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We went to the great Yorkshire show today and since you all like photos here are some that I took. Here is a board that displays comments made to the Newby hall tractor fest Facebook page, @pmackellow your famous!

Probably didn't want to use one off a really collectable GT like a Wheel Horse.

A new event to be held at the Hop Farm at Paddock Wood in Kent this weekend Kev and Ethan and Wendy and I are going on the Sunday with Colwood and Landmaster displays, we'll see what it's like and report back. Sorted the display boards out this evening for Sunday...

Cadet 81 with some of its brethren at the recent Smallholders Show...

Nice cold startup...

Should be fine Matt. The tyres came off my 1254. cheers

A waste of a good bonnet!! Shame its not for an 800

Plenty of them in the states & Norfolk I have a couple of tracs where the dyno is missing. I have just purchased one from a wheel horse from internet auction. Currently have Andrews 850 engine in bits & sure he would notice if I sold it to you!! I saw your ad on gumtree also I will ask a fellow collector up north if he can help

Great photo's Ewan. Koen. I think Ewan was trying to get a photo of the girl in the driving seat. He'd tried at the Dragoon Guards stand as well, but she covered her face.

Great photos Ewan !! Fame at last !!

what's there to see in this photo?

Two shows for the Landmaster in North Yorkshire, firstly The Battle of the Standard Vintage Gathering organised by John Webster, and the Newby Hall Tractor Fest...

Made further progress today , Lift fitted, one final drive, floor board mount and drawbar. all final painted.

Yesterday I sandblasted the kettle because it was black and very dull. Today I set up my nickel plating kit and spent a lovely time sitting in a comfy armchair watching molecules swap over. Chuffed with the results the sand blasted fuel filler bowl from the carb has come out a dull finish ( what I wanted ) and the de compressor lever has come out shiny ( also what I wanted ) I tried to buy a new lever but could not find one identical. My ethos has been if I could recover an original part then I would, this lever was corroded to B -------ery but after an hour with my power file dremel and some 1200 wet and dry it looked half decent. The main carb. is in the tank as I write. Both parts bear scars of history which I could have polished out but then there is more to life than absolute perfection !

137 engine is now virtually complete and restored with a new piston, rebuilt clutch ,re cut valve seats, made up an adapter to fit the 12tooth mag timing sprocket and set the ignition timing whilst I had the head off. Starting to look like an engine now instead of a pile of bits. The combination of thread types is a nightmare, UNF,BSF, Whitworth and UNC all on the same engine, I seem to spend hours ratching for the right nut or bolt in my various bins and boxes and failing that have to set to and make them. Just need to machine a set of new head bolts and then basic engine will be finished and sealed before I start on more rubbing down and grinding.

Whilst the track pads are cooking in the phosphoric acid I decided to tackle the damaged flywheel pulley which is made of cast iron. I thought about heating and welding with MIG but decided that with my luck it would be the flywheel that would crack and not the weld so I looked at the three big chunks missing where someone had tried to lever the clutch apart instead of simply using two long bolts to push it apart. The chips were rounded and I had just found some really big thick washers which were just right to fill in the missing bits. I ground out the chips to an exact fit on the washers which I held in place with a magnet flush with the outer face and then brazed them in, cut the surplus washer away with a cutting disc and then using a power file I rounded off to the o.d of the flywheel. A lathe would have been better but too big for mine. As the washers were about 6mm thick it matched in well with the vee belt groove in the flywheel, I shaped away the surplus washer with a sanding disc to match the sides of the vee. Quick smear of plastic metal to smooth them over and a coat of paint, 3 virtually invisible mends!