Stormin

Yes! And I'm not telling yet.

I can't help thinking when I see the photo's, of the hobby horses of the '50's. You sat on it and moved up and down. This moved the legs, which had wheels on and it moved forward.

Rear wheel weights are something I've been wanting for some time. Now and then various ideas have crossed my mind, but I've never got around to actually doing anything. Art, (Old Tankman), put up a post on some he'd made. That was the kick I needed. The other day I acquired a pair of rear discs/drums off a Land Rover Freelander, out off the scrap bin at my local Land Rover specialists. The disc fits nicely into the outer edge of the Wheel Horse rear wheel. Today, while visiting a local engineering workshop, I left with two of these pulleys. The pulleys also fit nicely into the inside of the wheels. If you look closely, you will see two small holes in the drum. There's actually four and they are pilot holes for bolt holes to fasten disc/drum to pulley. You can see the four corresponding punch marks in the pulley. They are now drilled and ready for bolting together. Next I drilled four more holes in the pulleys for studs to bolt the finished weights to the wheels. These were spot drilled using a spare wheel as a jig. They were then drilled for tapping out 10mm. Here I hit a problem. I've a fair collection of taps, UNC, BSF, UNF, Metric and BSP. Believe it or not, NO 10mm taps to be found.

Aren't they all!

Good job done there. Credit to you.

Two ideas I like there, Art. I've a lot of scrap lead. All I need are the discs.

Grand job, Darren. Pleased you got it started.

He wouldn't take it out of the van at home. Can't think why.

Paint! 3 now 4 posts up.

I see you use the same paint I do.

J type. There's a TK to the right of the Volvo.

All the Best, Mike.

They have some nice machines over the border, Harry. If that's the John Deere I think it is, ploughing with that all day, you'd end up with your right arm having muscles like Popeye.

You going to call it Rudolph, Joseph?

Thanks George. I can only get just over 5" at the moment with those tyres on. I'm going to see if I can get some 3-50x10" wheels to lift the front up. Plough should go a bit deeper then.

Thanks for the photo's George. Good horticultural turn out. Looks like the weather was kind. Question. How deep were you ploughing?

Sits back and waits for all the comments from the Bolens boys. May as well put the photo's up now Chris.

With it being road registered, the DVLA might still have a record of it.

Always wanted on of those Bedfords, on the left in the first two photo's.

Done up to your usual high standard, Alan. The tractor I mean.

Forgot about the Holder.

I could answer that if it was petrol. But a diesel 2 stroke may use a different oil. Have you Googled JLO diesel engine?

From the photo's I assume it's water cooled. And the two tops on what looks like the fuel tank. One diesel? One hydraulic oil?

What are they off?

Nice job.