The INSANE Story About Muir-Hill Tractors | The Downfall

[@fcafarmingsimulation8717]

My partner and I just watched your utube video on muir hillshich was very interesting and I thought you might be interested to know that in 1965 when i was 3 years old my dad Ray Dickinson and his brothers bought 2 Muir Hills to use in their farm contracting business in Marysville Victoria Australia. About 20 years later when the muir hill dealership (which i think was in western australia) closed down they bought all their stock of spare parts so they could repair them themselves. Dad always did all of the maintenance on Them and there wasn't a nut or bolt that he didn't know on those muir hills. He just loved them I think there was at least 2 shipping containers fulk of stock that they bought from them. They used them for building dams; ?Contour Ploughing and hay making(which the Dickinson Brothers specialised in) and even clearing the bush. He used them to tow his 69 foot scraper that he built himself and to pull his sheep's foot roller to compact the dam walls. They also ran a couple of dairy farms in marysville and they used the muir hills to flatten the pit silage He built 7 dams on his own farm with the muir hills to set up his flood irrigation When he changed fron pit silage to round rolls he used them to tow a trailer to bring in the silage. Dad lived in marysville in victoria Australia all of his life and on the day after the Black Saturday bushfire he used his Muir hill to clear the burnt trees off the road which meant he could come to my house in Narbethong to see if we were still alive. Dad loved his Muir Hills and when the family company closed he made sure he kept the them He loved them because they could go anywhere and I don't believe he ever got them bogged. Sadly my Dad passed away last year but both the muir hills are still on the property where mum still lives. Both Muir Hills are still working today. I only have one photo on this phone of Dad on his Muir Hill but if you would like some more I can send them to you Raelene and Rossco

[@timeunitytime]

Hi Raelene and Rossco! How nice to hear! And of course, sorry for your loss.. Always nice to connect!

[@unclebud7577]

I noticed that there was a picture of the XO121 Oliver. Did it come from a web search "containing 121"?

[@hubertrobinson8825]

In the early to mid 70s a rice farmer in our area had one I think it was powered by an 8 cylinder Perkins engine it was a beast 4 wheel drive and cab

[@SimonPerry-cz4ke]

From England would have been a 161 or 171 Perkins V8

[@simonharper4199]

not quite sure what northrop tractors have to do with northrop grumman (0.25) Thought they were a Lancashire firm