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Mjalloh2008

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My question today is about a David Brown Tractor, I am new in the business, i am trying to bu a tractor, at least a used tractor and someone showed a David Brown 1200, what will think and say to someone buying a tractor like that for the first time, Is is durable, is it effective in the farm, Is it repairable, are there parts for it. please give me your recommendation about the entire machine, especially for someone trying to buy his first tractor. thanks
Mohamed.
 

They were good tractor, you are talking a 45 year old tractor now.

CaseIH might still carry parts, plus after market.

David Brown was very popular in the UK and Canada.
 

The first thing is to establish what you want to do with it, so that you are looking at tractors in the right horsepower range and equipment such as front wheel assist. Parts availability and repairability don't mean anything if the tractor can't even start to do the job.
 
David Brown tractors were very popular where I lived in the late '60s and early '70s. Not many left anymore. The 1200 is about 65 pto horsepower. It has the features that make it useful. The David Brown line was merged into Case about 1969. Case continued to market the basic design until the IH merger.
 
Like Jal says, the guys over on the Case forum will give you more info. I have a David Brown 1210 and just spent four hours on mine discing a fallow field.
 


Great tractors, fantastic on fuel, parts are readily available. They don't have powershift transmissions, great brakes or a lot of bells and whistles. They are not real good as far as getting on and off. If the price was right I'd grab it in a heartbeat.
 
(quoted from post at 06:35:02 04/12/20)

Great tractors, fantastic on fuel, parts are readily available. They don't have powershift transmissions, great brakes or a lot of bells and whistles. They are not real good as far as getting on and off. If the price was right I'd grab it in a heartbeat.
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Bret, I had a Brown built Case 1490 with a 4 speed power shift
 
(quoted from post at 13:21:24 04/12/20)
(quoted from post at 06:35:02 04/12/20)

Great tractors, fantastic on fuel, parts are readily available. They don't have powershift transmissions, great brakes or a lot of bells and whistles. They are not real good as far as getting on and off. If the price was right I'd grab it in a heartbeat.
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Bret, I had a Brown built Case 1490 with a 4 speed power shift
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1200 doesn't have a powershift.
 
A neighbor had a DB 1200 back in the day. My recollection is that it would make a decent field work tractor for a smaller farmer if priced right. Biggest drawbacks; I thought it was bigger than it needed to be, a PITA to get on and off, and "clumsy" for tractor in its hp range. I had a DB 880 that I was happy enough with; like most tractors from over the pond in those days, it sipped fuel.

Jim
 
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