weather. Flattened crops of wheat or oats. History: Original owner was from Maules Creek. It was still in use, and well maintained, into the 1950's.
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Lot 50 - 1940s Sunshine Massey Harris Reaper & Binder (6-ft)

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Reaper and binder. 6-foot comb. One person required to work the binder, and another person to drive the tractor. History: Bought new by “Taylors Plains” Maules Creek. Fred Brown used to borrow it each year, then eventually bought it for 50 pounds when Charlie bought himself a bailer instead.
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Lot 51 - 1958 Case Forage Harvester

Used
• Agriculture
• Harvester/Header
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: Picks up hay from windrows and makes it into coarse chaff. History: Bought new by Fred Brown in 1958 from Ferguson and Ward Case Agents in Boggabri.
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Lot 52 - 1966 International AB180 Truck

Used
• Transport
• Truck
• Buyers Premium: 10 % • GST Registered: No
• Specifications: About 1966 model. Started life with a V8 petrol engine but it was upgraded to a Perkins 6354 diesel engine. History: It came from the Wauchope area originally and was a prime mover pulling a log jinker out of the mountains. Then it had 4-feet added to the chassis and was fitted with a pusher axle to legally carry more weight, and it became a 20-foot tabletop truck used to cart wine for Murrumbidgee Wines. Then brought to Merah North, still with its V8 engine and high-speed differential which allowed it to go very fast – it could do 80 miles (128 km/h). Syd Brown purchased it in the 1980s. He removed the pusher axle when road rules weight limits changed. Starts well. Runs smoothly. Registered until 2022.
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