Topic: Manure cover

[chriscross1966]

Thanks for the advise. Chrisscross whats a Howard Gem ?

Do some of you really think don't dig in the manure.That would make planting more difficult as you can't prepare a descent seedbed./ok for spuds i guess.

Or am i missing something ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Howard-Gem-Rotovator_W0QQitemZ180346229185

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/howard-gem_W0QQitemZ110376695721

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Howard-Gem-Kohler-26ins-Rotovater_W0QQitemZ360147669783

I would expect all of these to make about 500 quid, maybe a bit more, the smaller 300/350 models are probably more useful to the average plotholder, the really small 200's are probably best avoided as they are very small two-stroke machines and not really up to the same sort of work as the big ones ..... the best Gem to get would probably be a recent one with an 810cc twin-cylinder Kohler diesel but the early JAP sidevalves are the "classics"..... though it does sometimes feel as if you're doing your groundbreaking with a sort of portable earthquake....

tillerparts do pretty much all the bits for Gem's, even things like early carbs and magnetos (though not hard to convert to points....)

chrisc