People may remember that I posted here a couple of years ago, asking
how to get a Merry Tiller to actually do something useful and then
solving the problem by buying a Howard rotavator to replace it.

Well the Howard has done sterling work over the past couple of years
but it now needs some servicing. I've managed to take it apart (after
a certain amount of bad language) and there's not too much wrong with it
but it does need some parts.

The main thing it needs is new bearings for the shaft that the tines
run in, probably a new drive chain and maybe a new tiller shaft. The
bearings (I guess, there's nothing left of them!) are 'bronze bush'
type ones. Does anyone know of any suppliers that specialise in
Howard Rotavator spares?

By the way it would be useful to identify the model I have, I *think*
it's a Howard 350 but I'm not absolutely sure. It has a Kohler K141
engine and a two speed and reverse gearbox. There are two sets of
four tines on each side (i.e. 16 altogether), half straight and half L
shaped. I would have posted a picture but didn't think to take one
before taking it apart! :-)

--
Chris Green )

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People may remember that I posted here a couple of years ago, asking
how to get a Merry Tiller to actually do something useful and then
solving the problem by buying a Howard rotavator to replace it.

Well the Howard has done sterling work over the past couple of years
but it now needs some servicing. I've managed to take it apart (after
a certain amount of bad language) and there's not too much wrong with it
but it does need some parts.

The main thing it needs is new bearings for the shaft that the tines
run in, probably a new drive chain and maybe a new tiller shaft. The
bearings (I guess, there's nothing left of them!) are 'bronze bush'
type ones. Does anyone know of any suppliers that specialise in
Howard Rotavator spares?

By the way it would be useful to identify the model I have, I *think*
it's a Howard 350 but I'm not absolutely sure. It has a Kohler K141
engine and a two speed and reverse gearbox. There are two sets of
four tines on each side (i.e. 16 altogether), half straight and half L
shaped. I would have posted a picture but didn't think to take one
before taking it apart! :-)

Try this chap http://www.mdr.co.uk/tillerparts/tillerparts.html and
also the uk rec stationary engines group.
The Howards are so common there could well be a supply or supplier of
these bits somewhere.

In message ,
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The main thing it needs is new bearings for the shaft that the tines
run in, probably a new drive chain and maybe a new tiller shaft. The
bearings (I guess, there's nothing left of them!) are 'bronze bush'
type ones. Does anyone know of any suppliers that specialise in
Howard Rotavator spares?


The bearings should be needle-roller types, bronze bushes would not
stand up to the workload. The part numbers you require are 253037264
and 252530382 (the needle cage and the outer come as separate items).
The drive shaft and sprocket is part number 64364 and the drive chain is
64393.

We always carry a fair range of Howard parts in stock and all of the
above parts are currently available off-the-shelf. Visit our website at
http://www.davenport.gb.com and enter the part numbers in the "Part
number lookup" field and you will get prices and current stock levels.
You can order online too if you want.

Hope this helps.

Chris.

--
Chris Davenport

Chester Hudson keeps a formidable quantity of new and second-hand spres for all Howard Rotavators and the engines which power them. His website is tillerparts.com, and his number is 07836 210363.

chesterhudson wrote:
Chester Hudson keeps a formidable quantity of new and second-hand spres
for all Howard Rotavators and the engines which power them. His website
is tillerparts.com, and his number is 07836 210363.

If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising which I don't think is allowed here.

--
Chris Green )

wrote:


If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising

Was this in response to a question, as the subject would indicate? Odd
to have the person describe himself in the third person.
My only contacts with a Howard rotavator were the monstrous one my dad's
neighbor had (they're not common in the U.S.) and the one that figured
large in an episode of "Good Neighbors," I think known as "The Good Life"
in its own land.

It's garlic-digging time in the (former) American colonies, and my garage
smells wonderful!


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1200' elevation. NY WO G

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gary Woods wrote:

My only contacts with a Howard rotavator were the monstrous one my dad's
neighbor had (they're not common in the U.S.) and the one that figured
large in an episode of "Good Neighbors," I think known as "The Good Life"
in its own land.

That's the one. I had one of those once about thirty years ago. It was
given to me. Too big to do anything with in a suburban garden but I wish
I had it now!

It's garlic-digging time in the (former) American colonies, and my garage
smells wonderful!

I've been doing the same to my shallots and onions today. The onions
ripened a good two weeks early this year!

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| Internet: | writing from |
| Fidonet: David Rance 2:252/110 | Caversham, |
| BBS: telnet://mesnil.demon.co.uk | Reading, UK |
+-------------------------------------------------------+

"..... If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising which I don't think is allowed here. ........"

As the owner of am old JAP engine Howard Gem I for one am glad of this
contact, duly noted in Favourites, and considering how often we get
questions regarding old rotovators nice to have another contact.

All I need now is a contact regarding a Wollsey twin 6 cultivator...........


--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

chesterhudson wrote:
Chester Hudson keeps a formidable quantity of new and second-hand spres
for all Howard Rotavators and the engines which power them. His website
is tillerparts.com, and his number is 07836 210363.

If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising which I don't think is allowed here.

--
Chris Green )

wrote:


If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising

Was this in response to a question, as the subject would indicate? Odd
to have the person describe himself in the third person.
My only contacts with a Howard rotavator were the monstrous one my dad's
neighbor had (they're not common in the U.S.) and the one that figured
large in an episode of "Good Neighbors," I think known as "The Good Life"
in its own land.

It's garlic-digging time in the (former) American colonies, and my garage
smells wonderful!


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1200' elevation. NY WO G

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gary Woods wrote:

My only contacts with a Howard rotavator were the monstrous one my dad's
neighbor had (they're not common in the U.S.) and the one that figured
large in an episode of "Good Neighbors," I think known as "The Good Life"
in its own land.

That's the one. I had one of those once about thirty years ago. It was
given to me. Too big to do anything with in a suburban garden but I wish
I had it now!

It's garlic-digging time in the (former) American colonies, and my garage
smells wonderful!

I've been doing the same to my shallots and onions today. The onions
ripened a good two weeks early this year!

--
+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Internet: | writing from |
| Fidonet: David Rance 2:252/110 | Caversham, |
| BBS: telnet://mesnil.demon.co.uk | Reading, UK |
+-------------------------------------------------------+

"..... If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising which I don't think is allowed here. ........"

As the owner of am old JAP engine Howard Gem I for one am glad of this
contact, duly noted in Favourites, and considering how often we get
questions regarding old rotovators nice to have another contact.

All I need now is a contact regarding a Wollsey twin 6 cultivator...........


--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Gary Woods wrote:
wrote:


If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising

Was this in response to a question, as the subject would indicate? Odd
to have the person describe himself in the third person.

It was a new thread so not apparently in response to anything. The
"" in the subject is a standard spam disguise in my experience.

I was fairly gentle in my complaint. :-)

--
Chris Green )

David Hill wrote:
"..... If you don't mind me saying so this is close to (if not more than
close to) advertising which I don't think is allowed here. ........"

As the owner of am old JAP engine Howard Gem I for one am glad of this
contact, duly noted in Favourites, and considering how often we get
questions regarding old rotovators nice to have another contact.

A trivial Google search turns up tillerparts.com immediately, I knew
the site already (I have a Howard 350). I wasn't all that impressed
with the response I got from tillerparts.com either, although there is
a web site the only contact possible is by phone which is a bit
awkward.

Does anyone else have any experience of buying parts from tillerparts.com?
In the end I got most of the spares I needed from a local repair man
who had what I needed secondhand so I didn't actually try tillerparts.com.

For what it's worth the new spares I've bought for my Howard Rotavator
have been from Davenports - http://www.davenport.gb.com/, they
responded to an enquiry of mine here.

--
Chris Green )