Free allen scythe in essex.

[Rupe]

I do remember it well!! It didn't do me any harm and got me out of my cage for a few hours!

[agg221]

Well, after a month or so puzzling out why the thing wouldn't start, I finally got round to diagnosing it on Saturday, driven by the failure of the ride-on and the rapidly increasing height of the grass.

 

A few bits of sorting later and this was the result:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSgp_dg77Y]YouTube - ‪Allen Scythe‬‏[/ame]

 

On Sunday I cut about a third of an acre, and it's now stopped smoking having burnt off all the old oil. Running on Aspen, and it's really clean but I now have new aches it muscles I had forgotten I had. Time to go and cut another bit tonight. Thanks again Geoff, my character is developing rapidly!

 

Alec

[Rupe]

Awsome. I wasn't expecting it to be in such good condition! The one we had was rusty and knackered and that was in the 70's!

[Andy Collins]

Nice one, gassing the greenflies before you cut!! Always wanted one of those, but thankfully picked up a Honda engined (non smokey) BCS

[spudulike]

Last time I saw smoke like that - Luke had brought round a MS660 that had a tank of petrol, oil and Diesel in it - now being used in my lawnmower!

 

Nice job - love the wobbly bit on the front - just needs a bit of porting now!

[agg221]

It's stopped smoking now - the original mix for these was 16:1 with SAE30, and there was a fair bit of residue in the exhaust. A couple of litres of Aspen and it's now running pretty clean.

 

It's 147cc, so pretty brutal. I have a spare engine for it, so could try porting that, but to be honest I struggle to control it already! I've had it out this evening, buried under 7ft thistles, nettles etc, and it's only been thwarted by a 2in branch it found in the undergrowth. I on the other hand am knackered!

 

Alec

[geoff]

Brill Alec,glad to see you got it going,I knew there was life in there somewhere,long may she mow the musky meadows!

[geoff]

Last time I saw smoke like that - Luke had brought round a MS660 that had a tank of petrol, oil and Diesel in it - now being used in my lawnmower!

 

Nice job - love the wobbly bit on the front - just needs a bit of porting now!

 

Hands off Spud...its hard enough to cope with as it is....