National Agricultural Technology Museum of Australia

For more than 20 years the Yass Antique Farm Machinery Club have amassed, through donations and aquisition, a large collection that tells the important story of Agricultural Technology in Australia's history. They are well known, loved and respected across the district and beyond for their support of community events and demonstrations at field days. They now wish to share their love of saving and restoring historic farm machines with everyone.

Vision for the Museum

Our vision is to create both a physical and digital museum that
connects with both young and old through the lens of Agricultural
technology to share our rich Australian Agricultural Heritage,
our skills and experience, and our comprehensive collection of
restored and restorable agricultural technology.

The Digital Museum

You needn’t be in Yass, or even Australia, to enjoy the National
Agricultural Technology Museum. Everything we do will be published
or shared real time on our digital platform there for you to enjoy,
learn from, participate in, and of course, contribute to. This
digital experience will be there for everyone to share (school
students, agricultural students, machinery enthusiasts, historians
- anyone in fact).

Preserving Our Agricgultural History

For more than 20 years, we have acquired through donations and
aquisition a large collection of historically significant Australian
rural history that they wish to share with others. Their collection
tells the important story of Australian Agricultural Technology.
Working together shoulder to shoulder they have also gained extensive
experience in traditional craftsmanship and skills that they wish
to preserve.

Australia's Leading
Agricultural Technology Museum

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The Collection

H V McKay Binder

Harvesting a wheat crop used to be extremely labour intensive. Until the development of the reaper and binder, farmers had to bind sheaves of wheat by hand. Reapers simply cut the wheat, oats or barley stalks off near the ground, then left piles of stalks in bunches on the ground. Five men had to follow each reaper to gather the straw and bind it into sheaves.

Cliff and Bunting Pitchfork Baler

The stationary baler was taken out to a paddock, positioned next to a hay stack and belted up. Once the unit was operating, hay was thrown onto a wooden table. Another worker on top shoved stalks into the chamber each time before the plunger advanced.

Marshall Traction Engine

Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848 that produced steam traction engines. Traction engines are a steam-powered tractor that was used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.