HCVC

Lights on the Hill presented by Tracmach

By Kevin Toovey

Talbots Farm on Heppingstone road was the destination at Brunswick Junction. It is one of those events where people come to catch up with everyone else. I also think it brings back memories for many people to see the bulldozers and graders working in the paddock. If you were not driving one of these machines yourself you might have grown up in the country and seen your parents or one of the contractors operating one of these old machines building dams or roads.

The event was on a beautiful day not to hot not to cold. There was a great line up of 100 plus tractors, beautifully restored trucks, cars and stationary motors.

Cars and trucks Above & below: Crawlers in action. Some of these machines would have been anything but comfortable in adverse conditions, no cab, shade or spring seats.

REO and Kenworth This is the first year that Tracmach has had the sled at the event. Bob Lukins John Deere 6030 went well, some of the smaller and older tractors were struggling to get it started. The green slippery grass didn’t help with traction

Barry Napoli’s Mack Superliner The Catalano Fleet

Some of the large tractor line up The LRTAWA’s Muscle Mite is the smallest prime mover registered in Australia

Two horse power

A nice Kenworth tray back

The recently restored Dodge belonging to Russell Mehrtens looked excellent and still sounded as loud as it did in the 70s thanks to the Detroit 6V-53 motor

Another crowd pleaser was the PTO tractor dynamometer, most came close to their original specification allowing for the 50 plus years of work they had done

Below & right: Lights on the Hill features machines doing earthmoving tasks, there is always plenty of bulldozers, a few graders and some tractors towing ploughs and scarifiers