POWERFUL PERFORMER DAVID BROWN 25D

Robbie Thorpe has a large and very varied collection of tractors and machinery at his home in Lincolnshire, but if you push him on the matter, he will probably say his main affinity would lie with the Yorkshire-built David Brown tractors. After all, he still owns his grandfather’s David Brown Cropmaster that was bought new back in 1951 complete with two David Brown ploughs, wheel strakes and a David Brown potato coverer.

This brings us to the subject of this article; a similar but later David Brown creation - a 25D. Robbie kindly got it out of the shed and put it to work for me with the David Brown potato coverers that had been used with his old Cropmaster. Although no potatoes were actually being planted, the machine was just being put through its paces on some especially drawn ridges for my benefit.

Following the Cropmaster

The design of the David Brown 25D can be traced back