slim_boy_fat
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I'd best not let the wife see Robotstar5's post, she has a hankering for one !
Go on, spoil her
Only, you know who'd be doing the refurb don't you. 
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Go on, spoil her
Only, you know who'd be doing the refurb don't you. 
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She also wants a Stolly, a Scammell Pioneer and a Sd.Kfz. 251Go on, spoil her
and guess who to pay for them !
slim_boy_fat
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I'd best not let the wife see Robotstar5's post, she has a hankering for one !
Lucky you, I'm categorically banned from buying for a crawler!
Dieselman 63
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I was talking to a guy about it and he’s offered me two Howard rotary hoes with JAP engines. Now to work out where to hide them…
Oh and the bearing prices came back. If anyone has an RL10 and an RL11 that don’t cost the earth I’d like to buy them please!
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Save the planet. It's the only one with rum!
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There cheapo non-SKEFCO bearings available. But I know that you wouldn't want to use them.
Dieselman 63
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You need another shed
There’s a patch of garden right in the corner where nobody would notice a tarped over ‘pile of logs’
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Hendersons have nos Hoffmann available, ex-vat come in at £36, much better
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Found this nice old advert for the tractor - the complete answer to miniature mechanization!
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Big difference in price between RL10 and RL11. The 10 is reasonable. Henderson's page gives the alternative nomenclature for them so it might be worth searching on all possibilities as some people may not list them by the RL number. For example, BearingBoys (https://www.bearingboys.co.uk/Imperial/NLJ138-Imperial-Self-Aligning-Ball-Bearing-131672-p) have an unknown brand listed as NLJ138.
Dieselman 63
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Yes, these older bearings are getting increasingly harder to find at a reasonable price. A lot of manufacturers simply don’t make them anymore.
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They do get made, when they have a larger enough back order to make a run worth while.
I was helping restore a static bailer a few years ago, we had to wait 11 months to get an order filled for older bearings.
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thought you’d find this interesting, mowing my paddock with a 1950s monro tiller. It’s knocking it back without breaking a sweat !
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It has but it cuts and drives well. There’s a much bigger range of things it’ll drive than the Allen scythe too
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Cutting grass was enough for me with an Allen scythe. The Eskdalemuir Observatory had a posh Allen Scythe, it had gears. Anything other than first and you were running behind it! It had a snow plough too, could move some snow with that
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They’re just great eh? One of my more eco-centric friends turned from delight to horror recently after I told her I’d been doing a lot of gardening, then showed her my tractor ‘which now runs on leaded petrol!’
You get so much more done though. Are you going to make a dolly with a seat so you can let it drag you around?
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I might well do. It’s one of a pair, the other has its rotavator attachment. Our dad got given them by someone at a vintage show he was exhibiting at, and rebuilt the villiers engines. They run sweet and start first pull. 3 speed box with a reverser set up tooThey’re just great eh? One of my more eco-centric friends turned from delight to horror recently after I told her I’d been doing a lot of gardening, then showed her my tractor ‘which now runs on leaded petrol!’
You get so much more done though. Are you going to make a dolly with a seat so you can let it drag you around?
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Guess what was only $2!
