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  • #36931
    monty
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    Hi all, anybody any idea of the manufacture year of this outstanding vintage Hayter?

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    #36933
    charlie
    Keymaster

    It may be worth contacting Hayter with the machine serial number they may be able to help.
    I have a very similar machine which I still use, not in such good condition.

    #36936
    will-haggle
    Participant

    The engine number should give you the date to the day when the engine was built. Their website should help to decipher it. https://www.briggsandstratton.com/eu/en_gb/home.html

    #36937
    hillsider
    Participant

    I doubt that Briggs and Stratton will be much help if the engine shown in the photo is the one in question. The engine shown is a European (Italian) built Tecumseh the Tecumseh manual that I have only seems to give engine dating information for American built engines.

    #36947
    wristpin
    Participant

    Hi all, anybody any idea of the manufacture year of this outstanding vintage Hayter?

    No disrespect but it’s neither outstanding or vintage. It’s a bottom of the range 16” Harrier with the cheap engine option , correctly identified by Hillsider. Could even be the down specced version sold through the Sheds or mail order outfits.

    #36948
    charlie
    Keymaster

    What is vintage? A 1980’s machine could be 30-40 years old now.
    If this mower is that old then it is in very good condition.

    #36966
    alan
    Participant

    I know someone who has one of those Hayters mowers with the Tecumseh engine but with electric start – it may be a slightly different model/spec but it’s similar. I have to say it’s not in as good condition as the image by the original poster.

    As Charlie has mentioned; What is vintage? I’d also add that some of the lower-spec machines of any manufacturer can, but not always, be the rarest. I’ve often wondered how many mass-produced mowers, rotavators or tractors were made – was it in the hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands?

    #36967
    dorigny
    Participant

    I have a low-ish serial number model 306 Harrier 41 autodrive and that I believe to be 1989.
    Mine has the finger trigger height adjuster not a screw type as on the machine in photo. It does though have the same engine. No OPC, which I believe was reqd by 1995.

    I also have a Harrier 48 from 1987, which has the height adjuster similar in operation to the type on the machine in photo and has lost its adjusting knob, the same, leaving just a hexagon.. The rear flap is of the same style as my 1987 48cm mower, with the triangular ends overhanging the chassis side.

    So I will have a stab at 1987/88..unless, as suggested, a model has been assembled at another time to suit a “Shed” price, but still pre 1995.

    C.

    #36968
    charlie
    Keymaster

    The one I have was electric start, but I have not bothered replacing the battery which died years ago. It has the screw type height adjuster.

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