ranger

Just had an enjoyable 3 days at this show, had a bit of rain on Saturday but Sunday was sunny and warm and packed with people. 
Heres a few photos of stuff I liked from cars with big engines to tractors with big engines

Replacement plough discs can be made from old circular saw blades- grind or cut to required diameter and are very hard wearing.

Steve Denness and me took some machines up to a small village near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire today to support a 1940's weekend
known as the Holme Front (the village is called Holme, hence the play on words)
 
We took a couple of Colwoods, a Ladybird mower, and a Whitwood seeder, during the day I bought a childs wheelbarrow to go with our two Webb
childs mowers.
 
Although the main theme was a 1940's event there were some vehicles and machines that were newer present.
 
It was a great day, here's some photos...

More photos...
 
 

Hi all, 
Last week I had a job come in where i needed to fabricate these for an elderly customer so they could come out of hospital after a fall. The step up to the front door was to big to manage, so an intermediate step and custom rails have helped.

 
But whilst making them i had a bit of time spare between metal cooling and paint drying ect, so started my Wheel horse stack pipe
Started with this, no idea what its from but fits the job and kindly donated by friend Simon. This is not the tidiest job, the welds are not perfect, and it's made from scrap parts as my budget for tractors is £zero, the offcuts are from my Mustang exhaust headers i made some time ago, so been planing this a while then

 
Objective is make a cool looking stack pipe, that makes the engine Quiet! After cutting it open, i welded a chamber inside for the gasses to enter (side entry in to the stack),  

 
Then drilled through both outer and inner chamber cases and welded the inlet pipe on to just the outer case.
 
 
Then slid the inner perforated section out, and wrapped in exhaust wadding nice and tightly for sound deadening purposes, and slid it all back together and welded up the joints.

 

 
As i'm hoping to fit the Magnum 16 engine one day, i made a flange to bolt it to the engine rather than the threaded type fitments.
Sorry its fuzzy! But you get the idea.

 
Now why is there a pipe coming from the top and bottom you ask?

Well my plan was either it would make it quieter or it would not, but worth experimenting with. The main reason though is a support for the stack as it bolts to the chassis without looking like a huge bracket, then it wont crack the head if it's walloped. By the way it didnt help with noise so i plugged the end of the lower pipe
And here it is finished and loosely fitted to my Electro 12 for basic testing.  

 
What do we all think? On basic testing I'm very hopeful for a quieter tractor, the engine was louder than the exhaust note, and the engine does rattle rather a lot!
 
Please add on pictures of your stack pipes if you want to, be great to see them.
 
cheers, Daniel

Hi All,
Thought I would just show you these that I have made in the last week.
I had some harrows that were just towed which is a pain as I would have to put them on a trailer all the time so I thought I would make life easier by putting them in a frame.
The frame is 40x40 box and I also made some legs so it isn't always on the ground. The chain in the middle to stop them sagging is the original towing chain. The size is 2 meters square. When I looked on the auction site they were going for £ 250- £500 mine cost me about £50 plus my time. I only had to pay for the box and the shackles everything else has been kicking about here and the harrows were in a hedge surplus to requirements.
Paul

thanks for the comments, here's a wee present
 

So..I'm super excited about some news i have received from Spain. That's right Spain!
The little bike is gonna be published in a bike magazine from overseas!
Mondo Biker Magazine visited way back in May to take a few pics and I hadn't heard anything until yesterday, when Joseba emailed again asking for me to fill a Tech Spec sheet ASAP because he wanted to publish the bike
 
Its a pretty well established magazine too http://mondobiker.com/ shame its in Spanish
 
Here's a sneak peak photo he sent me
 

 

Thanks James, I hope my welding is better as I plan to weld the axle casing back together today
 
Speaking of which...
 
Both halves of the casing marked out for cutting..
 

 
 
Scribe lines top and bottom so I can line the halves back back up for welding..
 

 

 
 
Chopped        Thanks Nigel for letting me loose with your metal slicing machine yesterday
 

Hi all just had a great weekend at the Moss Valley agricultural Preservation Society , at shire oaks which we took various Machines,
A David Brown 880
A David Brown 990
A Wheel Horse D 200
A Wheel Horse C 141
A Wheel Horse commando 800
A Wheel Horse 700 ( Dibnahs Whonda )
And a trailer
Whilst there I picked up a few Goodies a full set of wheel weights for a wheel horse and a plough to suit! And various other bits and pieces photos to follow.
A few more pics

It is indeed Mark.. Shame it's taken my brain so long to work it out
 
 
 
 
Thanks mate, the welds get better
 
 
 
 
Thanks Ben.
 
 
 
 
Thanks James, I've not quite mastered it yet but I'm getting there..
 
 
More mounts almost made up..  
 

 
 
And tweaked a bit to give a bit more space around the starter motor..
 

 
 
They bolt here..
 

 
 
The only trouble with recycling steel is it needs a good clean up first.. This was part of the filming trailer I built ages ago but never used!
 

 
 
Cleaned up and welded on..
 


And on to today's fun and games, starting with the remains of the frame that the engine top mount was once attached to..  I only needed the threaded tube bit's..
 

 
 
You can just about see it in this balancing act of bits of metal.. Its the bit with the masking tape on it that was being marked out for more trimming.
 

 
 
After a day of careful measuring, cutting, welding and getting really confused until I realized the radiator is mounted on the engine an inch more to the right than left (why did Honda want everything on the outside of this engine offset from the center?), I had come up with most of the engine mounting frame..
 
I still need to make some cross members for it, but I'm happy with how it's turning out
 

 

 

 
 
As I'm only using one of the engine mounting places at the top of the engine, I will be making some mounts which will go forward from the threaded stud and join onto my engine frame.
 

 
 
So does the hood still fit?
 
That would be a Yes
 

 

 
 

I've got a 32 Duece grille shell in the garage ;)

Morning Doug, I get what your saying about moving the centers but as Mark said Wh wheels are spot welded, and rather big spot welds at that..
I did spend a long time measuring the wheels you very kindly sent me, but I can't find a way of using the centers from them..
 
More to come later chaps but for now these two pics should give you all the kinda vision I have for this machine..
 
Somewhere between the two but without a roof and flames that are not mostly yellow
 

 
 

How are the centres attached to the rims Ian ? Before anyone says, I know they are welded, but, a set of wheels I bought from the sale had the centres more in the middle than to one side of the rim. However, the 'spokes' were held with a couple of weld runs instead of spot welds. I just ground the welds away and the centres were then re-welded further in I think they may have been J D wheels, the PCD was the same as WH. Is it possible to transfer the centres from the wheels I sent you to the WH rims? The WH centres in the narrow rims would then become desirable ( £££) items for someone with an older WH.who wants to fit say 6x12 ag's

"WOW" says it all Mark :thumbs: :thumbs:

I stumbled across this while looking on a car forum and thought you would all like to see it..
 
A French chap built this bike from a 2CV to escape the desert..
 

 
 
You can read the full story below..
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168061/French-electrician-stranded-Moroccan-desert-rebuilt-wrecked-car-motorbike-drove-civilisation.html

Yes. it is usually a very well attended show, this year the rows of tractors seem to go on forever,a large number of traction engines/rollers also,classic cars/trucks also in attendance. A stubble field available as a working area for heavy horses as well as tractors.The displays of stationary engines virtually 'surrounded' the rally site! The rally site is also just outside the next village along from the one I live in.

Saw this on R.S. and thought "A Desperado carrier" and a use for the left over front hood section from the 'Shakin Horse'  build, How about one of these for your next project mr Showman?

Really good set of photo's, Ranger thanks. 

Saw this on R.S. and thought "A Desperado carrier" and a use for the left over front hood section from the 'Shakin Horse'  build, How about one of these for your next project mr Showman?

just a few pics today,  more to come tommorow.

Today's update...
The keyway in the axle was shot, the end of the hub shot too. The end to middle was ok and useable but needed a longer key to replace the small woodruff key.
So I ordered a 1/4" end mill and used the lathe to cut a new one.
Firstly making sure the height was spot on by marking the centre of the axle, this needs shims in order to get the correct centre. The final score line can just be seen.

Then running the mill through in small passes to cut an 3 inch keyway.


Once the full cut was done here's a half together shot showing the hub, fresh key steel and axle.

Saw this on R.S. and thought "A Desperado carrier" and a use for the left over front hood section from the 'Shakin Horse'  build, How about one of these for your next project mr Showman?

Saw this on R.S. and thought "A Desperado carrier" and a use for the left over front hood section from the 'Shakin Horse'  build, How about one of these for your next project mr Showman?

Saw this on R.S. and thought "A Desperado carrier" and a use for the left over front hood section from the 'Shakin Horse'  build, How about one of these for your next project mr Showman?