HOBBY HORSEPOWER

I spent a lot of my childhood on a farm belonging to a friend of my father’s. Bobby Moffett worked with cattle, pigs, cereals and spuds,” says David, as he explains how his interest in tractors began. “I learned to drive on Bobby’s 135. His other tractor at the time was a 165, which was traded in for a 185. That was followed by a 690 2WD, a 698T 4WD and then a 399.”

The TE-F20

David remembers all these tractors really well, it was a major part of growing up but he was to start his working life outside of farming. “In my first job I was the office boy for a refrigerated transport firm with lorries going all over Europe. At that time computers were just coming into the job and being the youngster in the office, I picked the system up