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Tools for the job!
Bendy thing with expanding jaws bought years ago and invaluable.
Ring spanner modified with a bit of card and an elastic band. Holds nut in place and stops it dropping through. Could do the same with an open ended spanner.

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I also tried searching for Onan parts and all roads seem to lead to Cummins as Angus has stated, it will be interesting hear how you get on talking to them about parts for your engine. Their parts and service operation used to be very good, but my experience with them was for truck size or larger engines.
Ray.

My experience of dealing with them was about four years ago with parts for a twin cylinder in a Wheelhorse. Straight forward transaction other than a wait for one bit that had to come from the US.

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Onan engine parts are distributed by Cummins in the UK – not cheap!

Cummins UK, 40-44 Rutherford Drive, Park Farm Industrial Estate,
Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 6AN, UK.
Email:cduksales@Cummins.com

Tel: +44 (0)1933 334200 Fax: +44 (0)1933 334198

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Great series even if now repeats of repeats! Nice little bit on Ransomes.

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Guess that you have already been to the Ingersoll Case Facebook page, but if not it’s worth a kook

Or the Wikipedia page which gives some history of the relationship between Ingersoll and Case.

That deck hitching system is very similar to the one used on the Cub Cadets of the 70s and 80s

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interesting gizmo Geoff.lots of development I am sure. don’t want to pull it to bits,but with the addition of a quick mountable ring for each wheel with say 3 inch spikes protruding it would not get wheel spin on tyres going up hill in moist or high volumes of cut brash areas. very nice all the same.

…….and pick up litter at the same time! However with that crab-steer function it can easily work its way across the bank rather than the more spectacular straight up and down.

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When the Maidstone by-pass(now part of the M20) first opened they had a dragline excavator with the bucket replaced by what looked like a fairly standard Hayter Orchard Mower. They would sling it up the embankment and let it back down under gravity. Don’t think that it was a great success!

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Like this?

great improvement on a Flymo on the end of a rope!

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Not to be left out!

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Looks like they have gone. Fairly typical of a lot of horticultural enterprises on the outskirts of London that in the post WW2 years got engulfed in urban sprawl and then built over.

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Parkinson’s second rule.
All available clutter will fill all available space !

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Just exchanged emails with a friend who used to work for Westwood and he confirms that the only chipper of that era was side mounted. A square section spigot bolted to the chassis and a mating one on the chipper which he says was a copy of an Alko one.
Those D1200s were prone to catching fire as a result of engine vibration damaging the fuel line and wiring loom. The engine is mounted on “rubber cotton reels” similar to exhaust mounts and these soften and allow excessive engine movement particularly as it hits the final compression when switched off. So may be as well to check the mounts and also ensure that you have some slack in the loom and fuel feed.
He says that a rear mounted chipper was not introduced until after the merger with Countax and was not available for the D1200.

On the subject of image size, correspondence on this forum would suggest that Shrinkpix is the way to go. No argument with that but if you are running Windows XP or 7 the reduction facility is there with a couple of clicks of the mouse – that’s all I use!

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From memory there were two types, one fitted on the side of the tractor and drove off the deck, but never saw one in the metal and have no idea how. The second and later type fitted to the rear and used the same mounting bar as the Powered Grass Collector and was driven by the PTO pulley under the seat.
Post a couple of images, rear of tractor and the shredder and it may help.

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Post the Mag model number and I may be able to help with a manual.

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