the showman

Touch my Wheelhorse........i'll kick your butt.

The next day i spent a while working out how i could operate the gearstick from the front. looking at the gearbox / front axle i noticed that it was held on with u bolts, simple all i had to do was turn the engine and transmission around the other way, so the next 4 photos so the progress

its not hair neil, its one of nigel's wigs

had a couple of hours this morning so started to unload the van and sort out the parts. nice surprize to find it had new stainless track-rods and rose joints.

let me know what parts you want neil

once the skip was of i just had to have another drive round before i backed it up the drive, the first photo shows where i think the seat will fit, the next shows my daughter trying out leg room, next engine cover off and the last shows the gearstick sticking out the front. all this was done on the same day august 8th 2009

forgot this one of the controls

Well done c101. After spending hours on flebay and lots of research i found this down in kent. called the seller up and went for a look. Its a Kubota tracked dumper, petrol pull-start engine with 3 forward gears and 2 reverse , had a drive round his yard and had a deal.

Ha,ha found the photos, will load them up saturday evening

you've got to be up early to grab a pretty one

i'll have a look tomorrow for the memory card there on. keep guessing !

what colour is the wig nigel. ?

iam just going to bolt it together for now, I don't want to get into restoring it.

Had a phone call from a local guy with a Wheelhorse all in bits. he said that he had stripped it to restore, but hasn't had time. you know what its like when you go to look!!!. should have gone in the car. it looks like a mid 70s raider 10. all I gotta do is get it in the shed without Pam seeing it.

This project was something I had in my head for a while. Being a lover of Wheelhorse's and tracked vehicles having driven diggers and alike for years, I looked at a few MG's but didn't like the metal tracks One day a friend gave me a Wheelhorse A 90, it came from a school and had a seized engine and had been partly dismantled to stop the children playing with it, this started me thinking, all I had to do was find something on rubber tracks, narrow enough to go through a garden gate and have forward and reverse gears rather than hydromatic.

I will do a detailed build and photos when I get to find the photos, thanks for your interest

just forgot to say thanks to my son Steve for the paintwork and to Machinery decals for the decals

here's the last of the photos

here's some red bits

sorry paul but iam unable to come as iam going to a bring and buy sale, its a good chance to get rid of some stuff ive got hanging around

yes Neil, I had a long chat with him on the Saturday afternoon, (what a lovely man) then he signed the hood of my 400 before I shipped it back to England. i'am guessing that I have the only Wheelhorse in the UK with it.that photo was taken on the Friday,you should of seen the queue.

here's some primered parts and wheels

is the ladder so you can get on it with your little legs nigel

good result paul, well done

I'am liking that, not that I would sell it, I was lucky with the second book as I bought it at the show and got it signed by Michael and Mr Cecil Pond