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ye thats me at dorset unfortunately name spelt wrong its brassil happy new year to all

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THANKS FOR THE REPLIES CHAPS.MAYBE A TENNER WAS NOT SUCH A BARGAIN BUT IT WAS GOING TO THE SCAPYARD IF I HADNT BOUGHT IT SO PERHAPS SOME GOOD WILL COME OF IT ??I AM OFF TO THE ALLOTMENT NOW TO TRY THE 350 PLOUGH ON AN UNUSED PLOT AND SEE WHAT SORT OF A MESS I CAN MAKE. I HAVE A FEW BRICKS I CAN TIE ON TO BALLAST IT !! I MIGHT PUT A PIC OR TWO ON IF ITS NOT SUCH A COCKUP .JOHN

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JUST BOUGHT A BARFORD ATOM 15 OFF THAT AUCTION SITE THAT NOBODY SEEMS TO MENTION BY NAME !!. I THOUGHT IT WAS A BARGAIN AT 10 QUID AND WAS TOYING WITH PUTTING THE WHEEL WEIGHTS OFF IT ONTO THE HOWARD ?? THE ATOM IS VERY ROUGH. BEEN SLEEPING OUTSIDE FOR MANY YEARS WITH THE LOOK OF IT.ENGINE TURNS OVER EXHAUST VALVE STUCK OPEN SO NO COMPRESSION. TYRE SIZE IS 4.00 X 12 IF ANY ONE HAS ANY ?BELT IDLER PULLEY ARM BUSH SEEMS TO BE AWAY BUT THE GEAR BOX AND DRIVE HUBS STILL WORK OK. I WAS LOOKING AT PHOTO GALLERY BUT COULDNT SEE ONE WITH THE AMAL CARB OR THE STARTER PULLEY ON THE DRIVE END. IS IT ORIGINAL ?WHAT ENGINE IS IT ANY ANSWERS ?

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I have for sale a single cylinder Diesel engine that will fit a Ransomes, it’s a Lombardini bit unfortunately is hand crank not electric start.
You can come and have a look and see if this is something you are interested in.

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That,s the one, There is some good information from leaflets etc, Just wondered why it,s not part of this club to reach a wider audience. Happy new Year to All. Plonker

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Excellent day and the SIMAR ran perfectly, 4 hours ploughing completed. Here’s a view of the event, great turnout, classic and vintage tractors and a decent number of horticultural machines.

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My neighbour has done the same thing, he has an MG5 to which he has fitted a chinese single cylinder electric start diesel engine, he uses the machine for raking horse paddocks and general trailer work.He also pulls a big Cambridge roller behind it.

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More information being gleaned for the Clifford, with the machine came a Ridger, which you can see has been modified to fit some other machine, also a Pump and a PTO, I can not see how either of these attachments would fit, the PTO does have the Clifford “Driving dog”, but it is too short to fit with the main driving shaft, the pump, has no projecting driving shaft at all, The pump is certainly Clifford as you can spot one in the literature on leaflets etc. any ideas? ALSO, very interesting, there is a CLifford Forum on Facebook, anyone know why?

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Hi all, I have just picked one up almost the same, can any one please tell me where i would find any numbers or plates on it, ive looked in most places but found nothing has yet, thanks in advance

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Might be me. That was wrong . I might have got lost .

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I’m ready for tomorrow! Anyone else going?

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THANKS FOR THE REPLY. I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HAD USED ONE AND IF SO WAS IT EFFECTIVE . ALSO WHAT ACTUALLY DO THE WEIGHTS WEIGH AS I DO NOT WANT TO PAY UPWARDS OF £50 FOR TWO WHEEL WEIGHTS IF I CAN JUST ADD THE WEIGHT ELSEWHERE . I MADE A FRONT WEIGHT BRACKET BUT DONT REALLY KNOW HOW MUCH TO PUT ON IT . I CAN ADD WEIGHTS TO REAR ABOVE THE PLOUGH TO BALANCE IT AND EXPERIMENT A BIT THAT WAY.HAVING NEVER DONE ANY PLOUGHING BEFORE AND ONLY SEEN IT DONE ON YOUTUBE I WAS WORRIED THAT SUCH A SMALL MACHINE MAY NOT BE UP TO IT AS SOME OF THOSE ON YOUTUBE AREAMAZING .

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Speaking as a new member it worked very well for me and my paperwork came very quickly too. Thanks for that. The website is very good, full of useful information just a bit of a shame that it is not used more considering the number of members but forums are not everyones cup of tea so top marks all round.

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Hi Andy
The one i had previously had a coil ignition but this one has battery and the ht lead goes
into and behind the flywheel so it must be a very early one.I will try and get a photo of it to upload sometime tomorrow
thanks Stuart

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for successful ploughing with Howard 350 you need front counter weight and carrier frame also the wheel weights

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