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Old Seed Drill Comes to an End

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The Friends Of Fagan Park are going to dismantle and scrap an old seed drill. The seed/fertilizer drill was manufactured by H.V.McKay P/L in Victoria.

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The company grew in size over the years and at its peak, employed 3,000 personnel, and formed a partnership with Canadian Company Massey– Harris. The range of machinery expanded to headers, chaff cutters, cane cutters, hay making, balers, field mowers, and much more and also equipment for the war effort in WW1.

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14 rows approximately one foot apart would be sown in a shallow furrow and covered over in one pass of the paddock. A distributor disc would rotate around and around under the seed, pushing a constant regulated amount of seed down a tube into the furrow in the ground. This seeder in the image will be dismantled by the Friends Of Fagan Park and scrapped.