Restored and maintained by the Settlement's Technical Curator, most of our tractor collection is driveable and many are driven by volunteers at the Settlement on an almost daily basis.

The Pioneer Settlement has an extensive and ongoing program of conservation and, where necessary, restoration for all of its objects. The work is always undertaken in the spirit of the Burra Charter - the guiding document for producing professional restoration of artefacts which can be reversed to allow for return to their original state.

The result is that we have many operating objects which can be used to demonstrate the way in which life was lived in the past. Many of these are still regularly 'activated', while others, such as our 1908 Saunderson Model A are only brought out for special activation days.