Big Bud

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!

The Title of Luxury

If you have ever watched a James Bond movie then you’ve probably seen some kind of Aston Martin. The Aston Martins has a fine legacy of being a top designed and speedy roadster. These cars need little introduction in the car world and not just because of Bond. Too bad in the boring normal world the Aston Martin isn’t built with missiles that can come out of the headlights.
The Aston Martin is British manufactured in Gaydon, London. The car company was founded in 1913 and since then has kept it head above waters to build a legacy of luxury. It has change owners upon numerous occasions and has been in at least 10 movies from what I have found out. They have three award winning cars; the DB9, DB9 Volante, and the prestigious V8 Vantage.
Enough about Bond and all the little facts though, what you need to know is what Aston Martin has in store for the world. What I am talking about is the V12 Vantage RS Concept car. The 6.0 liter V12 engine is expected to have around 600hp propelling the car to 100 mph in under 8.5 seconds. The newly designed car has a 0-60 speed of less than 4.0 seconds making it the fastest produced Aston Martin EVER!!!
I watched James bond last night and honestly it made me want one so bad. The best part about Aston Martin vehicles is that you seriously cannot go wrong. There is no runt of the liter! From 1913 to 2008 to beyond, you can’t go wrong. So for now I can dream, but maybe someday I will be able to add an Aston martin to my Car collection.