Rally offers window into the past

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Rally offers window into the past

 

THE magic of the past will come to life at the Korumburra Working Horse and Tractor Rally at Nyora this weekend, March 19 and 20.

Visitors will see a large display of vintage and veteran tractors, with some working implements, and there will be the popular vintage tractor pull.

The earth moving machinery display will include bulldozers, graders, rollers and other related items working the earth.

This year’s rally will focus on exhibits originating from pre-1920, including cars and tractors dating back to pre-1910, said the rally’s Neville Carfrae.

“There will be plenty for people to see, there is no two ways about it,” he said.

“It is living history, where people can see items of history that opened up the country and the fact they can be rebuilt is a sign of how well they were built.”

Come and see stationary hay presses and one of the earliest round hay balers, dating back to the 1950s, that tied bales before discharging them, as well as some of the earliest tractor drawn square balers.

An International horseless carriage dating back to 1910-12 will attract interest, as well blacksmiths, bric-a-brac stalls and sheep shearing demonstrations.

“We will also have 12-15 horses come to work and they should be interesting to watch,” Mr Carfrae said.

Horses will be ploughing, sweeping and stacking hay, running the horse works for the chaff cutter and pulling wagons, carts and sleds.

While the rally is open both days, the busiest day will be Sunday, when a club of T-model Fords will travel from Tooradin and make the rally their destination.

While the event name carries reference to Korumburra, visitors should note the rally is actually at Nyora: at the Metro Quarry Group site on the South Gippsland Highway. Access is via the quarry entrance road.

The rally has been running since 1991 and has grown to be one of the premier rallies of its type. Originally starting as a one off display of farming as it was in 1891, as part of the Shire of Korumburra Centenary celebrations, the popularity of that first event prompted another event in 1993.

From there the rally has moved location twice from two different farms at Korumburra South – the Hopkins property as the first home and the Brooks property the second home – and then the final move to its current location in Nyora at Morrison Park on the South Gippsland Highway in front of the Metro Quarry Group site in 2004.

The event is now run by a voluntary committee comprising members from across Victoria.

“We will have visitors from Hamilton, Warracknabeal, Sale and the Mornington Peninsula,” Mr Carfrae said, adding overseas visitors could also visit.

“They all just enjoy taking the time to look at history in action.”

See the website www.workinghorseandtractorrally.com.au for more information.

Working hard: Wonthaggi’s Jeremiah Evans watched on as his siblings Max and Brooke groomed horse Bonnie at the Korumburra Working Horse and Tractor Rally in 2015.

Working hard: Wonthaggi’s Jeremiah Evans watched on as his siblings Max and Brooke groomed horse Bonnie at the Korumburra Working Horse and Tractor Rally in 2015.

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