Welcome to Farmer Brown’s Wheat Farm Museum!
Our Dad, Syd Brown, had planned to turn our family farm near Narrabri (NSW Australia) into a Working Wheat Farm Museum in his retirement.
But now that he is getting dementia, he has decided to have a clearing sale of all the museum machinery he has lovingly collected and protected all his life.
Farmer Brown’s Museum
Clearing Sale
showing the museum layout and the stunning view of the Nandewar Range
So Farmer Brown’s Wheat Farm Museum machinery, spare parts, wheels, and sundries, are for sale by auction.
On site and online auction:
Online Auction:
from 9am Thu 14/5/2026 to Sat 16/5/2026 on www.auctionsplus.com.au/auctions/
machinery/farmer-browns-wheat-farm-museum-clearing-sale/128310
On site Auction:
starts at 10am on Saturday 16th May 2026 at “Beringa”, 1006 Browns Lane, Tarriaro (near Narrabri) NSW Australia
The Museum Implements
The heart of Farmer Brown’s Wheat Farm Museum is the grid layout. There are 10 tractors in a row with their matching one-way disc ploughs. Behind them in lines, are their corresponding Scarifiers, Combines (planters/seeders/seed drills), and Headers (harvesters).
- 12 vintage tractors (from the 1922 Hart Parr to the 1965 John Deere 5010).
One-way disc ploughs – from the 1930s H.V.McKay Sunshine “Sunbow” (6-disc) to the 1975 Chamberlain (24-disc) one-way disc plough.
Great for Garden Art!
Scarifiers – from the 1938 Mitchell Scarifier (16-tyne) to the Connor Shea (23-tyne) Scarifier. Plus other cultivators.
- Combines (planters/seeders, seed drills) – from the 1920s Sunshine Massey Combine (14-row) to the 1960s John Shearer “HiLift” Seed Drill (28-row).
- Headers (harvesters) from the 1918 horse-drawn H.V.McKay Sunshine Header (6-foot comb) to the “massive” 1967 New Holland MF-140 Header (22-foot comb)
[In contrast, a modern CLAAS header, which does not belong to us, showcases how much bigger headers have become, and how much farmers now rely on electronics!]
Outside the Museum pad are hundreds of other vintage items:
- Wheat Handling Equipment – such as augers, mesh silos (great for pig traps), bagging needles and funnels, field bins, grain carting bins, chaser bin, etc.
- Miscellaneous Machinery such as vintage road graders, boom sprayers, harrows, saws, slashers, etc.
- Materials – fencing materials and building materials, etc.
- Animal Handling equipment –
- Old trucks and vehicles – such as
- 1950 Austin “Loadstar”,
- International AB-180,
- Ford F600.
- “Sundries Shed“ – thousands of little things such as oil pots, grease guns, tools, gadgets, spanners, etc, all aged between 50 and 100 years old.
- Pallets loaded with accessories such as crop lifters, cultivating points and tynes (perfect for iron art), etc.
- “Wheels Shed“ – hundreds of tyres, rims, wheels, press wheels, steel wheels, and plough discs from the past.
- “Spare Parts Department” (AKA “Donor Machines”) for many of the above implements:
- Domestic – household items from the previous century including bathtubs, enamel jugs, biscuit tins, kerosene tins, ice cream times, etc.
NEWS FLASH: See our story in “The Land” newspaper: www.theland.com.au/story/9239999/vintage-tractor-up-for-grabs-as-farm-museum-set-for-clearing-sale/
Come along! Bring your old farmer neighbour!
To inspect any of the above machinery, please contact us!
(If you find any dead links, please let us know!)
Accommodation
If you are fully self-contained (have own caravan, campervan, tent) and have your own power supply, water, and shower, you may he able to stay at the Museum over the clearing sale weekend. Contact us to make arrangements.
Otherwise, there are motels, pubs, and caravan parks within half hour’s drive of the Museum, at:
- Baan Baa Pub (17km),
- Boggabri (28km) – Boggabri Motel , Boggabri Caravan Park and 2 x Boggabri pubs.
See you then!!
The Browns
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