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Baught them new Chris weren't cheap!

Thank you Jonathan, as soon as we agree on a price.......😬 Fitted the mirror and battery, battery is modern with all the labels removed and a Lucas decal applied.

The steering wheel has a pulley which has a wire rope anchored to it, as the wheel is turned it pulls on the rope, pulling on the brake. The whole wheel actually pivots at the bottom and if pulled towards the driver it will pull both brakes on and has a ratchet mechanisim, so acts as a parking brake. It was quite difficult to figure out from the limited pictures available!I did add a electric start on the engine, the original didn't have that thought, just a dynamo to run the lights.

Basically the fact that it has a steering wheel and a step through body, and lights.. Only 2 years older than yourself Charlie, it's amazing what you can achieve when you put your mind to it..

Thank you, I took great care not to let the standard slip, I have just baught an identical mirror to fit, it would have been easy to fit somthing that looked vaguely like it but l held out until one came up and it paid off. I understand it's a stressful time, no problem.

Well I'm afraid I've been hiding something from you all for about 5 months, I have busy re creating a rare if not singular example of a Ransomes ITW. Its taken a lot of hard work and to be honest I'm glad it's finished apart from completing the snagging list. The original is believed to be a one off, prototype machine which pictures are all that's left (as below) The likelihood of me coming across an ITW let alone buy one was very low, then even if i did find a genuine one I would have found it hard to cut it up to make it into the replica, so I started with a donor MG6... Here Jonathan is loading it with the help of a winch tractor to bring it back up for me from Hereford. I mainly made it for the Ransomes display at Malvern in February. Everybody has there own opinion of replica machines and cars and sometimes they are not appreciated the same but hopefully this one will because as far as we know it is been lost to us all and re creating it is a good thing....... I do have a video but not worked out how to upload it yet... To give you some idea of the engineering involved... the main shafts which hold the wheels are 90mm bright bar and the parts which hold the sprockets are 190mm! The engine came separately from a nice guy in Peterbourgh who kindly took a large hit to sell it to me from what he paid! Hope you like it.......

You'll not find one closer...

Glad I've not got anybody to tell me what I can and can't do.....yet but hopefully by then I'll have everything I want... . So am I but I've got 6.. and no more room..

Can't twist Normans arm?

Hope you cleaned the seat off and removed the fencing staples before Norman sat on it !!

Wish I had come up now, will do next year.

Now don't be greedy, you don't need two......

One sold on eBay for £680 with triple cylinder mowers on the front! Wish I had caught it before it ended.

Why.......

Can the flow be limited to this ram, to stop jerky movements? Or will that effect the usability

How did you manage, pull it out? How come you didn't drive one, surely Jonathan would let you....he's got plenty of them..

I'm sure it's a homemade tractor, think it may have been on eBay a while ago.

A few bits and bobs, needs the carb changing back to the 356 however this needs the usual work emulsion tube ect repairing it has one from a Hillman imp just now and runs really well! .Also needs the exaust sorting and put back to normal currently has a jaguar rear silencer. Needs a set of new tracks as they are virtually flat and not original and I think the fuel tank has a slow leak and is probably corroded. And all the knobs need changed to originals.The plus side is I have receipts from previous owner adding up to what I baught it for, he replaced bearings and seals on all the running gear, including the load rollers and new rims on drive wheels. The track rubbers and bolts were also replaced 12 years ago. Plan on doing the above, pressure wash it and wipe with a oily rag. That's it!

Not sure but guessing a Scottish water works, there was same spares came up in Banchory a while ago but I couldn't get get to them in time and they were sold to someone else. they had a tag on them saying Scottish water board. The dumper was baught not far from here.

Just arrived home with this after a 400mile round trip. Decided to miss out Aberdeen on the way home, it was a big mistake. Road was very narrow and twisty and was nightmare with the length of the combined load (pickup being 16 ft and then the trailer another 14ft) the 14% gradients didn't help, but the view was good.

You are correct Hugh, was thinking of buying the DVD but was worried there was only a few seconds of footage!

You'll be wanting me to paint it now?

One must have existed to take pictures,....The trencher in the pictures only has 3 track rollers?

A few other pictures, the colour ones seem to have the rubber pads. Also a trencher working, Jonathan you just need to find one of these now

A skimmer as new