I've seen a bunch of David Bradley, 2 wheeled tractors for sale recently, for really cheap. How useful are they?

Do any of you have one, or have experience with one?

Keith

They were built at the Bradley Factory in Bradley Illinois, a suburb of Kankakee. My grandfather worked there back they made plow shares. That's all I know about them.

It depends on condition of course and what attachments you would have for it. If you have the front end loader, pallet forks, sickle mower, blade and plow; it sure beats doing the work by hand or working with a horse. But you'll accomplish more with a more modern tractor.

I see them at antique tractor shows and I gather there's a niche group of collectors and restorers really into them.

The concept is legit as there were others at the time like Gravely that made similar machines and there are still two wheel tractors being made today. Mostly in European or Asian markets but there are several makes imported here like the italian BCS and Grillo by EarthTools out of Kentucky. I seem to recall seeing an asian make advertised on the web as well.

I have a gravely. It works well, but I wish it had more power. I have a rotary plow which I never use, a sickle mower which I have used, and a rotary mower which I mostly use. I modified the split rims to put wide oversized tires on it and now it doesn’t get stuck as easily in wet ground.

Troy Built makes a dandy!