REMARKABLE AUSTRALIAN
FARM MACHINES by
Graeme R Quick
This book tells of the story of the
machines and
equipment developed for Australian agriculture, and
their inventors. It traces developments ranging from
broadacre cultivation to garden rotaries, to prickly
pear destruction, to auto headers, to banana
harvesting
for paper making.
Contemporary advertising
sprinkled through the book provides a backdrop
for the people, companies and products that have
been important to our farming history.
Did you
know that tractor hands-free steering was first
commercialised
by Beeline in Moree, NSW?
That the
world’s biggest paddock cleaning machines are
made in Banana?
That single-pass grain and
straw
harvesting began in Western
Australia?