Tractorcollection goingonblock

• Published date: 18 April 2024
• Publication title: Otago Daily Times (New Zealand)

The eight-tractor collection, which features many that are more than half a century old, is being auctioned today in Waimumu

Mr Rutherford’s son, Tony, also a farmer, said there were about 60 lots of farm equipment on sale.

‘‘We’re keeping some of it, like I said, but I don’t have enough room and [my] brother doesn’t have enough room for it all and it’s just got to move on,’’ Mr Rutherford said.

Vintage ploughs and other farming machinery of new and vintage eras would also be auctioned, he said.

Much of the collection was owned by his late father, he said.

‘‘We’ve got the [items] that he’s collected and then some of the other stuff is just from farming over the years and it’s just come to end.

‘‘He was an enthusiast in machinery.’’

Described as a ‘‘good bugger’’, his father particularly enjoyed his ploughing and tractor trekking, he said.

Since his father’s death in September, he had spent a lot of weekends on the Waimumu property, cleaning the shed and organising the collection for auction, he said.

Many of the eight tractors being auctioned were more than 50 years old and he expected them...