Border Flywheel Club and Heritage Museum presents the Barham Vintage Engine and Machinery Rally this weekend, May 18 and 19.
This year, the event celebrates its 26th year at the Border Flywheel Club and Heritage Museum site in Barham.
Border Flywheel Club and Heritage Museum vice-president Richard Edwards has been involved with the club and rally since it started.
“I used to bring rock crushes and that sort of thing, but I have tapered off on that,” Mr Edwards said.
“I will be looking after the steam engines at the rally, supplying wood.
“There is an old Clayton and Shuttleworth engine, 1910.
“It is hooked up to a big pump and, happily working away there, circulates water around a drum.
“The Marshall engine is going to be started up, and hopefully, they are going to start up a big Ruston.
“They have just shipped it to the Border Flywheel Club from Selleck’s orchard, a big orange orchard.
“It was down there on a pump, and they have managed to bring it up to our Flywheel’s Museum at the brickworks.
“She weighs six tonnes and is a big single-cylinder machine from 1920 or something like that.”
The theme for this year’s Barham Vintage Engine and Machinery Rally is grandparents’ tools and machinery, with Mr Edwards joking that “if you have any old people who can do that work and the machinery side of things, it would be much appreciated”.
At the rally, a 25-horsepower Marshall engine will be running, as will the Eagle Creek pump steam engine.
“There is a great big Ronaldson Tippett engine down on the Murray River, just walking distance from the brickworks, and they start that up,” Mr Edwards said.
“It used to pump the water into the Eagle Creek for irrigation.
“Now they have electric motors, but the engine is still in the shed there.”
The rally will have exhibits for the whole family to enjoy, including a fully operational steam bay display, radio-controlled model boats and trucks, and a working belt-driven hay baler display.
There will be woodworking and a classic car show and shine, and Tom Underwood will give free rides in his World War II Army Jeep around Barham Lakes.
Exhibitors can enjoy free unpowered on-site camping and a Saturday night meal, and trade stalls are welcome but require a booking.
For more information on Barham Vintage Engine and Machinery Rally, contact Rob McKenzie on 0427 522 868.
Barham Vintage Engine and Machinery Rally will be held at the Border Flywheel Club and Heritage Museum, 9 Jamieson Ave, Barham, on Saturday, May 18, from 9.30am to 5pm and Sunday, May 19, from 9.30am to 3pm.