foster wheels

[windmiller78]

chris give martin shepard a call he's got some, they'd be worth about 100-150£ they're in good order, but check first that your hubs will fit as the cast iron hubs use a tapered spigot/ axle and some of the iron ones aren't or are smaller/ larger. I can't remember but it'd be worth getting a vernier round it first other wise you may be into sleeving axles/ boring wheels.

[8_10 Brass Cleaner]

Chris

I'll give you are more accurate valuation on a set of iron wheels. I'd buy all the sets I could get at £150-200.

The shepherd hut builders love them, they go mad if you either have axles or the stubs.

Oddly i find a matching set of wheels is worth more like Piers valuation of a decent box.

[Ransomes AM54]

^ ^ ^ That would be about my limit, price wise; but then I am not a shepherd's hut builder..!

Hedd's quite right though, I sold a set of iron wheels from a rotten straw elevator to a hut-builder for more than enough to fund the purchase of a very tidy straw elevator with plenty of cash to spare.

[windmiller78]

Originally Posted by 8_10 Brass Cleaner

Chris

I'll give you are more accurate valuation on a set of iron wheels. I'd buy all the sets I could get at £150-200.

The shepherd hut builders love them, they go mad if you either have axles or the stubs.

Oddly i find a matching set of wheels is worth more like Piers valuation of a decent box.

in which case hedd why did you sell a set on ebay for 130£? I was under bidder to put them on the bailer?
it's staying on landrover rubbers for now....

most I paid for a drum was 1500, though that had family history so to me was priceless, least paid I was given them. I currently have 3 a foster a ransomes and a humphries, 2 working and one project. I agree having scrapped one before for parts, and that's not so so easy as it sounds if your going to salve all the shafts and the bearings metal parts etc, etc.... weigh in around 200£ plus wheels, the fronts may make shepard huts but the rears are too big and in honesty both are too heavy, better off with straw elevator or similar, they do fit on portables though...and could make a tender cart...