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 ...
Awesome!!!! Thanks for the link!
So cool!!!
Right handy for the large farms saves time = saves money.
Never had a problem getting parts for Ford Tractors.
Water pumps for example, I would go to NAPA, as long as I had the part number, and get them there.
And Ford tractors were great for water pump problems.
Select-o-speed parts might be a problem.
Yep the ol’ select-o-speed.
Bulldozer. 8>)
8-foot tall tires???
Now Jeremy Clarkson wants one.
https://www.amazon.com/Clarksons-Farm-Season-1/dp/B095RHJ52R
I watched all 8 episodes this past week.
Top job and really interesting. Top Gear In Retirement kind of deal. :)
Needs a cow or human catcher...no? Wonder how the cost per acre vs a typical large tractor works out. Considering all factors.
—”Does it come with its own pit-crew?”
YES!
Full live-in accommodations for two are provided in the back.
Their primary function is to schedule the fueling truck and man the hose.
Easiest transmission ever to work on. Most misunderstood and yet with a tad bit of more engineering, could have been made to work properly.
The problem with it was the control valve.
They just replaced the engine, appears they will be putting it to use.
Lots of videos of it in action.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Big+Bud+747+farm+tractor
Second to last paragraph says that they are planning to retire the tractor and are looking for a place to put it on display.
I have been looking for a bit bigger lawnmower, but not sure this one is big enough.
NICE FIND!
To see it working added another dimension to the size and power.
Thanks
—”The crops must pay really good these days?”
See the video in #17.
They explain mention a narrow time frame to get in and get out of the field.
TIME IS MONEY.
—”control system that will let the tractor do the work while the driver has a nap or surfs the net.”
GPS auto-steering, standard or optional on most large tractors today.
Bug Bud and 500 similar tractors were built in the 1970’s.
WOW!
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