JANESVILLE — They say everything is bigger in Texas. Those folks haven’t been to Clarion, Iowa, or Janesville, Minnesota, for that matter. Paul Beckstrand has been to both and he has a tale to tell ...

When you think of big machines, tractors probably don't top the list. But once you meet Big Bud, that changes fast. The Big Bud 747 isn't your average farm tractor. It's literally the Goliath of ...

WEBVTT 59;29 IT'S SO BIG IT'S ALMOST CLUMSY IN PLACES." 31 The world's largest tractor is right here in Central Iowa. And it takes two trailers to move it. Reporter Vanessa Peng and photojournalist ...

Ron Harmon, owner of Big Equipment Co. LLC and the builder of the Big Bud 747, said he will be displaying designs of the new Big Bud tractors at an industry show this week. “We at Big Equipment, along ...

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 ...

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 ...