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Visitor Charlotte Clarke, 6, from Woodford shares a tractor hay cart ride with Harry Johnstone, 5, brother Isaac, 7, sister Chloe, 3, and Flynn O<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 17, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tractor Tattoo has made the farmer’s friend the flavour of the month around the South Burnett, so it’s no wonder this year’s\u00a0Kingaroy & District Vintage Machinery Club Rally<\/strong> at the Kumbia Sportsgrounds over the weekend\u00a0was bigger and better than ever.<\/p>\n

In fact, it was the “biggest and best ever” according to President Jeff Barbeler and Secretary Andrew Rackemann, who estimate that more than 800 people came through the gates on Saturday alone.<\/p>\n

The two-day rally was officially part of Tractor Tattoo and was promoted alongside the arts event held in Kingaroy on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

However the tractors at Kumbia weren’t of the musical variety – these tractors meant business!<\/p>\n

Collectors of vintage equipment came from all over south-east Queensland to show off their carefully restored machines, including Bundaberg, Maryborough, Pine Rivers and Toowoomba.<\/p>\n

This year’s Rally featured 125 tractors, 30 trucks, about 20 cars, a record number of stationery engines (“so many we had to expand the display space,” Jeff said) and many motorcycles, too.<\/p>\n

This year’s event also celebrated 100 years since the invention of a motorised rotary hoe by Cliff Howard in Moss Vale, NSW.<\/p>\n

There were displays of huffing and puffing stationery engines doing everything from pumping water to processing miniature hay bales; farm equipment such as corn huskers and threshers; and even tractor hay-rides for the children.<\/p>\n

Sled pulling events and “slow” tractor races were popular, as was the display of vintage chainsaws.<\/p>\n

And to keep the non-machinery types happy, there was a variety of market stalls on the ground.<\/p>\n

The Show’s canteen was run by the Kumbia State School P&C and the gate was manned by volunteers from the Kumbia Kindy, who were run off their feet for large parts of the weekend.<\/p>\n

“These groups give us tremendous help every year and we’re very pleased to help them back with donations,” Jeff said. “We really couldn’t do this without them.”<\/p>\n

The Kingaroy and District Machinery Club has also invested about $40,000 into improvements to the Sportsgrounds over the many years the Rally has been held there, including installing showers, a toilet block, a shade shed and upgrades to the kitchen.<\/p>\n

“These all help us put on a better show,” Jeff said, “but they’re there all the rest of the year to help every other group that uses the Showgrounds too.”<\/p>\n

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Model engine enthusiasts John Chalmers and Dereck Want from the Rum City Vintage Machinery Club brought several model engines to the show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n
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Charlie Mitchell, 7, driving a 1988 John Overell tractor owned by Croxley Stud<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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How times change… this 1949 diesel tractor amazed onlookers with its prolific smoke<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Don Reid from Maryborough shows off the busker street organ he built from plans he found in a popular magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Geoff Sharp from the Rum City Vintage Machinery Club shows off his working mechanical pump<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Kevin Mullan from the Pine Rivers Vintage Machinery Club with a modified 1950 Ruston-Hornsby petrol-paraffin engine that originally came from Harris Scarfe in South Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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