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Old 23-03-2003, 06:21 PM
 
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Default Howard rotavator spares - where?

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! :-)

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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.
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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.

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Old 30-07-2003, 11:25 PM
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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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"..... 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...........


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Old 30-07-2003, 11:26 PM
 
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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.

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Old 30-07-2003, 11:26 PM
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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 |
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"..... 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...........


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Abacus nurseries
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Old 31-07-2003, 10:42 AM
 
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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.

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