Lauber1

And of course there's the President Paul..nice Avatar!
 
Here's two of my 'Other Likes' sorry about my 4x4 choice Stormin' but I've had a few of these over time AND many Land rovers too, but this is the best & only 4x4 van you can get for my uses!!

if they give prizes for info boards thats tops nice one paul

Here's the four uk engine options of bantams offered by howard over the years.
Villiers ohv,Villiers mk 25c 2stroke, BSA 120cc, and AC 120.

New deck decal from Titch arrived today...
 
 

Not quite an old machine but home made metal work all the same. Went to a job last week and widened the main entrance for a customer. The old wrought iorn gates where now to small,so I begged them for a project which I am doing on the new house I have built with friends. Project is to rehash the free gates and convert them into decrotive railings which have to fit between two brick pillars either side of the entrance gate to the front door.

Hi l am selling my tractor to many toys, l think it is about 1948, it was running about a year and half ago, tyres are really good, good spark, lt has a stuck valve at the moment, not a big job.
1 plough
2 tool bar
3 drill ploughs,two off
4 seven cultivating tine
£750 or nearest offer

Here  are a few vids of some Ransoms Crawlers ploughing
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iTH4zA_qzM&feature=player_detailpage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhCggseRQy8&feature=player_detailpage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0jfjcH3Dg&feature=player_detailpage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iahgl68FxZo&feature=player_detailpage

No doubt that can be arranged somewhen...

Environmentally friendly lawn mower deck this evening...

Now that's what a call a solid looking wheel hub
Although it's not been welded together, bolting the brake disk on and adding some threaded wheel bolt holes help with the looks
 

 
 
To add a bit of colour have a couple of welding action shot's.. I was welding on captive nut's to hold the brake disk on.
 

 

 
 
And a bit more colour in the form of a  quickly made layout plan.
The red is the original WH chassis, the yellow and green is steel I had yet to add!
 

 
 
Thinking ahead a bit about mounting the axles I bought a load of tapered bearings.
 

 
 
And scribbled out some plans for making some blocks to hold the bearings.
 

 
 
The computerized version of my scribblings.
 

 
 
This power hacksaw I paid £45 for years ago paid for it's self once again slicing up some more of that 1 1/2" thick steel.
 

 
 
A "Raw cut" bearing block and a faced off block.
 

 
 
And one finished bearing block.
 

 
 
That will do for today I think... If your lucky I might move away from the lathe for the next update, and start on the chassis

Here's a little bit more of the build before I head out to the shack to play with the GT and a 3 point
 
 
Starting where I left off..
 
Corners cut off.. I'm checking the size against a standard Wheel Horse wheel hub in the photo.
 

 
 
More material taken off.
 

 
 
Until it looked like this
 

 
 
Yep, that fit's the wheel
 

 
 
Part 3 of the new wheel hub was a smaller steel doughnut.
 
From this.
 

 
 
To this.
 

 
 
Which neatly fit's the center of this Kawasaki Gpz305 front brake disk.
 

 
 
It was about this sort of time that work stopped for almost a year as I moved house and built a Workshack twice!

Here's Garry about to "open" a fully functional Workshack..
 

 
 
That feels like a good place to pause the story for now... More to come later.

So, with Ian's blessing...
I present to you a few of my "edits" you may, or may not have seen over on RedSquare, the international Wheelhorse forum.  

Thanx for asking Paul , my family are ok , thats them in the bottom picture looking over the Levels .
Thview from the top of the hill shows  only half of the flooding  & in most areas it is around waist deep , i was good to see the Ryal Marines helping out , sadly there are people still out in the middle of the floods looking after animals etc .
while we were there the royal marines rescued  a family & 3 dogs 4 cats

My favorite Gravely video. Throwing snow as high as the power lines! 
 

More progress over the weekend...
 
Multigardner 3 has been painted and fitted to the graveyard mower chassis, and a new addition is this mower... although badged as a Norlett it is identical to the Farmfitters Rapier mower that was also offered as an attachment for the Multigardner...
 
I have another use for the B&S engine thats on it so nothing is going to waste...

yep they are still down there, they buried them and all the equipment that you see in the photos these photos are from the 1950s-1970ish

Here is some photos of us enjoying ourselves ploughing in aid of charity Unusual but the ground was very dry this made it a very nice change We in Scotland are trying to promote horticultural ploughing days
It seems to be working we have been allowed to put on a demonstration at the Scottish Championship ploughing Match in October this year it is a two day event  will keep you updated     

With the original engine pulley being very firmly stuck on the original engine I had to find another pulley..
 
The closest I had was on a very dead Kohler KT-17 engine.. Slightly smaller in size but not by much.
 
This pulley was also firmly stuck on the crankshaft but as the engine was already dead (dead in a busted con rod that punched three holes in the engine case kind of way) I had no problems being a little less gentle with it
 

 

 
 
Pulley off.
 

 
 
The exhaust that came with the engine needed a little tweak to make it fit..
 

 
 
I've no idea what the exhaust originally came from, but I think it looks good.
 

 
 
The original pulley on the trans was found to be very loose due to wear and a badly done bodge with a previous owner, so it was replaced with a pulley of the correct size from a Raider 10 with the added bonus of a built in cooling fan.
 

 
 
Quite often you will see GT-14's with non original fuel tanks where heat from the exhaust has melted the plastic tank away!
I didn't want this to happen to my fuel tank so I made this ally heat shield.. Very well it works too
 

 
 
My Wheel Horse 312-8 was used for many years as a my main work horse, fitted with big and wide rear tyres and a home made roll bar.
But this year it has been put on gentler grass cutting duties only. so the roll bar was removed and bolted onto the GT
 

 
 
I think the grin on Pete's face says it all
 

 
 
As well as being the star of a few videos (see my YouTube channel link at the bottom of my posts) the GT has been put to work moving logs..
 

 
 
And moving pallets.
 

 
 
That will do for now, more of the GT story coming later.

Thanks Andy, what it's actually crying out for is a vise on one end

Homelite tools from the 60's. These were all based using the same 2 stroke engine from the XL-12 chainsaw.
 
XL-12 Chainsaw, XL-100 Circular saw, XL-A115 Generator, Drill Attachment, XL-SG1 Water pump, XLMB Military Blower. ( I have the XLBC Brush Cutter, but can't find the pics)
Still searching for the earth auger, the Harvester, a better example of the water pump and any other applications 

British Engineering at its best
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE&feature=player_detailpage#t=2

Her are a couple of Gravely machine ads
 

A tale of two Lister Autotrucks
 
My son is on the organising team for the Isle of Wight Steam Show and spends a week over there helping to set up the show and camping. Back in 2012 and with some time to spare he dragged an autotruck out of the brambles where it had been left outside for several years to see if he could get it going.
 
Having managed to get it to run it was given a good clean up, a bit of paint here and there, and put in the show.
 

 
That's me having a go - great fun but a bit scary on eneven ground!
Turned out it was owned jointly by several guys associated with the railway where the show is held but they wouldn't sell it even though it had been left outside to rot.
 
Anyway, my son had to have one and here it is. Not a diesel like the example above but JAP petrol engine powered.
 

 
Bought as a non-runner that used to run it was soon running again but it does burn oil as you can see.
 

 
Over the winter it was dismantled, shot blasted etc and emerged in Royal Navy livery as both my son and I collect and restore military vehicles. It made it to a couple of shows last year (Overlord military show and Netley Marsh) but still needs some bits and bobs finishing.
 

 
Things like the toolbox, foot gong (we've been told it was probably originally a railway's autotruck based on having one) and some RN markings still need to be done.
 
We haven't touched the engine yet, having had no experience of rebuilding a 600cc JAP or knowing what the availabilty of parts is like but it will need doing as if you run it long enough the plug oils up.
 
Any info from those with any experience out there in MOM land welcome.
 
Andy

You have just got to find a use for that Chopper Engine Jeff !.
 
Apart from the Myford  (don't want to dupe my other Post/Thread here, I have a Tiny Plain Lathe with full accessories.
Use it for Bushings and Model Steam fittings etc . Did use it initially to machine the front Wheel Rim Castings for my Engine.
Rather untidy post , but here's a few old scanned photographs of the Micro Lathe and some other Myford machining shots :-
........sorry about the quality.

 
I added a Used Light Milling Machine to my little workshop last Autumn (right of pic) , well worth it :-
 

 
Reasonable size Table and will cope with my needs and Tools interchangeable with the Myford