Lawns of a Dilemna

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    expeatfarmer
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    Some years ago I bought a very early Ransomes 30″ cut lawn mower with a ride on roller seat, I bought it as a source of vital spares for the MG2 crawlers as they share a common engine. When it arrived it was far too good to break for spares and ran like clockwork. I decided to try and use it but my lawns are too complex for such a large cumbersome machine and it is much too fast to walk behind. I then bought another with a view to breaking that and low and behold same thing happened, it is a 36″ cut and again seemed to good to break. I now want the space they take up and this is my dilemna, as a mower however good I might get £80-100, if I remove the carb, magneto and most of the engine parts that are MG2 compatible I would make £5-600 off each mower plus the scarp value of the chassis which is extremely heavy. I have spoken to various museums and collectors of ancient mowers and they say there is no demand for such big mowers for the same reason I found. The debating point is do I scrap the mowers to keep a few MG 2 crawlers going or do I keep them as examples of engineering excellence from the days when Britain was great ?

    #24697
    charlie
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    If examples of this mower are already in collections or museums then at least some examples have been saved. With non existant spares the only way to get spares is to break these machines then the parts are going to a good use.

    #24884
    franktonpaget
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    I think the points made by Charlie are spot on and a completely valid view of restoring any machine

    The Ransomes mowers were made in much larger numbers than the crawlers and as a result have probably survived in larger numbers as well. If you have made efforts to find a good home without any joy you have taken the right course

    #24898
    expeatfarmer
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    Does seem a shame but they take up a huge amount of space and are extremely heavy to move around.

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