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Here's its brother now it's finished, an upright rammer.

The details were photographed on the eBay listing. I have pinned the search engine from Wisconsin for you Chris to see what year your 850 is. http://www.wiengines..._serial_search/

I have now confirmed the serial # on the Wisconsin engine and the engine was built in January 1968 presumably making my 850 a '68 model. Great to have that resource from Wisconsin Engine Site.

May be the only ones in captivity and they know it!

Spot on once again

Here's my 1254 with some Agri Tyres. The rear tyres will be put on my original wheels and 8 have also ordered some tri ribs for the front. The front decal shown the Bolens Husky Dog. Also got a dyno start on it as well....... Thanks Ian; that's what I am hoping to do. The seller also suggested that as well.Cheers

And here it is now that the restoration is almost finished. It had been semi restored a few years ago, but stored badly. I believe the engine is about 75 cc two stroke,Ive had the engine fully rebuilt by an ex Wacker employee that I know. They were originally a JLO engine that Wacker purchased the rights to. Still has its original wire rope recoil,can a bit lethal if it kicks back.

A bit more progress today, fitted the rebuilt brake bands, gearbox cover and steering levers and then struck a problem, when I was dismantling the tractor the one thing that needed extreme force to remove was the gear lever, I had not realised that the threaded part of the lever shaft has been mushroomed by the force of the puller I used to remove the lever off the taper and keyway, try as I might I could not get the nut to fit back on and unfortunately I do not have a 9/16" 20 tpi thread die, I filed at it with a thread file and fortunately I did have some spare nuts so using grinding paste and hacksaw cuts in a spare nut I eventually managed to restore a thread and get the nut back on but that was three hours later!

This is my 850 which I also brought last week from fellow forum member Tom. At least its the correct colour but needs TLC. The dyno start is missing but as Andrews engine is broken I will just use his

Managed to find enough motivation today to make my way out to the workshop. Preheated the room and managed to get a coat on the floor which dried fairly quickly. For the next part i had to call in my father to give me a hand to cut in the walls and floor so i could concentrate on rolling on the paint before it started to go off as it was two pack. Still another coat to go on the walls tomorrow hopefully, and then a red band to break up the blue and white.