Seasonal greetings to all.

Sprayerman

My first thought was that Shardy appeared as a typographical error, the book that has the reference was produced some time ago,1982 to be precise, and it occurred to me that the letter n when written at speed in notes, could perhaps be misinterpreted later as an r. Thought here was that perhaps any initial notes…[Read more]

I have a question for you and would appreciate some help on the below.

Last year an organisation of which I am a member acquired an item that we understand is known as a Shandy Barrow, one of those seed spreaders with a timber framed chassis like a wheelbarrow and a seed distributing hopper mounted at right angles across the chassis…[Read more]

At risk of poking a sleeping lion with a short stick, (thinking of what happened to Albert Ramsbottom with Wallace at this point), does make one wonder about whether putting the The…[Read more]

Just downloaded the 4 volume set for off line reference, thanks for publishing it.

One of the websites you mention in the Why PDF format section that disappeared during the course of your research was mine (it focussed on those sprayers made in and around Birmingham) and although I had intended to put it back on again at some point, I now…[Read more]

The site is large and mainly flat, the weather was typical Britain, but hey we…[Read more]

Best wishes and Happy Christmas
Sprayerman(aka Adrian)

I remember the Constable Savage sketch, oddly think about that sketch quite often!!

In December 2018 my former employer made me redundant and so I set my own small business at the start of 2019 and as this was working…[Read more]

We are both good thanks and gardening is great, enough to keep the wolves where they belong, though Mother Nature is intervening rather more at present, but that’s just a seasonal occupational hazard!

As a consequence am doing a bit of occasional painting and re-decorating, no paper hanging though, which enables w…[Read more]

Spent a few minutes browsing after paying next years membership and followed this thread with interest.

Comparing Sheffield to Rome , it’s not that they are both built on seven hills is it?

Couldn’t see it mentioned before but apologies if missed it.

All the best

Sprayerman

Just renewed membership online and read note re spurious online expiry date, thanks for mentioning it, gremlins or boggarts at it again.. 🙂

Best wishes to all for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cheers,
Adrian

cheers

Adrian

The prices in the catalogue are in the pre-decimal currency, pre February 1971, when one English pound had 20 shillings and each shilling had 12 pence, whereas today we just have 100 pennies in one pound.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

I have found with Enots that they often produced sprayers utilising, and acknowledging of course, other peoples patents.

Just out of curiosity – what do you think was the purpose of the adjusting knob close to the nozzle as seen in image22.jpg?

Cheers

I’d like to say fate, but others may not agree. It’s often the way that we acquire things, we are not quite sure what or how they are connected with our specific interest, then something else comes along and it all falls into place. It’s part of the magic if you like and I for one quite enjoy it when it does happen.

Re the cleaning of the Galvanised Tanks and buckets of sprayers. In the past I have initially used an old hack saw blade with the end ground down and sharpened on a stone to make a scraper to remove the worst, especially creosote residue. Care is needed of course to not damage the galvanising. And oddly enough hot water, carbolic soap,…[Read more]

Then again they are all probably in their workshops fettling all the items they have acquired over the winter ready for the…[Read more]

Thought I share some pictures of the latest addition to the collection with you.

A Four Oaks “Battle” Pattern which spent most of its life hard at work in Lincolnshire, the wear on the stub axles is amazing, as borne out by the wear on the staves caused by the left hand wheel rubbing on them.

The pictures do not give a true indication…[Read more]

A Four Oaks Handy for £12 13s 0d in around 1939-ish being the estimated date for the catalogue the page comes from equates to nearly £700 today, £699.19 to be precise, – so £22 + buyers premium & VAT is b****y cheap.

If you want to see where I looked to work it out have a peek here :ht…[Read more]

And it helps when they come to pieces to aid cleaning.

Been away from the forum for a while.

No I don’t have any Cooper Pegler sprayers in the collection as to the best of my knowledge they were not Birmingham based so fell out of my ‘zone’ so to speak. That said I do recall seeing various examples around the shows when we used to go – that’s been a while too.

Having just said that,…[Read more]

I have not used Base Camp myself yet despite…[Read more]

No – I shall not go down that route –

That said it looks like you have it located in pretty much the correct place – there isn’t the room anywhere else in the chest for it to be located.

I guess the funnel got parted from my set some…[Read more]

A bit late joining the new forum, now winter is closing in I have a bit more time & a new PC helps, the old one suddenly developed a falling over problem ( not too much pop either!!)

What I have seen so far is looking good.

Just need to come up with a suitable Avatar, hmm …

Cheers

That’s another good looking item – looks like its had a bit of use too in its’ life.

Cheers

Finally managed to work out how to sign up to the new site.

Question re your Military FO Sprayer – on mine the plate gives a date of manufacture, from memory mine was made sometime in 1960 – just wondered when yours was made?

I also think I have got some photo’s of the inside of the crate somewhere ( just had a new PC and still…[Read more]