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Starting to look the part now, just got to do a little more tweaking on the lift mechanism and then paint it.

Spent the afternoon at johns and met up with madmatt01 and his dad. the Sears Roper was woken up to do some towing dutys and with Alan at the wheel we pulled the 3 westwards up to the awaiting trailer. after some huffing and puffing the trailer was loaded and after the boys had a look round set off in a westerly direction. heres a few photos

Truly brilliant time! Also picked up some wheels for the horwool. And have definately fallen in love with a marina. Will be in talk with John. Safe to say me and dad were late home and the wife was not impressed although she also likes the marina! Some snaps I got.. and also a couple off how my 'just one' tractor is spiraling....

So a couple of weeks ago Finn forgot to take it out of gear when getting off to open a gate, consequently it took off straight into the gate and had an implication with one of the coach bolts sticking through... This is the mess that it made. Next he was asking me to repair it for him so I started by using a fibre glass repair kit and then using a little bit of filler. After a bit of paint you can't tell it was there.

Today we went to the mechanisk musuem. The owners come from a Town or two over and moved to denmark about 10 years ago to start a museum. Luck would have it they also had a show this weekend. Anyway here's some photo's Thats all of the pictures i took

Well today has been fun.... also picked up a few other bits! Also hope to be back for a marina

Back in November last year my dad bought a large collection of WH implements and tractors, in the collection was a C-125 that my brother bought, he wasn't a fan of the hood and fender so he hired me to convert it into a C-121 and restore it for him. Here is what it looked like, it was in a restored condition and most of it has been sandblasted so it was an easy job for me to just sand down the paint and then repaint. After a bit more taking apart and cleaning the bulk had been painted and reassembled, this is the only picture I took of me painted chassis and gearbox. There will be more photos to follow later.

Ideal painting weather today so gave the back wheels and hubcaps a rub down and a coat of IH red...

Here's a few more photos. This is a spare bonnet we had lying around, at some point it had been cleaned up and painted so it was a quick job. The primed parts have been added since the dash tower on a C-125 is different. I'm not a fan of painting parts when bolted together but I know everything is rust free and Jake isn't bothered so long as the tractor looks tidy. Here is where I have got to, we have got some new tyres for the back and then I will be able to paint the rims all round.

A & G cooper of Wisbech z200 sprayer pump, to be mounted on the back of the Mg2 crawler, this belongs to Jonathan and he has a trailed tank to go with it. Pics of one mounted found on the Internet.

Fingers crossed the parts have been found, will be off to Zummerzet next Sunday with trailer to pick them up (another gearbox/back end)

Yes mate, we are off to Somerset next Sunday to pick up another gearbox/rear end

They look good Paul, did you have any luck with the gearbox parts ?

nope, its a fordson with woodgassifier, only thing pig related is the starting it

I hope he's paying you well, Ewan. I don't know what your brothers would do without you.

Nice job on both occasions.

What a lucky lad he is, to have a brother like you. He'll owe you few favours now.

Very smart, Ewan.

Well done mate

You should go into business with your Fatha Ewan, call it NYGTR (North Yorkshire Garden Tractor Restorations)

I may bring an extra tractor Kev. Is that OK?

Looks like a giant jigsaw puzzle, Paul. Hope you manage to find all the new parts off your source, otherwise hopefully the damaged cogs will be the same as something else more common. Are the bearings ok? I've just recently rebuilt a gem gearbox and because all the bearings were imperial the bill for them came to over £300 on their own.

This is the problem I'm up against. I've used a very accurate set of thread gauges to arrive at 19 threads per inch. Every chart I've used doesn't seem to make sense. Due to my job I have access to allmost any bsp fittings so it defiantly isnt it. Thank you for your thoughts. I would of thought that jap would of used something off the shelf but I'm dammed if I can work out what.

Even cleaner now

more photos...

Westwoods now sold pending the usual. Thanks for the interest.

Today, another museum, another post with pics Only 120 of this tractor were made Deutz intrac, dont see these too often Oliver 60, neat little tractor Danish JL Volvo BM build into a Combine harvester German röhr tractor Schlüter A couple of tool carriers Eicher tool carrier with mounted potato planter Russian tool carrier Bührer International 10-20 on original rubber tyres Another international 10-20 Hürlimann, beautiful tractor Belarus t150 Lots of implementatie hanging from the roof Munktel Oliver with a hole in the manifold Masseur Harris Fordson Power Major with a funny looking cab German Alpenland, never seen one of these before Allis Chalmers G Case L This was the first tractor the owner of the museum had on the farm That was all for today

The new bit of the rear frame has been sorted, I think your agree that "kick up" gives MadTrax an aggressive mean sort of look Of course as soon as the frame had enough strength put back in to take the weight of a person.. I just had to have a seat You know the saying of "A bad workman always blames he's tools".. Well in this case I can rightly blame my small Mig welder.. With the aid of a new welding mask and Nigel's 30+ year old heavy duty Mig I produced the best welds I have ever done This is the start of the lower rear engine mounts.. A couple of rear upper engine mounts.. MadTrax can now hold it's own weight up including engine

Finger looks nasty Ian but look on the bright side. The blob of weld might have landed on your wedding tackle instead of your wedding ring.

Thanks Alan, I should be a lot further ahead than I am really, but life, looking and giggling have slowed me down It's called visualizing and working things out Well, early Monday morning my welding wire turned which was very nice of it.. Tacking tubes together with a Arc welder has not been fun.. As it happened Mig welding was not fun for long!! A word of warning chaps, always wear gloves when welding even more so if your welding something galvanized! Why?? Well a rather nasty evil big blob of molten weld decided to jump and land on my wedding ring where it most unkindly burnt a hole through it and at the same time super-heated the top half of the ring to a very "ouch" sort of temperature! Getting the ring off was interesting to say the least, it's always been a very tight fit but still turned, but once my finger started swelling!! With the help of Google, a good chap by the name of Matt, and a length of fine string we managed to get the ring off without having to cut it! This was quite bad timing as it was our 9th wedding anniversary yesterday! For those of you (Hi Nigel) who are saying I shouldn't wear the ring in the workshop, I've never taken it off as it doesn't/didn't really come off without a big fight! And now onto something tubular.. The quad frame.. A lot of new tube work has gone in to add strength and also give it a bit of style.. While my Mig welder did an "ok" job of welding the frame up, it did seam to be lacking oomph and not powerful enough to do a good job. So Nigel the good chap he is suggested we drag he's welder through and give it a whirl... Strong welds?? Ooooo yeah baby This was one of those corners with a lot of steel bar showing.. It now be filled with weld So thanks for the use of your welder mate, I now feel a lot happier about riding the quad A blurred view of the other side.. The rear or the frame is getting a re-shape to to keep the curved theme of the frame going, here's the first part of it.. 3 tubes all with slight bends to get them fitting under the seat lip. When the seat if clamped down only the bottom half of the tube will be showing. I just love this view from the back, the tank makes it look so meaty and MadMaxy

Thanks mate Don't you mean Australian Norm? With the fuel tank braced in the right place I could make a start on rebuilding the frame.. This may sound a strange way of doing it, but I want the frame to be a feature and not hidden away under bodywork. Every cut and join in the frame has some nice thick steel bar inside to make sure it's all strong enough when welded up.. Everything is only tack welded at the mo as I've run out of Mig wire. I like the "double down pipe" look, the o/s was easy.. If your thinking the n/s looks a bit close to the carb then you would be right! It's so close that I had to notch the inside of the pipe to give enough space to get a fuel pipe on the carbs! Putting some strength back in the front, roll on Monday when my welding wire should arrive and I can zap all the tubes fully together..

Thanks James, yeah it was very nice of Honda to make life easier for me, though the only downside is the engine has to be offset to the left a little bit. Not enough to upset the handling though.. Progress on this build has been a lot slower than it should of been, but now I have a direction to go in things should speed up.. But first... With the help of Nigel and his bloody heavy pipe bender new longer and stronger bit's of tube were shaped for the lower rails.. Not welded on in these photo's. Up until Monday I didn't really know which direction this build was going in.... Get the engine in, get it driving, I hadn't though any further ahead than that really.. Then out of interest I plonked on a Honda Silverwing fuel tank (yes it's from the very same bike that donated the engine to Why Not) just to have a look.. The quad started to look very mean with more than a hint of "Mad Max" about it.. So the tank was quickly hit with Mat black paint and the Honda MadTrax was born Of course this has now created a lot of extra work, but it will be worth it The big lamp may or may not be staying... I quite like the look of it but others say it's too big.. We shall see

Mines a bed for two As Koen says, it's too JCB The dirt drag racing is fun to watch, I'm going to have to stretch it by a few inches anyway to get the engine in. It does and I'm not painting the quad yellow That's more like it Paul I think maybe simply "Hold on" or even HYGLI.... "Have you got life insurance?" It hasn't taken long to tear into this project, the bodywork soon came off.. With the aid of a Nigel, a Rex and a scaffold board the V twin was soon on the bench to see how much work is ahead. Hhmmm, it looks quite a bit bigger than the original 230cc lump! So... Out come the small engine followed by a few slices to the frame. The quad now looks very "Mad Max" with the parts roughly piled in place Sorry for the blurred photo, with the wheel under the engine swapped for a small trolley I could prop the parts at more of the correct height. The bottom two tubes need to be level to line things up.. The engine will hang a bit lower than the original but not by much.. Now this is where Honda had thought ahead for me and decided it would be a good idea if their quad engine had the same splines on the gearbox as a CX500 bike engine Thank you Honda for making life easy for me A quick silly photo with one of the first WN exhausts bolted on Honda put the quad exhaust can about here, but as I have two cylinders and two of these cans it makes sense to put one each side And of course with every build comes videos.. So here's the first... Enjoy