World's largest farm tractor coming to Kalispell

Daily Inter Lake ^ | 19 June 2021 | JEREMY WEBER

[DUMBGRUNT]

It stands 14 feet tall, holds 1,000 gallons of fuel and can work close to an acre-and-a-half a minute.

At 36,000 pounds, its eight 8-foot-tall tires alone weigh as much as a conventional farm tractor.

“We just kind of spiffed it up and took it out and farmed with it,” Robert Williams said. “This tractor has never just sat around. It has worked its whole life.”

PULLING AN 80-foot tiller at speeds up to 8 miles per hour, Big Bud can work approximately 1.4 acres of ground per minute with a fuel economy of three-quarters of a gallon per acre.

“If you look at the tractor, it has an engine that was built in Detroit. The tractor was built in Havre and the tires were made in Iowa. This tractor is 100% American-made, which is pretty rare these days,”

[DUMBGRUNT]

A rolling thunder all by its self?

[redangus]

But does it run on electricity?

[Robert DeLong]

It should never get bogged down in the fields. 8>)

[Texas Eagle]

It holds 1,000 gallons of fuel

Great. Just the kind of vehicle I get stuck behind at the gas station.

[Robert DeLong]

Nope:

It stands 14 feet tall, holds 1,000 gallons of fuel and can work close to an acre-and-a-half a minute.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A tractor this size would have the gas truck make a farm delivery.

[Dusty Road]

Deliver hell! It would following it.

[Texas Eagle]

The hell you say!

[DUMBGRUNT]

And no obvious tow points on the front in the photo?

[Kickass Conservative]

Three deuces and a four speed, on a three eighty nine.

[SES1066]

It is definitely 747-sized! Does it come with its own pit-crew?

[Truth29]

I don’t know that I would publicize this beast. The environmental left will notice, get involved, and try to screw things up.

[Huskrrrr]

Trac-a-saurus!

[Ben Hecks]

Caution: Do not sit on metal thingies attached to mufflers!

[Pontiac]

You would think that with all the problems that farmers are having with computer operated tractors recently that these people would want to keep this tractor operating as long as they could.

[Vaquero]

It should crush the crops

[knarf]

BigBud747

[Robert DeLong]

You would think that would be the case. Perhaps they have to plant the crops accordingly? 8>)

[Organic Panic]

...along with an endless stream of Californians.

[TexasGator]

44 years old. To be retired soon, too many re-tiring issues.