DougC

To now be held this coming Sunday. April 2nd.

That'll be Pam.

Spent a lovely day at a garden centre displaying the Bolens today.
It started straight away and was driven to the display area, here's the photos 

Great that's good news mate, bet you are well chuffed
 

I must have missed this thread Chris. What a great little machine you sniffed out. Good to know you're not entirely devoted to Red Tractors. ......
That must be a Keeper.
I presume you will be at a certain Garden Centre tomorrow?. I was hoping to get down, but had to change plans. Maybe meet up sometime.
Regards
Richard 

Spent a bit of time on the engine today, Cowling primered and painted, points and new condenser fitted, flywheel fitted, coil refitted.
Its all back together and had it running for nearly an hour and pleased it runs so well.
I will do some PHOTO's for you tomorrow when I get it out of the van

I should have said members and it's 40 now.

A new record has been set today. 39 users in 24 hours.

Had a spare couple of hours today so I stripped the front of the engine and flywheel, removed the coil, condenser and points.
Points look good so they had a good clean then I went over the mower centre to get coil and condenser checked on jonathans machine, the coil came up good but the condenser came up duff.
happy to pay a fiver instead of 55 quid.  
Hope to get it back together sometime this week

I looked at one of those a few weeks ago and decided it was too big to go behind a wheelhorse

As Jonathan, (expeatfarmer) was not going to be able to attend the HVC ploughing match this year, he kindly offer one of his crawlers and a plough, to anyone who wanted to enter. I kindly accepted his offer and volunteered my mate Dunc. Never having driven a Ransome before, though many other agricultural machines, we met at Jonathans last Monday so Dunc could have a drive and see the plough he would use.
 

 

  MG5 imported from the south of France along with the three furrow plough hanging on the back. You'll notice, now I've told you, the plough at the rear is off set by about 2". Why?, you ask. Haven't a clue.
 
 We collected tractor and plough today and took it to Dunc's for a bit of practice. Neither of us having any idea of setting things up. The afternoon was spent freeing things up and with much debate, a couple of trial runs. More will be done tomorrow or Saturday, depending on the weather.
 
 Below are some shots of the plough.

 

 

 

 

Isn't it amazing what a squirt of WD40 and a wipe with a cloth can do
 

 

 

The mower that you have is a Qualcast Panther.

Hi Guy's the time has come to let my GT-14+2 move on to a new home.
 
It's a 1971 model fitted with a Kohler Magnum 16hp engine which is by far the best starting Kohler engine I have ever had.
A battery/weight box on the front.
Cat 1 Three point linkage on the back..
Oh, the roll bar is a bit hard to miss..
 
I will be sad to see the ol girl go, but I need the money to buy something else..
 
Collection from Hawkhurst if you hadn't guessed
 
£1000 or offers
 

 

 

 

 

I've already said I'd altered the tool bar as in photo below.
 

 
  Today I rigged up a way to put a bit more weight on the plough. Dumb bar weights and a big piece of threaded bar.
 

 
  I'm going to try with just two of the heavier weights, then may add the two lighter ones.

Looks to me like your new neighbors owe you several trips to the pub and supper afterwards for all that manpower.  

You'll not get those square lumps in your stove, or through you saw, Chris. Best bring it up to Newby Hall for me.

Lovely bit of ash, splits real easy almost a shame to burn it

Yes and this time he got a got a bit of wood!  
 
Good stack of fire wood for next season Chris. 

Well last time Doug he was trimming some ladies bush 

Looks to me like your new neighbors owe you several trips to the pub and supper afterwards for all that manpower.  

Just noticed Lilly was keeping here eye on you as you worked mate!  

My new neighbours next door are very friendly and me being my normal helpful person that i am i offered to tidy up their drive free of charge.
they were very pleased

No bucket on that one Norm
 

When I read Bobcat, that wasn't quite what I had in mind.