Triumph66

Oye ime nearly an old age pensioner you know I have to watch my penny’s now, it’s ok for you northerners you’re weeks food bill is about the same as a loaf of bread down souf 😂

Yep I understand that, but I think he said it had an old Honda engine in, and I thought I would have a lot of trouble finding the right engine for it, but as it happens the showmans got one for sale, I will look forward to the restoration of this one because ime sure you will do it to your normal very high standards and it will end up better than new.👍🏻

Pretty sure I’ve got the  right  engine for that, all complete and be heard running 

Well it’s off the bench a few more bits to do but it’s getting there

Quick little fabrication project. I repurposed this 3 wheeled walker thing that my grandad got his brother as a joke present . 
 

 

 
I didn't use any of the original tubing as it was quicker to use square stuff we already had. 
 

 
The bottle sits low down over the back wheels for stability.
 

 
The old adjustment knobs were used to attach the chain, works well.
 

 
For the novelty factor I used the handles  makes it easy to push around.
 

 

 
All finished, its proved very useful so fair when moving it between workshops! I might add some bars on the sides later to hold the welder and plasma cutter on properly. Works well enough without them though 

Cheers Norm, Once finished I’ll work out cost and let you know 

Nice job Ewan, 

Handy having the forge and press.  Put one on one side for me please, Ewan. I'll collect at Newby Hall.

A while back I noticed a few people asking about these hitches on a Facebook page, thought I’d have a go at making some to see if I could sell any. Here’s how far I’ve got. 
 
 
First job was making a jig to put the 90 degree bend in some 10x50mm bar. 
 
needed some 1” square bar to fit in the hardy hole of my anvil. 
 

 

 
This is the jig I made 
 

 
The round bar fits in the pritchel hole to keep it sturdy
 

 

 
Works a treat 
 

 
All the same 
 

 
Next hurdle was putting the cranks in the bars, I made up an attachment for our hydraulic press 
 

 
9 tons of force to put these bends in 
 

 

 

I won’t be taking it out in the wet chris 😂 suggestion noted, will have a look tomorrow 

Cock up sorted 

Both bonnets all welded up  and cleaned up, I’m so pleased with them I thought they were scrap at  the beginning.
Big thanks to my son Steve for his help.

Bonnet fits on 2 pegs so you have to spread the bonnet to get it on, and it cracked one of the repairs that I had done 😡

Engine in
 
 

Nice work chris and steve

Bonnet No2 gave me some grief as the blue paint wouldn’t move with paint stripper so i had to use a hot air gun and scraper and finally going over with a drill and sanding pad.
This afternoon Steve came down and got the new tin all cut and clamped  ready for welding. Looking good.

Very nice work again  by Messrs Sutton Snr and Jnr. 

Got some shed time working on the red bonnet, I finished sanding off the last of the red paint and my son came down with the mig welder and offered to weld it up for me.
I went off to make the tea while he welded it up.
All done and I started grinding it up but its not finished yet, I don’t want to cock it up so I’ll wait for him to come back tomorrow but I’m well pleased with the progress. 

They're bad. Especially the red one.  Looks like they need the bad areas cut out and new material welded in. Or fibre glassing.

Got  both of the fuel tank brackets finished and in primer today only thing left to do is flush the rust out of the tanks.
Had a look at the two bonnets , I’ve kept moving them down the list as i new they were bad but getting to  the point where I need to do  something with them, not sure what yet I don’t think I’ll sand blast them yet.

Got tanked up today, found some off cuts of metal in stock so I’ve made two fuel tank brackets 
Think the photos show the process.

Last time I went to one of them places ( blue cross ) I told them to stick there dogs up there bum Andrew, they wanted to come round and inspect my house my garden and wanted me to fills forms in for background checks ,the dog I wanted got put down by them 2 weeks later because they could not find a home for it , never again, ime going to find a hunting fishing country type person that will find me a border terrier

fantastic looking blade ! great tractor

Hi all here is my Gutbrod 1030  born in 1965  IT is a Mk1 Tractor  seen here today  having just had the Snowplough fitted  to the front  what a Quality  piece of Engineering theys are I have owned this Tractor  since I was 14 years old but it now needs some TLC 

Had to put my faithful old friend down today had her from new 16 years, your be sadly missed