arikispencer

Its great taking a lot of machines with me for the weekend to a rally, its amazing how many people I’ve met that were with the dealership that sold the machines and they can add a little more to a machines story that i hadn’t heard in the past and all sorts.

Howdy Joe,

From memory its a 49 model american B. Yes it possible you spotted the 36 model U Allis, In total we have around 30 Tractors, including 8 Ferguson, a Massey Harris, a couple of International,
a couple AW6 McCormicdeering, over 10 Allis Chalmers and some odds and ends.

Tractors is where we started, but you can really only get 1 tractor…[Read more]

Now we’ll skip close to a year down the track when i finally decided i could be bothered to pull the engine out from under my Allis Chalmers D270 tractor, yes I’ve started it to, nasty having so many projects on the go.

But anyway the main reason i hadn’t gotten around to the Engine earlier is i hadn’t had much to do with em, I’m only 22 even now…[Read more]

Coffee break, spent most of today over in the shed dismantling 2 of my Howard Bantams for resto. but time for a break and to add to this.

Well it was a while before i could do any more after priming all of those parts because i was waiting for those parts back from the sticker fella and i believe that in that time i picked up 3 landmasters and a…[Read more]

Howdy again,

I hit the Submit button then had a look through all my photos of this resto and realized that i didn’t have any pictures of the fuel tank or the back flap, this is because both pieces were 50ks away having the decals copied and stickers made for me. There was some writing on the back flap easily copied, on the end of the fuel tank…[Read more]

Howdy again all

It’s Christmas day and while i’m waiting for the roast chook and vegies to cook ill add some more to the thread.

Well i was impatient the weekend i got the Junior so the Sunday(day 2) seen some nice 2-pac undercoat/primer floating about to land on various pieces of the rotary hoe. But before i could crack open the can of paint i…[Read more]

Howdy both,

No problem I’m happy to share my stories, i could possible add some more, We bought a large portion of another members collection a while ago after he passed away. I’ve seen a few of his posts on here before i ever became a member.

I’m glad you both enjoyed my account of our recent trip to Queensland to pick the gear up.

@Charlie,…[Read more]

Still got nothing better to do so ill add some more.

So i bought the machine on a Friday night after work and as i was having trouble with the Allis Chalmers B model seen in background of some of the photos i started on the rotary hoe on the Saturday morning.

So in the short space of half of the Saturday i had the machine stripped back as far as…[Read more]

Howdy again all i thought there might be no time like the present top add some more to this, i dare say i wont get it all added today though but over the next couple of weeks i might get it finished.

So i guess like with all things undergoing a resto is to pull it down, find any bad parts and acquire replacement parts or repair the bad parts, i…[Read more]

Howdy,

My initial thoughts lead me to saying its a Foxie, it is most definitely not a terrier, i will attach a couple of photos of a couple of my Terriers, last count has more then 10.

The foxie either had a 6in or 9in cut. Im curious as to the serial number of that unit, there is very little different between it and what ive seen of foxies, all…[Read more]

Howdy

I like mystery machines, they tend to be a little bit more on the rare side, but having said that i also really like to know what i have.

I look forward to Hortimans input.

Thanks

Howdy again

i have considered that it may be a Howard Clifford, but they were English machines also and that sort of falls out of my specialty. However the way the handle is mounted is alot more like the 700 then that of the Clifford. Another difference is that this machine has a dog on one wheels on the machine and the only other Howard machines…[Read more]

Howdy

I know nearly all the Australian models, this one reeks of English. I’ve just checked and the villiers engine on it is English also. nothing remotely like this machine was built in Australia. Further to this none of the Aussie machines had such simply removed attachments where as this one is nearly identical to the yeoman but tipped on its…[Read more]

Howdy

its not a howard dragon, ive looked into that possibility as well and it is vastly different to any pictures of dragons i could find, the rims on mine are like the 400, the handle bars alot like the 700, the engine belonged to neither as far as i know being a mk 40 villiers engine

thanks for your input though
Dan.