Border view farms:This Big Bud and DMI plow are owned by a local farmer. He brings it to this plow day for people to see one of the worlds biggest plows in action. The tractor stock is about 525 hp but this one is turned up to between 600-650.
The plow is a 1 of 1. It has 21 bottoms and has a hydraulically swinging draw-bar that allows the plow to cut between 21 and 40 feet per pass. My understanding is the plow was made for the Farm Progess show back in the late 70's and I know that is came from North Dakota before arriving in NW Ohio.
The first two Big Bud tractors to come out of the Havre, Montana factory were the 250 series and were purchased on his 35,000-acre farm by Leonard M. Semenza of Semenza Farms, located between Fort Benton, Montana and Chester, Montana in 1968. The 747 tractor was originally designed by Wilbur Hensler [citation needed] and built by Ron Harmon and the Northern Manufacturing Company [1] [3] at a cost of $ 300,000. [3] This was made for Rossi Brothers, a cotton farmers Bakersfield [1] or Old River, California, [3]. It was used there for 11 years, then it was bought by Willowbrook Farms in Indialantic, Florida. Both farms used it for deep splitting. [one]
It was bought by Robert and Randy Williams, after some time of disuse, [4] and was used on this Williams Brothers' farm in 1997, within 60 miles (97 km) of where it was built in Big Sandy, Montana, Chouteau County, 8 miles per hour (13 km / h. s) will quickly pull an 80-foot (24 m) cultivator covering 1.3 acres (0.53 hectares) per minute [4]. [one]
The Canadian United Tire Company, which made the tractor's custom 8-foot (2.4m) tires, went bankrupt in 2000, and in July 2009 [3] partly contributed to the decision to stop using the tractor for regular operation. From Big Bud 747 to museums. [4]
Following his work on the farm, it was exhibited at the Heartland Acres Agribition Center in Liberation, Iowa. In 2014, the Big Bud 747 moved to the Heartland Museum in Clarion, Iowa, on loan from Williams Brothers indefinitely; The museum built a separate hut for the tractor in 2013. [4]
On 14 July 2020, Big Bud's original 8-foot-high construction tires were replaced with Goodyear LSW1400 / 30r46 tires with new wheels supplied by Williams Brothers to match them. The new tires increased the width of the Big Bud to just over 25 feet.
