seven weeks ago we embraced on our bowling's husky 600 restoration she was tired she was rusty
her paint was peeling and she didn't exactly work very well although we had a bit of fun in
the first video now she is shiny she is complete she is restored with a few added extras and a few
personal details like we said we're going to do but don't worry we're
not just going to leave you with a few photos or a little bit of video footage
for your crank bank we're going to take her out in the garden and we've even got a surprise for you
but before we get to that we're going to cut some really cool footage of what she looks like now
and this is what the fuss has been about and it's easy to see why the sheer beauty and quality of
this 1960s mini tractor well it's outstanding it's not like some of these modern machines are made of
99 plastic this little bird was built from 100 pure love joy and american muscle far from its
modern cousins this tractor doesn't have safety switches or cruise control it's simple build with
an engine at the front and a gearbox at the rear with a few bits holding it together in the middle
which really begs the question why do we have to go and over complicate things with so much
electronics and technology as it wasn't the original engine we have gone with a bespoke
paint job and even added our own flair to the decals we had to alter the engine and get the
bonnet to fit fabricate new starter motor brackets popped in a few new bearings clutch
spring fresh belts and completely new wiring and due to the alterations of the engine and
the bonnet we've gone with an upright exhaust as this tractor did not come with a cutting deck
we have added a foot throttle rather than the original hand throttle you'll see why later on
i've fallen in love with this little tractor the simplicity
of its engineering and ease of controls have made this restoration a complete pleasure
i'd recommend a bowling restoration to anyone in total we have spent around 50 hours restoring her
which all told isn't too bad for a full nut and bolt resto
so here she is all done all sorted ready to have a play on it we're looking forward to
driving around the garden and doing some other bits and pieces don't forget i got a surprise
for you in a little while but a couple of things we're still waiting for still not 100 on one is
an exhaust needs a locking nut on it i'm still waiting for that to turn up and the other thing
is the belt on that pulley probably remember in the last episode or the episode before that maybe
that i actually i powder coated the pulley and i was probably you know shouldn't have
done that because the belt might stick or the belt sticks every now and again so hopefully in
this video it won't happen but it's one thing i do still need to sort out the time's going
on so we're going to do start her up see what she sounds like you ready on and bit of choke
you can see why i did it now can't you yeah i know i like it
you like it it's good and the foots are all love the foot for all saves all this fiddling
around down here doesn't it right let's start up again let's take her for a drive
there you are it all works it does what it's supposed to do but watching a grown
man drive around on a mini tractor around the garden is a bit boring really isn't it
if only there was something we could add to it oh that's right when i was scouring good old
ebay one night to see what parts were around for these things still i stumbled across an original
bowline's attachment for this very tractor luckily it was only about an hour away as well so
i bought it i spent a little bit more money than i wanted to but i wasn't going to let it go
it was going to be mine and you ready to see what it is ready boom and there we have an original
bowline snowplow blade trouble is we're in devon in england and we don't see that much snow
so what can we use it for well i suddenly thought the other day sometimes when you
tip the grass up in the grass heap or the hedge trimmings you don't always get it in the pile
so we're gonna use this as a buck rake i think that sounds pretty cool let's go and do that
so
a little bit keen coming in there and third
oh yeah well what do you know that
so i can cope with that good you'll be old cameraman there's my belt come off on it oh
that belt has come off properly now ready this is how you do a really quick belt um installation on
a bowline tuske without burning my hand on the old engine down through there tuck it in under there
really quick job like you know push your clutch down boom done all right try again pop up pop up
yeah well that's quite good fun luckily i've got another pile let's go and do that
huh
so
thank you
i tell you what that's not a snow blade that's a blooming bulldozer
i've got a bowline's bulldozer how cool is that
love it absolutely brilliant hmm i wonder what else i could use it for hmm interesting
hmm
so there we are guys we've done we've completed our restoration and i hope you enjoyed the video
the bowlines is fully restored back to its former glory with a few added extras
and we're really happy with how it's turned out and we've even made it practical by putting the
blade on the front so it's not just going to be one of those restorations that's sitting in the
corner gathering dust or being polished once a month depending on what kind of guy you are
pull up a chair and sit and look at it we're going to keep it and use it but if any of you guys want
to call into our branch and view it for yourselves please do when you know we're open eight till five
monday to friday and saturday's nine till one so anytime you want to pop in just give us a
shout and pop on in it's absolutely fine or if there's other restorations that we're gonna do
going forward then you know again it'll always be there to be viewed but we're gonna use it and
keep it in the garden for that very purpose it's built to be used so hopefully you never
know in another 57 years time someone might go and restore it again you know let's see we never know
but this restoration is on youtube so they can go back and view it and see what it's all about
you're still there
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but it's all good it's all good fun we enjoy it so thanks guys we'll see you in the next
video