Tractor museum at Whitemans

Well each time we visit Whitemans Park we either have a picnic, or we hit the swings and do some bushwalking. But today we decided to have a gander at the old tractor Museum, which is inside the Whiteman's Park grounds. We have been in there before ..... about five years back, so it was time to have another sticky beak at the old machinery. This is the sort of stuff that my old man would of loved to have a look at, just having a smell of the old engine gear sump oil fumes mmmmmm you can't beat it.




The first thing you see when you walk inside is an old ridge-didge Aussie the 'Sunshine Harvester', there couldn't be a more Aussie thing then the old Sunshine! A young fella by the name Huge McKay came up with the idea back in 1884, which then after a few years became an Aussie icon in the farming game. By the way you might of noticed that I had the whole mob on this walkabout, so if you see one of the kiddies going walkabout during a photo (like the back of chases head). Then you can only imagine how hard it is to get the whole mob to stay still TOGETHER, so if we lose one then oh well bad luck.







And it wouldn't be a trip to an old Aussie museum without having a gander at 'The Bedford', okay it might of been made in England but these old trucks have been loved by Aussie farming blokes for ages. They were made in the 1950's as 5 ton farm truck for carting seed to the paddocks, transported grain during harvest time and for general farm duties.












Here's Sarah n' Chase showing you the 'Chamberlain Champion', Now this tractor has a ripper history to it, it's been around Australia 3 times after doing 3160 farm work hours! This Australian made (1955) tractor was used in the famous Redex car trail as a rescue vehicle, which covered the whole dusty 16,800 km's.... crikey not bad for a friggin' tractor.













Here's Jacko showing us a model D John Deere which was made in 1951, and worked it's life in the Eastern wheatbelt until retired for a life under a tin roof.... one of the lucky ones.







Here's Sarah n' Chase showing us an old favorite the famous name of 'Massey Ferguson 102 Junior', this old girl was born in1944 which was one year after little uncle Dessie came into the Paul clan.... which makes this machine one very old tractor!












And here's Sarah n' Chase again showing us an McCormick International.












This is an old Fowler engine which arrived in Fremantle from England in 1921, it was used for clearing land for the railways before being sold to a timber mill where it worked for over forty years. Now that's a real beauty hay it was also in a movie called 'A Fortunate life'.







And talking about real beauty's how about this little kelpie.... standing next to a little kelpie! Known as a garden tractor it was built in the 1940's, and is still in good working order just like the one standing next to it!






Oh that's where this one got too, there are little jigsaws around at different spots in the museum. And as you can see little Oscar got his hands on one, at least he's out of trouble and having a ripper time.








Here's Oscar n' Chase showing us an old HART PARR known as an Australian special, it was built in the USA in 1929 which makes it one year older the our POP Paul.... strewth now were talking OLD! By the way I didn't say that it was Jacko ha,ha.





And here's Jacko n' Chase on that old Hart Parr.











As we were leaving the museum we poped over to a collection of old mining machinery, that has been at Whitemans Park for years.












Pretty cool stuff hay.










An old mining shaft from an old Kalgoorlie mine.


















But all good things have to come to an end and as an old Fremantle tram passes by, we head back to the commodore for a little picnic and then off to the swings. I think I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, Whitemans Park is a bloody ripper.