Kevin R&T Dragsaw & Jims Tangy & Marks International M

This large Tangye oil engine and pumping system was donated to the Mid North Coast Machinery Restoration Club approximately 20 years ago and had to be retrieved from the siding at Warrell Creek, just south of Macksville along Cockburns Lane, where it made up part of the water replenishing system for the steam trains that ran up and down the Mid North Coast.
The fresh water would be pumped into a large overhead metal holding tank, where the train drivers and firemen would fill up the trains as needed - a crew of workers would travel out from Macksville to run and maintain the engine.
The engine and pump was made by Tangye of Birmingham, England. The engine is a magneto start kerosene engine of around 15hp. It was started by turning the engine over by pulling on the big flywheel. Then the clutch system would be engaged allowing the pump to turn. The pump was mounted over a well of about 6ft in diameter which had a bottom opening to the creek. The pump would push the water via a 4in pipe up to the tank, a height of about 100ft.
The engine has been undergoing restoration by members of the club, who are aiming to get the whole system set up and working again as a display of a working unit.
Manufactured in Australia by Ronaldson & Tippett in the late 1940s-early 1950s, this dragsaw is powered by a 3-4hp Austral air-cooled motor, which was also built by Ronaldson & Tippett. It was purchased new in the late 1940s by Roy and Ray Aston of Bowraville. This machine was used to clear land for bananas and the cross-cutting of logs for firewood and fence posts.
However, owing to improvements in chainsaw manufacturing, and the speed and ease to which these machines could be used, the dragsaw saw little use and was left in the corner of a banana shed for many about 45 years.
When this dragsaw was purchased from the Aston family, and even after 45 years, it only required a small amount of work to get it working again. The head had to be removed to free up the exhaust valve, the magneto required a new condenser and clean-up, dirt and sludge had to removed from the fuel tank, and some rust had to be removed from the main frame. This machine was displayed its original working clothes and owned by Kevin Smith.
This 1928 International Harvester Model M 3hp 600rpm petrol/kerosene engine is owned by Mark Burton. It was originally owned by Mark's grandfather, and its last working day was in 1982, operating as a sawbench for firewood in Camden, NSW.