Ian

Great photo's there guy's The stones on the beach photo is very cool Mark, I like the way the focus is only on a small strip of stones in the middle.. That's quite hard to do.. Well, I find it is

Knowing your attention to detail Richard, this will end up as another top quality build That's a funky spark plug, like you I've never seen one like that before!

Ouch! That's quite a painful engine failure Mark!

That's great Norm

Thanks Mark, yep please dig out some of your photo's and add to this thread, would love to see them. That's a nice photo Neil, shame the non locals turn up to trash it at the weekends.. I use a Fuji HS10 camera that has a 30x optical zoom.. still getting to grips with it really, I need to get out there and use it more! some of the photo's were taken on a tripod, but most were not.. The camera has a great "anti shake" thingy which is very handy for me I find using the camera's timer to "press the button" so to speak when using a tripod is the best way to get steady clear photo's Thanks Paul.

As some of you will know I've been rabbiting on about a milling machine for a few days.. Well today I went to look at it and thought it looked a handy bit of kit.. So I bought it.. I have no idea who made it as it doesn't have a maker plate on it anywhere, but it does have the feel of a very well built machine.. I'm guessing it's at least 50 years old! Quite shockingly I have found a space in the shack for it that doesn't involve having to move loads of stuff around, in fact all I have to do is move the press a few inches to the right.. Oh, and build a small bench for the mill Here's a few photo's, if anyone can help with who made it, I'd love to know A spare motor and some milling wheel thingys.. You wouldn't want to get your fingers in the way of this one when it's on full spin!

Sorry the planned update is a bit later than advertised, I've been playing the waiting game, but finally late Monday afternoon I had a large er.. parcel delivered, and a smaller one with some much needed welding rods The GT's 3 point with some extensions fixed on was ideal for moving a large lump of metal to the shack Even though it was late in the day I had to throw the quad axle (from a Qwakasaki KLF300B) on the bench to have a look at it in roughly the right position.. Hhhmmm, wide springs to mind! A closer look at the quad axle, it came with the quad mounting arms which I won't be needing.. But it also came with a diff lock that operates the small lever on the top of the diff.. A diff lock will be handy One thing I didn't realize until after I had paid for the axle was if I used it the right way up then I would have no forward and 5 reverse gears!! Not a problem I thought, just flip the axle over and the drive will be going in the right direction.. What I didn't know until Mark (Meadowfield) mentioned it (this was before the axle was delivered), was quad axles have lot's of oil breather pipes that would all need to be moved! Here's one of them behind the brake drum.. Not a problem I thought, just unbolt all 6 bolt's holding the axle case to the diff and turn the axle case around by 180 degrees.. By this point on Monday evening I was feeling quite tired, so I reversed the wheels to see if it looked a bit narrower, and called it a day. Even though I should be getting on with welding my 6x6 back together for a show early next month, I just had to spend a day playing with "Why Not" and working things out a bit more, like how to get 5 bolt Wheel Horse wheels onto this 4 bolt hub! The two options are make an adapter ring thingy that will convert 4 bolt to a 5 bolt pattern or make the Wh wheels a 4 bolt pattern.. Not sure which way to go yet! After what felt like ages battling with bolts that had rusted solid into bushes all the old quad suspension arms came off! Time to flip the axle over, so the 6 bolt's holding the narrower side came out.. But only 3 of the 6 bolt holes lined up!! Why Qwakasaki couldn't space the 6 holes evenly apart I just don't know! Plan B it is then.. Off came the brake drum, the first one I've ever seen with an oil/dirt seal on the outside diameter! A bit dusty inside but not too bad.. But the good news is the 4 bolts that hold the brake assembly are evenly spaced apart Which meant I could rotate the brakes each side by 180 degrees to get the breather pipes up top and then flip the whole axle over which not only get's the drive the right way around but also help the prop shaft line up with the bike engines gearbox much better. The diff drain plug can easily have a hold drilled through the center to fit a breather pipe to So there you go, all up to date I should be cracking on with getting the 6x6 done today, but instead if plans come together I will be buying a rather handy tool that will change the ways I do my builds by opening up a whole new ways of doing things... But more on that later

It is a shame Norm, but any mower wheels don't stand a chance of not getting scraped with me pushing them

It is possible, but I have a feeling that it lives on a farm not that far away in Benenden. That's a great picture of the old Fergie combines Wristpin The lexion looks like a big monster.. A very clean monster but a monster all the same D

Must remember to take the video camera with me

A wonderful selection of old tools chaps, thanks for posting them.. That's a great vice Sten, any idea of it's age? I need to take a photo of my old vice, dated 1917!

Buried treasure in the garden eh.. Next your know, Baldrick and the Time Team will be turning up If they do turn up don't forget to get them to dig out foundations for a new workshop with that little JCB they always have

It's such a shame to see all your tractors underwater Neil, but it's good to see that all bar one is back into life.. I thought this might interest you Neil as it's your sort of area.. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/other-sites/87432-kayaking-somerset-levels-floods-feb-2014-a.html

Thank Norm, it was chrome paint on the wheels, as you would expect it didn't last that long.

I'm thinking of doing some airbrush work on my new project, so I will need some way of sealing it in.. Think I will have to steer away from enamel for the paint job.

Does anyone make enamel clear coat or am I just being daft even thinking of it?

Yep, it's been quite a damp and grey day weather wise here Chris, it's only brightened up over the past 90 mins.. What paint are you using Mark? The normal enamel or something a bit more car orientated?

This one is almost to big for around here, it can't get up my lane though and has to come across the fields from a different farm to get it here Good to see another local member by the way Ray

Thanks Ben, having it self propelled once again would be nice, I'm too old to be pushing it

Although I do take a lot of photo's most days, most of the photo's are of my projects.. Every once in a while I like to take a few snaps just for fun and because I enjoy it. Now don't worry, I'm not about to post the clock photo's again Living where I do out in sticks we do get a lot of wild life and some of it comes through the garden which is handy Meet Bert.. A green woodpecker.. A lot less green woodpecker A pheasant strutting his stuff. A chilling rabbit. Some smaller wildlife, a dragonfly. And a butterfly feasting on a blackberry. Bluebells. One year the lawn exploded into colour as the clover went into overdrive.. It looked so nice I didn't want to cut the lawn Some photo's look best in black and white.. And some have to be taken in the dark A few slow moving mushrooms.. And these last two I have no idea what they are as Photobucket is playing up and all I can see is the link!

That's my kind of show, such a great mix of machines, vehicles and displays.. Thanks for posting the pic's Neil

W is a long way off.. Plenty of great machines along the way to read about and see pictures of starting at A I'm looking forward to seeing this come together

I was going to build one, but Ben's got the bit's I was going to use now

It clears field directly behind my place in about 5 mins! It's all a bit high tech these days, I did get a ride in the Claas a couple of years ago and the farmer showed me the cruise control as he called it.. Flick a few switches and it steered itself around the edge of the field! all the high tech stuff can't stop the belts breaking though

ah, right.. with ya now