00:10I started collecting Coast tractors many years ago when a club member sold off his collection.
00:18All his tractors were going cheaper at the sale and I like to look at a Case Model C tractor
00:25that
00:25he had and bought that and that started the bug of Coast tractors.
00:34So this is my dad's Oliver Succo. It's a 1956 model and it was on a farm that he purchased
00:44in Babinda in North Queensland back in the late 70s and he basically had it on the farm
00:49there and then when we moved to Bundaberg he brought it down to his farm now in North Bundaberg.
00:59This is my old Fordston Super Major from 35 years ago. I used to own it and do timber work
01:06and I found it probably 18 months ago sitting at a bloke's place under a fig tree.
01:17Little Howard 2000, diesel, single cylinder. I found it eh.
01:24There's just something about old tractors you can't do without eh. Once you're a farmer
01:29you're always a farmer no matter how old or young or old you are eh.
01:40This is a Countryman 354 Chamberlain. About 100 horsepower these old tractors are. I don't
01:47know really. Something about farming, something about tractors I suppose.
01:58A little farmball cub, 1949. I got to an auction there a couple of years ago.
02:08We have a International Harvester McCormick Farmball H, 1946.
02:16Yeah, pretty good tractor. The thing about old tractors you know, you get to show them around.
02:21People, you don't see them every day anymore. So you just get to show them around and you
02:26know, they don't have all the new technology in them. So they're pretty easy to drive.
02:38It's a 1951 Turner Diesel made in Wolverhampton, England. They've been in the family since new.
02:44There's something about them that there's nothing fancy. There's nothing flash.
02:48There's no electronics. They're just honest.
02:55For me it's the mechanic in getting them going nicely. For other people it's the family history
03:00of that tractor. They like to keep that in the family for years. It's different things
03:04for different people. Some people like them shiny. Some people like them in their working
03:08clothes. Whatever you like.
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