Thanks

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

visited the local scrappy last week and picked up the remains of a barrel mower, it apprears that it was originally motor driven but the motor has been removed, just wondering what i can find out about it and what motor it would have had.

photos included

Thanks Dan

I have just recently bought a BMB cult mate, it is however missing the tin work and front cowl, as well as the motors cooling cowl.
So what i would like to be able to get is a good pattern drawn including all measurements and alot of pictures so that i can accurately fabricate the missing parts, i realise that this is a big ask of anyone…[Read more]

Nasty thing ebay, well on it at the moment is a rotary hoe missing the motor and we have looked in our books and cant find anything like it, so wed like to find out what it is and anything about them, like what motor it would have had.

i will attach a couple of pics,

Thanks,
Dan

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]

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]

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]

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

thanks for you help,
Dan

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]

Currently on the Aussie ebay is a David bradley garden tractor with plough, finger mower and toolbar, it has a 2 stroke motor on it that says brockhouse and made in england, but according to the books we have David Bradley is an american mfg company, is there anything anyone can tell me about these or any photos anyone can post so i…[Read more]

Thanks,
Dan

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

@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]

Well Last weekend i attended a local rally at Portland Australia, the rally typically has a large number of tractors and fair few stationary engines and not much else but this year they sent me a letter asking for some rotary hoes, so rotary hoes they got.

In the Garden machinery side of things the rally sported:

Paul Westlakes…[Read more]

From memory its a 49 model american B. Yes it possible you spotted the 36 model U Allis, In total we have around 30 Tractors, including 8 Ferguson, a Massey Harris, a couple of International,
a couple AW6 McCormicdeering, over 10 Allis Chalmers and some odds and ends.

Tractors is where we started, but you can really only get 1 tractor…[Read more]

But anyway the main reason i hadn’t gotten around to the Engine earlier is i hadn’t had much to do with em, I’m only 22 even now…[Read more]

Well it was a while before i could do any more after priming all of those parts because i was waiting for those parts back from the sticker fella and i believe that in that time i picked up 3 landmasters and a…[Read more]

I hit the Submit button then had a look through all my photos of this resto and realized that i didn’t have any pictures of the fuel tank or the back flap, this is because both pieces were 50ks away having the decals copied and stickers made for me. There was some writing on the back flap easily copied, on the end of the fuel tank…[Read more]

It’s Christmas day and while i’m waiting for the roast chook and vegies to cook ill add some more to the thread.

Well i was impatient the weekend i got the Junior so the Sunday(day 2) seen some nice 2-pac undercoat/primer floating about to land on various pieces of the rotary hoe. But before i could crack open the can of paint i…[Read more]

No problem I’m happy to share my stories, i could possible add some more, We bought a large portion of another members collection a while ago after he passed away. I’ve seen a few of his posts on here before i ever became a member.

I’m glad you both enjoyed my account of our recent trip to Queensland to pick the gear up.

@Charlie,…[Read more]

So i bought the machine on a Friday night after work and as i was having trouble with the Allis Chalmers B model seen in background of some of the photos i started on the rotary hoe on the Saturday morning.

So in the short space of half of the Saturday i had the machine stripped back as far as…[Read more]

So i guess like with all things undergoing a resto is to pull it down, find any bad parts and acquire replacement parts or repair the bad parts, i…[Read more]

I like to take a lot of photos when I’m restoring something, but i have no way of displaying these for people to look at and i don’t know of anywhere else i could put it that it would be appreciated, so I’ve decided that as a new member i might just put my Howard juniors resto on here and if its well received and you’d all like me to i…[Read more]

I just thought a few of you might like to see some of the recent additions to our collection.
I’m over in Australia so i suppose some of what i get is going to be very different to some of the things you fellas over in England get.

I Put an add in Australia’s “The Old Machinery Magazine” advertising for wanting the Small Howard rotary…[Read more]

My initial thoughts lead me to saying its a Foxie, it is most definitely not a terrier, i will attach a couple of photos of a couple of my Terriers, last count has more then 10.

The foxie either had a 6in or 9in cut. Im curious as to the serial number of that unit, there is very little different between it and what ive seen of foxies, all…[Read more]

I like mystery machines, they tend to be a little bit more on the rare side, but having said that i also really like to know what i have.

I look forward to Hortimans input.

Thanks

i have considered that it may be a Howard Clifford, but they were English machines also and that sort of falls out of my specialty. However the way the handle is mounted is alot more like the 700 then that of the Clifford. Another difference is that this machine has a dog on one wheels on the machine and the only other Howard machines…[Read more]

I know nearly all the Australian models, this one reeks of English. I’ve just checked and the villiers engine on it is English also. nothing remotely like this machine was built in Australia. Further to this none of the Aussie machines had such simply removed attachments where as this one is nearly identical to the yeoman but tipped on its…[Read more]

its not a howard dragon, ive looked into that possibility as well and it is vastly different to any pictures of dragons i could find, the rims on mine are like the 400, the handle bars alot like the 700, the engine belonged to neither as far as i know being a mk 40 villiers engine

thanks for your input though
Dan.