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The Big Bud 747 or 16V-747 Big Bud is a large, custom-made farm tractor built in Havre, Montana in 1977. It is billed by the owners and exhibitors as the "World's Largest Farm Tractor". ==History== The tractor was originally and built by Ron Harmon and employees of his the Northern Manufacturing Company,〔〔 at a cost of $300,000. It was made for the Rossi Brothers, cotton farmers of Bakersfield〔 or Old River, California,〔 where it was used for 11 years, then it was purchased by Willowbrook Farms of Indialantic, Florida; both farms used it for deep ripping.〔 After a period of disuse, it was purchased by Robert and Randy Williams,〔 of Big Sandy, Montana, within of where it was built, in 1997. It was used on the Williams Brothers' farm in Chouteau County to pull an cultivator, covering per minute〔 at a speed up to .〔 The United Tire Company of Canada, which made the tractor's custom tires, went bankrupt in 2000, partially contributing to the decision to stop using the tractor for regular work in July 2009,〔 to move the Big Bud 747 to museums. After its work on the farm, it was displayed at the Heartland Acres Agribition Center in Independence, Iowa. In 2014, the Big Bud 747 was moved to the Heartland Museum in Clarion, Iowa, on indefinite loan from the Williams Brothers; the museum constructed a separate shed for the tractor in 2013.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Bud 747」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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