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Put an add up on the Bulletein Board at work, offering to remove dead & unwanted mowers etc. for free.

Todaya was day one, i ended the day with 6 mowers and a whipper snipper lined up, colected 2 of the mowers anf the whipper snipper on the way home:

1982 Victa Silver Streak-



1978 Victa Mustang-



Talon Whipper Snipper-

not bad except there is only a couple of us at work.

Yep, but it can work in many ways, i got the idea from a friend who runs a little add in the local free classifieds.

We have around 100 employees here at work, we do have a customer notice board though, might give it a go when I get this place tidied right up

Always been a fan of the silverstreaks.

Considering the generous offfer you have made jeffery and I, i just might keep it aside for you Joe.

We have a bulletein board page on the computers here, and i dont know how many 1000's of people looking at that, i got another 2 offered today, so I'm off to get a total of 6 on my way home, I'll put them up when i get home!

it wouldnt surprise me if someone who didnt know any better gave away a special i might put one up at the local mall board

Emmo, thats how i got my twin, a friend of mine runs an add in the classifieds, as i mentioned, and he got called to come round and remove an unwanted working (roughly) victa twin.

He is not a collector, and passed it on to me!

Here is the haul from tonight, had to leave one mower and 4 catchers behind to get tomorrow:

Nice haul there Ty..yeh why spend ya cash when you can land this kind of quality for free or not much!!!

I picked up the last one today, one of the newer victa cordless electric, apparently it works, just need to get it a battery.

I'll pop up a photo soon.

Also grabbed the catchers for the 3 above without them.

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Here's the last one:

maybe try village mowers in ingleburn for the battery when you come up this way its only 10-15 minutes down the road from here i reckon they would have one they have a cordless on display.

if you do go there when you walk in the door take a few steps turn around and look up above the door you will think you are in heaven maybe stand by the fire and just look for a while i do it everytime i go there.

The two red victas and the rover would pull some great money if cleaned up . the green powertorque would be another good one provided you found a catcher that fits (heck I thikn most high arch ones from an 18" would fit)

The big tecumseh I have had a few like that, very quirky carb on them, I have never had any luck with. Worst case take the engine off the green powertorque base and bolt her on for a more "modern" looking mower!

I have the catchers for all of them, and they seem to be in good nick.

The 2 red ones are quite new, and should be good for throwing into this springs sale lot, the green one may do the same, but its on offer for trade in another thread at this point.

I'm still deciding with the Tecumseh, i have people ask me to fix them every now and then, so i may pop my spare powertorque i have on it, and use the engine for parts.

I normally don't fuss with electric ones, not really my interest, but this one apparently works (needs a battery) and is in good shape, so if i can get it up, it will go to my grandfather, who needs something light these days.

Found a little tip hidden away on a back road behind Bungendore today, they don't have a shop, just an area where locals drop and take things that are OK for free.

Picked up this Masport for nothing, so i though it would fit into this tread.




Is this engine any good, i know where there are a few more, but they are not free (all have the cords snapped too!)

The cords are a pain to replace as they are led in with a staple, otherwise if they dont have a rodnock they are a fantastic engine.

Might have to grab one of the others!

I'd grab them all even if they turn out being no good you can always take them to a local scrappy and get paid for them!

And that's after adding to my parts stock.

I'll see how many are there next time I'm in town!

That Tecumseh on the freebie, if you can get a cowling and pulley and starter off one of the others with the top starter it will go on.
Then you dont have to mess with the side starter.
I had one here with the rear mount tank (with the reversed engine on the rover rapid it was on it was actually forward mount tank) and i used one of those tanks so it had a side mount tank on it.
As long as its the same shape cowl.


That Ultima. They are a bit of a pain in the butt thing. I had one here and it was a bit of a pain. Turns out the bottom seal was leaking, i new that, but the blade plate was loose. I never checked that as i wanted it running before i spent a cent. Thats a good theory with them.
When they are working right they are a good thing.

I put my ultima engine on a late alloy base. Got good coin for it seeing as its winter. Then put a PT on the silver base and called it a silver streak. Got fair money for it too.

I'll keep it in mind, i think though, with this first one, i may try and re-do the cord as original, just to get an idea whats going on.

I have not worked on the engine before, but it's one i had frequent requests to fix up back in my victa only days, so knowing all i can about it may be useful, however once i have fixed one or two cords, i think i will take your advise and put the top starter on!

I'll have a look into the ultima, apparently it works well, just takes allot to start, so a good clean up and service, if that doesn't do it, i have plenty more to sell, so parts for customer jobs, and a PT on the base.

I have the add up again, and another 2-3 mowers to collect already, Plus something Interesting.

A lady has something described as a "Petrol Powered Lawn Roller (I think)" that is about 50 years old.

That could be a few things, and it has me quite excited, I also now know it is smaller than a normal mower.

Any idea what it could be? A small Driven roller, I dont think I have ever seen anything likethat!

I've never seen a petrol engine powered roller of less than about 2 feet diameter, and that 2 foot one weighed about a ton and was a professional item for rolling cricket pitches (long, long ago - it had been retired from use in 1958, and replaced by a bigger one with an electric motor). I've seen an unpowered heavy concrete roller only a foot diameter, and that was barely usable due to sinking into the ground (it weighed about as much as my old 20" cast iron roller). So, a wild guess: because small heavy rollers are really difficult to drag over soft ground, someone may have put an engine on one rather than increase its diameter.

Well, I have arranged to collect it tonight, so I will put up some pictures once I get home and work out what it is.

I was thinking from the way she wrote it that it would either be something like that, or that she is trying to describe a cylinder mower, either way, the age alone has my interest up.

She also has a 92 Victa for me, probably a 2 stroke, witch will be a Powertorque, so no where near as intriguing.
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Ty

Hi Ty, you've really got me intrigued now, I can't wait to see what it is either!!

This is her description, wor for word:

"We also have a very old petrol driven lawn roller (think thats what it is anyway). It used to belong to my grandfather so would be maybe 50yo. It definitely needs a new home instead of being neglected in our garage, so you could have that as well if you like."

And here is what she added today:
"The lawnmower is a 1992 model victa, 2 stroke I think, still have the manual so you can have that.
Didn�t look at the roller so not sure if it can be folded, but its not big, smaller that the mower, just a bit heavy."

Well sounds interesting.If you need a hand with it let me know.Just hope it's not too far from me.

I'll have to see, If i can get it in the car I'm fine, Otherwise i will need to go back later in the week with a trailer, And i may need some help with that!

Well don't forget my trailer is here and has been registered.

Thankyou Jeffery, I will let you know how i get on!

Ok sure thing anytime

Well, I will get photo's up of the rest of tonight's haul later, But first, Our mystery Item!!!

As it happens, 'Petrol Powered Lawn Roller' actually happens to be 'Electric Reel Mower'

Still, I'm pretty darn happy with this score, Looks to be in pretty immaculate condition too!!

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