[AT] in cab refrigerators?

[Larry Goss]

It's been here at the SIAM show at least once, and there was lots of pooh-poohing about it not being the "real" Big Budd, but it is.  There are several models.  The one that appears here (Evansville) is "home".  the owner farms Ohio river bottom land and has both the Big Budd and a Steiger.  He had the Steiger at a local show about three weeks ago, and I picked his brain a bit about the law and permits necessary to move a piece of equipment of that size on the highway.

Kate, editor of LAGC Magazine, has driven Big Budd, and did an article on it for one of their magazines a year or so ago.  I looked through my collection of LACG Magazine last night, but didn't find it.  That tells me it appeared in Vintage Tractor, or Belt Pulley, or one of their other publications.  LAGC is sponsoring a "National Extravaganza" during the SIAM show in June 2012.

Larry 

----- Original Message -----
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Gene, the Big Budd tractor made an appearance at a tractor show somewhere in 
the Mid West last year.  I don't remember exactly where.
I'd like to see the two you were talking about with the sleepers in them.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Gene Dotson
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:51 PM
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    I 1976, I attended Farmfest '76 in Lake Crystal, Minnesota. This was
during the sesquicentennial for the nation and this was the major show for
agriculture. On didplay there were two custom built tractors, shop built for
a large farm somewhere in the northern plains. One tractor was powered by a
Cummins engine and the othe was Detroit powered. Both of these tractors had
very large cabs and included a refrigerator, stove and a bunkbed. The owner
said the tractor was sent out on Monday morning with two drivers and
provisions for the whole week. The crew worked straight through till Friday
night and only stopped for fuel and more provisions. One slept in the
tractor while the other drive was on duty. Imagine the ares they would cover
in this time.

    Also on display was the Bug Bud tractors and a double articulated
Steiger with two engines and 6 wheel drive. This was a prototype and didn't
demonstrate it, for fear it would break down in front of all the spectators.
Nothing came of this project. Wonder if it still exists? Maybe needed a
multi-engine rating to operate it?

                    Gene



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> Seems to me that Massey offered a microwave oven in one of their big four
> wheel drive tractors some years ago. It and a fridge too would be handy
> but
> not likely something I would order on a new tractor (in the unlikely event
> that I should ever be buying a new tractor or combine.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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>> Saw an ad for the newly designed Deere combines. They now have a
>> refrigerator in the cab. I think it is safe to say we just don't have the
>> caliber of men in this country that we used to. Either that or all the
>> tales the old timers told of 16 hour days and working all night in the
>> fields by the light of the moon were a bunch of BS.
>>
>> John Hall
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