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
So Farmer Brown’s Wheat Farm Museum machinery, spare parts, wheels, and sundries, are for sale by auction.
Date: Saturday 16th May 2026
Time: 10am start
Address: “Beringa”, 1006 Browns Lane, Tarriaro (near Narrabri) NSW Australia
Online Auction: www.auctionsplus.com.au/auctions/machinery/farmer-browns-wheat-farm-museum-clearing-sale/128310
The Museum Implements
The main part 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 on the museum pad are their corresponding Scarifiers, Combines (planters/seeders/seed drills), and Headers (harvesters).
More about the 100+ vintage machines:
- 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)
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, etc.
- Miscellaneous Machinery and Materials – such as antique road graders, boom sprayers, fencing materials, and building materials, etc.
- Animal Handling equipment – shearing shed running gear, wool press, Lister engines, wool table, saddles, reigns, etc.
- Old trucks and vehicles – such as 1950 Austin “Loadstar”, International AB-180, F600, etc.
- “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 Wrecks for many of the above implements.
- Domestic – household items from the previous century including bathtubs, enamel jugs, biscuit tins, etc.
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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