Alan

Not quite a Tot Rod but a Black Hood Wheel Horse look a like, sort of.  Based on a Pride Celebrity scooter bought cheap as a non runner.  Info said 6.25 MPH.  Larger rear wheels make it faster.  Steering wheel in place of the tiller with a dummy V twin engine to hide the scooter steering column.  Chain and sprockets from column to wheel.  2 x 12 volt 75 amp battery's so should give a good run. Still needs decals. Only had short test run so far.  Photo's of Grand daughter  having a play.  She loved it.

Not quite a Tot Rod but a Black Hood Wheel Horse look a like, sort of.  Based on a Pride Celebrity scooter bought cheap as a non runner.  Info said 6.25 MPH.  Larger rear wheels make it faster.  Steering wheel in place of the tiller with a dummy V twin engine to hide the scooter steering column.  Chain and sprockets from column to wheel.  2 x 12 volt 75 amp battery's so should give a good run. Still needs decals. Only had short test run so far.  Photo's of Grand daughter  having a play.  She loved it.

This rather nice collection of engines and spares arrived today, three complete engines and loads of bits, plus some useful literature and dealer tags...
 
Engines now on the display with the others.
 
 

 

Not quite a Tot Rod but a Black Hood Wheel Horse look a like, sort of.  Based on a Pride Celebrity scooter bought cheap as a non runner.  Info said 6.25 MPH.  Larger rear wheels make it faster.  Steering wheel in place of the tiller with a dummy V twin engine to hide the scooter steering column.  Chain and sprockets from column to wheel.  2 x 12 volt 75 amp battery's so should give a good run. Still needs decals. Only had short test run so far.  Photo's of Grand daughter  having a play.  She loved it.

Not quite a Tot Rod but a Black Hood Wheel Horse look a like, sort of.  Based on a Pride Celebrity scooter bought cheap as a non runner.  Info said 6.25 MPH.  Larger rear wheels make it faster.  Steering wheel in place of the tiller with a dummy V twin engine to hide the scooter steering column.  Chain and sprockets from column to wheel.  2 x 12 volt 75 amp battery's so should give a good run. Still needs decals. Only had short test run so far.  Photo's of Grand daughter  having a play.  She loved it.

Not quite a Tot Rod but a Black Hood Wheel Horse look a like, sort of.  Based on a Pride Celebrity scooter bought cheap as a non runner.  Info said 6.25 MPH.  Larger rear wheels make it faster.  Steering wheel in place of the tiller with a dummy V twin engine to hide the scooter steering column.  Chain and sprockets from column to wheel.  2 x 12 volt 75 amp battery's so should give a good run. Still needs decals. Only had short test run so far.  Photo's of Grand daughter  having a play.  She loved it.

Got a bit bored this week, I had an old disability scooter kicking about and found this old jeep on the dump, so I’ve cut 9 inches out of the chassis cut the jeep up abit, and I’ve got a start to an 8 mph tot rod
 
 

As most will know, Jonathan, (expeatfarmer), has sold most of his collection of Ransom crawlers. He did have two large Ransom reel mowers. These attracted no interest. So Jonathan removed the engines and made a roller out of one. Another friend of mine bought that off him after I took him to see it. I bought the remains of the other.
 
  Below is what I got plus the handles.

 
  First mod was to trim the bottoms of the sides, so they wouldn't dig in when behind one of my garden tractors.

 
 Next fit the handles. But in front instead of behind to make the draw bar.

 

 
Two of the side offcuts were made into plates. Utilising the holes already there.

 

 
 A pin off the Cabstar tipper I once owned, makes a good hitch pin.

 
 Behind the Sears/Roper ready for a trial.
 

 
 Worked grand though the roller could do with being a little wider. Width of the wheels. But I can't do anything about that. I can offset it on the Sears hitch if I need too.
 
 Next job is a frame for the top to carry weights. 
 

Happy Birthday Iain.  

Happy Birthday Norm.   Have a good one. 
 

My first job this morning was to sort out the recoil starter on his wacker plate. There was a broken pin inside the mechanism.  To cut a long story short, failed to fix it. Reverted to the good old fashioned way of cord round a pulley and got it going.
 
Ramp in workshop doorway got wacked down.

 
Put the guttering up on the right hand side of the carport. BTW. A bat has taken up residence in part of the middle truss. Bat droppings on the floor. Some kind of sheet is going to be fitted below where it roosts. Otherwise Fiona is going to be kept busy.

 
 
 
Final job was some work on the Case tractors hitch. It has a missing pin and still has. We couldn't find anything for a suitable temp' replacement.

 
 Not bad for a 32 year old tractor.
 
  Rear gable end of workshop was finished yesterday. Makes the roof seem higher.

 
 Digger has a nice new cab on now, after being hit by the runaway tractor. It was an insurance job and even came back with an air freshener in.
 
 
 
 
 
 

That's a good start Chris.   Now we need to see all the others join the line up.  

That's a beautiful restoration you've done, Marcel.

I’ve cut down a bit from 29 to 12, much more manageable 
20 wheels to piss on, they didn’t know where to start. 

Dear Alain
 
I am not at the end of the restauration but it looks al ready good.

Won't be room, Alan. Looks like Pam's been cracking the whip and the garden's not looking like I remember it.

From the left, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1968, 1969.
Having a sort out in the shed , silly not to take some photos

Bill and Ben the flower pot men, and Little Weed.   

Thanks for the birthday wishes.
For presents I got some tools and a tripod for my YouTube videos
Thanks
Joseph

Bought this earlier in the year, have been asked for some photos of it...
 
No makers name sadly...
 
 

After mowing yesterday, with the C-125, I found the front right bolt holding engine and wobble plate had snapped. Solid mountings and not the original rubber ones. I noticed a slight gap 'tween spacer and plate. So I suspect the plate isn't quite true. With feeler gauges it was just over 70 thou.
  This morning I dropped the front axle and removed the cross bar. The broken end came out easily when the drill bit, bit. So bar was replaced.
  I then found a washer that measured 75 thou. That would do as a shim under the spacer after I cut a slot in it to clear the bolt.
  All back together now and hope fully no more sheared bolts.
 
  I'd still been having starting problems with the C-125 and yesterday it refused to start. Squirting petrol in the carb mouth made no difference and the plug had a good spark.
  I decide to check the points and found they were rather wide. That would throw the timing out. I'm assuming that last time I adjusted the points, they'd opened up when the securing screw was tightened. This does happen sometimes. After about a half hour of  setting, tightening, checking, setting, tightening, checking, I managed to get the correct 20 thou gap.
  Better starting now and runs better as well.

Happy Birthday Joseph.    

Bill and Ben the flower pot men, and Little Weed.   

My display at a club weekend, it was only for members but very enjoyable and chilled out with friends.

Bill and Ben look good Chris. The Tri-ang pedal tractor as well.