![]() Several manufactures now offer tractors of 500 hp (370 kW) in their line-up after buying up some of the specialists manufacturers.Ĭase IH parent Tenneco bought Steiger in 1986, Ford bought Versatile in 1987, and John Deere put Wagner out of business after a contract deal that ended with Wagner no longer being about to sell tractors as a competitor during the late 60s and early 70s. An implement company with locations around the state of Montana. In Early 2017 it was reported that the former Big Bud factory is being used by That Guys Fab Shop and owned by Torgerson's LLC. There were also models built in what is known as "Iranian-Gold" which were sent to Iran. These are unique in livery, and some of them have been rebuilt or customized. The last Big Bud rolled off the line in 1992.įive different Big Bud models were built and painted in what has come to be known as "Bafus Blue" for the Bob Bafus of the Oregon-based Bafus Farms. Production slowed in the late 1980s due to the farming recession and increasing competition from mainstream manufactures building ever bigger tractors. The company went bankrupt in the early 1980s and was bought up by the Meissner Brothers in 1985. ![]() Semenza of Semenza Farms in 1968 (in the 'Golden Triangle' of the Montana plains) located between Fort Benton, Montana, and Chester, Montana, on his 35,000 acre farm. ![]() The first two Big Bud articulating rubber-wheel tractors out of the Harve, Montana plant were the 250-series and were purchased by Leonard M. The company has built a range of high horse power tractors for use in the prairies of America and the Canadian wheat belt. ![]()
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