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Hi all, Thought I'd share what I've been up to in regards to getting ready for my first show as an exhibitor. I am taking my Cub cadet and Wheel horse 312-8 with a set of discs, a cultivator and a plough. First on the agenda was to get the cultivator and discs to fit the Cub. Made this hitch: Which resulted in this: Needs a bit of refinement and a coat of yellow and we will be away. Still awaiting some bits for the Cub but I'm hopeful it will work out fine Next on the list is to hook up the plough to the 312-8.. Tom

Mr. Paul Rackham is a very special man in my book, thanks for posting that story Wristpin, reading it gave me immense joy. I do not posses the wealth of Mr. Rackham, and may never, but I know that if I ever do that I will do the same thing he has done with garden tractors. If I came into a fortune saving, collecting, and restoring garden tractors would be my hobby, but my work would have to be giving money and aid to those less fortunate. Since one cannot take assets with them in the afterlife the only sensible thing to do is be be generous and charitable with those assets. Oh how great of world we would live in if people did not go to bed hungry. The Dumont Museum in Iowa offers collection of all kinds, trains, dolls, big tractors and little tractor. Mr. Dumont has every model of Red International Cub Cadet ever built, he has every John Deere Patio tractor ever built, the 100, 120, and 140 models with almost every attachment offered, He also has every model of Massey Ferguson Garden tractor built, from the early yellow 7 and 8 hp Massey Executives to the Later MF series of 7-16 tractors. he also has extensive collection of Oliver tractors and other are big tractors. Check out the photo album. http://www.dumontmuseum.com/ Another Mower Salvage in Eugene Oregon, Burt's http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/lawnside-classics-burts-riding-mower-and-garden-tractor-heaven-including-one-of-the-oldest-riding-mowers-ever/

I'll be going to this show next weekend with a couple of Wheelhorse's' anyone else going ? come over and say hello, I'll be at the bottom end of the stationary engine's

Here's a man who has bought, spent a fortune on restoration and enjoyed his collection but is now making them available for others to enjoy - at a price! http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/huge_and_historic_collection_of_vintage_tractors_to_go_under_the_hammer_1_4158203

If you were there you might have seen the last flight of Hawker Siddeley's AVRO Vulcan Bomber. It appears the pilot did not disappoint the crowd, performing maneuvers that of a fighter plane. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-last-avro-vulcan-bomber-flying-just-pulled-off-an-a-1718892290 My dad sold Hawker Siddeley business jets, both models the 400 and 600. I flew with him on many many occasions and in my opinion they were the finest and most luxurious business jets of the 1980s and 1990s. The Hawker Siddeley company has a rich and storied history in aviation and I challenge anyone to find a company that built the same quality and number of different types of aircraft as H-S.

Got the rear tyres fitted today. For £10 why struggle? Got the lift cable fitted as well. 3mm stainless with a plastic coat. Also a photo' of the brake pedal stop. Not very good to see, but best I could do. Pedal came a long way back. Just made out of a piece of alli' angle cut to suit.

Fokker maybe?

I'll second that. A lot of John's stash suffered from the weather, although covered up initially.