Lauber1

Thought I'd share this hoe with you men over there. I just restore this last week and Saturday will be its first showing to the public. This hoe was built in the 1890-1910 time frame and sold thru John Deere jobbers. It has a set of spring loaded handles that let you squeeze them together to get closer to the crop, or if released open back out.  Enjoy! 

your smart beyond your yrs.

well I hope you had a happy birthday, a got lots of new toys.

that machine going to be hot looking after you get it a proper rebirth.

Nice Ducky there , Karl, lol

I was featured in a national tractor magazine and it was titled The Wheelhorse Showman, so I kept "the showman as my user name

That and you would look good in a top hat and tails, lol.  Seriously, you do make fine tractors!

that's a nice looking small machine, almost good enough to leave as is.

we don't the same insurance thing over here. We have to have a blanket policy at most shows now that just you and the display as a whole, not the single tractors or any lists of them. Hard to get the insurance here as they want to attach it to your homeowners policy and that only cover certain thing at certain phases of the moon, apparently.  I do a lot of show that are 250 or 500mls from home, father than the home policy will get you . Lots of shows now require you buy a membership with them to be covered under their insurance. I think its running around $15 a show for the weekend. Some times this don't set well with guys, because they send a lot to get there, have a motel, eat and buy stuff at the show. We think the show should cover us, due to the fact that we do draw in the crowd.

what you didn't slip that iron horse into your pocket before you left, lol Don't think I've seen a green one before.

I don't have the tree cutting problem anymore, I burn corn in my furnace. This is all fitting for me as my State here in the US leads the country in the growing of corn.

kind of a cobalt blue, real nice.

Or another tractor shed, their 10 x 5 (feet)

Or another tractor shed, their 10 x 5 (feet)

that exactly what i was thinking, more storage space.

another in a long line of great video's, thanks for putting that up. Makes my 6* day a little better here.

defiantly hard on the eyes, but its only a day thing. Lets hope our UK friend don't start painting tractors this color.lol

I think the new plows going to be a winner.

I don't sell them very often. Most of mine come here live out there lives for there intended purposes. I did sell/trade all my standard twins a few yrs back for some more David Bradley and a pile of cash. I used the cash to drive 700mls and buy some braiding machines that I couldn't live with out.

makes one wonder if you should have got a brown one to start with,lol

so are you at the wafer thin mint stage?

I  think its going rather well. Maybe some more action photos of working tractors would be all i need.

I haven't Norm, never seen one before, Jeff might know

Don't know Neil, but looking forward to Newby Hall, I would like to come down your way, any surgestions

Normally we would use the orginal engine to help id the yr, but in the states no one has a Villiers engine. It should have had a Briggs on it here, and would guess it to be from the 1925 to 30 era.

I did a little digging on this later, and found that some of the Kinkade model L's were built in the UK under permit during WWII. So this one might be a little newer than I thought and explain the Villiers engine it has.

pretty cool to see one of them over there. The outer wheel is a dummy used to keep the machine upright when the plow is used. Other wise it would run just on the wheel with an engine in it.

nice to have santa drop off that Trusty. Maybe I should look around my yard and see if I missed something that fell off.

that's a scary looking thing.

looks like a propane regulator to me. We have them over here, perfectly safe and you don't have to worry about your petrol going sour on you with this system.

very clever setup