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Last year I made a couple of display stands. Simple T design, similar to ones made by The Showman. These just press into the ground and information board mounted across the top. At the HVC rally at Carlisle airport on the coming weekend, the entries are mainly on hard standing. Thinking drilling holes in the runway wouldn't go down well, I had a root around and found a pair of plastic wheels and some scrap ply board. Screwed each wheel to a piece of board, then a splash of paint and viola the result below. The stand spikes are a good push fit in the wheel centres. Still not very stable in breezy/windy conditions and the airfield is certainly breezy. I have in my store shed a large jar of lead shot, left over from when I reloaded shotgun cartridges. Tomorrow the wheels will be filled with shot. That should stop them blowing over.

A quick visit this morning, not much of interest, The only Wheelhorses were a pretty sad looking Commando 800 and a later Toro badged rear engined rider, Here's some photos...

Got the Barford plough fitted today after making up the mounts and plns, I'm not happy with the way it swings from side to side I might do a small modification later

Just when we thought we'd found all the goodies this was unearthed. Its a right angle drive but has a shaft out of each slde that drive the same rotation, handy for a 4x4 project

Nearly there... carb leaking fuel back out the inlet. Was set up for gravity fed tank but iv fitted pump. Over fueling I pressume now. Swap carbs over now Old man having a test run....

Got a bit more done today. As i use the auto caulto plough with good results I decided to make the hitch adaptable to take most of my attachments. i got a length of channel bent up and drilled some holes, its held on with 2 nuts. ive also welded the tube on to make more like a clevis. heres some photos