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Here's my late 1950's wacker plate.

Can you recut them like we had done on our one forklift?

Nice to see the maestro van, used to be every where but like a lot of things they all seem to of disappeared. Such a shame that austin never rust proofed them or seemingly anything else that they made.

Bethany (aka Rat)my Labrador had the same thing done when she was 3. The vet said that it may not last that long, however she is not far off 10 now and is still running round like a puppy. It's only on the coldest days that she has a very slight limp 99% of the time you'd never know. Hope your dog gets better soon.

You say you've tried 4 spark plugs, but have you tried a different make? I only ask because I had a box of ten new NGk plugs a few years ago that at least 6 turned out to be faulty. Nearly drove me daft as they would spark ok in the atmosphere but started to do strange things under compression.

I'll take some more pictures when I get a bit further with it. They are basically used for compacting down back filled trenches etc. They can often be called by some politically incorrect names aswell ...This one was made in an era when health and safety was very lax so will tend to shake you to pieces when being used.

The new badge has eventually turned up from the states, unfourtunatley I got hit for import duties etc which pushed the price up quite a bit. The second photo shows a sneak preview of my other project a 1960 Wacker Trench Rammer.

Are any members going? I was half thinking of entering next year as it will be 5 years scince I last exhibited.

One thing my machine was missing was the belt pulley guard. After a rummage through my store I tuned up this battered one. After a bit of panel beating and a coat of paint it was ok to refit. My diaphragm kit finally turned up tonight so I will fit it after the weekend.

Thanks for the compliment but there's nothing special about what I do. I just work methodically from one end to theother. The paint on this was all done with rattle cans, and the mechanical work was all done from memory.

Now that the paint has had a couple of days to harden I have started to assemble this machine. Just waiting now for a few more parts to arrive then I should be able to have it running.

Made a bit of progress on this project today. Got the main parts primed and painted. After doing this I thought i'd better check out the chainsaw to see if it was savable. Fourtunatley it is good everywhere the disc cutter is bad so it will be full steam ahead with the rebuild.

I always use synthetic enamel grey primer, as I can't use paint thinners due to an allergy so thin it with petrol instead. Not the perfect solution but with a bit of practise the finish can be quite good.

Fortunatley gasket sets, berrings and seals etc are still available and quite cheap so I ordered them off ebay. I managed to get a close match to the paint from Halfords,and have now started the laborious task of removing the paint. Photos of this will have to wait as im struggling to get my I phone to talk to the pc.

Agreed, it does look rather bad. However this is pretty much par for the course with disc cutters due to the environment they are used in. Parts for the rebuild are allready on order, the only thing I haven't been able to source yet is the air filter cover, if no luck then as a tempory messure I will fit the one off the chainsaw.

The first thing with any project is to see what state its actually in. I learnt a long time ago with disc cutters because of all the stone dust the engines tend to be knackered. This one has proved to be no exception. The cylinder and piston are chewed up, the main berrings have gone, the clutch berring has also failed. Suprisingly enough though the crank feels ok. This would entail quite considerable expense, however as luck would have Stihl used the same engine unit in their 08s chainsaw and normally these tend to be good mechanically due to the saw dust being harmless to the engine. In my store ive got a broken one of these so hopefully I can have most of the bits off this doner.

After looking for one of these early disc cutters for ages Ive finally purchased this one the other night off ebay. These were basically the early version of stihls infamous Ts 350, a machine that I used to do a lot with about 15 years, but even then these Ts 08's were just old junk. Today it arrived and after unpacking it I was able to see what I had bought. I believe it dates from around the mid to late 1960's.

Just purchased this old ts 350 off ebay. As you can see the arm is identical to yours.

Happy birthday Paul.Hope you had a great day,

There's nothing on the Dvla, but could mean the log book was never updated to swansea( didn't this happen sometime in the 70's?-before I was born.)

I used to quite a bit with the ts350 disc cutter / 08s chainsaws. They used the same arm and belt guard as this one. The arm would probably date to late 60's early 70's as they were changed on later machines. I've never seen a stihl air one before.

Looks awesome, may I ask what's the difference in this to other itw's as I'm not very clued up on ransomes?

Hi Darren,your parts are going in the post today-I just hadn't had time to strip them till this morning sorry. Make sure you wash the filter when it arrives in petrol or similar as it may be a bit dirty. I know titch does the new I'd plates for the engine. It's starting to look really good, I usually paint mine in John dere green as I bought a very large tin of it way back.

So long as the coil is ok then it will just fine.

I've had to do that to the valve seat on many a little villiers, sitting lower has never yet made any difference. Years later they still seem to run fine.