• What a wonderful cover photograph on the The Cultivator this month! Think it’s the best yet? Lovely old tractor, great bit of ploughing, a sunny day as backdrop. What more do you need.
    Makes me take a note to check back on previous ‘covers’ again, and read through some of those old copies and articles.
    The second note, to check through those…[Read more]

  • I can’t help you with the PDF booklet for your machine, I’ve searched around plenty myself looking for general information on the lineage, history, and Honda model progression down over the years. Without much success. Apart from link I was given to their own Honda website, that has good information on their first tillers.
    Where do the F90 & F100…[Read more]

  • That is a very interesting, and detailed, article on the development of their mini tillers, and as alluded to they were making rotavators, bigger ones for agricultural use, we’ll before that. The 50’s maybe? I couldn’t find anything more on bigger tillers on their website!? Lots about motorbikes, racing cars, and so much more as you said. The…[Read more]

  • I am looking for a general history of Honda tractors, all those F numbers and models, big and small. Well the ones that have wheels and can pull and carry equipment. I’m looking for a general listing of what came first, there relative power, and comparison of their individual capabilities, etc. A pointer to a website, or YouTube demo, or something…[Read more]

  • Thank you Will, for the photo and Merry Tiller suggestion. I’m still a bit confused as to how the tool fits into the hitch? Or I’m over thinking how complicated the hitch is? Has it got two bolts to tighten it securely into position? A side photo of the hitch would be great if, you Will or anyone else, had one?

  • I didn’t know that either!? It’s just that I have both types of spade.i must check the exact labeling on them next time. I’m not sure if the two brand names are historically related? Or a more modern coming together, or just a coincidental marketing name they share, or have appropriated? Either way the old spades I have are fine fine tools, but I…[Read more]

  • Never end! That’s corrective txt for you. Neverbend was what I intended. But kind of appropriate anyway, in the context. Spades that last a lifetime, or two.

  • I have two Never end spades, not stainless steel so they need a lick of oil to keep them clean, but very strong well made spades. Comfortable to work with. And bought for a song at a sale. Didn’t realize they might, possibly, be that old! The 30’s? I have old Spears & Jackson spades also, well worn with work, old, but they were great tools as well.

  • I have had these tools for a while,got them in along with other tools that attach to the small Honda tractor-rotavator I have. But these two tools, a small ridge plough and grubber, I can’t figure out how best to make a tool bar hitch to carry the tools for work. The other obvious question is, what make of equipment or original method of…[Read more]

  • I have recently found these two small pieces of equipment, a drill-plough ridger and cultivator/grubber, but has anyone any idea what piece of machinery its compatible with, or how they would have been attached, hitched, to that machine?

  • Thanks for that Alan, hadn’t spotted those amongst the photo options. That great, these wheel hoes will whet the apatite till we get to search out some more. I’m interested in looking around to see what might be the wheel hoes with the best features and tool attachments compatability, ease of use, design, for general field and garden work.

    I new…[Read more]

  • I have been looking through the photo gallery and there are some lovely examples of Planet seed drillers, but I couldl find any wheel hoes? From pictures I’ve seen there are a good few variations and slightly different model? Were some more sophisticated than others, able to carry more tools, or in different configurations, or is it just that…[Read more]

  • kmacaoidh replied to the topic Old Rotavator in the forum Projects 2 years, 10 months ago

    Look forward to seeing your pictures of your Honda, if it’s from the 50’s it’s definitely not the one I posted pictures of. It’s just that the handle bar neck and engine mounting looks so similar! Must check year and serial no.s on what I have. Interesting. Great that you have it together and work again anyway

  • kmacaoidh replied to the topic Old Rotavator in the forum Projects 2 years, 10 months ago

    Smaller files! We always forget. But this might be the Honda rotavator you have?

  • kmacaoidh replied to the topic Old Rotavator in the forum Projects 2 years, 10 months ago

    This is what you have maybe?

  • kmacaoidh replied to the topic Old Rotavator in the forum Projects 2 years, 10 months ago

    It’s a Honda I’d say, but the rotary drums/blades look to be for another machine? They seem to be round bar, where as the Honda has a hexagonal bar axle

  • Anybody see the item Gardener’s World had, Friday and repeated today Sunday BBC2, on vintage lawnmowers? Was it someone from VHGMC’s collection by any chance, I didn’t see the start of the piece? Beautiful selection of colourful old machines

  • Also, I always have to chuckle when i see a Greyhound plough, thinking of your words, in your Trusty book i believe, referring to an original advert for the plough, saying it ‘could be fitted or dismounted easily by one man. Yes, if you want to give yourself a hernia’ !

  • Well done Geoff, the plough is looking great. That’s the same green the Trusty Tractor would be painted/sprayed with on the factory floor? What exact green is it, and where best to find it?
    The plough share and slide do look like polished steel as well! It was all look great with a small splash of colour when the stickers go on. By the way, im…[Read more]

  • That’s interesting about the Kubota hex-bar, and thats for the axles of their two wheel tractor/rotavators? A bit like the search for small farm tractor wheels, I have been searching around for Kubota dealers that carry the small stuff? Its always their mid range tractor, diggers, etc that i find. Never seem to come up with their two-wheel tractor…[Read more]

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