meadowfield

He's already nicked that for his veg plot!

I'll be checking my v belt collection doesn't diminish young man!

My c195, love to run this thing. The 3 point is very handy!

He's already nicked that for his veg plot!

I'll be checking my v belt collection doesn't diminish young man!

I'll be checking my v belt collection doesn't diminish young man!

I'll be checking my v belt collection doesn't diminish young man!

Looking good Norm

Found a pair of narrow rear wheels and tyres in my store and thought now the weather has warmed up i would clean them up and fit them on the back of my Raider 12 that i use for ploughing hopefully will give me a bit more traction 

Got the tyres and tubes fitted today.
 
  Chunky!
 

Welcome! Have fun...

Sweet tractor!

Sounds like you need to check its connected through to the throttle linkage and the rocker for the choke is connected correctly.
 
re: gearbox, I think the part I've circled here is possibly broken or the bit that operates it is.
 
this is my sons gearbox as we rebuilt it, so we know exactly how it works...
 
you might have to split it to take take a look, it's a messy job as it is filled with bentonite grease.
 

The standard rear wheels on the C-121, (Black Horse), though fitted with ag tyres, are a little wide for ploughing. The earlier narrower wheels tend to be a bit hard to come by.
   I acquired a pair of 700 x 12 ag tyres off the Fife Pooman. These had come off a walk behind and practically new. Tubes with them as well. Bit narrow for the standard wheels, but as I had some spare wheels a plan was formed. People widen wheels, so how about going t'other way?
  Off to a local engineering firm with a pair of wheels. A week later I had six wheel parts and my wallet £20 lighter.
 

 
  Today I had some workshop time and started to build them up.
 
  Gavin who had machined them for me, had marked them up. So each half would match it's respective other half. The cut out centre pieces I cut through once to make a band that would hold the two halves in position. Yes, I know. I should have taken a photo.
  The band was placed round the two wheel halves and clamped in position. I only used one G clamp, as I only had one big enough and moved it round as I tacked the band in place. With both wheels done and the welds cleaned up a bit, the result is below.   
 

 
  Not pretty I know, but they will be. Next job is to clean off the old paint. One job I really enjoy.

Glad your enjoying the build Neil, how could we not do a thread when there are so few RJ's over here...  It gives me something extra to make a few video's about as well
 
More progress..
 
Getting the knackered tyre off the front wheel rim was fun, the tube put up more of a fight than the tyre!
 

 
 
Does anyone know what the random hole in the wheel rim is for? It doesn't seem to line up with anything on the RJ and I'd of thought it would have two holes for bolting a wheel weight onto!
 

 
 
I wondered why the paint off the bottom of the gas tank had been stripped, someone has done a solder repair..
 

 
 
What's Nigel spotted in the tank?
 

 
 
Nope, it's not a mini star system but quite a few holes instead!
 

 

 
 
Some detail brought back by cleaning up  the pull start casing..
 

 
 
Cleaning up the rear wheels.. Someone at some point had flattened the paint back to a beautiful smooth finish and then for what ever reason gave them a quick (very quick) spray with grey primer..   The odd rusty bit cleans up very easily
 

 
 
The other rear wheel decided it wanted to leak water on my bench!     10psi later and water was pouring/bubbling out all over the place!    I'm not looking forward to popping the tyre off the bead to clean the water out and see how badly rusted it is inside!
I must remember to take a photo of the tyre valve tomorrow as I've never seen one like it!
 

 
 
A hint of things to come
 

 
 
Not forgetting of course
 
 

Bit of an update. She has now moved in and given it a name. The Hutch. Still some bits to do on the outside.
 
Name plate up and the hay rake rescued from John's, painted and hung.
 

 
The artist at work.
 

 
The view from the door.
 

 
 

Got some more done today after it stop raining.
 
This is the strip I did by hand yesterday.

 
Nearly to the drive gate.

 
Little C-81 has been working like a good 'un. She looks a lot cleaner in the photo than she is.

 
Drainage pipe in, covered with pea gravel, membrane on that and filled in. Rusty thinking, "Oh goody! Some nice soft earth to dig holes in".

 
 

Well after quite a delay with the shipping company, I get a call asking where we live...
 
followed by "oh Sh1t, I'll call you back...." I hopped on the quad thinking he was lost and I'll find him first. Quad was the wrong mode of transport and not man enough for the job...
 

 
He got got stuck in the bottom of the village, and I had to pull him out. 
 
Anyway, he dropped a pallet off and there's only one way to move a pallet up here
 

 
might leave it for Ewan to unpack when he's next home.... unless he really wants some more pics....

Well after quite a delay with the shipping company, I get a call asking where we live...
 
followed by "oh Sh1t, I'll call you back...." I hopped on the quad thinking he was lost and I'll find him first. Quad was the wrong mode of transport and not man enough for the job...
 

 
He got got stuck in the bottom of the village, and I had to pull him out. 
 
Anyway, he dropped a pallet off and there's only one way to move a pallet up here
 

 
might leave it for Ewan to unpack when he's next home.... unless he really wants some more pics....

Well after quite a delay with the shipping company, I get a call asking where we live...
 
followed by "oh Sh1t, I'll call you back...." I hopped on the quad thinking he was lost and I'll find him first. Quad was the wrong mode of transport and not man enough for the job...
 

 
He got got stuck in the bottom of the village, and I had to pull him out. 
 
Anyway, he dropped a pallet off and there's only one way to move a pallet up here
 

 
might leave it for Ewan to unpack when he's next home.... unless he really wants some more pics....

Well after quite a delay with the shipping company, I get a call asking where we live...
 
followed by "oh Sh1t, I'll call you back...." I hopped on the quad thinking he was lost and I'll find him first. Quad was the wrong mode of transport and not man enough for the job...
 

 
He got got stuck in the bottom of the village, and I had to pull him out. 
 
Anyway, he dropped a pallet off and there's only one way to move a pallet up here
 

 
might leave it for Ewan to unpack when he's next home.... unless he really wants some more pics....

I have listed a crawler on E Bay, it is a petrol MG40 with full hydraulics and pto, serial number 15343 so is one of the very last produced in 1965.
It runs well but tracks need rebuilding, included with the sale is a full set of new rubbers bolts and track washers. Mag and carb have both been rebuilt.

More of an RJ update for you chaps, let's have a look at the hood/bonnet shall we..
 
Interesting, a repainted gas tank with no fuel tap (Neil did mention it leaked ) and lot's of paint cleaned off the bottom!
 

 
 
What's going on under (or is that above?) the tank?
 

 
 
Soooooo... Someone has ground back the filler smoothing out the underside of the hood/bonnet to weld on new fuel tank straps! 
I'd guess when the hood was painted no tank straps were fitted.. It so happen that the strap welds are in the same place as the filler cracks above!
 

 
 
Who ever did it thought something sucked as that's what it looks like has been written!
No idea why when I upload this photo it turns it sideways!
 

 
 
Oh, and the top of the tank never got painted!
 

 
 
Out with the grinder and a workshop full of filler dust later it was good to see the rust was surface rust only, and only where the filler had cracked...    And a random pop rivet!
 

 
 
As the bonnet/hood has quite a lot of ripples under the filler, there was no point in taking it all out only to replace it.. So with the surface rust carefully cleaned back to bare metal the first layer of filler went back in..
 

 
 
Easy sand no pin holes filler eh! At least the easy sand bit was right.. No worries, a second skim will sort it.
 

 
 
Meanwhile I catch Nigel dancing with some masking tape and a bench full of RJ parts!
 

 
 
Some parts like the gear (I'm not sure it should be called that!) lever had never be repainted, so here it is with all the thick surface rust cleaned off awaiting some red oxide primer.
 

 
 
Some parts in the "need to to have the paint flattened back to give the primer a good key" Que
 

 
 
Some primed parts hanging about the place.
 

 
 
The hood now looks good with a fresh coat of red oxide primer, I'm happy with the overall shape of my filler work, there's a just a couple of little spots that are annoying me.. I will sort them tomorrow.
 

 
 
 
 

A few photo's of the hood, fenders etc after they were painted Monday.. They be looking good
 

 

 

 

Nice find