Annoying bump in the lawn turns out to be tractor engine

Graham Hanna from Burns Garden could not believe what he came up with 37 years after having his lawn completely rotavated and turfed.

He decided the time was right to get to the bottom of a problem which he had put up with for almost four decades.

"I remember seeing a bump appearing within six months of the work being done but it became more like a hill so I decided to investigate," said Mr Hanna.

"I thought this will just take a couple of minutes to ease the offending piece of turf out and replace it with a new piece.

"But as I dug down I soon hit something very hard. I thought it was the root of a tree I had removed earlier, but it was soon apparent I was striking something metallic.

"I went a little deeper and the head of a bolt appeared, a little wider cut and a second bolt and a third '“ in all about eight bolt heads appeared.

"I kept digging until it was obvious I was on top of some type of engine I had uncovered and levered it onto the lawn. It weighed about a ton," said Mr Hanna.

In fact what Mr Hanna had unearthed was an old tractor engine which he believes is a remnant from a bygone era when the estate was a farm.

But Mr Hanna counts himself lucky. "The rest of the tractor is missing '“ thank goodness," he said.

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