800 hp tractor on YT home page

Mitch

I'll have to do a bit of looking, wife took two photos of me standing by this beast and a billboard type spec sheet. I seem to recall $2,000. to fill it with fuel? Would it be a V-12 Cat or Cummins? I never did meet the owner, but the story was he had it built to pull this humungus air drill. I personally kind of wondered who would be building a drill that CaseIH, Ford NH or Deere didn't have something in their line ups to pull it. That is what the bill board claimed," Farmer buys drill so large that no current tractors can pull it." I found that one just a bit hard to swallow. I wouldn't think there would be a large market for that drill.

It kind of reminded of an old gentleman who dairy farmed in my home town, shortly after WW#2. Angus had always farmed with horses. He bought a Farmall Cub with side mount mower. His opinion was if he could mow and rake his hay with the Cub, horses, wagon and loose hayloader could do the rest, besides the missus could drive the horses as well as help some with hay loading. Now Angus had 3 sons all mechanically inclined and they had a budy just out of the milatary. These guys built more contraptions out of ex military hardware. One item was a 2nd tractor for Angus; 6 cylinder, 4x4 with two steering axles and two steering wheels. They brought tractor over to Angus and he said, " must have pistons like stove pipes." He and the missus started loading hay, he on wagon building from hayloader and she driving tractor. Angus yelled whoa, she pushed in clutch, Angus had forgotten to tell her about brakes, they were on a hill, tractor weighed about 3 ton. Away they went down the hill, at about 3 times normal speed for a hayloader, burried poor old Angus and wrecked the hayloader. Needless to say the boys got quite a tongue lashing from Angus. As I recall Angus and the missus stuck with the Cub and horses.