One for Beat and Robbo to fight over

[bossy]

It's got two wheels and a BSA unit single engine..............

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

[b50root]

You made my day. Thanks .

Rickard

[scotmod]

If I wanted to slot that engine into my Victor, what final drive ratio would be best?

[roboandkate]

Would a B50 engine fit in it?

[beat]

this is what BSA - people makes : a lot of ideas and solutions made to be astonished
beat

[minetymenace]

My father had one of these when I was small....maybe it got me into BSA's at an early age (ours had the optional cutter bar on the front, no health and safety then!!)

Beat already has something like this, maybe I should move the topic to "Bikes for sale", it is a two wheeled BSA, and it is for sale.....but I am afraid of having the urine extracted mercylessly...

[beat]

hi minety,
can you move this to " off Topic " please ??
I would like to add some pics abouth my thing, so , some of you maybe have something to laugh
beat

[beat]

hi al,
some pics of my earlier " project ", as I have learned the british are calling it a " two wheel tractor ". ( right bossy ? )
sorry, - no BSA engine

started as a Wrak, - abouth 50 years old swiss made with a MAG engine. Moto Sacoche Geneva

after some little work it cames to this

with a selfmade trailer for carry the wood and others....

fitted a Transmition and a Hydraulik on the front end

belt drive for 1300/ min.and 250 bar pump

a Tank and Stuff was needet....

Tank and valve and so on

The hydraulik Winch was the next step,

winch with guidet cable, pulls 700 Kg

and it works ,

pulling wood by 700Kg and 50 meters

so far for today,
beat

[Mark Cook]

I used to love remanufacturing those MAG engines when I was a teenager, where did the years go

[beat]

most of the years are going to the same place : - the graveyard.

the question is just : what have you done with them wheilst they have been here

[Mark Cook]

Wasted most of them on bad marriages

Now life is better so Anita tells me

[beat]

congratulation Mark, so this years now are much beter and do not go the same way as the others vent !
- greetings to Anita as well,
beat

[seb stewart]

thats prity neat Beat! i want one we use a poney

seb

[beat]

hi al,
as I can not effor a pony, basicly I made the al thing , especialy the Hydraulik part for a other reason.
this was starting like this...

the base

then in a next step

a few parts needet to weld on...

some more Tubes, two scrap Wheels and a Cylinder

work in progress...

yes, some hours of work ( plaisir ) and some cup of tea...

slowly it gets its form...

and the al " road Train " is ready to go for a Test...

a first Trunk is ready to split

it works !

hydraulik pressure up to 250 bar, press force by 12 Tonns,

not much that can resist...
beat

[rhino]

A log splitter...

The words 'box of frogs' spring to mind

[besaboy]

10/10 Rhino, is your frog wet ? (explain that one !! )

[beat]

hi al,
as wood has different sices, my one is made to cop with nearly al...

lift the spliter up on it`s trailer..

so, for the smal stuff it is in a handy position to work with..

nice to work with smaler logs

also made a" CROSS " to get four pices out in one action...

four-way cross

and it works as well....

up to a diameter of around 40 cm it is fine...

medium sice logs are cut on the floor level...

the " roll on " position.

up to 60 cm ( two feet ? ) it is enough by 12 000 press,

Tanne, 60 + cm.

but, as everiting has his limit, - the real big ones like this

90 cm and more !

it needet a litle help for the first split

needet some help with the hammer

hope, this explains not the frog`s wettnes,- ??? - no, it hopefully explains why I do not realy wantd to fight over this one from bossy / Ebay , evan if there is a BSA engine on it !
the MAG engine is a old sidevalve 350cc thing, RPM regulated to max 3 000 U Min. and very economical. this means, I work with this unit a al day and it has a fuel consumption of say 5 liters!
and after say two days, a al winter needet wood is splitted and ready for drying! ( 8 m3 )

8 cubikmeter wood for one season.

beat

[rhino]

Haven't got time tonight beat, I'll see if I can take some pictures tomorrow. After all, they're universally better than a thousand words

Suffice to say that it was, then wasn't, then was again, them wasn't, then was...

[Ian Hingley]

Beat

That's brilliant, just brilliant!

Must be something to do with the fresh mountain air ...

[rhino]

Like sunsets on the Western coast make one a bit non compos mentis

Box of Frogs

Great stuff

[rhino]

First it was dry, then it was wet...

[besaboy]

Rhino - compos mentis - wow, must have been through the wet and dry cycle a few times tonight....

[rhino]

fnarf... I'm on me holidays

[besaboy]

should add that Thatchers are one of the hundreds of local cider makers, here in Somerset, the home of cider. Most like the real apple sort, but Rhino comes from t'up north and has a soft spot for the pear sort.
He may find some travels down to Groutys scramble on Sunday. Cider and BSA 's ( well the 75 CCM, which Mark has promised will be ready, for the weekend - see under Projects ) life don't come much better.

[rhino]

[Mark Cook]

The real name is "Perry" They dumbed it down and called it pear cider for the half wits

[rhino]

Thanks for that Mark

[Mark Cook]

Not a dig at you personally Simon. I used to love the stuff when I was younger. Weston's Perry. No one seemed to know what it was then. Babycham is sparkling perry. Oops I'm starting to sound like a southern softy alcy

[rhino]

Soft Southerners drink Shandy not Cider

[Mark Cook]

Cideraxe Cider Shandy lol. I hate to think what you'd call perry shandy lol

[minetymenace]

I think it was Fred Wedlock who said:

"Beer 's a drag man, it makes me fart. I like cider, the distilled juice of the forbidden fruit"

but I can't remember any more.

Current favourite beer: St Austell Tribute
Current favourite cider: Frome Valley Organic (being borne in Somerset, I was surprised to find the Frome Valley cider comes from Hereford).

[Mark Cook]

Beer, that's getting it back on track. Is it not

Not enough has been drunk this year, don't if it's been too much work or not enough excuses to have one or three.

Gerry, when your done playing sand castles the beer is on me. I can't be blamed for the rain though.

Call a spade a spade. I miss the days when all I wanted to be was happy and gay

[besaboy]

Call a spade a spade. I miss the days when all I wanted to be was happy and gay

Don't tell Anita

How is the seat foam looking ?
Looking out of the window, I see Grouty is still watering the track for Sunday

[minetymenace]

Finished playing sand castles in the West Country, I'm now somewhere propper hot in the East.

[beat]

hallo Ian,

yes, the thing works fine, evan in the fresh forest air !

there is only one thing it worrys me :

Woodharvester - Train on the road.

it is the Question of : is my vehicule now the smalest of the Big ones, - ore is it the Biggest of the smal ones ? ?

beat

[besaboy]

beat, it is not the size, but the way you use it

[Ian Hingley]

I think there's another project there to turn it into 6-wheel drive!

[beat]