My two Toys are a Yanmar 2 cylinder diesel tractor and a Geest three-wheeler truck. Neither has run for two or three years. The tractor had a blown head gasket as it turned out. The Geest truck just wouldn't start. During the time we were doing the extension they were both sources of background worry at a time they could both have been useful, had they worked!
I actually had the diesel mini-tractor engine in bits for ages but admitted defeat. Would I be able to find somebody to mend both machines, including an engine as a box of bits. On a local Facebook page I found Graham Fawcett machinery and plant-hire at nearby Bentham. They revel in challenges and came up trumps - firstly with the tractor and now with the truck, collected today and both vehicles are back home.
The tractor's engine is on top form now and runs like a dream. A deep, low, slow, chug-chug-chug is almost soporific. With tow balls front and back it enables me to manoeuvre the big trailer (another toy) with ease.
The truck now starts first-pull and runs beautifully. Graham Fawcett had clearly fallen in love with it and was most impressed with its 'good as new' Villiers engine. The truck had not been a total success on our extensive yards, covered as they are in stone chippings, quite deep in parts. The single front driving wheel tended to rotate then dig in. The truck would be stuck. At Bentham we decoded that a factor was the front tyre - a smooth road-going type which could have much more grip with a tractor type of tyre so that is what it now has.
Here are the toys on arrival at the water tower this afternoon;
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