Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

Howdy all, when will it be put up onto the website, always takes a while to get to me in the post, postage service isnt what it used to be in australia..

Thanks

hi all,

my copy of the cultivator hasn’t arrived yet, guess the aussie postal service is gettting lasier, guess it should arrive sometime in the next week

when will it be up on the site for download?

Thanks,
Dan

trying the pics again

could be an issue with a poor seal on your carby meaning its suckin air where carby fits on rather then the fuel from the bowl? although even with that easy start usually will let it fire

Hi all,

Bit of an update for yas,
Well we won the auction on ebay and now own a BMB Hoe mate, gave the fella a call and asked if he has the bonnet, guards and cowl for the engine, long story short he has no idea and when we go to collect we have to take extra money just in case we like something else the fella has, he has allot of small engines…[Read more]

Thanks Stuart,

Yes when it comes to the time to do something with it i will certainly jump on here to get what i need to fabricate those parts.

we have the same problem, we have just over 70 hoes now and when ya want the one in the back of the shed its a bit of a nuisance. And a couple of barrel mowers have just turned up, and then theres…[Read more]

yes that would probably be the best option i have quite a number of spare villiers engine cowls.
i would however require a good set of photos of an original cowl to work towards..

further to the engine cowl i also require photos with measurements or even a pattern of the pannel work and front cowl photos in an effort to replicate it as the…[Read more]

i should have thought of that i guess, well it would seem that the machine im looking at is also missing the engine cowl worst luck, and im also guessing that finding one might be a touch on the difficult side especially over here in AUS.

aluminium and not just mild steel, thats a little different in itself.

thanks for you help,
Dan

Thanks for the help both, you were certainly right when you said it was a BMB, it however has no bonnet nor the alloy front cowl… how hard are these to find/fabricate?

another question i have to ask is what is their tyre size, they are pneumatic ones…

also did the little spryt engine ever have a cowl? could one of you provide me with a…[Read more]

Im aware they were originally designed by a smart farmer over here i found the history on them a few months ago when i was trying to find somewhere to get them. So is ebay the only place i’m likely to find them?, the are around 25 bucks AU, and i believe i’m going to need quite a few. I was hoping to be able to find a store that might stock them,…[Read more]

what is the best place/ cheapest to get the electronic ignition modules, the only place ive seen them is ebay and not overly cheap, what type of store would sell them, btw im Australia.

Thanks,
Dan

@charlie i was gunna ask for such closer to the date so that any such material is up to date if it alters at any point. and i was also goin to enquire about a design of a banner that we could have made for the rallys we attend.

Theres a big rally commin up locally, Hamilton 50 k’s from home and where i work just won the right to host the 2017 NHMA national rally, apparently the biggest rally in the southern hemisphere, so will have to get both trailers loaded up for that one… I’ve already started working on getting more of my machines up to scratch ready ..

@will-haggle

No couldn’t get any more on as me older brother had the other big trailer, but i think we had a fair sized load on as it was anyway.

I’ll send through the photos now if they will send.

Thanks,
Dan

Reg was still around just prior to christmas, age 90, he was still able to drive his truck out of the shed for me and dad to load up the Kelpie, Hauler and Junior we purchased from him, he has cancer and believes he has only about 2 years left, he is working on selling all of his gear. yes i seen the photos of the rust piles he built that machine…[Read more]

Mornin all,

@Charlie, Yes a number of those that hung around for a long chat were collectors, including Paul Westlake who collects only Howard machines and has that nice Howard 2000 Pictured, there were a couple of other minor collectors that talked to us at some point during the weekend.

@Stuart, Yep a very small portion of our collection…[Read more]