Hi! all, Roseworthy Agricultural College Museum (South Australian), has a Field Day coming up, with working examples. they will include a 1844 Wheat Stripper, the forerunner of the modern combine harvester. It is number eighteen made by inventor Ridley and just refurbished by his great great grandson. Also an 1908 tractor and plough, the first imported from England to Australia. Again, still in working order. It is all wheel drive on it's three wheels, two in front with a single, steering wheel in the rear. It did not work in the shallow rocky Oz soils, but could drag eighteen tons at eight miles an hour on the road.
Gil
