MrSpeedy
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Oct 30, 2015 13:06:54 GMT
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Thanks everyone.
I do feel rather 'pimp' riding around on it. lol
Could do with a bigger lawn though. I might take it on the playing fields at the weekend to give it a proper test!
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
www.vintagediesels.co.uk
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So, Considering that it's now officially November, today was rather pleasant wasn't it?! Took a couple of piccies for posterity And then we went to one of the village greens for a proper run out, I did get some odd looks driving up the street to get there! lol
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Last Edit: Nov 1, 2015 20:00:40 GMT by MrSpeedy
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Ooooh curse word, this literally made me laugh my asscheeks off Quite a fancy mower you've got there, question though: did you actually sharpen the blades on it?
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Love the video, good work, how was the cut? Better than the council mowers?
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
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Where I live, it's an unadopted road. Private ground, so we don't even need to tax our cars if we don't leave the estate.
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MrSpeedy
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Nov 12, 2015 16:17:47 GMT
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So, things have gone quiet on the greensman front, due to it being a bit wintery, and my attention has turned to the rest of the garden. Well, one particular corner of the garden. For the last few years, I've been trying to grow some vegetables and salad with varying success/failure, partly because homegrown always tastes better, and partly as a kind of education/fun project to teach my kids a little about where and how food comes from. (They're also FULLY aware of where their delicious bacon and steaks come from!) Now, I'm 'blessed' with a ruined back (repeatedly ruptured disc) so the ground never gets properly prepared and as such the crop yield is getting progressively worse. As a kid I was always responsible for the ground work in my Mum and Dads' garden. The majority of this was the 3000 sqft vegetable plot. This mostly entailed driving the Howard 'Gem' at weekends. Hard work, but fun. A real beast of a machine with a big 500cc single cylinder Kohler engine. We also had a little Howard 'Bulldog' for the little bits around the edges and the gooseberry/raspberry canes. I decided I needed one of these. So here it is. Fitted with a little J.A.P. engine and dating from 1954. Now this definitely is NOT going to get the sort of rebuild the Atco got, but it will get a look over to check everything is as it should be. There's a couple of jobs need doing, like fitting a fuel tap, a new silencer, a few loose/missing bolts etc, and it will also get a coat of paint. But other than that, it will go to work as is
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turbom
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Just found your thread. My grandad had a howard gem with a villers engine and a trusty tractor. As well as a merry tiller and my mum and dad have a farmers boy. I just have a flymo rotarvator. will be keeping an eye on this...
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Excellent.
I bought an atco mower yesterday for £16. No idea how to get it to start. Need to do a couple of bits first too it too.
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Last Edit: Nov 15, 2015 9:51:48 GMT by pauly22
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MrSpeedy
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Nov 20, 2015 13:26:06 GMT
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So, not much doing on the little Bulldog, but it has had a clean up; Resplendent in it's new coat of Howard orange. I threw 3 coats at it, and it's still not covered properly, but it's all it's getting. And when I say "threw" that's virtually what I did. Seriously, it is a shocking paint job, but I really wasn't bothered! Anyways, it's also been treated to an oil change and the two gearboxes filled with GL4 80/90 hypoid gear oil. These things have phosphor bronze parts in them, and modern GL5 gear oil attacks them! I've also produced a new silencer for it as the original was MIA having rotted away. So, a piece of perf, and an offcut of 3" exhaust pipe, along with a couple of discs of 16swg steel; Cap the end of the perf tube, and attach to one disc Then weld the tube section over that and cap the open end with the remaining disc. Finally adding a piece of 3/8"bsp tube to screw into the head. Dress the welds, and we have a silencer The only other jobs now are to make a new throttle cable and fit some new handlebar grips. Then it'll get a work out on the garden!
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
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Excellent. I bought an atco mower yesterday for £16. No idea how to get it to start. Need to do a couple of bits first too it too. Which one have you got? They're pretty basic machines, so there's not much to go wrong really. they either work or they don't! lol
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good work!!! love the video hahahah
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whip it, into shape ........ go forward
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nice. i used to collect mowers when i was a kid , the earliest one was a 1928 Atco 2 stroke, it was cast iron (no sheet metal!) and had a big fan on the side with no guard, absolutely lethal thing. Only one old mower around here these days a Ransomes Mastiff which I think dates back to the 1950s.
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