13/08/2026
Kerry Pietsch, the specialist farm machinery restorer and collector from Pleasant Hills, has added a Martin & Co., ten furrow, mouldboard plough to his unique collection. This plough is an incredible piece of Australian agricultural history. The vast majority of surviving multi-furrow mouldboard ploughs off this scale exist purely as non functional static museum pieces or rusting relics in paddock corners. Finding a 10-furrow mouldboard unit that is mechanically complete, unwarped, and actively rolling soil at a heritage rally is an incredibly unique event. Manufactured at Martin's Phoenix Foundry in Gawler South Australia and delivered through J Martin & Co. Sydney between 1895 and 1907 this now 120 year old, Martin & Co. plough passed through the Cookardinia Henty areabefore its re-birth at Pleasant Hills. The 10- furrow model was an industrial- scale implement for its day, designed for lighter ploughing, turning back fallow land quickly, or working topsoil over large acreages. A substantial team of between 10 and 16 horses, were required to pull the plough.
