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Used in the Burnley School of Horticulture - for arboriculture and maintenance of the Burnley Campus gardens.

Two stroke petrol chainsaw, blue and black in colour. Smaller size machine.

Solo Kleinmotoren GmbH. Type 60130. Made in Western Germany, Stuttgart. BAE.

burnley college of horticulture, horticulture, arboriculture, tree maintenance, sawing timber

Burnley College training of students and maintenance of Burnley Campus gardens.

Petrol driven chainsaw, coloured with pale yellow enamel paint.

'Canadien 210' Model 2-10 No. 21107. Serial Number (obscured), Power Machinery Ltd, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada

horticulture, arboriculture, sawing timber, tree maintenance, wood saw, burnley college of horticulture

Used on Burnley Campus for milling large pieces of timber on a platform.

Milling saw attachment painted yellow. Decommissioned parts.

Niff

timber production, milling wood, sawing wood, arboriculture, horticulture

Iron plough horizontal orientation of beam with central 2 point hitch and two ploughshares - one on either end. Ploughshares can be adjusted to width of furrow required.

tillage, plough, ploughshare

Used by students at Burnley

Wooden handles direct a metal chassis with two tynes attached and two cast iron spoked wheels. Pulled by second person with rope attached. Stencil of manufacturer painted on wooden handles.

MINTERN D.W.HOE

burnley college of horticulture, hoe, pedestrian plough, hand plough

Hand tillage implement for research on small holding plots

Mintern No300A Seeder - Two long wooden handled, pedestrian directed, tillage implement with metal seed hopper attachment. Small cast metal spoked front wheel with chassis. Metal painted Red.

Small Metal front wheel part no. K694. Tillage part no. K712, Seed Hopper part no. AP803, Attachment for seed hopper part no. 6539X Metal wheel cog driver fro seed hopper operation part no. K721

mintern, hand plough, tillage, seeder

A Fortin style mercury barometer from well-known Australian instrument maker, A.L.Franklin. The column of mercury is supported by the pressure of air on the free surface of the mercury in the cistern at the bottom. Its level can be adjusted to a datum using the screw at the bottom and then the height of the column can be accurately read off using a vernier scale at the top. Attached to a backing timber board with a thermometer. Thermometer made by Townson and Mercer. Metal vertical hanging eyelet.

A.L.Franklin, established 1919, scientific instrument makers, Brookvale, NSW; A.L Franklin Sydney No. 457; Townson and Mercer Distributors Pty Ltd throughout Aust and NZ.;

weather station, soil science, science, student outside activities, measurements, air pressure, atmospheric pressure, air temperature

Bronze wall plaque created by the Department of Agriculture, Victoria to commemorate the opening of the Student Amenities Building on 13th December, 1973 by the Premier of Victoria, The Honourable R. J. Hamer, E. D.., M. P. The plaque is attached to the wall on the right side of the entrance to the SAB.

student amenities building, opening, r. j. hamer, commemoration

awards, victorian college of agriculture and horticulture, vcah, australian council on awards in advanced education, bachelor of applied science (horticulture), certificates