Great to see those videos, here's hoping your health issues are sorted soon. You seem to have a good collection of working tractors and space for more!
My flat bed trailer is for sale, 8'6" x 4'6" over the bed, fitted with hand winch two mini wheels on indespension units, no brakes but trailer can be fitted with extra indespension units allowing for four wheels and brakes. Picture shows it loaded with my Merry Truck. It's in North Wiltshire. £180 Will Haggle....
This ingenious use of an old push bike was seen at a small show in Melbury Abbas, Dorset in 2011. the chain wheel, which is fitted with teeth, drives the tines which are built on the bicycle rear hub....
]It's now got new throttle and clutch cables and a pair of new handlebar grips, courtesy of www.merrytiller.co.uk, top class service! I've just got to clean the tank and carburettor out and away we'll go. Took it to the Brinkworth Show on Sunday with my others. I've been promised a Vee-plex pulley and this one will take it because it's not got a reverse gear....
Be careful what you ask for, I put a wanted ad in the Wessex Stationary Engine club newsletter for a Clinton 900 engine, I got a reply from a chap who has a complete Merry Tiller Professional. I went and bought it today and it is complete! It's in good nick as well!
On 15th and 16th of August I went to Yesterday's Farming Show, held in Puckington, Nr. Langport, Somerset. Lousy start on Friday wet all day but made it onto the site unaided, finally found the campsite with he help of Charlie Moore and his Landrover, set the caravan up. Saturday was much better, display set up, went round the ring with my latest machine, a 1960 Merry Tiller, the only one that ran!
First two pictures show two International Cub Cadets in the ring with the International tractors, international being the featured make this year. First we have Horticultural Steward Marcus Stephens on his 76, then Charlie Holland on his larger model.
Third picture is of Charlie Holland's load, a Trojan Toractor.
Fourth one is Marcus' Monrotiller, which also developed a fit of the gripes in the ring.
Fifth one is a line up of horticultural section in the ring.
Sixth one is the second line.
Seventh and Eighth is my Merry Tiller Tarpen display[
I have now been given two Merry Tiller Chassis (thanks Phil Murrell and James Manley), which have both turned out to be Professional models. These had Clinton Longlife 900 iron engines, has anyone got a Clinton 900 3¼ hp engine preferably complete that I can fit. My other Professional is pictured below.....
My sprayer 2015
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