What is it with people using backhoes, trackhoes, excavators and such? Very few of them use them to their greatest potential. Most just try to stick and boom it in. When the curl of the bucket can generate so much more force.
The first two Big Bud tractors to come out of the Havre, Montana plant were the 250 series and were purchased in 1968 by Leonard M. Semenza of Semenza Farms on his 35,000-acre farm located between Fort Benton, Montana and Chester, Montana. The 747 tractor was originally designed by Wilbur Hensler [citation needed] [3] and built by Ron Harmon and his Northern Manufacturing Company employees [1] [4] at a cost of $300,000. [4] Rossi Brothers was made for cotton farmers in Bakersfield [1] or Old River, California. [4] Used there for eleven years; later acquired by Willowbrook Farms. Indianlantic, Florida . Both farms used it for deep uprooting.
In 1997, after a period of disuse, Big Sandy was purchased by Robert and Randy Williams [5] of Montana within 60 miles (97 km) of where it was built. It was used on Williams Brothers' farm in Chouteau County to haul a cultivator 80 feet (24 m) covering 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) per minute [5] at a speed of up to 8 miles per hour (13 km/h). ).
The United Tire Company of Canada, which made the tractor's custom 8-foot (2.4 m) tires, went bankrupt in 2000 and partially contributed to the decision in July 2009 to discontinue normal use of the tractor and [4] relocate the tractor. Big Bud 747 to museums.
After her work on the farm she was exhibited at the Heartland Acres Agription Center in Independence, Iowa. In 2014, Big Bud 747 was moved to the Heartland Museum in Clarion, Iowa, on indefinite loan to the Williams Brothers; The museum built a separate hangar for the tractor in 2013.
On July 14, 2020, Big Bud's original eight-foot-long construction tires were replaced with Goodyear LSW1400/30r46 tires (just under 7 feet),[6][7] new wheels supplied by Williams Brothers to fit them. The new tires increased the width of the Big Bud to just over 25 feet.
The Big Bud 747 returned to the Williams Brothers ranch near Big Sandy, Montana, in September 2020, where it once again worked the farm land with an 80-foot wide FRIGGSTAD chisel plow.
