The new Big Equipment Co. facility in Havre, Mont., has two Big Buds parked out front, one of which is the famous 747 that Ron Harmon build. HAVRE, Mont. – The Big Bud 16V-747, the world’s largest ...
The tractor talked. Every spring, Alan Brecka drove by a massive steel frame beckoning just off the turnrow. Despite scars on the belly and rubber rot after a 40-year slumber in 8” of dirt, she was ...
Big Equipment Co. has led the agriculture industry in rebuilding and custom-building older tractors for farmers, many of them Big Buds. Without computerized systems, these tractors worked the fields, ...
HAVRE, Mont. – The Big Bud 16V-747, the world’s largest tractor with 1,100 horsepower, is parked outside the Big Equipment Co. building in Havre. Only one 747 was ever built, but from the mid-1970s to ...