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Hi , hear some photos of my john deere's,

I may just book a week off work & do both shows

just thought i would share this new addition to you 1980

i bought this pile of junk and believe it or not there was half a trojan amongst it the bonnet was full of holes engine was knackerd lots of bits missing made a back bit to hold the seat unit and repaired the bonnet by glassing a frame made out of old tent poles and glassing a tank to it stuffed a honda engine in and fitted an albion 3 speed box then i made a chain gaurd out of a briggs engine cowling bit of paint and build

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Found the owner of this weeks sprayer the other day , i will try & get him to attend the show

August 23 and 24, its the Saturday and Sunday of the Bank Holiday weekend If you could make it up from Zummerzet Neil I am sure you will get a warm welcome !!

And I'm definitely coming to and be there to help on the Friday kev

Definitely coming to the event Kev, just not sure what with yet, several ideas for a display being kicked about at the moment... Yes that Weeks is a lovely machine, nice to see locally manufactured machinery at the show.

Is that the same brown machine that joined our section at last years show? A fantastic machine

New deck decal from Titch arrived today...

I've got one of those aswell, a great little mower.

Late to the party here - sorry. Looks like that 'bad boy' is capable of some serious work Matt - love the hydraulics. Makes my D-200s look like toys - but I luv 'em to bits none the less. Great find, gonna be a great project. Andy

Now that's what a call a solid looking wheel hub Although it's not been welded together, bolting the brake disk on and adding some threaded wheel bolt holes help with the looks To add a bit of colour have a couple of welding action shot's.. I was welding on captive nut's to hold the brake disk on. And a bit more colour in the form of a quickly made layout plan. The red is the original WH chassis, the yellow and green is steel I had yet to add! Thinking ahead a bit about mounting the axles I bought a load of tapered bearings. And scribbled out some plans for making some blocks to hold the bearings. The computerized version of my scribblings. This power hacksaw I paid £45 for years ago paid for it's self once again slicing up some more of that 1 1/2" thick steel. A "Raw cut" bearing block and a faced off block. And one finished bearing block. That will do for today I think... If your lucky I might move away from the lathe for the next update, and start on the chassis

To SIg Kiri is nine years today Frae the Fife Plooman

Environmentally friendly lawn mower deck this evening...

No doubt that can be arranged somewhen...

Here's a little bit more of the build before I head out to the shack to play with the GT and a 3 point Starting where I left off.. Corners cut off.. I'm checking the size against a standard Wheel Horse wheel hub in the photo. More material taken off. Until it looked like this Yep, that fit's the wheel Part 3 of the new wheel hub was a smaller steel doughnut. From this. To this. Which neatly fit's the center of this Kawasaki Gpz305 front brake disk. It was about this sort of time that work stopped for almost a year as I moved house and built a Workshack twice! Here's Garry about to "open" a fully functional Workshack.. That feels like a good place to pause the story for now... More to come later.

I think the Frankin mint tractors although can be expensive but are well worth the money , do they only do the row crop Farmall type paul ? Here are a few pics of my collection , i really need to get them put in a sealed display case as they are collecting quite a lot of dust at the moment . I started to collect the orange Fiat Hitachi construction equipment because i used to work for the company that were the sole importer of Fiat construction equipment and they used to get me a model every time i done some work for them .

Also rumoured is mr showman could be attending.so watch this space! So could be all the brothers back together.