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Thanks Stormin I have to make the tools buying them is out of the question. I need them as I picked an 1974 Jeep CJ6 in a real bad way and I need to make a lot of the floor sections, hence the folders I am hoping the Jeep will be my winter project this year fingers crossed i get time, it has finally made it onto the ramp ready. Cheers Jordon

Thanks Alain. I believe the socket set is a Halfords Advanced which comes with a lifetime guarantee. This will not be something you will of heard of and it is not Snap-on quality but they have a good reputation. It is a combined metric and A/F set with 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 drive.

Superb! looks like my copy, must've made about 5 now. The square holes are not fun to file!

Cheers Anglo it does complement my Box Pan folder I salvaged from the scrap yard I had to make some new fingers, I am always amazed at what get scrapped luckily our local scrap or recycling centre knows what my fathers like, he does like a rummage down there once a month lol. Regarding everything else to hand I am trying to twist fathers arm for a Student lather and a milling machine Bridgeport type but its like getting blood out of a stone ha ha, joke he,s pretty good if the price is right (low). My latest project is a bead roller or swagger or Jenny so many different names for it I did originally make with a hand wheel but I am in the process of powering it with a 24 volt disability scooter motor but at present i am not quite getting the gearing right, father says perseverance my boy put it aay til the heads clear lol Will let you know when it right. Cheers Jordon

I've got a Wheelhorse rear bracket to attach a dozer blade or tiller to the tractor but need another one but they are hard to find so I thought I'd make a copy. Start with a bit of quarter plate bent to shape, make a template from cardboard and drill some holes and a few square ones. I was lucky to have an old mount from a 265 to nick a couple of bits from Just needs a coat of paint when I get time

When ploughing with the Black Horse, the electric lift is either up or down. No way of controlling depth, other than various positions on the linkage. I've been thinking about a depth wheel for some time. I did have an attempt a while ago, but things didn't work out. This afternoon I started on another idea. Had a scrat round the workshop and came up with some bits and bobs. Some box section and a wheel of a scrapped walk behind mower, were a start. Arm is left over length and needs welding up. That will be done later. Next was some way to attach the wheel to the plough. It needed to pivot of course. Where to attach the pivot was solved by another piece of box section inserted between plough arm and braces. Photo later on. Box section cut to length and a length of threaded rod. Couple of nuts to suit the rod. Nuts turned down to fit in the box section. Threaded bar screwed in and again over length. Split dowels were fitted after this photo. And where the pivot goes. A tight fit in there and will be welded in when all things are together and I'm happy with it. And just to give you an idea how it will look. (I hope!)

Obtained some threaded bar yesterday from the farm workshop. So this morning I made the adjuster. A piece of round bar with one end drilled and tapped 22mm x 25mm deep. The other end drilled to suit some 3/8 black bar bent to form a handle. The threaded bar was then screwed in and secured with a dowel. I then started on a couple of swivels for the adjusting screw to pass through. One with clearance hole and one tapped out 12mm. Couple of pieces of 1" dia. offcuts out of the scrap box would do the job. Problem was how to drill through the bar. My bench drill won't take sleeve drills. Then I had an idea. Faced off the ends, then put a small centre pop where I wanted to drill. Next fitted the four jaw chuck in the lathe and using a centre in the tail stock, aligned the pop mark with that. The first piece was drilled and tapped. The thread started in the lathe and finished in the vice. Bingo! More lathe work to be done another day.

Happy Birthday Joseph, you'll have to post a picture of that socket set!

Happy Birthday Joseph, hope you had a great day

Having a quiet afternoon so I thought I would share some photos of my home made 20 ton air over hydraulic press. apart from buying the jack all the steel is whats been salvaged from other jobs or recycled. The first 5 photo are of the build then shot blasted and painted. cheers Jordon It has been a real bonus in the shop but decided rather than just press out stuff I would make a Brake press for folding so here are some picture of the Brake press attachment I have made now the press is real usefull. I did purchase some tooling real cheap, saved a lot of grinding. I have only tested it on 3mm thick 600mm long but it bends it with ease. Cheers Jordon

Thank you for the birthday wishes, I had a great day other than going to school. I got lots of lovely presents including a nice socket set from mum and dad. Alan, no dad has not started on my half-a-horse yet and he thanks you for suggesting it Andrew, this was my cake before dad started on it Joseph

Hi all here are some pictures of our working day weather was very kind and glad the forecast was wrong some good comments Tam Tweedie was presented with the Nancy Little trophy the dogs had great fun as well hope you like More rally pictures also found a new toy and it works hope you like

Another little update after another delay. Too many things to do. Who said retired people have plenty of spare time. The hood catches which started off as 3/16" diameter car brake pad pins. An alloy sleeve pressed on, drilled 1/16" for a short piece of wire, then the domed head turned off. 1/2" ID alloy box section was pop rivited to the inside of the hood after drilling for the pins. A nut and bolt held it in place while drilling for the rivits. Another 1/16" hole was drilled for the retaining R clip after careful measurement to make sure it was in the correct place. It was. More measurement and head scratching then the excess was cut from the pins and the ends chamfered. When closing the hood the pins slide down slightly angled plates before popping into holes near the base. These plates can be seen on this earlier photo of the dash panel. The pins are sprung into place by springs, what else, taken from AA size battery boxes. These were inserted into the alloy box first, then compressed with special tool which I carefully designed then made, allowing room for the pin to pass through. OK, a piece of scrap alloy with a slot filed in it did the job. It was a pig of a job to hold the compressed spring, hold the pin steady, and insert the R clip, while trying avoid it pinging off into the distance. If the R clip had been long enough to protude outside the alloy box it would have been easier. The clip can be seen to the left, the rivits to the right. A washer between the clip and spring would have been better but I gave up trying to fit one. Kept going awol. The parts almost ready to be fitted. Works as intended although just as easy to pull the bottom corners of the hood out slightly which releases the pins.

Bit more done this morning. The box section is actually box section inside box section. Should be strong enough. Zero depth. This position would give 7" depth. I need to workout the adjustment mechanics now. I've a rough idea but need some more threaded bar.

All done, I'm pleased with that.

Been a while since I worked on this. Weather extremes have delayed setting up for paint preparation etc. Managed to finish the 4 tiny 1/4" square lidded Oil Boxes which was a 'Jewellers Job' Silver Soldering the tiny hinge tubes in place. The hinge pins are 0.5mm hard wire. The one in the picture is of the R/H 3rd Shaft, where I had to work around the standard bearing design and the additional steam valve I made and fitted there. The Oil Box is linked to the bearing by a short 1/16" dia copper tube. proper hex head bolts will be used in final assembly All the other Oil boxes not shown fit directly into their respective bearings- Changed the upper Steering Shaft bearing design with a more correct style version out of Gunmetal. Also fabricated and added the Tool tray on inside of the Hornplate to hide the dowel end of the steering shaft bearing. Steering shaft is 5/32" dia (nearly 4mm) - So till plodding on with this when opportunity arises.

We also made a few westwood decks they are quite simple I dont think this one would be to bad and it would give me a chance to try out our electric bead roller weve made. Just got back from the workshop and it is now firing although not with the key yet, ive hopefully added a little movie fingers crossed it comes out ok, note my sister injecting the fuel in she is a beautician and has lovely nails great sis thanks. I thinks the tractors gona run ok with a little time spent tinkering, now i have a little more enthusiasm now it almost running. I will check out them switches when i have time thanks Stormin. Cheers Jordon IMG_1337.MOV

I managed to get an hour on it today I have got the bonnet off and the deck off there is rust in the cutting deck but nothing that cannot be fixed,there is obviously surface rust on the tractor.The tractor it should clean up well eventually.By the look of it it hasn't been missed used or beaten about,there are dents,it looks complete apart from I noticed the choke knob is missing and a damaged seat. It had no compression it had a stuck exhaust valve which is now free. It has no spark yet but will probably need more time to investigation that side of things being my first Kohler engine. I found some photo's on Dads camera I have added hem to give you a better idea of what i am talking about. Will post more as and when any progress I will have a go at getting the engine running first then take it from there. Cheers to all Jordon