Garage find

[t20]

Hi found this under a pile of rubbish in the back of a garage

http://s1276.photobucket.com/

Never used photo bucket so hope the link is good

The engine turns by hand

Apart from it saying villiers I know nothing about it  make, year?

I've searched through google images to no avail , so are there  any mower experts ?
Thanks mike

[awemawson]

Link wants me to log it

[John Rudd]

Ditto...Except I think he meant  log in...

Post the photo.. I may be able to help......

[t20]

I will try to fix it sorry
Mike

[t20]

http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/mglewis1/slideshow/
Try that I think I have shared it

I am using An iPad and I can't attach a photo

Thanks mike

[t20]

Still not working I'll have to get the laptop out.
Mike

[t20]

try this its an attachement

[hermetic]

That's a very old forerunner of a strimmer for clearing undergrowth etc. anytime from early fifties onwards. I have a similar wheeled strimmer with a B&S engine and a nylon line cutting head Looks like a villiers two stroke engine, If it turns by hand put a bit of two stroke oil down the plughole(cylinder walls will be dry), and see if you can get a spark out of it! Make a lovely restoration project! you could even use it to clear your local undergrowth. Get the spanners out!
Phil

[hermetic]

Or use it for taking the local chavs off by the ankles, there was a chariot like this somewhere in my past history (lessons) ;-)http://madmodder.net/Smileys/default/kranke_200-1.gif

[vtsteam]

That's pretty interesting.

In the early days of handheld brush trimmers we wore harnesses. We were cutting saplings in a wood with blades instead of strings. I remember a fellow worker on the crew ahead of me suddenly frantically trying to unharness, and finally pulling it off over his head and throwing the whole rig -- running trimmer and all off to the right. Then running towards me, and yelling over the noise of my trimmer as he passed, arms flailing, "Bees!!"
He'd hit a big underground yellowjacket nest. Seemed a good time for me to depart the area as well. 

Seems like that one would be easier to let go of than the old harness style, when in a hurry.

[t20]

That makes sense would have never called it a strimmer but I can see where your coming from and yes would make quite a fierce weapon I'm quite rural here so no problem with chaves don't think the foxes will be to worried by me pushing this thing around a field. 

No harness required that's a bonus in a lot of different situations

Maybe I will put some oil down the bore, got so much on at the moment though with work and house I don't really need to start something and end up with a box of parts.

I picked up an electric chainsaw from around the same era might post some pics of that it's called a tarpen

Thanks mike

[David Jupp]

Not 100% certain, but reminds me of something called a 'bush wacker' that I saw many years ago (not sure of the spelling of 'wacker' that was used - might have been 'whacker'...

[Bigbadbugga]

http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/mglewis1/slideshow/
Try that I think I have shared it

I am using An iPad and I can't attach a photo

Thanks mike

It's easier if you get the photobucket app on iPad.

To post on forums, open the photobucket app and find the pic you want to post, in the top tool bar is a symbol that looks like a chain link, click that and then select the IMG code, it will say it has copied it to the clipboard.

Then open your browser, reply to a thread and just touch and hold for a second in the reply box, it will prompt to paste.

[t20]

Hi it's a Lloyd motor sickle made in camberley Surrey in the 1950's

Just got to find it a new home

[DavidA]

I find the first link takes me to my photobucket . How is that even possible ?

Dave

[superc]

His first link if you read it is just a .com   You obviously have both a photobucket account and their cookies residing in your browser AND you never bothered to sign out from Photobucket.com , which means anyone using your computer and going to photobucket goes straight to your account/pictures, as you did.  It is always a good idea to sign out and periodically purge any cookies.  A genuine very similar security risk exists if you log on to bank or credit card accounts and leave them without signing out. 

[DavidA]

Superc,

Thanks for that. It is very unusual for me to not log out of any site. this one is an exeption.

I've been to photobucket and logged out.
Now the link shows photobucket's front page.

Dave