rotoscytheben

i shall be collecting this week       

Find any illegal imigrants ?

no not this week i do get the odd person who confuses my back garden with the public toilet though

but my new fence has sorted that problem out and ive let the pathway immediately off the beach become overgrown with nasty buckthorn  that keeps the grockles out   

I know what it is ,  hehe

so do i 

dennis looks like he is having fun on the holder  he should have been doing that at tractorfest!!!!!

oh yes 

well the time had come to tackle the rather overgrown back garden at my beach house since ive been back in full time employment it hasnt been touched its rather out of control see picture

my weapon of choice is the kawasaki kb? 46cc brushcutter with oregon 4.00mm flexblade

 i have a variety of thick grasses and gorse and a bit of nasty buckthorn to deal with after about an hour and a metre of the flexblade the job was beat!

nice  time for a 

wait til next week and all will be revealed

i need something chunky for my westwood a big v-twin i reckon

ok what was it anyway

change of plan i now have a new project    so this rear end is now for sale comes with a hydrastatic box

what are you doing with the motor

My B & S 11hp broke a con rod and on taking it apart the crankshaft is slightly scored. Not certain it need replacing but erring on caution wondered if you had the bits I need. Will get gaskets and seal from briggsbits (unless there is a cheaper option).

Parts are;

Conrod 490348

crankshaft 692944

Any help appreciated. If it is not cost effective I guess the old dear will be up for sale.

Thanks

hi chris

i will check at the stores and see if i have anything and get back to you

i would like to get my hands on that

me too

thankyou nigel and iain i cant wait to drive it     

the show site is beginning to look like the glastonbury festival site does every year!!!!     

nice pictures ian i didnt realise you were snapping away or is that stills from the vid camera?

well done kev a good time was had by all me thinks 

You didn't say that on sunday when you drove my Wheelhorse round the arena   

i liked your wheelhorse too but when i got the merlin going that was great i gather my friend adam spoke to you yesterday i work with him 

Get this update done take 2.. I did try this morning but ended up only typing one line in an hour odd due to slight distractions in the shout box

 

I'm in danger of getting distracted again, it's only been 13 min's since I typed the above line, so I'd better get on with it!!

 

First of all a big THANK YOU to Doug (Ranger) for sending me a pair of late Mini (a Mini as in the proper car not the German thing!) 12 inch wheels which bolt straight onto the Reliant axle.. Thanks Doug, your a gent

And second of all, another big THANK YOU to Bryan the mad Reliant man for the prop shaft.. I know it's unlikely your be reading this, but thanks anyway

 

By the way, if you ever want any expert advice on how to wrap stuff for shipping, Doug's the bloke to speak to

 

Anyway, have a photo of the wheels and prop shaft.

 

 

 

The wheels will need a bit of banding (widening) to get normal size WH rear tyres on, it would be something I would normally do myself but do to the er... interesting speeds "Why Not" could reach I'm going to take them to an engineering company to get widened instead.. Best play it safe on this me thinks

 

 

 

Out of interest I slipped an over wide tyre on the rim..

 

 

 

Just to see how it looked.

 

 

 

 

The prop shaft was up for the chop next, after some careful measuring the end of the prop was cut off which was all i needed.

 

 

 

Splicing the Honda and Reliant props together should be quite simple, I will just make a collar that fit's both sizes and weld it all together.

 

 

 

Before I started thinking about narrowing the axle I thought it would be wise to balance a few bit's together to see how it looked with the fill width axle..

 

Eeekkk!

 

 

 

With the main body tub cut to fit over the diff, "Why Not" didn't look to bad from the front..

 

 

 

But from the back!!!!!      Yes, I think the axle does need to be narrowed

 

 

 

Hurrah!! I managed to get all this update done

i quite like the width of the rear end personally

i see the two fat dwarfs made an appearance over the weekend

What a fantastic weekend that was.. And rather fun as well

 

I didn't take may photos at the show but I do have a lot of video footage to go through when my brains awake enough..

 

 

 

 

 

 

me want video footage

nice display chris i like the blue tractor at the end the best

Interesting, but that's why I said "unless"!

None of the parts books that I have show the use of the Emblem name on that model and it first appears on the lightweight four wheeled machine some years later. Nowhere is that model number shown in relation to your configuration of machine however there is a gap between the late 70s and around 1986 where Mountfield are using three digit 83* model numbers so I'm guessing that your machine is early 80s. Perhaps anyone else with a similar machine can look and see what theirs is called?

apparently mountfield came down to culverwells and took photos of it they had never seen one either 

i didnt see you at tractorfest in biddenden over the weekend i thought you might have come over and had a look around?

Not sure about "Emblem" (unless its written on it!!"

I believe it to be an M35 which was first made in 1973 and continued unchanged , except for the colour, until  1979 when it became the M35LS.

Think that yours will be fitted with the virtually indestructible Leroy-Somer induction motor. The only thing that ever went wrong with them was a failed starting capacitor which was an easy and cheap fix.   

im affraid your wrong angus here is the spec plate for the emblem!!!!

well done just try not to break it before tractorfest 

Not long now

The 6x6 WILL be ready for the show

im glad to hear it ian sadly mobiliticus wont be

i purchased this some months ago from a seller ive bought from before in cornwall it was restored about 12 years ago by the maya trust and sold on 

it came back to them recently and i purchased it 

it was collected whilst i was on holiday in cornwall unfortunatley i didnt realise how big it was and when i arrived at crossgate to collect it soon found out it wouldnt fit through the door of my camper van luckily i have a bicycle rack fittede to the rear of the van not really supposed to take the weight of a vintage rotoscythe but thank god it did a sterling job and dint break off whilst on the 340 mile trip home !!!

here is a picture of her she will also be at tractorfest this weekend if anyone wants a proper look

i picked this up on my way back from cornwall last week it was won on the famous auction site it not running at the moment but it will be soon

here is a picture if you want to see it in the flesh it will be at tractorfest with a few of my other machines