With all that work you are doing on your tractors over the last week, I think you should be using this to reduce your fuel going off and gumming up the carbs and weakening the fuel lines. I know you have used Aspen 2 on your hedge cutters, Stihl do their version for 2 and 4 strokes. I have got this in my 1050 and will gradually use this product on my other tractors. I have been using this on my modern Honda mower and it fires first time. Just a thought.
Making great progress Iain. Be interested if all that gunk will be a challenge for your cleaner. Taking off all those ugly duckling add ons will reveal a beautiful swan!
Iain, it will look a million miles better when the add ons have been sympathetically removed. The 850 on GumTree has a similar problem too with the fenders.
You have certainly done well well over the Festive Break to work on those three GTs
Iain, I bought a battery charger from Halfords which got lights indicating whether the battery is charging, fully charged or dead. I think also it indicates how much charge there is as well prior to charging the battery. I used it to charge up the Bolens 1050's battery a while back.
Will be both an interesting project and a useful trailer but with those Indispension units, was it originally built as a " garden trailer"? Possibly a basic lightweight car trailer ?
It will certainly be an interesting project. The seller brought it new back in the late 60s/ early 70s and that was how the trailer was when he bought it. I will know more once it's collected.
5 minutes ago, Stormin said:
With the draw bar altered to a pin coupling?
It was definitely towed behind a garden tractor/ride due to the pin coupling which is what caught my eye.
I was unsure if he was going to steer away, you may have noticed the nervous camera shake. You welcome anytime Chris it is always good to see fellow GT collectors.
Iain
Iain,
i did noticed the camera shalke at the end but put it down to the vibrations from the RAM"s echaust !
The suspension looks like early Indispension units, along with the hubs. May be a home made job. Look for a plate or holes where one might have been. Maybe made by Howes themselves. Are they still on the go?
I did google Howe but nothing popped up. The trailer is in Newbury, not far from a garden I got to write about for a gardening magazine, so it never left the area. I will ask more details from the seller and hopefully he can fill in the gaps. I like the fact that it got suspension which is what piqued my interest.
I just bought an old garden tractor trailer which I hope to pick up in January. I have been looking for a vintage garden trailer for some time ever since the Showman's trailer project earlier this year and came across this old one dating from the 1960s. It will need a bit of welding and new timber and possibly new tyres. It been owned by one owner for the last 40/50 odd years. I plan to do a restoration project not too dissimilar to Chris's project and will do a photo record of it. Does anyone here recognise the make and model?
Iain and Joseph your RAM looks fantastic and I will be very interested in seeing how the carbs cleaned up in the cleaner. Again I am struck at how much of a quality and well built machine these RAMs are. I would love a '62 (?) RAM myself as I do like the front design of it.
You better secure it Joseph when I pop in sometime.....
Thanks for the postitive comments. I am hoping to strike a deal with the vendor. He's not desperate to sell it and will mull my offer over over Christmas. It does appear to be very clean and solid and the engine is in pieces needing a new piston etc. Service history is there too. Back in the 70s, I drive one around in a field at my mate's farm in Robertsbridge and there were a few dents in it like it been rolled and it was yellow too. (Sound familiar Nigel?! )
Shame Joseph won't let you drive it though. 
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I came across this old advert from 1965 which captures the very essence of the quailty of Bolens.