The idle tick over on these , due to the flywheel in major part, is slow and sublime!

Does it say to use grease in the manual? As the points felts are soaked in engine oil usually.

The F12 is a lovely engine, super smooth and ticks over at such a low rpm.

A really enjoyable video. I picked up a MK 5 last July. It hadn’t been used for 16 years but had been serviced prior to being stored. It was set up perfectly still cutting paper and came with the grease gun, spanner and back lapping tool.

I have a mk3 and the cylinder is still fully true and cuts all the way along. Shows how good the quality of the steel was back then!

Thanks MrJones, what a lovely mower, such a great design, I have spent many hours mowing with Qualcast Panthers and while they can be made to run and cut OK they are sadly a poor comparison to this mower. Our neighbour, when I was growing up, had one of these and that tick tick of the split rear roller and the whirr of the cylinder is very evocative ! I still have my Panther from the early 80s, and a couple of the Qualcast side wheeled models, but mostly use my 1998 Atco Balmoral and Honda Rotary now, I always fancied the 16" Atco Super Clipper, but they stopped making them so had to settle for the Panther. This makes me want to dig out the Panther and see what I can do to get in running well, and perhaps I'll look out for a vintage Super Clipper too, I have subscribed and will be going back over your content, thanks !

My mate mark was going to bring a Mk5 to you to be sharpened.. I wonder if that is his one .. good video mate

I have an ex local authority one of these to restore, it has a brass plate with the la shortened name and asset number. I need front rollers and wooden handles. It has a box but I think it's not original or for it but it does fit

What a lovely mower i would love to own something like that, Thanks for posting.

Hello Mr Jones I enjoy your videos they are all interesting . I own a Ransome ajax mk4 I keep it sharp and well serviced and like you say easy to use . You can back lap the cutters from the large gear wheel with a tool that screws into it and just wind backwards. That is also a good idea of yours removing the 2 gear wheels . A question can you remove the two inner front rollers on a mk5 that leaves two smaller ones for cutting longer grass ? Regards Brian.

Hy, Mikky here, i'm wondering, for the side cover, would you torque the bolts up, and if so, would it be the same torque spec you used on the Bearing cap...80 inch pounds? Thank you.

Hya, i just wanted to say how informative and easy going i found your site, and which i found tonight---(17/06/2024)---and showing the Old Lawnmower Club rally of 2024. I've two Suffolk Punches from the mid to late 1970's, both with aluminium engines, and both requiring loads of TLC!---(When i say ''loads'', i mean, ''to be rebuilt''!!!). I have however, a box or two of spares for them. I have a another Suffolk, this one a Super Colt(?) This one last run about four years ago, and is complete, though i've no spares for it. As i was scrolling through your videos--(which i WILL binge watch, paying particular attention to your 'Suffolk' videos!!)--i came across your Stihl 137cc video, ''dicing with the devil''! This video also piqued my interest, not only because of the beast that it is, but because of Stihl's latest saw, the Stihl M881. I have four chainsaws of my own, NONE of them Stihl's, and NONE of them even coming close to the power of the M881, which is a baby compared to the one you own! Stihl's new 'unit' is a mere 122cc, so, big enough really, but compared to your 137cc.....a REAL BEAST!! I am so sorry to have gone on, but i think i'm here to stay now! There are so many good and able Lawnmower sites, and i keep looking for that ''special'' site...seems i've found it! Your's most sincerely, Mikky---(on his wiofe's computer.....Shhh!!)---from North East Scotland.

Quite a service ritual to the mower before actually cutting the grass. Modern mowers amount to filling the tank and checking the oil once in a while. Having said that, I can't see the mower I have being around in a 100+ years. Wonderful old machinery and a great video.

What a small world! I know the 2 people who run the motor company there ahaha. Brilliant mower 👍

What a Fab Show, great to see youngsters collecting and showing keeping the hobby alive for the future - Great mowers and explainations !!

Very nice find, that spray is worth its weight in gold on vintage nuts & bolts, & sound is fine !!

They look better in green with red blades, the original colour was horrible.

They should have let you blokes trim up the grounds before the rally. You probably already know this, but in the US, what you refer to as bushes we refer to as 'bushings.' On account of they bush things. And the agricultural-style reciprocating blade is known here as a 'sickle bar.'

Great video

Great video Milton Keynes is in Buckinghamshire! Thanks

Very cool

Designed on a dustbin lid 'eh! That explains why my 1965 Hayterette looks like a dustbin lid with wheels. 😂

Man i need to get myself up there one year.... Good video mate

Do you think an enterprising user with the ability to machine new gears could convert this to a chain drive or helical gear drive, and modify the ratio?

I had to turn the volume up to 250%, then down to 200% Bet it beats a motor mower. Less pollution, maybe less noise pollution (though yours is quite noisy!), no having to pull the engine to give it a crank (easier if you're strong but can't extend your arm very far). Many reel-type mowers are being made for the North American market nowadays, in widths from 14 to 20 inches (in proper money, 355.6 mm to 508 mm) as well as even wider, but I bet they're a poor imitation of this, and they use wheels rather than a roller for the drive. I intend to use such a poor imitation mower to scalp (!) my lawn so that plants I actually want can grow in its place. You never mentioned using an old fashioned scythe to crop the oversized grass! That said, I doubt such a thing would work very well, as I've tried it. It's better for whacking weeds that occur in open spaces.

Thank you for showing us your progress, Both mowers look amazing👍

Regarding the date, I think 1975 is certainly very close. I have a similar '72 brochure (not accessible right now) but from memory everything looks about the same. I believe that by the later 70's the plastic air filter was being used. I have a 12" model that was purchased many years ago from the original owner who said he bought it in 1976. That looks identical to the brochure other than it had a plastic air filter.

Awesome! It sounds as if the blades are too tight to the breadknife?

What a lovely wee machine. The grass box is very cute. But 8"! And those low handles!

I never see Suffolk mowers here in New England USA but would love to try one! Great video!

Being in the colonies, we got all the export stuff as you might imagine. My Morris minor has a dusty road oil bath air filter rather than the steel mesh that the UK got for example. Generally stuff like exhausts and air filters I find to be different on many small engines. But it extends to Japanese imports as well, my mitsubishi ute has different steel pressings in the tray. And sometimes the paint and interior of things are local market specific. All because of import tariffs, a certain percentage of things had to be made local to avoid large taxes on imported goods. Also why things were imported as CKD complete knock down kits to assemble here. Keep the locals working

Come mow my 2500 acres with that I sure like it. 😅😅😅

Lovely mower mate .. sounds the business

Thats a nice compact design. Maybe a mic for next time, the far shots were a bit quiet

SOUNDS NICE . I HAVE A SUFFOLK SQUIRE LAWNMOWER LIKE YOURS.👍

Oh wow i want to go. I think the closest here is the vintage machinery club that occasionally get the mowers out

That machine is proof things were made to work well and last. I must say the price of a McDonald's breakfast is a reasonable price for a great camera lady. Great video.

We used to have them kind of Mowers here in the states, but I don’t see them here anymore. Gotta get me a camera lady.

Nice mower.. think I have one of these somewhere.. got mine off this lovely gent.. for the life of me I can't remember his name.....

Cracking mower, they certainly built them to last! Thank you for sharing your day with us, and to the camera lady for filming it..hope she enjoyed the Mcdonalds lol

Hello I just subscribed after mick the mower man said you had a great channel.

Amazing stuff!

Can't hear you very well.

Thanks, got the Mug to go with it !

Nice hoodie....

That looked quite the struggle, a job for an octopus! If you need to do that again you might find it easier to drill all the holes in the steel first then put in the first four screws to get it all lined up then wrap a ratchet strap round the belly of the beast to draw it all in.

Wonderful video, thank you for sharing 👍

Fine bit of fabricating looks like it is coming along well ! Keep us posted would like to see how that works out .

Good effort.. its a lot of hard work.. and thr rewards will show in the end.. hope all is good

That really is a good looking mower, Thanks for posting 👍