Driving home from Purdue back to Indiana I noticed a lot of corn. Granted I’ve lived my whole life on the west side of Indianapolis, I really only see this much corn when I’m like 20 minutes from home. For those of you who take interstate 65 back to where ever is your home town you know what I’m talking about. Besides the open road, all you see is corn and gas stations but mostly corn. It kind of intrigues me to see the monstrous machines chewing threw the corn and ending up with just the neatly corn ear. But all of the corn made me think of tractors and then I asked myself I wonder how big the biggest tractor in the world is?
It name, BIG BUD. Built by a northern manufacturing company in 1978, It is 14 feet high and 20 feet wide! The sucker weighs 100,000 pounds. It need eight, yes eight, 8 feet tall tires to drive this mammoth of a machine. The gas tank holds 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Its powered by a V-16, 1,472 cu.in. that pushes out around 900 horses. The best part about this machine of all machines it its work load.
This tractor can honestly pull anything so it has no trouble pulling its 80-foot wide chisel plow. Big Bud can till 800 to 900 acres in a day. In words you and I can recognize, a square mile is roughly 640 acres; so, it can till about one and a half square miles in a day. Big Bud cost $300,000 when it was made, but today it would be worth around $600,000. That’s more than my house; I don’t think I would want to live in that thing. I guess it’s a good thing it does its job very well.
Competitors may try and match the supreme results that Big Bud creates but none come close. John Deere’s 9520 may be a close as it gets, and really it’s a little more than half of this tractors size. Big Bud really is a massive tractor. It would be pretty awesome to get a hay ride in this tractor for Halloween!
It name, BIG BUD. Built by a northern manufacturing company in 1978, It is 14 feet high and 20 feet wide! The sucker weighs 100,000 pounds. It need eight, yes eight, 8 feet tall tires to drive this mammoth of a machine. The gas tank holds 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Its powered by a V-16, 1,472 cu.in. that pushes out around 900 horses. The best part about this machine of all machines it its work load.
This tractor can honestly pull anything so it has no trouble pulling its 80-foot wide chisel plow. Big Bud can till 800 to 900 acres in a day. In words you and I can recognize, a square mile is roughly 640 acres; so, it can till about one and a half square miles in a day. Big Bud cost $300,000 when it was made, but today it would be worth around $600,000. That’s more than my house; I don’t think I would want to live in that thing. I guess it’s a good thing it does its job very well.
Competitors may try and match the supreme results that Big Bud creates but none come close. John Deere’s 9520 may be a close as it gets, and really it’s a little more than half of this tractors size. Big Bud really is a massive tractor. It would be pretty awesome to get a hay ride in this tractor for Halloween!
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Too funny!
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