Vintage machinery display hailed a success

HUNDREDS of people made their way to the Oneday Estate on Sunday for the Bellarine Vintage Machinery Group Inc’s annual event.

An array of vintage tractors, cars and machinery were on show throughout the day, along with displays from emergency services agencies and working demonstrations.

Group secretary Graeme Brown said the day was a great success.

“There’s two sorts of people that come: people from the city, to see what we do and how farming happened in the past; and then we get the ones that come all the time with their own vintage stuff and they come to see how our event works, and we had a really good turnout of both.

“The highlights of it were that we had the ambulance service there and the two ladies that ran the ambulance service were really good and educated the public really well.”

Live demonstrations throughout the day highlighted how the different pieces of machinery worked and what they were used for.

“The demonstrations were really good; chaff cutting was one, people have never seen a chaff cutter working before so we had one of them going,” Mr Brown said.

“We had roller mills going to roll grain like Uncle Toby’s rolled oats and an old drag saw which was really good.”

The blacksmith shop was also working throughout the day as well, demonstrating the art of blacksmithing.

Children were catered for throughout the day with games and horse and cart rides.

The Bellarine Vintage Machinery Group Inc has plans for the event to return next year, following a similar style.