Modern day David Brown 780

Devil's advocate · May 19, 2022

Which new tractor gives a driving experience, close to a David Brown 780?

I'm nostalgic for my youth, traveling the farm with my DB 780 & Grays delux tipping 5 foot transport box, picking up dead sheep, carrying walling toppers & milk churns to top up baths used as troughs.

spin cycle · May 19, 2022

Devil's advocate said:
Which new tractor gives a driving experience, close to a David Brown 780?

I'm nostalgic for my youth, traveling the farm with my DB 780 & Grays delux tipping 5 foot transport box, picking up dead sheep, carrying walling toppers & milk churns to top up baths used as troughs.

nostalgic about 'picking up dead sheep' i salute you sir

tafe might fit the bill :scratchhead:

Wellytrack · May 20, 2022

You could just buy any modern small tractor then in the evening rip your own coat or trouser pockets off to simulate the Katana like searing sharpness of the hand throttle.

Moors Lad · May 20, 2022

Wellytrack said:
You could just buy any modern small tractor then in the evening rip your own coat or trouser pockets off to simulate the Katana like searing sharpness of the hand throttle.

?????? I must be thick but this might as well be a foreign language except the words seem familiar....

Horn&corn · May 20, 2022

Devil's advocate said:
Which new tractor gives a driving experience, close to a David Brown 780?

I'm nostalgic for my youth, traveling the farm with my DB 780 & Grays delux tipping 5 foot transport box, picking up dead sheep, carrying walling toppers & milk churns to top up baths used as troughs.

Get a really tidy 780. Much cheaper and more reliable than a new tractor. No computer errors!

Netherfield · May 20, 2022

I thought the desire for a 'like new David Brown' wore off after actually usin

g one.

Farmer Roy · May 20, 2022

I have only had experience with 2 David Browns

one, on a farm in England, was some shitty old thing I could hardly get in & out of because of gear levers n stuff, that had a heavy hedge trimmer on the back of it that was too big for it. Fuching things was a death trap

the other one, was owned by an uncle of mine & was basically used to run a large PTO auger at his silo complex. I think he only bought it because it also had “Case” written on the bonnet . . .

neither of these tractors have ever created ANY desire to ever drive another one

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