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When the skimmer conked out on the way down my drive we thought it had run out of petrol so I put a gallon in. Just discovered today that it was a gallon of diesel not petrol!!! No wonder it wont start, best of it is I was sucking on the fuel pipe yesterday to clear the tank outlet and never even noticed. !!! Duhhhhh!

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I'd leave them off, looks a bit like the hotwheels car nobody wanted, sorry

Evening chaps, progress on WN has been very slow of late, but that will change on Thursday when progress will suddenly be very fast I've been playing with headlamp positions, bearing in mind if I do decide to fit them they will have much better looking "hot rod" curved brackets.. So the question is.... Do the lamps make WN look all "toy Town" or not? So why will progress start going very fast Thursday?? Well, today this happened.. WN being winched onto the big bench.. Thanks for your help Nigel Thursday is strip down day, I feel a time lapse video coming on I might have a few machines to move out the way first mind

hi all, this year i am holding a meet and greet at brogdale fruit collections in faversham. it will be the 16th october at their apple festival which will have music, displays and trades, yes its a show but meet and greet format, ie it would be great for you to bring a machine along but not compulsory , also the time is from 9.30-5 but you will not be held to this, all i ask is you stay as long as you can, preferably with a machine. some kind of feed back would be good as i would like to get an idea of interest. many thanks

Thursday morning saw us up at Jonathans, loading up for the 250 something mile drive down to Malvern. Four on the wagon and trailer, and three on Jonathans trailer behind the Range Rover. Leaving at about 12-30pm Jonathan and I arrived about 6-30 - 7pm, with Richard with wagon right behind us. Got all unloaded, then off our respective hotels with Richard setting out for Southampton. Friday saw us setting things up. Banner, balloons, posters, photo's from various parts of the world also. New arrivals where show where to park their exhibits. All arranged in age. Exhibits that is, not exhibitors. So few photo's below, mainly taken before the punters arrived. Fergies don't have to be grey. This black one has a V8 fitted. Gareths (Sg1) very good display. I thought Jonathan was going to do a moon, but he was just flashing his nice, new overalls with Ransomes on the back. The lovely Mrs Jarrett looks on. A motley crew. A nice S1 with period trailer. Yes please. 1941 International. Loaded for home, Monday morning. After unloading at Jonathans, I finally pulled into my yard at 8pm. It was a good show, spent in very good company which I enjoyed greatly. The icing on the cake was 137 getting best in show and also the stand. Made all Jonathans hard work really worthwhile.

My company has this old Ransomes Turf Trak as a yard machine. I'm looking for bigger machine, so I could sell this one. Couple of photos, John Deere is not mine, so not for sale. - it is in good working condition, Kubota diesel starts right up - hydrostatic, hydraulic driven 4x4 - you can choose low range or high range or free gear separately for both axles - steering is in frame an uses orbitrol steeringvalve - plow or front plate for snow, original hydraulic lift for that - hydraulic outtake in front, with operating handle - new battery - includes belt driven cultivator, not in pictures - seat is in bad condition - there is red sportsfield surface all over, this has done it's career in those jobs - normal wear, but this is not a new machine anymore Located in Finland, near Helsinki South Finland. I can easily deliver this to Estonia, Sweden or even Denmark, but we have to agree on costs. Asking price for this machine is 2400€ with no transport costs, so that would be around 1900£ depending on rate. Naturally you get receipt on payment. Please contact by email, because I don't follow this forum too much: kkkivinenREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com

Home today from a long weekend in Gloucestershire including two days at Tractor World. Here's my Tractor World photos, bear with me, there's quite a few... The outdoors photos are mainly of machines in the auction (not the Transit 4x4 or the mini Farmall)...

I got some photos, awards well deserved mate, a fantastic effort

And some more...

can't be Nigel no pinstripes !

It makes it look like Noddy's car how many wheel horses had lights like that. I suppose if its painted yellow and red it would look OK . it looks meaner with out them

Look good to me Ian

Thanks, going to concentrate on getting the engine running right, I'm not keen on the drayton with its tendencies to run on the oil in the crankcase and over revv ect and become difficult to stop! Suppose it's avoided by draining regularly. May bring another machine to HVC rally, could do without any deadlines in case I've got the engine in bits! Sorry I can't sell you the ITW Jonathan, Janet said I've not to let you have it...

MORE PICTURES!!! don't worry, that's a can of wd40 in there, not water

Tried to upload a phone video of the show on to you tube says it will take 163 minutes to upload a 4 minute video !!!

Never mind those two. Look ok to me Ian.

Toy Town I am afraid Iain. Well you did ask!

I've turned some round, but it's tedious... Just open the pic and choose edit and spin it round to the right way. That's what I keep doing...

You can say muck spreader if you want James, you would be wrong though.. Which idea is that Norm? Nope, not a BBQ Chris, but it's coffee holding capability's have been tested Sorry for the lack of updates Guy's, although work has been happening I've just been too shattered to type about it.... Saying that, have an update They say there is a first time for everything, for me stripping an oil drum down to bare metal was certainly a first.. Hopefully a last as well as it wasn't fun! Of course once every last bit of paint has been removed, out comes the red oxide and a coat or two of paint goes back on.. You may of noticed Nigel in the above photo actually doing something , he was painting the center of the wheels red.. What follows red oxide? International Harvester Red of course Have an arty shot of the inside of the barrel. Red on the outside if a little blurred.. A detail shot of one of the trailer wheels, it just needs a red pinstripe to match Horse Gut. The almost finished rig, we just need to find a shovel and get some "poo poo collector" decals made to go on the back.. Expect a PM Mark And to finish off this update.......

Have to get the old cheque book out Jon I too was impressed with the work all copied from pictures etc. Well done Rhys

I agree with Jonathan. Hoping to see it again at the HVC rally at Carlisle airport in May.

Malvern was the first time I had seen this machine in the flesh and I have to say that it is absolutely superb the attention to detail and the effort involved in building it is amazing and to think that Rhys is a lad of 20 years old it is superb positively restores my faith in the youth of today. Well done Rhys you should be very proud of yourself. When are you going to deliver it to me !!!!!

You might have a point with the lack of oxygen in the mix, I do have an interesting idea that would give me full control on how much air, how much mix goes into the exhaust and it would also atomize the mix better.. It might still come to fitting a flame thrower system, but I'm hoping my new idea will work instead.. But more on that when it happens Yesterday the front of my workshop looked like a mower dealers Two of them are for sale as it happens, just not my two Other than having a bit of tidy up (the workshop needed it) the reason for parking everything out front was to make space for putting my big bench up again so WN can get stripped down and painted.. For the past er... 8 odd years I've been using a bench that basically was a large computer desk with a very large slab of thick chipboard as a top. It served me well for many a year with WN, the 6x6 and others being built on it.. However when WN was taken off the bench late last year it didn't fair too well, broke a few welds and the frame got twisted.. So yesterday a new bench frame was constructed.... Thanks for all you help and welding yesterday Nigel It's a bit hard to tell from this photo but it has a hanging shelf frame.. I just need to add a few more bit's of box and some boards.. When I find some I will be fitting some strong castor wheels to the legs so I can move the bench about when I need to..

Don't worry Norm, I will fit a "wash/wipe" system to the lights The latest WN video for you chaps.