“Hutcheon & Pearce is now our biggest exhibitor on the biggest individual site.”
“We’ve been working with the committee for at least six months to plan this year’s field days. We were hoping to mark the 100 years of John Deere tractors in some way, but Kim just came out of the gates with heaps of ideas, and we’re really excited to be involved.’’ Other highlights for 2018 include the Henty Machine of the Year Award (presented on Tuesday 18 September), the Best Australian Designed and Manufactured Machine (presented on Thursday 20 September), the Agri-Innovators Awards (presented on Wednesday 19 September) and the Farmgate Produce Area. “We call it an agribusiness supermarket, with about 14km of shop frontage,” Kim said. “Whether you’re nine or 90, there’s something for everyone at Henty.” Vintage tractors The vintage machines contributed by the Henty and District Antique Farm Machinery Club will include: with a 180m frontage, and they are a terrific drawcard in themselves. They go to a terrible lot of trouble to make the site look fantastic every year and we anticipate this year will be no different.” Sales Operations Manager Andrew Watt said more than 50 Hutcheon & Pearce staff will attend this year’s field days. “We’ll have a working Waterloo Boy tractor, which is the original model tractor John Deere ever produced, on our site. These are extremely rare, with only a handful of working models in Australia. This one was built built in April 1918, just two weeks after John Deere began tractor manufacturing. “We’re also looking forward to having George The Farmer with us again this year, and we’ll have some virtual reality goggles there so people can do a 360 virtual walk around of some of our products. “While we’re still finalising the exact equipment we’ll have on display, we’re hoping to have a new self-propelled sprayer there in the 6000 litre size. We’ve never had anything that big on our site before, but it seems the year to go big.” Andrew is full of praise for the HMFD Committee. “We have a close working relationship with the committee and each year happily supply all the gators for the committee and volunteers to use during the event – with 105 hectares and 1200 sites to cover, they’re a necessity!
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a 1926 steel-wheeled John Deere tractor, owned by Arnold and Jonathon Schulz from Jindera
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a 1929 steel-wheeled John Deere tractor, a 1937 John Deere tractor (fully restored), a 1946 two-cylinder D model and
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a 3130 manufactured in 1973, owned by Len Schlig from Albury
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a Lanz Bulldog, manufacturer under John Deere in 1958, owned by Ross McDonald
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a 1946 G row, 435 Crawler tractor
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a 1964 six-cylinder John Deere tractor (restored), owned by Colin Eulenstein
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a single-furrow John Deere plough, owned by Ian Ballentine
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a 730 John Deere tractor (unrestored)
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a 640 John Deere rake
If you have a vintage machine you’d like to display at the Henty Machinery Field Days, please email michael.casey@hutcheonandpearce.com.au to find out more.
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