Monday, 30 April 2012

Post 2012 GFTM News

The winner of the Grey Fergie Tractor  Raffle was Bob Ninness from Borah Creek via Manilla NSW.
Congratulations Bob - we hope to get a photo of Bob on his new Fergie soon.

The winners of the Makita Raffle were:
1st- Bruce Nicholson
2nd- Peter Wilks
3rd-Tom Smith

Pioneer General Store Raffle donated by Bevan Callighan
1st- Pauline West, Bendemeer ( BMX bike and helmet)
2nd- J. Coleman (scooter)
Various prizes won by Harry Osborne, Pat Clemson, Robert Wright

We will provide an update on the amount of money raised for the Westpac Helicopter soon.

We had 160 Fergie Tractors in total.
The most from one location was from Gunnedah Rural Museum
Furthest travelled Fergie was Leo Versteegen from Warrandyte Victoria
Youngest owner was Toby Ison from Tamworth,
There were 14 tractors from Queensland,
The winner of the slow race Brian Pade

We'd like to give a special mention to Jeff Eggins, Donna Crampton & Robert Gill  who drove their Fergie tractors from Bonville NSW (south of Coffs Harbour) to Bendemeer - a journey of 246km.

They left Bonville on Thursday morning, stayed at Ebor overnight, then continued their journey down the New England to Bendemeer and were greeted by a number of owners and their Fergies out on the New England Highway on Friday afternoon.

On Sunday they made the return journey and were farewelled and led out of Bendemeer by a contingent of Fergie owners. Jeff rang Anne Doak the next day when they arrived home and said that "he had a tear in his eye when we were there waving them goodbye". What a tremendous effort they made to make it to the Muster. Well done!

Some photos will be posted very soon in the meantime just a small clip of the Grand Parade



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