Mt Laura Homestead - Whyalla

I recently went to Port Lincoln with the sole purpose of eating biggest mobs of Seafood, I did and it was Good.

On the way though, I stopped at Whyalla, saw the boat in the trees and The Mount Laura Homestead Museum and saw;

The Worlds Best Grain Grinder


And here's the proof


And it's driven by this (belts not included).


Then this (Hastings?) - Deering tractor and scraper combination.


A road roller,


with this engine,


And another road roller.


A Lister Gen Set;






And out the back, an AEC Bus Converted to a Caravan





On the way to Port Lincoln I saw a field of Harvesters




and at the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum Port Lincoln, a



And somewhere along the way a non-Volvo truck doing some work


And for those wot likz a quiz, a Where am eye?


While touring the ship in the trees, I discovered that BHP once mined iron ore at Iron Knob, turned that ore into steel at Whyalla and with that steel, built ships at the Whyalla ship yard and those same ships then sailed all over the world for the next 20 or 30 years, often with Australian Crews.
Fancy that, iron ore to ship, all in the one same country.
WIBFAA.

-b

Very comprehensive post mate , bit of every thing . Thanks for posting up the photos .

gotta like that lister looks like its hydraulic start as well

hastings crawler is a IH tTracTractor I thinkl they called them

lots of prized gems there some need more fixing than others

thanks for sharing

Paul

...thanks for your efforts bobsboy .. a bit of everything chucked in makes it all interesting...

...that "Kelvin" unit may bean old compressor/pump for an industrial fridge motor ??....(think Kelvinator)

Detective, I think you will find that the Kelvin engine is a purpuse built marine engine. The company started building engines in the early 1900,s and built some very biiiiiiiiiiig stuff over the years.

Thanks for the photos and commentary Bobsboy,
When at the Stenross museum we learned that a ship had been damaged by a German mine near Port Lincoln, the war was closer than we were told.
International tractors were titled McCormick Deering, from the amalgamation of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co and the Deering Harvester Co in 1902.
The tractor pictured is a TD35, petrol start through a third valve in the head, after a warm up this was closed increasing compression to run on diesel.
David.

Is the road the causeway at Whyalla at the head of Spencer Gulf?

Zuffen,
Did you mean Port Augusta?
David.

Hi,

Yer not far wrong Mr Zuffen, 'tiz a causeway true.

But az sum uver sortta quizmiester once said,
"No cold one for you"

-b

Hi,

Awhhh, you guys is getting me from left and right now.

wouldyou, "treat u're self to the coldest one in the fridge"

Going south from Port Augusta, BP Roadhouse coming up on the left.
About a 300 kilometres home stretch for this little black duck.

-b