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[Kodiakmac]

the loopholes in Canadian immigration policy are big enough to drive an 880 through. :D

[celliott]

Did anyone see the 880 they brought to the Rangeley logging museum this summer for the parade and logging festival? I got to see it. Wow, photos do not do them justice. What a big machine! 
Looks like it's been awhile since it's been worked.

[Walnut Beast]

Absolutely impressive. On the subject of big. Big Bud tractors have come to life after 40 years and they have a new 700hp one out. A guy on Facebook posted in the comments that back in the day with the massive implements they were farming 32,000 acres and doing 2,000 acres a day. 

Here is the new one
https://agupdate.com/farmandranchguide/news/state-and-regional/new-big-bud-700-tractor-unveiled-at-con-agg-show/article_b041c54c-d20d-11ed-898b-b374c178f1d7.html

[thecfarm]

Walnut Beast, thanks for the update.

[reride82]

Absolutely impressive. On the subject of big. Big Bud tractors have come to life after 40 years and they have a new 700hp one out. A guy on Facebook posted in the comments that back in the day with the massive implements they were farming 32,000 acres and doing 2,000 acres a day.

Here is the new one
https://agupdate.com/farmandranchguide/news/state-and-regional/new-big-bud-700-tractor-unveiled-at-con-agg-show/article_b041c54c-d20d-11ed-898b-b374c178f1d7.html

It's only been about 30 years, I think about 1991 when their last tractor rolled off the assembly line. The most common tractor they produced  for our area was the 525 which used the 1150 cu in Cummins motor. Usually they pulled a 65 foot cultivator at around 6mph which would give you about 45-50 acres/hr or about a 1,200 acres a day. In the 70's through the 90's when there was a bunch of prairie in eastern Montana and the Dakota's being broken up into tillable ground, it wasn't unheard of to have 2,000 acres a day being plowed up and ready for cropland. Usually there was a fleet of 4 of these tractors running with plows having spikes, shovels/sweeps, and harrows.
I have a few friends that work for Ron Harmon, and that tractor was finished at the Expo, nothing like the last minute :D Ron has made a great name rebuilding the old tractors as they were fairly component based. They had a big fire a few years ago on their rebuild shop and managed to move into a local fabrication shop recently. John Deere and Case have made it difficult for the average farmer to repair their own equipment, which has made a comeback feasible for Big Bud. Which is good since Ron is running out of the old Big Buds to rebuild. Partnering with CAT also gives them an impressive drivetrain that meets the more stringent EPA regs that has been an issue in later years.