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Brought out another one of the machines yesterday for a little garden clearing. 13hp chipper shreader. Noise but dose a great job towed with the old faithful Westwood.

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Last Saturday up and out by 6-45 for a little trip out to the Honister slate mine. Myself and a mate to marshal on the Veteran Sports Car Clubs Lakeland Trial. Competitors come from far and wide to take part. In cars rangin from a 1914/20 Vauxhall A Type special to a 1930 Lea-Francis P type. We found ourselves high above the Slate mine workshops and visitor centre at the finish of the section. It was one heck of a steep climb and I was thank full we could drive up in the Disco. To say it was chilly up there would be an understatement. A cold, North wind blowing over the mountain top. I was pleased I had the foresight to take my quilt lined tank suit. Here's some photo's I manged to take of some of the cars waiting to return back down. Passengers had to walk for safety reasons. The view down. Cars waiting to go back down. 1928 Chrysler 75 4 ST Tourer. 1930 Frazer Nash Super SPORTS. 1930 Ford Model A Special on the left. 1930 Austin Ulster 2nd left. Far right. 1929 Riley MK IV. 1921 GN Touring. An interesting chain drive arrangement to the rear axle. Also no valve gear covers or front brakes. 1930 Austin 7 Ulster. Not sure about this Ford. Could be a '29 Model T or '29 A. 1930 Austin 7 Special 1925 GN Anzani. Again chain drive and no front brakes. 1935 Austin 7 and 1921 Ford T Special. You may have noticed the lack of front brakes on one or two cars. These cars went down attached to the front of the Land Rover shown in the first photo;

Is it one of these ?? Seen at the South Downs Heritage Centre today.

Never did put a finished photo or two of this unit on here, here you go... Not quite finished yet, but not come out too bad...

Just back from Northampton, been to collect a 1948 Pilot I bought some time ago. I had one when I was a student and always fancied another that I could use a a period towcar for hauling a tractor. It has been in a bubble for 9 years, I winched it on to my trailer but now have to get it to start to be able to take it off the trailer on my own.

Hi All here is my early Christmas Present from that big man who appears at Xmas time hope you like it

Evening all.. A bit of trimming, re-shaping and carefully grinding back the welds later and the tank fits again. One of those little milestones, the first squirt of paint on this project.. An even bigger milestone.. With the frame work finally done it was treated to a couple of coats of the red oxide stuff. The poor light in the workshop made it look like a very dark thin coat! But the biggest milestone yesterday was getting the frame in it's top coat, a very classy shade of satin black All I have left to do now is everything else, which is quite a bit

My two are a Unimat 3 with mill / drill attachment which I bought for model making. Recently used to bore out a sprocket mounted on the original face plate via a larger diameter adaptor which I made years ago. The second is a round bed Drummond which was friend John's first lathe many years ago. After being found in his barn, buried, rusty and seized up, it is now being SLOWLY brought back to life. Although it looked only fit for scrap, it is cleaning up much better than expected and will do all that I need, mainly simple turning and drilling jobs. Nothing precision, just "That's close enough". No ID plate or mounting rivet / screw holes visible anywhere. More photo's as and when.

Won't be long before I start a thread Richard. Just didn't want long delays in between postings while I was scratching my head trying to work out how to do the next bit.

Here's mine and Darmics display at Newbury last month... This was before the arrival of the Bridges drills so the collection will be bigger next time out