Tractor & Farming Heritage

FAREWELL DAVID BROWN

This month I should have been sorting out some bits and pieces on the David Brown, or should I say more than I have. The ignition/starter switch needed changing because a certain “numpty” broke the key off in the switch barrel the last time I used the tractor back in the early autumn.

Quick change

Now that my mother-in-law’s house has sold, I no longer have her paddock to mow, so we have decided to put the tractor up for sale. I had a text message from my son that he had an interested party that wanted to come and have a look at the tractor, leaving me to fit the switch and refit the battery as it had been in the shed on charge.

Changing the switch was

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