timbertractor57

i have a cast iron and an ally radiator surround......the result of the cores being stolen for scrap pm if of use

soaring scrap prices have once again caused me grief, 7 weeks ago i had all the old batteries stolen from my yard that was bad enough but yesterday they returned and cut the cores out of all my spare matador radiators and sorted through all my new matador spares taking anything with a brass content............what is next the cores in the complete lorries ??. SO BEWARE TRUST NO ONE !!!

No, not that photo... the previous photo in post #850, The Mat, middle of shot looks like a JUV

yes that was juv, i sold that one years ago at one point that one and the automower stood in the gravel pit with the douglas john keeley bought, the one similar to yours........as far as i know juv is still near wokingham

Middle Mat looks like ex Heathrow Airport? What is its reg? Can't quite make it out.

that one is NCL 217........the picture of EDW was taken about 15 years ago , i only have one and a bit douglas loggers at the moment

I have a badge and some screws somewhere.....

no problem i sell screws and might even have some douglas timber tractors some where

Excellent news!! :thumbsup: Always liked the look of that one. Has it stayed fairly local?

no, its gone to hampshire........but it is my intention to bring it back up to suffolk when its done, ive set myself a target of next summer to have it completed.......but the cab is in a really bad state, but hey i enjoy a challenge

Over the past 25 odd years I have regularly passed a long-closed Suffolk timber yard, and would always slow to pay my respects to an old Douglas/Matador which each year disappeared a little further into the undergrowth - eventually just the front of the cab could be seen (in winter only!).

 

I got a big surprise today when passing to find the yard pretty much cleared, and the Douglas/Mat departed. But I did discover this old QL which I'd never been able to see before,it was so buried in the timber/undergrowth!

 

And whislt taking the photos I was even more amazed to see an old David Brown winch tractor - most probably ex RAF

 

 

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I purchased the matador from the yard in august and restoration is well underway,this is one of A.K.Coopers shortened matadors fitted with a unipower winch

i was lucky enough to find lift on the input shaft on my douglas diff early this year, and a new set of bearings and seal was fitted before anymore damage was done.........at least the bearings and seals are available for sensible money