Posted on 06/19/2021 8:08:57 AM PDT by 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,”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyinterlake.com ...
Now that I read what was posted, it sounds like it preps the ground before planting only?
An excellent docu-com series following Jeremy Clarkson's adventures in farming - and of course he buys a large Mazarati tractor.
“It should crush the crops”
Read the excerpt.
[[holds 1,000 gallons of fuel]]
The crops must pay really good these days?
If you do get stuck with it, you’ll be real.y really stuck lol
Australia was one of their biggest customers. When one was delivered, a company representative would be there to teach the owners how to run and maintain the machine. The company know they had a built in customer base, as farmers always had the have a bigger machine than the neighbors.
Australia was one of their biggest customers. When one was delivered, a company representative would be there to teach the owners how to run and maintain the machine. The company know they had a built in customer base, as farmers always had the have a bigger machine than the neighbors.
Not a farmer. Don’t play one on TV. So what does it say. Does it disk or till just the once?
All they need now is a wireless control system that will let the tractor do the work while the driver has a nap or surfs the net.
There are some Youtube vids of some of these working mostly up in the Dakotas and Canada.
Scream’n Jimmy ...aka ....Detroit Diesel.
Saves on operation costs.
I doubt you need tow points on the front of this tractor. If you get an 8 wheel drive tractor stuck in the field, it stays till the field dries out.
You ain’t moving that from field to field on the highways
A lot of farmers are buying up classic tractors for less than one 6th of new and fixing them up and working them.
That is..tractors from the 60s, 70s and early 80s.
Dam tractor manufacturers are refusing to allow farmers to get hold of the computer program to diagnose problems.
So what would you do? Buy a farm tractor for over 300 grand and have the SOB break down and have to get a factory tech out to see what the hells wrong with it? Or would you sooner buy a old used tractor for 20 to 30 grand, put some money into it and run it knowing you can work on it.
I will take a Ford 9600 or similar over the new “NEW Hollands” any day. After all, Fiat owns New Holland as well as several of the other brands.
They misspelled Indialantic. It's a small beach town, which seems like an odd place for a gigantic tractor that seems more suited to Iowa or Nebraska.
Does it disk or till just the once?
It gets FARMED OUT to other framers save weeks of work.
It can chisel, plant, fertilize and cover the seeds in one operation at 80 feet wide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThteXzSQ_9s
The trouble with the old tractors is getting parts. My old Ford 4000 workhorse had a fuel pump go. Couldn’t find one at any price. Some people listed them and what they would cost but when it came time to order, it was always, ‘out of stock.’
Another big big problem with the old ones is metal fatigue. The seats give way and you suddenly find yourself under the tractor and about to be run over by what it is you are running... bush hog, sickle bar, etc.
Leading cause of death, I have heard. If you have an oldie, replace the seat and hang the old one on the barn wall.
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