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PAUL BEAUMONT
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| Got a couple of vintage rotavators and a couple of larger stationary engines. Do they count? |
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Rick
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clan chieftain
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Rotavator is the longest Palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary. Another piece of useless information. 
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47p2
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The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is the onomatopoeic tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives the title to detartrated, the preterit and past participle of detartrate, a chemical term meaning to remove tartrates. Rotavator, a trademarked name for an agricultural machine, is often listed in dictionaries. The term redivider is used by some writers but appears to be an invented or derived term—only redivide and redivision appear in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary. Malayalam, an Indian language, is of equal length.
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clan chieftain
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I stand corrected 
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buzzy bee
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Location: South Cheshire
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| I have got a few old mowers and static engines somewhere, have reduced my collection vastly over the last few years mind. lol |
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RUSTON
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Location: Matlock.
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I have an old Landmaster Kestrel rotavator plus two garages of stationary engines and shearing and milking machinery, a pre war powered hacksaw and numerous water pumps etc. 
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Ellis
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Location: Betws y Coed, North Wales
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I have still got an Atco petrol engine rotary mower that my late father bought new in 1963.
It's been in the cellar for the best part of 35 years and just out of curiosity I disinterred it 5 years ago, put in fresh petrol and a new plug. Two pulls on the starting cord and it started!
It was "retired" because I relaid the lawn many years ago and the thicker and tougher type of grass was not suitable for the Atco.
I know where there is an Allen Scythe which has been used only once since it was bought new by it's owner in the late 1950s. Apparently it was too heavy to manoeuvre around a multi terrace garden.
It's right at the back of a garden shed.
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D4B
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Location: Hampshire UK
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| Ellis wrote: | I know where there is an Allen Scythe which has been used only once since it was bought new by it's owner in the late 1950s. Apparently it was too heavy to manoeuvre around a multi terrace garden.
It's right at the back of a garden shed. |
My father has an old Oxford Allen Scythe which is in desperate
need of restoration, will probably end up for sale me thinks |
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Churchill Johnson
Joined: 11 Jan 2011
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Location: Rayleigh Essex
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My list is Stationary engine's
Lister D 1.5hp about 1925 w/cooled
Villiers 1.5hp ""
Bernard [french 1.5hp "
A.B.C. engine from a Sunderland flying boat air cooled
Shay cultivator
Colwood metal single wheel cultivator
Colwood rubber tyre single wheeled cultivator [2 of]
Colwood Twin wheel rubber tyred "
Mayfield cultivator
Auto-Culto "
Clifford mk4 rotavator 500cc BSA M20 M/Cycle eng
Allen Sythe two/stroke
Teagle hedge cutter two/stroke [2 of]
Wrigley auto truck three wheel [2 of]
An old local made generator [240-250]
American x air force v-twin generator
Land machine [drayton] three wheel dumper 600cc J.A.P. eng
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ukdave2002
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Location: South Cheshire
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There's a tractor buried in our back garden  ...its on old farm and I suppose it was an easy way for the farmer to get rid.
I have pulled out a buried engine... it began to catch on the mower blades, I have no idea what is was, it came out like a solid encrusted lump of iron..took it to the tip, had to laugh, when I got there it had leaked oil in the trailer
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buzzy bee
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Location: South Cheshire
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Was a nice old roller we got.
UKDave, fancy a day digging her up, I will take her away! lol |
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