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Here's the four uk engine options of bantams offered by howard over the years. Villiers ohv,Villiers mk 25c 2stroke, BSA 120cc, and AC 120.

I was just looking at the Environmental Agency's "flood risk" map and decided to have a close look at my area.. And was shocked to see these strange patterns in the field! A close up!! I wonder how they got there!!!!!!!

Hi l am selling my tractor to many toys, l think it is about 1948, it was running about a year and half ago, tyres are really good, good spark, lt has a stuck valve at the moment, not a big job. 1 plough 2 tool bar 3 drill ploughs,two off 4 seven cultivating tine £750 or nearest offer

Not quite an old machine but home made metal work all the same. Went to a job last week and widened the main entrance for a customer. The old wrought iorn gates where now to small,so I begged them for a project which I am doing on the new house I have built with friends. Project is to rehash the free gates and convert them into decrotive railings which have to fit between two brick pillars either side of the entrance gate to the front door.

this is the woodsplitter relatives of me made Koen

Hear is a another one off my toys

you sure don't hang about loving this thread

i will be there

Hello all. I pulled the engine out of the 444 this morning, and I'm now taking it out to my shop to perform a full autopsy. I've tried to assure the patient that it will live once I've given its heart a triple bypass, but its looking quite sad sitting there with no engine! More pics later of the inside of the engine. Matt

what a surperb collection matt i luv em

Who's the cool dude with the black hat then ??

yes second test run the deisel engine pulls like a train its very stable will make a good workhorse i had to make some modifacations after the first test because i had one foward gear and three reverse gears

I watched your video this morning Matt, yes the engine does smoke a bit I edited your YouTube link and turned it into the embedded video

We now have a new section called,,,,,,,,,,, Handy tips & how to If any one has any of these , please feel fee to share them with other members & who knows you may make yours or someone elses restoration cheaper , eaisier or better by sharing your tips .

Thanks Wallfish. My wife is quite supportive of my engines, but only the nice, clean, and pretty engines are allowed to live in the house! The dirty, greasy, smelly ones have to live in my shop! The ZZ is a real beast of an old Briggs, and they weigh about 140 lbs. !! A little hard on the back. I also worked on the 70's model engines in my dad's mower shop as a kid in the early 80's. Now I like working on engines that were born before my dad! Thanks Thanks. A "thing" for Briggs engines, Ian? Whatever gave you that idea? I can have a rotten day at work, and be in a foul mood, but sit down at my work bench rebuilding an old Briggs, and feel like a new man, in no time at all. Matt

Here is my 1032 working in the wood and ploughing a friend,s allotment I will be looking forward to some potatoes

Evening chap's, to give you a break from all the lathe work that has gone into building the 6x6, let's have a look at the chassis instead As mentioned earlier I had to lengthen the chassis a bit to fit all the wheels on.. Can you guess which Muppet measured wrong? Yep me!! So the chassis once again was sliced and lengthened a bit more. Trimming off the parts I didn't need. Garry with the first bit of extra metal to go on the chassis. A double barreled chassis Masking tape and measurements.. Not quite "Charlies Angels" but close The chassis was getting a good de-rust and clean up. And painted... More to come later, dinner is ready

Here it is after a years worth of tinkering and making a trolley for it. will now upload a video but if it does not come up,can someone upload it for me. http://youtu.be/oH3jEpfQqcw

I'm guessing you have a "thing" for Briggs engines then Matt A fantastic collection, they should be be displayed in the house... Keep em nice and warm

New deck decal from Titch arrived today...

Is the the machine that I saw trying to take off though a tent the other year? It's amazing what you can create from a pile of parts Nigel

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

Evening chap's, it's time for a bit more of the 6x6 saga.. With the new Workshack operational work on the 6x6 could continue.. After a year of storage the wheel hub parts had got a little dirty and rusty, but here's all three parts together to give you an idea of how it all slot's together. The rear end mocked up to see how it would look.. Quite wide as it happens, I'm sure I narrowed the wheel hubs a bit after this photo was taken. I think it was about this time that I found the chassis would need lengthening to fit three big wheels in a row. Now for one of the "not much fun" sort of jobs... Cutting an internal key way in the hubs.. Not wanting to pay an engineering shop to do the work, I had to cut my own.. This was done by scrapping thin slivers of metal away a little at a time.. Cutting key ways the manual way can take some time... About 30 hours per key way!! So glad I only had two internal key ways to cut!! Ta-Daa.. A slight change of plan meant a change of brake disks for the brake steering,, which also meant the new disk would not fit the small mounting thingy I had turned.. (The red bit). So from this flat plate.. A couple of big washers were turned up. Which fit in the disk. And with a little bit of faffing about it all slots together.

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.

Ok, maybe the story's quite a bit longer than that It all started when I sold a Wheel Horse C-125... Somehow I ended up doing a part-ex for another Wheel Horse C-125!! Here's Pete crying into the hood saying,"oh no, not another one"! As I wasn't too keen on the "black hood" looks Plan A was hatched.. A few panels swapped later (ok, all the panels) the black hood had taken on a slightly different look... Kind of Raider hood stand and hood/bonnet, and a 300 series rear end. By tweaking the Raider hood stand a bit it was possible to fit a later rear mounted fuel tank. Then....... One day Garry turned up with a few bottles of Old Speckled Hen!!! A few bottles later and a few extra wheels plonked roughly in place, the drunken idea looked so good it just had to be built So how did we turn a 4 wheeled grass cutting machine into a 6 wheeled monster? Slowly is the answer The problem with adding 4 extra big wheels is a lack of space to put your feet.. The track had to be widened a bit.. Starting with a length of pillar drill leg in my lathe.. And some vaguely scribbled out measurements. Work could start.. Here's Garry getting a bit of lathe time in.. Back in those days I didn't have a "cooling system" for my lathe, so a brush was used to paint it on. Taking shape. Part of one of the widened wheel hubs being test fitted on the 8 speed trans. Part 2 of the new rear wheel hubs was the bit a wheel bolts onto.. As luck would have it this massive and extremely heavy slab of steel came my way a few weeks before... It's 1 1/2 inches thick! As you can see a strip has been sliced off it. A long job with a normal sized grinder! A big square on the lathe. Er..... More to come tomorrow. it looks like I've hit my photo posting for the day limit!!

1. Horse drawn dustbin cart. A skip type lorry used to collect the full cart and drop off an empty one. 2. Dan Dare and Digby. 3. Potato cakes cooked on a kitchen range. 4. Being towed behind my fathers model traction engine. 5. Playing draughts with my father. 6. Seeing the first episode of Coronation Street. 7. Muffin the Mule. 8. Saturday matinees at the pictures. 9. What's my Line. 10. Farthings.