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Here’s a few which might help

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Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Ploughing gets a bit addictive! Let me know if you need more detailed photos of mine to help installation and I’ll gladly take some. Peter

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Many thanks to Charlie and Rotavator, for that, Yes my plough is the same as the one shown( Except mine seems a lot rougher!) have not picked it up yet but it seems all complete, Managed to find a couple of rims for the pneumatics on that well known site a couple of months ago, so looking forward to getting it all together this summer. Regards Plonker

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Hi Plonker
Not sure if this is any help but I did this walk round of mine for someone else. Not actually sure if my plough is a standard one or like yours.

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Done!

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Thank you soooo much for that image. We have a print shop in Settle that will be able I am sure to take that image and produce sticker-on vinyls or transfers. If so they can be available for other badge-less Geest trucks.

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Thats great Alan, top marks I’d say. That makes sense now as it is too small to be a four wheeled dumper so its history is a drawbar being welded on after the engine died and other brackets gas axed off too.
So the plan now is to marry it to an auto gardener that is beyond repair to original and conjour up a 4wd Doe style twin engined oddity,👍😀.
I will keep you posted once every other project gets done, oh and paying jobs, 🙄. Thanks loads for your time, Andy King near Kinross.

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It seems PR motors made a gearbox for dumpers in 1955 known as the cm, constant mesh. I will have a look inside this one as the older crash boxes are described as fabricated and cast steel. My one is a cast alloy, model not on the plate! It still seems to engage and drive with the diff working fine, a test would be under load. Next to find how it originally looked, the late 90 yr old owner who gave me it cannot remember, he towed it around behind a grey fergie! Cheers the noo.

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Ah ha, well thanking you kindly, my first lead,👍😄.

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Hello. The colour seems to be a green over red lead maybe, the old orange stuff. Hope this helps with the pics. Wondering if it was mass produced then what kind of engine and rear steering it may have had?

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Hello Alan. I will have a scrape tomo and get a pic of the gearbox. Thanks.

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Thank you very much Geoff and Charlie
Regards
Lee

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Info that is in the public arena is that when Ariens closed their UK operation the distribution was taken over by FGM Claymore, the UK arm of Irish Farm And Garden Machinery. More to follow, as and when……

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I can perhaps fill in a gap or two in the @Alan potted history but not in a public forum . If and when private messaging is restored ……..!

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Only ever worked on one. It had an Aspera engine running on a 25:1 mix.

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