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I have some pictures of this machine which I will upload tonight

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Hello Pete, What a super truck to carry vintage horticultural tractors on. Commer PB pick ups are rare now and I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw one in the flesh. Most PB pick ups had fixed pressed steel half sides which held water quite well until the truck floor rotted away. Your dropsider is the builders body specifically designed for manual loading and unloading with a shovel and today is a rare bird indeed. I used to drive a steel sided PB pickup in the 70’s which had a fixed cab height steel canopy over the front half of the load body. I believe it previously had a Harvey Frost type recovery crane mounted over the rear axle.
Am I correct in thinking the Perkins diesel fitted in these is the 4108? as per Mk1 diesel Transit.
Enjoy it–Steve

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Ivan, You will have to sign up quite a few agency drivers to bring all these Jalos around the ring at Holbeach–Steve

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Good news Alan. I’m very pleased to learn of your result.
Keep on Cultivating--Steve.

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Looks great Ivan. See you on Monday–Steve

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The point for the Greyhound plough, which yours appears to be looking at the photo, is identical to that of the Ferguson plough, (not MF). You may be able to obtain one from Westlake Plough Spares at Peterborough or Old Twenty Parts, Derbys..

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Listen Members, Chair is at it again posting all these pictures of the Three Wise Men is just a ruse to deflect attention away from his real activities.
I’ve only just recovered from Sunday when he had me and Old Hercules pulling the old cart around the posh area of Redditch where he promised rich pickings. Riding on the cart alongside me shouting something like “Annie Ole Eyerron” people came out of their houses in droves throwing old clothes onto the cart.
See Chair clap in glee!
I had to tie him onto the seat in the end to stop him falling off in his excitement…..talk about frightening the horses!
Back at Ravenhall we entered by the back entrance whereupon he eagerly searched through all the clothing putting aside anything that may fit himself or his family….I saw those items and believe me, I feel sorry for the good Lady Chair if she has to wear those.
Anyway I left for home with firm instructions from Chair to patch any worn items and dye them green, embroider on the club logo and then add them to the club shop stock.
Again the entrepreneurial tendencies of our Chair could be bringing the Club into disrepute.
What do you think of his new slogan for the shop “VHGMC Club Shop–never knowingly oversold“?

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Sorry Steve but I cannot help with a date on this other than the majority of British Companies producing push hoes did so in the post war years when following the end of the war a lot of factories had little work and were very inventive in terms of simple fabrication.
The American Planet Jnr is the big exception dating back to the late 1800’s although it is unlikely any appeared in the UK until the early 1920’s

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These photos make it look like the Robbin’ One has some brothers

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You’re right Chair, it’s all there!
The club shop on the website, its what everyone’s been asking for so lets see those enquiries rolling in. All that green clothing, we could parade our machines round the ring like the horticultural versions of Robin Hood and Maid Marion.

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Your engine should slightly over-rev when ticking over with revs lifting slightly as the governor moves. When engaging drive turn throttle inwards, anticlockwise, to its stop which should produce a slow tickover, reducing revs and ensuring the centrifugal clutch disengages and the transmission cross shaft stops rotating. Drive will then engage freely. Good quality effective clutch springs are essential for this to happen correctly.
Good luck with her.

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Hello Steve,
It is possible your push hoe was manufactured by Burlinghams of Evesham, Worcestershire.
I have seen these occasionally over the years on ebay usually as hoes but sometimes in cultivator format with a Burlingham plate attached. This is not a foregone conclusion that they were the manufacturer as they were also dealers/agents for a wide range of equipment. They produced alternative implements for the garden tractors they sold and we have three different cultivators they fabricated to fit the Trusty pedestrian tractor.
Regards–Steve

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This must be seventh heaven for Charlie.
“Moore Landrover Charlie?”

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Hello Geoff,
Here to try and assist are some pictures of our bow for the Aero Fiddle Drill.
Handle is very similar to that of a good quality file handle and is 7″ long.
The bobbin at the extant end is c2″ long.
The bow itself is dowel c30″ long x 3/8″ diameter.
The cord is basically a square cut boot lace.

Now, with regard to fiddles, we are all aware of your expertise in this line what with the Ravenhall Nice Ice Cream scam in the summer and the Redditch Norton Engine Rebuilds in the winter and your Porkless Pork Pies at shows you only need to “flip” a second home a few times, present an invoice for cleaning out the moat, building a duck house and you could stand for parliament.
However we see though your admitting to being a fiddler as the VHGMC elections are coming up but never fear, you’re not going that easily, Fiddler for Chair, Vote Geoff in.
Possibly I could be your campaign manager!

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Thanks for the responses all.
I don’t think it is designed as a potato fork as the tines are too close together and soil would not readily fall between them.
The flat tops to the “O” rings definately lend themselves to have a foot pressed upon them. They are also suitable for prying or levering.
The tines are very close together as those of an eel gleave but without barbs on the end the elvas could wiggle off and escape.
In our view the fork is definitely manufactured for a specific purpose.
Any more ideas??

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