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Over the last 13 months my nephew has been (mucking in) well sitting watching, he loves sitting and watching anything to do with machinery, he used to love sitting in this walker in front of his favorite machine which was the Lister D Type engine, now hes out of his walker, he likes to sit on the machines and have a poke and a prod, and if i have the machines out when he comes over he can have a ride on my lap, today he tried out his seat I got him a while back, (never actually drove with it today) hes still a bit young for that sort of thing, but i think he approved of it, lets hope one day he has a collection of his own, do any of you have sons, daughters, or family members of a young age that enjoy this sort of thing?

Hi All Further update on my plough hope you like Once I have tried it out I will get spacers made up and complete the job in hand

I went to pick up my cultivator I bought a few weeks ago from a trader I know in OKC, its 2-1/2 hour one way trip and the guy didn't answer his phone or the door when we arrived. So my bud and I traveled across the city to another guys place that also had cultivators, he also had a lot more, he had 6 Sears single plows, 3 brinly V shaped cultivators, a Sears middle buster, a Brinly sleeve hitch plow (very nice), a homemade single 3 point plow, a front power bucket with hydraulic cylinder that fit a Deere or Cub, and thousands of other tools and antiques at GREAT prices, and under a pile of receiver hitches for small pickups I saw this thing sticking out and it was a Brinly diamond spike harrow. I picked it up for 45.00 then we went back to the other fellows place and I picked up a v shaped cultivator he had, not the one he sent me in the picture with wheels, but one without wheels, but for only 25 dollars. So I get both cultivators for 70 dollars and buying my bud lunch, he provided the truck and gas to acquire a really nice brinly sleeve hitch plow from the my trader friend. Here's some pictures of just a little bit of his stuff. He had nice twin cylinder Briggs horizontal engines, hydraulic pumps, old air compressors old peddle cars shaped like jet fighters, Snapping Turtle lawnmower/brush cutters etc, etc. http://oklahomacity.craigslist.org/grd/4938545866.html

Had to many other things going on today, so I didn't get to play with the LB, but I did throw the valve cover back on for a couple beauty shots. Matt

The C160 is all up and running now so I got it out of the workshop and had a drive round, I have to say its a bit strange to drive and will take a bit of prattice to get the hang of it

Had a chance to unload this today and get it in the workshop on the bench, first job was to charge the battery and put some fuel in the tank, the wiring is all been butchered so had to hotwire it she spun over and fired up, no smoke and no rattle's, there seems to be an issue with the gearstick where as the stick is all floppy and have a job to get any gears,i'll have to investigate that next week

Get the decals right, Nigel? Just got the model right with Marks help. It's not an '80 C-120 after all. It's a '78 C-121.

My your nephew has grown Charlie, here is a couple of pics of my grand daughters riding my raider

Glad I didn't go, i would have come home with a trailer load of stuff

Well done. Wish there was a place like that round here.

Good work on the Valve Cover Matt. great finish....... obviously you have a surfeit of old screwdrivers for using as spacers/standoffs . Had a read of the Manual for that (LB) engine from the oldengine forum. Very interesting that there is a specific Piston for use in engines located 8000ft above sea level !!!!.....must have a compression ratio difference . Also see there is a complete Cylinder head/valves for sale (in Canada), so surprisingly, there are bits still out there for them. Hope you finish this Thread up with a short Vid of it running.

I have a few updates today. My reproduction muffler, as well as an original Champion COM 1 (OE to this engine) spark plug arrived today, but the thing I'm most pleased with, is the way my valve cover turned out. I spent way to much time working on getting the dent, and all the rust pits out of this valve cover today, but it certainly paid off. You'd have a hard time ever knowing this valve cover was in bad shape, unless you look underneath, where all I did was paint it. Now, I wish I had taken the time to smooth the skids out, like I did the valve cover. Oh well. Here are some pics. Matt

Hi Andrew. it is a Gutbrod rotovator if you were to use it all the time it would be of benefit to have a set of reduction hubs this cuts the forward speed by half George S

Here ya go Matt