Thread: Red Hill clearing sale

Went to this sale on Saturday. Couple of local farmers started collecting many years ago, getting on a bit now and decided to sell most of their collection. Total in dollars was just under one million, took the cook with us to show her what a real toy set should look like.



Stuart Tank fitted with ford 302 and auto, wonder if you could get club rego. $10500



Bren gun carrier $18000



Continental 7 cyl radial $6000. Goblin jet engine [Great name] $6500



1904 hornsby $30.000 [ not a typo ]



Advance on right of picture made $27000, Jelbart 16 at left $47000



Mercedes 800+hp ex marine $5000.



Avon jet engines C.A.C and Rolls Royce, $8500 and $9500



Very early stihl $1400



This was going to another Museum. Huge , could be where the term overhead cam originated



Red blitz 2x4 $500, 4x4 $2000



Renault crawler $27000



40 or more tractors, about $20000 average



Fowler dozer $5000, can remember my father using one, cartridge start.





Centurion tank, tried to get the cook to do a Cher pose, told me to get a bigger barrel. $36.000. Have other photo's let me know if you want more.

Cheers Greg

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

My god. $26,000 for a Lanz. You would have to be really obsessed. We had an old Lanz with a yard crane built on it at Winton in the fifties. What a pig of a thing. Worst mongrel thing to start in the cold I ever came across. no wonder farmers dumped all those hard starter types in a trice when press button cold start diesels became readily available.

Can imagine that it would be pretty frustrating to go through the 20 minute starting ritual that these things required on a cold day, just to use it for 5 minutes to lift something. This one was one of the last of the bulldogs, had a starter fitted. They were also a 2 stoke diesel, didn't scare the birds from the sky like a Detroit though.

Cheers Greg