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[doobin]

Usually shenanigans here- all back gardens are massive in Sussex! 🤣

[doobin]

Sorry thought this was the todays job thread!

 

Quick- a recent tractor thing! Picked this up cheap the other day. 

[difflock]

2 hours ago, doobin said:

Usually shenanigans here- all back gardens are massive in Sussex! 🤣

I knew a lovely bloke in the OTC, back in the early/mid 1980's, he lived out along the lough shore heading towards Bangor. A big detached house, sweeping down to the shore, with massive Beech trees in the garden. One of these trees blew down in probably the 1987 storm.

No particular inconvenience, they just drove round it, while nibbling away at it for firewood. Us other impoverished students were agog that one could own a garden so large that one could simply ignore a massive fallen tree.

Edited May 11 by difflock

[sandspider]

9 hours ago, doobin said:

Sorry thought this was the todays job thread!

 

Quick- a recent tractor thing! Picked this up cheap the other day. 

What is it? I want one!

[Peasgood]

My tractor, brothers wagon. Both been in the family for a long time, tractor since new. Wagon went elsewhere for a while but is back again.

My field too, Granpa first bought it about 1968 and these pair will have been in this foeld together a fair few times in the past but this will be the first in this century and quite possibly the first time in 50 years.

[difflock]

Another drip cured, astounding that a lift pump with so many internal fiddly bits, can be so cheap. And work.

P.S.

How the old one was working at all, and it was , faultlessly, though leaking badly.

both non return valves were broken, or could not have been working, with broken springs and misplaced seals.

The fuel must have been feeding near enough by gravity, and guessing some slight suction from the IP?

Edited May 23 by difflock

[swinny]

Yup lift pumps are for buttons.... I replaced one on my teleporter not long ago just incase it was leaking into the sump as level had been rising... even cheaper than yours I think

[doobin]

On 11/05/2025 at 19:55, sandspider said:

What is it? I want one!

It's a little flail arm hedge cutter. Needs some new control cables which I have and will fit one day, plus a bracket making for the tractor to hold the valve block and levers.