Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club | gillettadam | Activity https://vhgmc.co.uk/members/gillettadam/activity/ Activity feed for gillettadam. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:57:58 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 083df055e48ab6ab6a096138fba45022 gillettadam started the topic Steel Shaft Fork, Spade and Shovel in the forum General talk and discussion https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/steel-shaft-fork-spade-and-shovel/ Wed, 04 May 2022 13:54:46 +0100 Good Afternoon All.

I have been looking for a heavy duty steel shaft digging fork, shovel and spade as I’m fed up with snapping wooden handled ones! I had a brief look at the Bulldog forks in Wickes and was shocked by how cheap they were and then again (less so after seeing the price) at how poorly made they looked. I’ve used older Bulldog tools…[Read more]

]]> da842eaaf50009ea3390f385163ebff0 gillettadam started the topic Wolseley Clearway Common parts. in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/wolseley-clearway-common-parts/ Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:54:33 +0100 Good Morning all.

I’ve been restoring a Wolseley Clearway lately. It was in a fairly sorry state so it’s been a fairly extensive job. Obviously as Wolseley don’t exist anymore (at least not in a horticultural sense) Parts are hard to come by.

However most the parts are available if you know where to look. Most the engine parts are available…[Read more]

]]> 79d3438c281fc31d7d6495cc6ce6ef3c gillettadam started the topic Merry Tiller Attachments in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-attachments/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:50:44 +0000 Hi all, a bit of a long one but it may be of interest to some of you!

I’ve been slowly amassing various Merry Tillers and implements over the past year. I’m trying with the help of various brochures to get an example of every machine and every implement. I have about 1/3 of the machines covered but at the moment I’m more interested in the…[Read more]

]]> 0b76ee09e2bc6e5e00ca7c03e19919f2 gillettadam replied to the topic Merry Tiller Potatoes in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-potatoes/#post-35123 Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:43:07 +0100 Thankyou all for your replies. I’ll have to have a play with various spacings and methods next year. Seems fairly unanimous to use an inner set of tines of one variety or another which will give a good reduction in width. I do have a set of crop guard tines, both disk and inward turned rotors so might give those a go too to see how I get on.

]]> 6594432530ae106357ade2c6a782dd85 gillettadam started the topic Merry Tiller Potatoes in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-potatoes/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:46:16 +0100 Hi all. At the start of this year I planted my Potatoes at 26 inches between the rows. Bulking them up worked well with my merry tiller and potato ridger, but only when the plants were just above the surface. We’ve had a fair bit of rain lately and it’s begun to level off my ridges so I thought I’d run the machine through again just to bulk the…[Read more]

]]> 9fbe766b35286dd07ecead497af40707 gillettadam replied to the topic merry tiller info in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-info/#post-34615 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 11:51:35 +0100 For a 1978 Titan GT with believed original engine the numbers are as follows model 170402 type 1666 – 01 then code is 77092010. Hope this helps if you need to get spares in future

Adam

]]> a2e406580816bcb47e7ce51081c0e39e gillettadam started the topic Merry Tiller Briggs Magnetron Clone Coil in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-briggs-magnetron-clone-coil/ Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:00:03 +0100 Good Evening all. Relatively new here, so firstly hello! Secondly sorry for the long post!

I have a small Merry Tiller collection and am in the process of going through a lot of it as I’ve suddenly got a lot of time on my hands with the current world situation… I’ve got 1 5hp Titan GT, 1 7hp Titan GT, 2 Project Titan GTs (currently not…[Read more]

]]> eec26b17bd9a5a02a41fb2c72a955685 gillettadam replied to the topic merry tiller info in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-info/#post-33409 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:30:49 +0000 Wristpin, I think that I have attached the brochure that tallies with moggyjim’s machine. I believe that moggyjims machine pre dates the style shown in your brochure. The style in the brochure you showed was being produced from 1983 with some slight differences, so I imagine your brochure must be late 80s or early 80’s? Your suggestion regarding…[Read more]

]]> eec26b17bd9a5a02a41fb2c72a955685 gillettadam replied to the topic merry tiller info in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-info/#post-33409 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:30:49 +0000 Wristpin, I think that I have attached the brochure that tallies with moggyjim’s machine. I believe that moggyjims machine pre dates the style shown in your brochure. The style in the brochure you showed was being produced from 1983 with some slight differences, so I imagine your brochure must be late 80s or early 80’s? Your suggestion regarding…[Read more]

]]> 2e65a251f0ab7270ada69a3bc0e07bbd gillettadam replied to the topic merry tiller info in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-info/#post-33396 Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:20:34 +0000 I believe, although not an expert that the 7hp briggs is relatively rare in the UK, so you may struggle to find a 7hp cowl and recoil. I am also pretty sure though that the 8hp and maybe even the 9hp has the same size cowl and recoil and that the 8 is much more common in the UK. You might want to wait for someone more knowledgeable than I to…[Read more]

]]> cfb02e8cb3929bc8434621ee8a02eb5a gillettadam replied to the topic merry tiller info in the forum Pedestrian operated machines https://vhgmc.co.uk/forums/topic/merry-tiller-info/#post-33394 Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:46:13 +0000 Ah, a good buy, I was tempted by this myself on ebay. It is a 7hp engine on these later style titan gts. First port of call for me would be to take the belt off then take the spark plug out and turn the flywheel by hand (throttle in the run position) and check for a spark. If you have a spark I’d also put a torch in the fuel tank and see what…[Read more]

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