Custom David Bradley Suburban

[Rustyoldjunk]

Here are some old pictures and they may not be the best.
I'm scanning illiterate to begin with and decided it would be a good idea to download a scanner on my phone and try it.
And here are my first attempts at scanning.
This is a David Bradley Suburban that I had around 14 years ago.
It had been worked over and very well done. It had a cast iron big block 10 hp Briggs swapped onto it that wouldn't have cleared the factory hood. So a Wheel Horse hood had been shortened and a riser had been added to to the front of the frame to raise it a few inches. At the rear of the hood a custom hood stand was added.
The whole tractor had been painted Wheel Horse red.
When I picked it up 14 years back it looked like fairly old build then.
When I hauled it home it had been parked a long time but with a couple of hours of tinkering and tuning it was running and driving.
A couple things stand out about this tractor to me.
It was a super cool build and a sweet little tractor with a lot of history.
It didn't get traction for snot in the snow.
And I wish I had kept this one.

 

[Lily'sDad]

Man! That's a lot of work to install a poorly fitting hood.

 

[Rustyoldjunk]

Man! That's a lot of work to install a poorly fitting hood.

Lily you are always such a ray of sunshine and encouragement.
Over the past 10 years or so I have seen you encourage so many others.
You should be proud my friend and thank you for coming thru again.
Sincerely your friend Rusty.

 

[jabelman]

so what happened to it? I am fan of these, they are getting tough to find

 

[Rustyoldjunk]

so what happened to it? I am fan of these, they are getting tough to find

Sold it on Ebay. Back then we were moving 100-150 tractors a year.
They really are fairly hard to come by these days.

 

[Lily'sDad]

Lily you are always such a ray of sunshine and encouragement.
Over the past 10 years or so I have seen you encourage so many others.
You should be proud my friend and thank you for coming thru again.
Sincerely your friend Rusty.

Aww. . . Don't mention it!

 

[jabelman]

I bought mine 4 years ago, and it was rough and missing parts, I put a lot of time and money into rebuilding it. I search pretty regularly and still have yet to see another for sale in the mid Atlantic area. they seem to be in the Midwest area.

 

[TAHOE]

Was was the ratchet thing down by steering column?
Looks like it has a square front axle?
That would make it a 63-65?

 

[Rustyoldjunk]

Was was the ratchet thing down by steering column?
Looks like it has a square front axle?
That would make it a 63-65?

It was a round front axle.
It was a 61 or earlier.
As I recall 61 was the last year for turning brakes.
The ratchet thing is a lift they added when they went thru it.

 

[Rustyoldjunk]

I bought mine 4 years ago, and it was rough and missing parts, I put a lot of time and money into rebuilding it. I search pretty regularly and still have yet to see another for sale in the mid Atlantic area. they seem to be in the Midwest area.

I got rid of 5 or 6 DB Suburbans a couple of years ago including a pretty nice round hood and 2 725's.
I haven't seen any in person or listed around here for a good while.