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Got the chance mid week to grow the collection. Cue a day off work and 500miles in a day... Got stopped twice by the dibble and had a hellish drive getting home at 3 in the morning. I think it was worth it, but still recovering from the drive, 2 hour load up and the fact I spent a lot of money. Ewan has been sorting stuff, I haven't really had time. Here's a PIC the day after. And shortly after we reduced the pile. Theres even more goodies to unload and sort through...

A friend of mine bought a Lister water pump from Johns place a few weeks ago and since then its had new bearings , springs and gaskets. He came round today and wanted a water tank and some pipes made up. Over the last few weeks I've been playing with a chicken plucking machine and i had a spare tank which is from a drinks vending machine made of stainless steel ( also from Johns). Out came the box of pipe fittings and pipe threading tool, with the help of the power hacksaw ( also from Johns ) we fabricated it all together. Here's a couple of photos, hope you like

Hi all I've been busy doing different things on the project ive sorted the wiring out it now starts on the key I've swapped alternators with the original Mitsubishi one as this had the extra terminal for the rev counter which now works I've got the temperature gauge done , I've also fabricated a drive shaft for the hydraulic pump , and I've now started making the tipper body out of box section here is a few pictures so far !

Hope you can remember how they fit together, Nigel.

A bit more today. A little pull from the Disco and it's on it's way down. Another trailer full. Hard work this logging. Flamin' ivy.

well i spent a week getting it to bits and a week getting it to this stage, here is just some of the bits i have counted over 130 bits in all

Great progress James

You have to buy petrol. Your clients electric is free.

Mine came from Machine Mart some years ago.

Two different dogs, Andrew and both bitches. Just biding their time to pinch any bits of wood they can.

An impromptu show planned last week, here is video before the show starts will get more pictures working the tractors

for value for money go to machine mart and buy a clarke 900 they are about £90 ive just got a new one my last one lasted 10 years

I have the original owners/parts manuals for the 70/80 Ford Lawn tractors. I have no idea where I got them

This came in the past this morning from the States. Bought them on Sunday evening..... All part of collating information on this project. I will be collecting the actual tiller and front dozer plough next weekend.

Don't worry about the helicoil. Had one put in mine and it's still holding up fine

We all go to a lot of trouble and expense to do these shows, i run the Horticultural section at this show and spend 4 days there as well as taking extra tea and coffee. We're all disappointed after all the preparation to get ready but we can't odds the weather, i think we've been lucky this year I've done about 20 shows this year and this is the first one that's been cancelled completely. We've had rain at 2 or 3 but only had to be towed out once which i think is good going considering our climate

Fighting fit, Ian. Fighting for breath and fit to drop. And those photo's don't really do justice to the tree sizes.

This is a product review. I recently was looking for a trickle charger that had a maintain function and found this. Note that I am not endorsing this manufacturer. This is made by Schmacher Eletcronics., it is a 1.6 Amp trickle charger with a maintain function. We all have small batteries for our garden tractors, motorcycles, trolling motors, depth finders, etc. and they (for the most part) last about 4 years. A charged battery lasts longer and I have been able to get 5/6 years out of some of my garden tractor batteries...so far. With this product, it charges the battery until it is charged and then goes into a maintain function that keeps the battery topped up...no over charge. The price was about $18 at Farm & Fleet. It comes with a plug at one end that will either plug into a set of aligator clips, or plug into a plug that you can attach to the terminals of your battery. It has 3 led lights on the base...1) red for power...2) yellow for charging...3) green when it is fully charged and on maintain. I've had a couple of cheaper devices that only maintain the charge that is there, and I have had a one of the three that I have stop working...I am hoping that a few more bucks pays off. I will let you know.