Wyalkatchem CBH Museum 1936 Heritage Wheat Bin

Our main museum building is the original 1936 “K” type Wheat Bin which is believed to be the oldest in preservation. It is one of our Heritage Listed Building Exhibits that displays the construction skills and practical innovation that were evident early in the last century.

A collection of vintage and classic trucks parked inside the Wyalkatchem CBH Museum

The 1936 Wheat Bin is an exhibit area that has a great background with a rare and diverse collection of agricultural based equipment which includes but is not restricted to vintage vehicles, several horse drawn carriages and drays, stock saddles and harness gear, bag lifters, seed cleaners, several sunshine harvesters, pickler’s, stripper harvesters, roller mills, stationary engines, harvester binders, wool presses, shearing plants, weighing scales, chaff cutters, grain crushers, railway gear, lathes and other workshop equipment, 32v gen sets and a selection of vintage vehicles.

Old wooden wagons and farming equipment on display in a museum, with tags and labels, under a corrugated metal roof at the Wyalkatchem Museum Wheatbin
Old wooden cart with large wheel, leaning inside Vern's Lean-to  Wyalkatchem CBH Museum

Some of the many exhibits you will find in the Wheatbin. [Underlined items have more info]

1950 Barrow Linton grain Seed Grader and pickler machine with multiple wheels and mechanical parts, displayed indoors at the Wyalkatchem Museum
Old wooden barrel fumigator with a metal motor mounted on a wooden trailer chained for support, in the wheatbin at the Wyalkatchem Museum
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