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Whilst trawling through some of my dads old literature from the years he had his own horticulture engineering business I found these and thaught you all might like to see them.

i combined a boating holiday with a camping vacation

Some of you will have seen this before ,but for those who have not get a look at this twisted cutie. started with a stock trailer and immediately I had a vision of how it should look today. looks rather small for the wheel horse c 61 so with a lot of thought etc and cheap bits and pieces from my friends I made this. Now that's more like it. comes with extended body,extra axel,suspention which works like a beam axel. full controllable hydraulic raise and lower by hand pump and Grafics by Titch,machinery decals. would just like to add that this trailer will tip at 90 degrees so anything awkward will come out.

A couple of years ago now, should have double glazing really...

I built this out of what I had lying around, in anticipation of snow last winter. I'm still waiting. First a frame was made using some 1-5/8 bore pipe and box section. Then the front end put together The blade was made at the local smithy. No rollers big enough, so it was curved in stages on a folder. I made my own tach-o-matic for the rear. Then this dodgy character nicked it.

Here's some shots of my oldest and newest gems. The first is a roteho gem number g367. I'm still looking for a gearbox for this one( needs to come off a machine with the number g500 or lower).-if ny one can help? The second is a dowdeswell 650, this also needed a new gearbox, which I've now managed to turn up a correct period one. G367 is from 1942 and the 650 from 1988, even tough they are 46 years apart you can see bar the engine how little the design changed over the years.

my boy and i built this for my granddaughter a few years ago

If you have any pics or information about any unusual garden tractors regardless of make or even homebuilds , why not post them here & share them with us. Here are a few that i have found on my travels

Missus wanted an island for the kitchen, so I made her one for Xmas. It's 50% recycled too! top is made from the old garage roof timbers

Since being a young boy my family has gone camping in some sort of RV (caravan). We started with 5 of us in a 12' Pickup Camper, the kind that slide into the bed of a pickup truck and grew into a 5th wheel. When I had kids of my own, it felt natural for us to go camping as well. We started with a 19' Hybrid camper (a solid wall unit with tent like ends which are where the beds are) then onto a 34' trailer and finally to our current 5th wheel. Even if just for a weekend, I like to get away from home, lounge outdoors with a cold beer watching the world go by, only getting up to get another beer

Home now here's the photos...

heres a picture of it years ago at a show in sussex

A few photo's from last years event.. Sorry Kev and Paul, I couldn't resist putting this one up

Re picnic table. You can drive it to find some shade.Thats if we ever we get any sun.

Well I decided to try the engine today, here's a short video of it running http://youtu.be/5lSD2YKu6U8

This was a great line up of ransomes mg crawlers at Ardingly 2012

Here you go neil the weeks dungay

and the long version

Must admit I'm rather proud of it. Always wanted a decent sized workshop. Myself and a friend who's was in the building trade built it 5yrs ago. I made the doors myself.