Lawn Tractor

As per the shed posts, this was bought in the depth of winter.

It's a diesel Ford lawn tractor with a 48" cutting deck. It has a side exit to the deck but a collector was made (but is rare). It's quite a powerful little thing, and the blades under the deck are what the seller described as 'a bit naughty'. The model is LGT14D. It's really a Japanese tractor with Ford bodywork. It's in the projects blog because it really needs the deck taking off and cleaning and painting. Actually the whole body could do with that. A summer project beckons, I reckons.

The boy loves it!

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With buying our new house, the little Alfa I had as a station car had to go. A shame as I loved it, even though it was a bit of a cooking model rather than the full fat V6. However, it wouldn't have done for the work I needed for. So goodbye to this:

And hello to this:

This photo taken at the old house. When we were moving into the new house, those nice comfortable AT tyres on those lovely original alloys just didn't cut it, and I was lucky to be able to get the Jeep out of the mud at the far end of the garden.

So, apart from the obligatory couple of Pistonheads stickers, a few mods were made:

With those steelies and mud tyres, the driving experience is now much louder and less comfortable, but no way is it getting stuck. The Jeep has a LSD and centre difflock as standard, so with these tyres and that transmission, plus a 4lt engine, it's unstoppable on mud. However, there's not much room between tyre and arches. Basically it's suffered from the usual XJ ailment of sagging leaf springs. No worries there - heavy duty ones now fitted:

You can see that even with the roof laden (overladen, most likely), there's still lots of room between tyre and arch. Unfortunately, I've not done the front yet so with nothing on the roof, it looks a bit like a 70's custom....

Shed shed shed

Been a while since I updated. Work getting in the way. Anyway, last time there was a bit of an extension added. It's actually getting quite close now. The weatherboarding needs to go on, but I've made a bit more progress with that. And of course it needs painting outside and a good tidy up and grass seeded around. Plus some electrics inside, but it's getting there.

Anyway. pics:

It was a lovely day at the weekend - you can see my 'outside' workbench. I like being outside doing this stuff - been a bit trying over winter with the perishing cold, but it was much more pleasurable on Sunday. I've had to sacrifice a few boards to walk around the place - it's so wet and muddy.

Can see what the extension is for now. There's a concrete floor in there. You can also see that although I've completed the wall nearest the camera, I've not finished the wall with the door in it, so there's no corner detail yet. I've also got to make some doors for the mower store.

Couple of other pics showing it in the setting in the garden. Lots to do there!