At long last I've rescued my Atco Standard from my parent's barn, and it's in my shed - hopefully to run sometime later this year!
I have a lawn like a postage stamp, but the verge outside might cause the council some head scratching...
Atco Standard? Wossat, I hear you cry?
One of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZ0XSEhJzo (not mine, sadly)
Adrian
So - now you'll need to join the Old Lawn Mower Club!!
We also have a postage stamp size lawn at home, so my husband volunteered to be the field warden on our allotments - so he could use his Atco Standard 1926 - and since then he's received donations of other vintage and classic mowers (all built to last) which he uses on our site on a regular basis (we have a community lawn area and a trackway with a central grass area which needs cutting). We have Several Ransome's models, a Webb's, a couple of Suffolk Lawn Mowers models - and just this morning he found a Ransomes Ajax mark 5 on a plot being given up and the mower left - so no doubt it'll get restored - and join the other push mowers he has restored which are on 'free use' by our plot holders.
Years ago we had to knock down some old sheds on some ground the council purchased. Inside was an large old cylinder mower that pulled a roller seat behind it. It was rusted out and beyond repair so I loaded it on the truck with all the other rubbish to go to the tip. But I took the engine out of the mower which was a BSA and powered by a V twin 750cc engine. I reconditioned it and shoehorned it into a motorcycle frame with a triumph gearbox and built a beautiful chopper which won a load of prizes at shows. After one bad crash I removed it from the bike and then fitted it to a 3 wheeled Morgan replica I built. Sold it for a nice price but it should still be going somewhere as there are only a few of the old BSA twin engines about. Much more fun than cutting grass with it.
Quote from: lavenderlux on February 23, 2016, 16:56:32
So - now you'll need to join the Old Lawn Mower Club!!
I'm number 83 - joined about 1993!
Adrian