BIG BUD

[gitrib]

While in Iowa for reunion Big Bud was 23 miles away.
Son & son inlaw took me to see it.

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Phone camera pictures so a little blurred. Rodney the tall man is over six foot.
My wife is getting out of hospital and goes back to Nursing home today.
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[CWL]

That is a neat piece of machinery. I hope that I get a chance to see it in person sometime. I am glad that it has been restored and didn't end up in a scrap yard.

 

[Nancy Howell]

That is one BIG tractor.

What would it be used for?

 

[gitrib]

Nancy, This was used in Montana to work wheat ground I beleive. It pulled a 180 ft chisel plow. Fuel tank held 1000 gallons of diesel. Had the trailer they move it on parked outside. They take the tires off and haul them on a seperate truck trailer. If I remember right yhe whole rig weighs over 170,000 lbs.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Think there is enough power to pull your 9 foot mower?

 

[Shetland Sheepdog]

That would be an eighty foot chisel plow, not one hundred eighty! Big Bud pulls it at 6 - 7 MPH, and covers an acre a minute!

Nancy, just do a search for "Big Bud", and you will get the whole history of the worlds biggest farm tractor! Its truely one of a kind!
Dave

 

[Tom in Iowa City]

If you ask me, I think it's kind of silly.

 

[Chris in SK]

There is a few of those still working in this area. There were several different versions.

 

[Shetland Sheepdog]

Yeah, but only one 16V-747!!

 

[showcrop]

what's silly the tractor or the picture?

 

[Shetland Sheepdog]

(quoted from post at 16:26:15 07/23/10) what's silly the tractor or the picture?

Prolly Tom!

JMHO, Dave

 

[dmiller]

During the state Ag Teacher's Conference here in Montana we toured the old factory, talked to the owner (they are currently not manufacturing but still rebuild/repair their old machines and other large tractors).
The idea is that on really large farms (5,000 acre or larger) the efficiency of fuel and time is measured in acres per hour and gallons per acre. So a very large tractor that can pull insanely large implements can do the work efficiently enough to cover the acreage and still get in a timely crop without having 4 or 5 hired hands driving 4 or 5 tractors.
The formula for calculating acreage per hour is traditionally (implement width * MPH)/10.
So the 80 ft. cultivator at 8 mph can cover 64 acres an hour, one guy in a 10 hour seat day can cover 640 acres of summer fallow.
Since going to no-till these really large machines have seen their day.

 

[MartyinVa]

"Since going to no-till these really large machines have seen their day."

Something is gonna have to pull the chesiel plows or sub soilers to let the rain water get past the roots and replenish ground water from the top down. If it had a way to soak down it would not run off and take the "nutrients" into the creeks-rivers-bays.

 

[55 50 Ron]

That's not a very accurate formula for acres per hour.
80 ft X 8 MPH X 5280 ft = 3,379,200 sq ft
divided by sq ft in an acre (43,560) = 77.58 acres per hour or inaccurate by about 14 acres. So in the 10 hour day mentioned you would be short by about 140 acres. That's pretty significant!! The 10 in your formula should be about 8.25 !!

 

[fixerupper]

They're talking about land that only gets 10-15 inches of rain a year at most if their lucky and the soil is coarse textured with less clay content. Jim

 

[fixerupper]

Geez, I'm gonna have to touch up my spelling. Jim

 

[BANDITFARMER]

True American Ingenuity. Years ago a local farmer had one and it was something to see working ground. The 2 JD 4X4 working with it looked like toys next to it. One day I herd that it was stuck, so I had to go see it. It took 2 D8 cats a D6 and 2 track hoes to get her out. What a mess to clean up and one big hole to fill in! Bandit

 

[dmiller]

I'm not sure where the formula came from exactly. It was one I saw posted on here about 1 1/2 years ago.