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Title: Identification please
Post by: Baz on May 29, 2008, 22:20

Can someone ID this ride-on? please
I think its american and the name starts with an "M"

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Rustic/ALLOTMENT-ETC/trac1.jpg)

Briggs n Sratton engine

Thanks

Title: Identification please
Post by: Bigbadfrankie on May 29, 2008, 22:40

I have no idea Baz but it looks a cracker. its not in the bible (70 years of garden machinery)

Title: Identification please
Post by: Baz on May 30, 2008, 00:51

I found out after an internet search, finishing up on ebay

Its a Murray..........there's several on ebay, and thats where this ones going

I bought it from a mate who dabbles in such stuff, wanting to use it as a yard tractor, but when I first took a ride on it, out on the road, in first gear it must have reached 10 mph!.................and it was impossible to go slow....... ie under 5mph

Further enquirys, and I learned it had been geared for mower racing,  this making it pretty useless for what I wanted  :( ..........and I can't be fussed with changing sprockets/chains etc ..........still, somebody will probably want it  :)

Title: Identification please
Post by: dorimower on May 30, 2008, 06:58

Murray riders of this type and also tractor type used be sold badged as Mountfield..thus painted red (silver at one time)...more recently they have been associated with Hayter in green.

With Mountfield they tended to be known by size of cut/engine hp....page255 has the smallest engined model M25/5...but for spares the actual model designation was important.

"Dori"

Title: Identification please
Post by: Baz on May 31, 2008, 11:19

Thanks for the explanation, Don, and that connection with Hayter, explains the colour, the other ones i've found,  are  red