Quambatook Harvest Day

The Wimmera Mail-Times

The 2024 Quambatook Harvest Day celebrated machines and friendly rivalries across the Australia Day weekend.

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02:08 Can you hear me?

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02:20 Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Cornwall Cup Field Day.

02:24 What we're going to do is have a demonstration

02:28 and the old guys will sign a few bags.

02:30 So a lot of you guys here would know how to do it

02:33 probably better than them, but they're going to have to give it a go.

02:36 Now, a bit of history about the bagging off.

02:40 As you see there, we're coming up with a handle for bagging the bags off.

02:45 And every bag has to be signed.

02:49 And, um...

02:51 You can't hang any stickers to the bag.

02:55 That's a rule.

02:56 And, uh, I think I should have about 16.

02:59 You can't hang about 16 stickers to the bag.

03:02 Am I right, sir?

03:04 Probably.

03:05 Right.

03:06 So the group, um, the Cup Guys, and Big Boy,

03:13 and, uh, the men that come to serve women,

03:16 and here's that yellow green shirt truck.

03:19 He used to go around the home, come on the train,

03:21 and they don't have much of a distance between them.

03:23 They're on the front of the pit, so...

03:25 They're sitting on that side of the pit,

03:28 and that's about four inches down the rim.

03:31 You can fill this up quick,

03:37 and down into the bag,

03:39 and get the plane into the bag.

03:42 We looked at about 60 pounds per, uh, bushel,

03:46 and there was three bushels for a bag.

03:48 It was a 180-pound bag nowadays.

03:51 It's a 25-pound tea bag,

03:53 and they're thinking about the weight of that.

03:55 All you old guys, when you lift a woman on your shoulder,

03:58 and at night, when you have to leave the truck with a wagon out,

04:02 and a wagon out from the combine,

04:04 and take Ed and his tripper over the Harris,

04:08 and, uh, it'd be an awful mess.

04:11 An old man needs to give you a kick in the backside

04:13 if you want to drop your bag, so...

04:15 Anyway, um...

04:17 The boys are going to do a bit of a demonstration there of someone.

04:21 John. John's over 90.

04:23 And, uh, one of the boys from the ladies got a bit of a go.

04:27 So, um, we'll leave it here.

04:29 Now, a bit of history here. How did we became...

04:32 The tractor there, I believe, was it 1952?

04:36 Um, is that right?

04:38 What was it? '40?

04:41 In the '40s, in the tractor, the header was, like, '54.

04:47 And, uh, those boys are now getting their fingers,

04:52 just so they can have a look at it.

04:54 They're about four foot off it,

04:57 so they can crank it more.

05:00 It's in very, very good condition for its age.

05:03 I still look at that while I was fixing the bag swiller.

05:08 Now, what I'm going to do is,

05:10 I'm going to put some weight in the top of that

05:12 and push it down in to get the weight into the bag.

05:16 Huxley McCabe was down in Footscray, Melbourne.

05:21 That's where that big factory was.

05:23 I brought the dead carobs home and they sold out,

05:26 and I bought a few trees.

05:28 But, um, there's a gentleman, Huxley McCabe,

05:31 who made hay trucks.

05:33 So they didn't only make tractors,

05:35 they made plows, they made headers,

05:37 they made hay ropes, a lot of things.

05:40 So, Huxley McCabe, born in Sunshine, in Melbourne,

05:45 was built by, in fact, all the houses were actually built

05:48 by Huxley McCabe himself.

05:50 And he looked after his workers,

05:52 and they built them houses to keep them up to the fact.

05:56 So, uh, it was a very, very good company.

05:59 Now, we're pushing the work down in to the bag

06:02 and, um, trying to get the weight in.

06:06 Anybody else got any history of selling bags?

06:14 You can have a go if you want.

06:17 There's plenty of these and plenty of hemp cork.

06:20 Come up and have a look later.

06:28 I wonder if you, do you still go on your socks?

06:32 No, sir, see, me and my mum used to sit there

06:35 in front of the fire years ago,

06:37 and that's what she'd do,

06:38 she'd have a little half moon pin on a stick,

06:40 and she'd have her socks in there down in the hole.

06:42 I guess it just made her feel better going to the sock.

06:46 You need plenty of restrictions.

06:52 Haven't you been kicked?

06:55 Sixteen, sixteen in the bag.

06:58 Pretty good, eh?

07:00 Well done.

07:02 Now, another guy's going to have a go,

07:07 he's going to do it for a little bit different,

07:09 so, um, feel free to come up and have a look

07:11 at the sticks that are in the bag,

07:13 and, uh, thank you for your patience,

07:15 and, uh, we'll get on with the job.

07:17 Thank you.

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