Majorman question

[db4600]

In your travels have you come across an Upton tractor?

 

[jd2cyl1943]

What is an Upton tractor?

 

[db4600]

What is an Upton tractor?

Patience is a virtue and since Majorman is both more traveled and more diversified in this field than I am I want to wait to see if he can elaborate for us.

 

[Majorman]

Patience is a virtue and since Majorman is both more traveled and more diversified in this field than I am I want to wait to see if he can elaborate for us.

Heard about them and read about them but never seen one in the flesh. There were quite a few "Special" tractor built by company's and farmers in Australia.

 

[db4600]

Heard about them and read about them but never seen one in the flesh. There were quite a few "Special" tractor built by company's and farmers in Australia.

Thanks Majorman.
For JD, Upton are/ were Australian built from left over components, namely tanks. There probably wasn’t Two of them identical. The main production run was in the 70s when they reached 350hp and still hold the record for 2 wheel drive Hp.

 

[Majorman]

Thanks Majorman.
For JD, Upton are/ were Australian built from left over components, namely tanks. There probably wasn’t Two of them identical. The main production run was in the 70s when they reached 350hp and still hold the record for 2 wheel drive Hp.

I will have a word with my friend Wayne who is in South Australia and see if he knows anything more about them. I have posted pictures of the Waltana tractors, in the past, and the one made by two brothers in North Victoria that was made out of two Sherman tank transmissions.

 

[Cash4Toys]

What is an Upton tractor?

Here you go,

Upton

Upton Engineering was an Australian builder of high-horsepower 2-wheel-drive tractors from 1968 to 1978, during a time when the foreign manufacturers did not import suitable machines into Australia. Only a few local manufactures evolved from building one-off specials for there own use to...

tractors.fandom.com

 

[Janicholson]

.Big Bud, originally in Havre Montana, started for similar reasons. Land in MT is looked at in one mile X one mile sections and Farms are often 20,000 acres. The existing tractors were just not doing it. The Big Bud 747 was the big horse, but many in the 450 HP range were produced. I have had the privilege of teaching with and working around the Big Bud personnel, and being around them on the ground. Jim

A bit of that theme