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Hello, a friend of mine has this mini stationary engine, it is not really my sort of thing and I don't know much about it. Can anyone identify it and some sort of value. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Harry

It's going in here cos I don't know where else to post this I have started volunteering at a local Heritage Fairground. In season I was doing one day a week, running rides and generally making a nuisance of myself. Great fun. Every year they host an auction for vintage vehicles, steam engines, and assorted bits n bobs - I am sure some of you have been! We were pottering around the yard looking at auction lots and we saw this little thing languishing in a corner. We both fell for it a little bit. Well, it wasn't an auction lot, but the next time I was helping, I asked if I could take it home and restore it for them. In the end they got fed up of me pestering, and now we are halfway through bringing it back to life. Snags so far? Well the original motor (which was almost certainly pinched off something else - the whole thing has been cobbled together by a showman many moons ago) was 110v DC and very very slow, with its own gearbox. We have replaced it (after 5 years outside in the rain there was no saving it) but used a 240v lump, and managed to mount the gearbox - but the "new" motor is much faster. So how could we gear it down enough for the targets to slide past at a sensible rate? Well Martin had the genius idea of using mini-moto sprockets and chain. The belt was rotted clean through in at least one place, so we have retained as much as we could, chopped out and replaced the mankiest bits, and sent the targets off to a mate to vapour-blast them. The rollers at either end of the belt were in bits but Martin has pegged them back together, they look amazing. The angle-iron frame has been dismantled today and we are halfway through stripping it down ready to paint... I can't wait to see it all back together!

Told you that bloke will be along to help

I have a number of used for parts Ohlsson & Rice utility subjects. The collection is oriented mostly with chainsaws, There is a Tiny Tiger generator, Tot'n Skillsaw, 1/2" drill also. There is a box of packaged O&R Nos parts. There are some Nos boxes of carburetor and diaphragm parts. Other boxes are mostly chainsaw Nos and a tank. I removed what I could find in storage to take pictures and repack them and put them away until sold or for the next X amount of years. I have a good Tot'n catalog of utility setups and exploded views. I have the warranty cards and paperwork for Tiny Tiger. The Tiny Tiger is in good shape and would restore nicely. The box is fair. The wood is coming apart because the nails rusted away. It could be restored. I will post pictures below

Not garden equipment I know, but cute nonetheless so I thought I would share this with you all too... My half-sister's stepdad used to use this little treadle fretsaw as a boy. He made models with it and the model coronation coach and horses is still in their family. It languished in my sister's shed after he died, and she decided to pass it on to us because she knew we'd appreciate it. It was a bit rattly though - didn't need a lot of work, just a strip, clean, a fresh coat (or 3) of dark green paint and tightening everything up. You can get tiny treadle lathes by the same manufacturer. Can you imagine this being sold as a toy nowadays?! My hope eventually is to get Martin to make a little jig for it so that I can use it to cut mitres for picture framing.

Don't know too much about them or value but I wouldnt mind owning it

I placed pictures of all my used parts and NOS packages here.

Here is a spread of the parts I had in storage for 30 years. I am missing pictures of my Outboard motor and 2 shrub trimmers as they are not found at this time. I also have a mint O&R motor setup on a RC model Boat stand. It is mint. It would take a lot to pry that from my grip.

Here is the Warranty , instruction, and ownership papers for the Tiny Tiger Generator set. The picture of all the parts spread out has a couple with the Tiny Tiger.

Makes perfect sense, thanks so much!

All that effort and you could have used a tea strainer

Happy birthday, hope you had a good one

Nice job , I was wondering if you were going to save the existing exhaust Nige , well done ,kept it original .

Alain, Generally, any Tube Frame deck will fit any Tube Frame tractor, the only exception I’m aware of is 600 decks and tractors. The two things you need to take into account is the way the deck attached to the tractor and that you are looking to put a deck from a hydro lift tractor onto a manual one. The earlier tractors had rectangular brackets fixed to the underside mounting plate, circled in red in the picture below. On the very early tractors like an 800 the back of the deck attached to the rear axle attachment fixings. If your deck needs these rectangular brackets you just need to take them off the original tractor and put them on the 850. Later tractors used attachment pins which fix onto the bottom holes on the underside mounting plate. I seem to recall that as standard a 1556 uses this method (although as Chris has all the 1556’s in the UK, this is just an assumption ). Again you just need to remove these pins from the 1556 and put them on the 850. Pins look like this. The deck lift bracket is different on a hydro lift to a manual lift and in order to put the 1556 deck on the 850, the bracket needs to be changed. They come up all the time on the auction site. In the picture below the bracket with the blue text is the part on the deck that the lift lever fits on. The two brackets with yellow text are the lift brackets, which as you can see are very different for manual or hydro. For a 850 you need the one on the left, the one on the right is for a hydro. I hope this helps and my rambling makes some sence. Iain

I actually have a red deck from a 1556 that I thought might match up to his 850

Don't be so rude