nigel

my oldest and youngest at a working event yesterday

Nice to see the youngsters gettting involved, they are the future of this hobby
 
Ethan better watch where he's driving though Kev,he's already had one headlight out of that Bolens !!  

Here are some pictures of my latest acquisition s to join my collection another British anzani motor Hoe and a very nice little 12'atco circa 1960.
Both came back from sunny Hampshire today where myself and Paul mackellow attended the bill targett memorial rally.

While at the Ardigley show last year my GT14 died on the way into the parade ring & I had to get towed round the ring then back to the exhibit area.
Thinking it was something serious ,I didn't want to delve into the tractor until I got her home. At the end of a gloriously hot weekend & a great show she was pushed back onto the trailer & headed back to Somerset.
After being unloaded at home I didn't have the heart to see what the problem was as I feared it was going to heartbreaking news . She has sat quietly ow for nearly ten months waiting for me to build up the courage to see what the problem was., I pushed her out onto the lawn & charged the battery for an hour then armed with spinners I decided to go for it.
Right, I will just start by trying to turn her over to get any idea of what might be the issue.
Turned key, vroooooooom , she stated first time ,,,that's odd... I started to look her over then looked down by the fuel tank & noticed that the fuel tap had wound himself shut by vibration.
As you can imagine I was delighted that it was nothing serious , so instead of spending hours trying to sort out a problem I spent the time getting reacquainted an gave her some TLC.
So now I know to get into the habit of turning fuel tap on & off after each use.
Here a a few pics after the TLC

You never know when they will come in handy Paul

Morning chaps. With the arrival of Project Zero-ish turn the time has come (and much over due it is too) to make some more working space in the shack!
 
As you can see it's a bit of a mess!
 
These are the least disturbing photo's
 

 

 

 
 
As you know the space in the corner has been cleared to I could at least get the new project in the dry, not ideal for working on it though!
 

 
 
While I was digging under my main bench the other day for engine parts for diggerjames and had most of the junk pulled out I thought I might as well sort it all out!
 
90% of the junk neatly fitted into 50% of  the space
 

 
 
Pete dropped in Tuesday to give me a hand with the next stage... Sorting out the top and size of the bench!!
 

 
 
Can you spot where the vice was bolted down?
 

 
 
A rare sight indeed, a clean bench!
 

 
 
What happened next may seem a little strange!
 
Marking a cutting line with the grinder..
 

 
 
Yep, I did say marking a "cutting line"
 

 
 
A while later, the bench was in "slimline mode"
 

 
 
So why have I cut the bench in half?
Although the bench was a nice big size I could only really reach the front half of it! Which meant the back half only got covered in junk and metal off cuts!
And as I managed to operate just fine on half of the bench, it's all I really needed.. and some extra floor space would come in handy
 

 
 
Of course I now have a box and a half of off cut's to find home for, but I think I have that worked out. The blue box is Wh spares which are waiting for some racking to be moved!
 

 
 
The first job for the new narrow bench was getting Kenny's panels finished.. Good progress was made on that yesterday until tiredness hit big time about lunch time!  Feeling more awake today
 

 
 
Stay tuned for more space making work... Still loads to do.
 

Just re assembled the display board for the Jobbers for Saturday...
 
 

nutty

Just bought this little chap, don't know too much about him yet other than he is running , requires a deck and a new fuel pipe.
I pick him up next week ,more pics to come

No more updates yet as I managed to trap some nerves in my right hand making it quite painful to do anything much, but.....
 
Here's the first video of the action
 

i like the sound of an mom calander but please not just whs theres some other good machines out there as well

Photos of the machines we took to Stradsett...
 
 

MY HERO!
 

Me neither
I'm trying to get it in a semi decent state for the round up if possible... But work keeps getting in the way

Well kind of, here's the first transmission test of project bendy.

Here are my Gutbrods out together  I am getting them ready for an other season I hope you like 1032 1030 1032

Not really mate, one of each type (with wheels or without) will do me...  

colonic irrigation perhaps

Thanks chaps
 
Right, I'd better get this update posted while I'm still awake enough.. It's been a day of lot's of visitors !!
 
The fender pan is just about done, just a little tidying around the new mounting hole thingy to do.
 

 
 
The hood has had an extra repair patch where I found a few more rust holes..
 

 
 
I was going to patch up 3 rust holes on the top of the hood, but I was able to get away with filling the holes with weld,,  Kinda blend in don't they
 

 
 
A bit closer with the flash turned off you can see they still need a little grinding down.
 

 
 
Despite the (what felt like) constant stream of people in and out the shack today I did manage to make a start on the seat pan repairs..
 
A cardboard template..
 

 
 
And some galvanized steel to make the repairs from... A bit thank you to Pete for grabbing this and other bit's of steel before they went into a skip 
 

 
 
The first attempt didn't go to well and the angles were way off!!
 

 
 
Like any good engineer I blamed the cardboard template, and made another template from masking tape
 

 
 
This time the repair patch fit's a lot better, it just needs a little trim and shaping to get it spot on..
 

this is my drymac duster by plant protection ltd, yalding, kent.  arrived today from falkirk

Here it is ploughing rotovating  raking in grass seedI hope you like my hydraulics are working well
:hyper:

here's the rest of the pics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Koen

The old woman is a bit of a horder of old dust collectors .
don't know how old this is or if someone made it but its a hand tool and a sprayer and I wanted to be the first to post

Must be loosing my touch, took me just over an hour this morning to get her running, had a drive round the garden and tried out all the gears and cutter deck.
I was a bit disappointed to find only one headlight works , or was the ole girl winking at me