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Vintage tractors the rage in Tasmania at Pearn’s Steam World as volunteers power ahead
While modern tractors boast space-age technology, air-conditioned cabs and incredible power, steam-powered tractors built over a century ago can still capture hearts.
Key points:
- A group of volunteers in northern Tasmania helps preserve one of the largest collection of steam-powered tractors in the southern hemisphere
- They recently restored a 1926 Aveling and Porter steam engine, which cost $100,000 and took two years
- The family behind the collection has set up an exhibition celebrating women on the land
In Westbury, in Tasmania’s north, a diverse group of volunteers maintains one of the largest collections in the Southern Hemisphere.
At Pearn’s Steam World, they are all united by a love of steam.
“It’s just the smell and the motion and the…
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