I love the older tractors. You have an awsome collection. I remember a gentleman in his late 70s by Billings Monatana had 4 builds plus outside. I had to stop . He gave my wife and i a tour , what an education. May i ask where you are located?
Amazing line of tractors, the amount of money and time needed to restore all those tractors would be insane. Good to see, I actually like most of those lines of tractors.
Nice 'walk around' , thanks for the descriptions too. The Raygo Wagner caught my attention, as I worked for a large Raygo dealer in Canada back in the 1970's. We sold and rented the Raygo vibratory drum rollers. We, at the time, enjoyed a very popular sales business in this Roller series for soils and asphalt compaction. I still have a couple of the Raygo service manuals . Thanks again for the walk through (my) memory lane !
I remember working on the assembly line when the Pink Panter came down the line. Never saw it in pink buy in primer as it was headed for the body shop to get it's pink paint job. I eventually became a welder and welded up a few of the Tiger rear frames also. Otherwise was a rear frame welder for Steiger for 17 years. The Tiger, 427 horse 6 cylinder touted a 24 hour fuel supply.
Don that is great history. Thank you for sharing. Could you e-mail me? The owner of all these Steigers and I would like to hear more about building them. My e-mail is contact@bigtractorpower.com
Nice video and info. I've been by this place several hundered times but never stopped. Always in a hurry. But my dad stopped a few years ago and talked with Chris. Nice guy. Awesome collection of oldies but goodies.
I have a little shop lift like the one in the shed . Mine is a Vaughn that was a navy shop lift. But it predates hydraulic lift and used worm gear drive and power take off . It has a single cylinder Wisconsin. Good video
Hats off to Chris and his team - there's huge enthusiasm and extreme dedication there! Most people view these grand ladies as nothing more than outdated scrap metal, but it's great to see them restored and preserved - especially the rare and the early serial numbered machines. Keep up the great work! As I read elsewhere on the same subject: "These icons helped feed us in their day, now we need to look after them in their retirement". So true, and wonderful to see it done so well! We don't all live in cities and a lot of us grew up on farm machinery. Does Chris put some of these in classic machinery rallies or fairs? Where is his operation located? Also, are enthusiastic visitors allowed? Are they displaying their lovely collection somewhere? Again - absolutely amazing, nobody else has quite a collection like these! Many thanks.
sometimes i come across videos that i question, but i watch them anyway. i never knew these articulating tractors were the thing back then and definitely never knew they were the first 4wd's produced. happy i watched this youve sparked an interest, thank you.
@@bigtractorpower yes it is. Some models I have heard of and seen pictures of. Others I had not, until watching this. I'd still like to put them to work 😎 Articulated four wheel drives are great in our steep hill ground!!! Love the old stuff!!! Still running old stuff 😎
I got to operate a Allis Chalmers 440 with the 555 Cummins for my neighbors. absolutely awesome tractor drive with awesome torque for a short frame 4WD
👍👍. The Industrial 1700 in this video was restored this winter. You can see the farm collection as it is today in this video @ th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
@@bigtractorpower it’s not a real industrial. It was an ag spec that a construction company eventually bought to pull a sheep’s foot compactor with, and Chris decided to restore it as it was. The only industrial barn series was a 1250 that was evidently never yellow
" HEY BIGTRACTORPOWER " that is the best farm lot ive ever seen ' WOW " enough horse power in that place to pull down a mountain i he would set up a big circle track " BET " he would make lots of money having tractor races on summer weekends THANKS-4-GOOD-VIDEO
Thank you for watching. This video is fairly old now. If you would like to see how this tractor collection has grown check out this video from 2019 th-cam.com/video/tOpq3nmoOcs/w-d-xo.html
"Awaiting restoration" That's rich! This guy isn't a collector, he's an accumulator. When the 'restoration' has to begin with a chainsaw, you no longer have a collection, it's a junk yard. These machines aren't 'collected'- they're rotting away. To each his own, and I realize he has a business to run, but don't praise this guy. Someone else might have actually done something with them, instead of letting the weeds grow up around them.
Great video! That’s a lot of work restoring all those tractors. He might want to pick his favorites and auction off the rest before they get to bad to save
Thank you for watching. I am a Steiger fan. Check out this farms 2018 farm day with over 50 4wd tractors on display at m.th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
I have driven just about every size Steiger ever produced they were all built in the town where I live Fargo ND, needless to say they were a huge manufacturer for many years, the plant is now occupied by JI CASE and they produce pay loaders and 4 wd tractors there, lots of product going out on rail every week! I still miss the Green of the Steiger though!!
@@bigtractorpower We have a place in West Fargo called Bonanzaville its a recreation of and old town using original building from around the state and they have a bunch of old cars and tractors there a couple interesting ones are the FIRST Steiger tractor ever built and sold and the second is a giant machine to push coal that had been mined out of the central part of the state, this machine was built by Sill Mellroe the developer of the Mellroe Bobcat. This behemoth has two big Cummins engines and like a 28 ft dozer blade on it if you go to Utube you can find it there, its all worth looking at!!
Bonanzaville is very cool. I visited there in 2002. I was excited to see the rare Steiger Cougarcat with the dozer blade. The farm in this video now owns the first Steiger ever built to be sold. It is a 105.
@@bigtractorpower The history of some of this stuff is just incredible. I grew up with a Model A John Deer and I used that for everything from making hay in every step of the game to moving snow with the loader and pulling a machinery trailer for cutting wood in the Fall My dad owned that tractor for darned near 50 years he sold it about 4 years ago, its kind of hard to see something go that has been apart of your life for really as long as you have been around. I got invited to help a farmer this Fall with his plowing not to far from my house he uses all old vintage 2 cylinder gas and diesel John Deer tractors, I cannot wait to hear and feel the old mighty twins under a good load singing their magic!!!
love the video only the first steiger tractor or "Barn series" were built in thief river falls Minnesota, which is near where im from so thats why i know, however the steiger tractor plant was in fargo north dakota
Great video, I know this channel is specifically related to tractors but it looked as though they have a collection of old semis as well that would be nice to see.
Wonderful video, thank you for sharing. It`s a shame they are just sitting there, doing nothing. A farmer local to me in the UK, had a few in his collection, put an advert in one of the magazines asking for help to restore some of his machines, had it written in a contract that if any get restored, he will not sell it to make profit for a minimum of ten years, to keep the volunteers from thinking they were cheap labour etc . Had a regular band of mostly retired mechanics and tractor fans turn up in one of his sheds, all parts - paints etc paid for by the farmer, and as much tea coffee and refreshments you could drink. Once a year he held a mini tractor show and BBQ as a thank you to his regular helpers. As far as I know, they still turn up and help him with his tractors, and not one has been sold. Wonder if this collector has thought of doing this, might get them restored a bit quicker.
Very cool way to restore tractors. Several of these tractors work in the field each spring and fall. Check out the big farm day this farm has on 8/12/18 this year m.th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
Sounds like Deere made a deal with Wagner just to take them off of the market. I wish the owner would hit lotto and get a few machine sheds built. At least they are safe (other than from the weather) and not going to get cut up for scrap anytime soon.
in Hungary there are raba-steiger tractors the 245 and the 250 were made by the steiger license they produced the cougar 2 model the 300 was not licensed 245:goo.gl/images/BB5P93 250:goo.gl/images/tNAZPd 300:goo.gl/images/q8hLwQ there are a lot of them but you cant really see them going because they not worth the effort and money to keep them running
Nice video. Steiger is one of my favorite tractors. I have been looking for books on history of Steiger tractor, do any exist or Are going to be published? Great collection.
no one knows because it wasnt a standard option and was custom so who knows a hundred people might of got it or three no one knows because it wasnt standard or a option
I like to call the referbished a full rebuild you would never leave out side my dad says rebuil when we fix a few thing cleen up some stuff and fix tin and paint then i like to call it fixed up
Many of the tractors in this video have been fully restored now since this was published. See collection in this video th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html Half the battle is just locating these rare machines. It’s great they are all in one place.
I love the older tractors. You have an awsome collection. I remember a gentleman in his late 70s by Billings Monatana had 4 builds plus outside. I had to stop . He gave my wife and i a tour , what an education. May i ask where you are located?
Amazing line of tractors, the amount of money and time needed to restore all those tractors would be insane. Good to see, I actually like most of those lines of tractors.
Excellent narration. No irritating music.
Nice 'walk around' , thanks for the descriptions too. The Raygo Wagner caught my attention, as I worked for a large Raygo dealer in Canada back in the 1970's. We sold and rented the Raygo vibratory drum rollers. We, at the time, enjoyed a very popular sales business in this Roller series for soils and asphalt compaction.
I still have a couple of the Raygo service manuals .
Thanks again for the walk through (my) memory lane !
+Reg Sparkes Thank you for watching. That is great history on Raygo. Thank you.
I remember working on the assembly line when the Pink Panter came down the line. Never saw it in pink buy in primer as it was headed for the body shop to get it's pink paint job.
I eventually became a welder and welded up a few of the Tiger rear frames also. Otherwise was a rear frame welder for Steiger for 17 years. The Tiger, 427 horse 6 cylinder touted a 24 hour fuel supply.
Don that is great history. Thank you for sharing. Could you e-mail me? The owner of all these Steigers and I would like to hear more about building them. My e-mail is contact@bigtractorpower.com
Nice video and info. I've been by this place several hundered times but never stopped. Always in a hurry. But my dad stopped a few years ago and talked with Chris. Nice guy. Awesome collection of oldies but goodies.
Outstanding narration. Absolutely outstanding.
Great tour, thank you! I especially enjoyed seeing a few low serial number machines, and LP gas powered units, as well as Minny's in this video!
I have a little shop lift like the one in the shed .
Mine is a Vaughn that was a navy shop lift.
But it predates hydraulic lift and used worm gear drive and power take off .
It has a single cylinder Wisconsin.
Good video
Hats off to Chris and his team - there's huge enthusiasm and extreme dedication there! Most people view these grand ladies as nothing more than outdated scrap metal, but it's great to see them restored and preserved - especially the rare and the early serial numbered machines. Keep up the great work!
As I read elsewhere on the same subject: "These icons helped feed us in their day, now we need to look after them in their retirement". So true, and wonderful to see it done so well!
We don't all live in cities and a lot of us grew up on farm machinery. Does Chris put some of these in classic machinery rallies or fairs? Where is his operation located? Also, are enthusiastic visitors allowed? Are they displaying their lovely collection somewhere?
Again - absolutely amazing, nobody else has quite a collection like these! Many thanks.
Is that a fact? In any case it's an admirable effort, but for even two guys it's outright amazing. Thumbs up in any case I reckon, yeah?
sometimes i come across videos that i question, but i watch them anyway. i never knew these articulating tractors were the thing back then and definitely never knew they were the first 4wd's produced. happy i watched this youve sparked an interest, thank you.
+Sss Ddd Thank you for watching.
And.... Yes, yes I would put any one of those steigers to work!!!!
Big Bud would be great too!!
Thank you for the great video!!!
It’s a line up of rare 4wds. Thank you for watching.
@@bigtractorpower yes it is. Some models I have heard of and seen pictures of. Others I had not, until watching this. I'd still like to put them to work 😎
Articulated four wheel drives are great in our steep hill ground!!!
Love the old stuff!!! Still running old stuff 😎
Great collection
I got to operate a Allis Chalmers 440 with the 555 Cummins for my neighbors. absolutely awesome tractor drive with awesome torque for a short frame 4WD
I hauled a steiner tiger back from south dakota this past summer for the owner chris, Nice guy
Very cool. That was a rare one. Here is a video from the farm day this year with the Tiger on display m.th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
@@bigtractorpower it must’ve been the ST-470 because the 3408 ST-450 came from Idaho
These machines helped many farmers feed so many people.
😁👍👍
In Hungary (Europe) we also manufactured Steiger tractors under license, from 1973-2002.
They was beautiful yellow and white. Called Rába-Steiger.
I dont believe it, so many great Tractors at one place...Thats Tractorhistory!!! great man...
Thanks for this great Video man...
Love those 1700’s!! Can never learn to much on tractors!!
👍👍. The Industrial 1700 in this video was restored this winter. You can see the farm collection as it is today in this video @ th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
bigtractorpower Thankyou for letting me know! I will definitely check it out!
@@bigtractorpower it’s not a real industrial. It was an ag spec that a construction company eventually bought to pull a sheep’s foot compactor with, and Chris decided to restore it as it was. The only industrial barn series was a 1250 that was evidently never yellow
Amazing video beautiful collection of tractors
I need to make the hour and forty five minute drive o Evansville to see these beasts asap lol. awesome awesome video thanks for sharing these!!!!!!
Man, just owning ONE of those would be cool...Some guys have all the luck...Thanks for the upload!
" HEY BIGTRACTORPOWER " that is the best farm lot ive ever seen ' WOW " enough horse power in that place to pull down a mountain i he would set up a big circle track " BET " he would make lots of money having tractor races on summer weekends THANKS-4-GOOD-VIDEO
The Steiger farm is in Minnesota. 6 miles west of St. Hilaire to be exact.
New to the channel: what a collection! Thanks for all the educarion!
Thank you for watching. This video is fairly old now. If you would like to see how this tractor collection has grown check out this video from 2019 th-cam.com/video/tOpq3nmoOcs/w-d-xo.html
Brother, that I do! Thanks for sharing, there's a lot of catching up to do
love all the history of the tractors I myself work with my grampa on old tractors and we now have rebuild a few from ground up
A farm near me used to own or rent a stieger 3300 and I loved seeing it on my way to school and on my way home each day
Very cool.
Where at?
@@nellsonstout7001 a farm in cochranville
Great video thank you I have seen these tractors from a distance nice farm
It’s a great collection of Steiger 4wds. They have a farm day each August. You can see the 2018 Farm Day at m.th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
I am from North Dakota, about 60 miles north and a little west of Fargo, I was in High School when they were built.
Very cool.
What a gold mine of farming history!
"Awaiting restoration" That's rich! This guy isn't a collector, he's an accumulator. When the 'restoration' has to begin with a chainsaw, you no longer have a collection, it's a junk yard. These machines aren't 'collected'- they're rotting away.
To each his own, and I realize he has a business to run, but don't praise this guy. Someone else might have actually done something with them, instead of letting the weeds grow up around them.
+Nellson Stout Well, he'll be able to work in the shade! Seems to be plenty of 'down time' to acquire and haul them...
Kevin Theilen yes I agree
He had 2 sitting there fully restored.
*rolls eyes* yeah hes toattly letting them rot
@@nellsonstout7001 your the idiot here! He's not fixing and he's just letting 99% of them.
Great video. Really enjoyed the information. Thanks for posting.
+rustylanier Thank you.
Amazing video and tractors. Love it ;)
Just found your channel and really enjoy the attention to detail and info with these tractors!
This tractor at 11:29 looks like Hungarian Rába Steiger. I love your videos because they are amazing.
We owned this 2655 and found the metal in Texas to make it an open station. Sure wish we had it back.
Impressive collection!!! Some real gems
Thank you for watching. Check out this video I made of the collection and farm day in 2018. m.th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
I love the little Steigers.
Great video! Wish I could get my hands on one of those Oliver's!
+Michael Bergman We hope to film the 2655 in the field.
I do believe that I've died and gone to tractor heaven!
This farm has an open house to see all these tractors in person this Sunday.
If only all those tractor could talk! I would listen for hours!!
This was filmed several years ago. I am getting ready to film many of their stories this month.
I always marvelled at how Steigers didn’t have much metal on them that was thinner than 1/4” plate steel. No tin fenders on these bad boys.
Steiger built a tough tractor.
Those big buds must be popular in Montana and ND, I use to see them all the time.
+Mike West Montana is the home of Big Bud. It is Big Bud country for sure. Thank you for watching.
Hello there Chris. Who is actually involved in the restoration work? Nothing short of amazing, and your collection has me green with envy!
Great video! That’s a lot of work restoring all those tractors. He might want to pick his favorites and auction off the rest before they get to bad to save
The farm just built a new building so many will be under cover now.
I really enjoyed the video I'm always interested in the history of our four wheel drive tractors
Thank you for watching. I am a Steiger fan. Check out this farms 2018 farm day with over 50 4wd tractors on display at m.th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
It took one or two people to mfg what main player's weren't interested in making Steiger & Big Bud that's America !
Great Video! But I just have to say, the Steiger brothers were from Good ol Minnesota, not North Dakota.
at 2:00 you say cows would rub up on it and that exposed the pink paint!but its a foot step it gets alot of use
Thanks Great Video of Great Tractors that some smart Men thought of and Built.
Thank you for watching.
beautiful tour around this santuary.
You failed to mention in 4wd revolution, that Versatile was just as involved and successful as Steiger.
Reallly interesting video with the bit of history in there too.
It’s a great collection of rare 4wd iron.
I have driven just about every size Steiger ever produced they were all built in the town where I live Fargo ND, needless to say they were a huge manufacturer for many years, the plant is now occupied by JI CASE and they produce pay loaders and 4 wd tractors there, lots of product going out on rail every week! I still miss the Green of the Steiger though!!
Steiger has a great 60 year history. I miss the green color too.
@@bigtractorpower We have a place in West Fargo called Bonanzaville its a recreation of and old town using original building from around the state and they have a bunch of old cars and tractors there a couple interesting ones are the FIRST Steiger tractor ever built and sold and the second is a giant machine to push coal that had been mined out of the central part of the state, this machine was built by Sill Mellroe the developer of the Mellroe Bobcat. This behemoth has two big Cummins engines and like a 28 ft dozer blade on it if you go to Utube you can find it there, its all worth looking at!!
Bonanzaville is very cool. I visited there in 2002. I was excited to see the rare Steiger Cougarcat with the dozer blade. The farm in this video now owns the first Steiger ever built to be sold. It is a 105.
@@bigtractorpower The history of some of this stuff is just incredible. I grew up with a Model A John Deer and I used that for everything from making hay in every step of the game to moving snow with the loader and pulling a machinery trailer for cutting wood in the Fall My dad owned that tractor for darned near 50 years he sold it about 4 years ago, its kind of hard to see something go that has been apart of your life for really as long as you have been around. I got invited to help a farmer this Fall with his plowing not to far from my house he uses all old vintage 2 cylinder gas and diesel John Deer tractors, I cannot wait to hear and feel the old mighty twins under a good load singing their magic!!!
Wow that small yellow one would make a good snowplow tractor around my yard.
Awesome. Thank you for posting.
Drive by this farm everyday always wondered why they had so many tractors.
+Tyler Lovell is a neat farm.
love the video only the first steiger tractor or "Barn series" were built in thief river falls Minnesota, which is near where im from so thats why i know, however the steiger tractor plant was in fargo north dakota
Amazing collection!!!!!
kool stuff, thx for showin these beautys
impressive collection , great narration on video, i look forward to watching more of your videos .
Very nice collection. Are all machines still working? Where is this farm located?
I would love a collection like that
I wish we could have seen more of the brigidier or the old dozer that looked like a allis .
And seriously would like to see that bantam dragline man .
This farm has a farm day every yea that I film. You can see the 2018 show with drone footage at th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
I kind of like this guys yard!!!
Great video thanks for sharing.
+Rhino Wrecker (Weezinman03) Thank you.
will they ever be restored ??
Thank you for the video
+Old Farm Show It is a great place for 4wd history.
Great video, I know this channel is specifically related to tractors but it looked as though they have a collection of old semis as well that would be nice to see.
Link
Very interesting!!! Love the video and hope to see more!!
fantastic collection, happy new year bigtractor.
This is so awesome! I really like that Big Bud with the Triples. Is LP basically propane?
Good job on the video and your information about these tractors. Keep up the work!
Love the video, I really want the 440, would they sell any?
Did they make 2655's in deisl
WOW.THE.BIG.WORK.
AMAZING AWD TRACTOR COLLECTOR COLLECTION STEGER BING BUD WAGNER CASTEL
+Jose Agustin Castellanos Vargas (Juan pollo) it is a great collection of 4wds.
that steam roller is the stuff ,, lol
Outstanding video, thank You, I am glad to subscribe and not miss out on future video's,
+Jan Kotze Thank you for subscribing. We are getting closer by the video to having 1,000 farm machine videos on youtube for people to enjoy.
Nice looking old and classic
Thank you for watching.
amazing tractor collection
Wonderful video, thank you for sharing.
It`s a shame they are just sitting there, doing nothing.
A farmer local to me in the UK, had a few in his collection, put an advert in one of the magazines asking for help to restore some of his machines, had it written in a contract that if any get restored, he will not sell it to make profit for a minimum of ten years, to keep the volunteers from thinking they were cheap labour etc .
Had a regular band of mostly retired mechanics and tractor fans turn up in one of his sheds, all parts - paints etc paid for by the farmer, and as much tea coffee and refreshments you could drink.
Once a year he held a mini tractor show and BBQ as a thank you to his regular helpers.
As far as I know, they still turn up and help him with his tractors, and not one has been sold.
Wonder if this collector has thought of doing this, might get them restored a bit quicker.
Very cool way to restore tractors. Several of these tractors work in the field each spring and fall. Check out the big farm day this farm has on 8/12/18 this year m.th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html
Man white farm equipment and old fwd tractors doesn't get better than that! I'm gona have to visit this farm some day
+Jake Ziegler It will be exciting to film the Oliver 2655 LP at work at some point.
+bigtractorpower ya it will I'll be waiting for it. I've seen his 525/50 at rantoul and penfield that is a really nice big bud
Allis Chalmers, Steiger, and CAT might be the only tractors I'll ever use
Can’t go wrong with these.
Fiat
Do they all run and does he plan on restoring them all
The tractors all run. Some are used in the field. This farm hosts an open house each year and the tractors are out on display.
Awesome video thank you
Thank you. I have a new video on this collection in the works.
Great video....
Welker’s have Big Buds.
BUT they dont have the big bud 747
@@larrythecableguy7285 they do
Go by there all the time!!
It’s an awesome collection.
I love tractors
Sounds like Deere made a deal with Wagner just to take them off of the market.
I wish the owner would hit lotto and get a few machine sheds built.
At least they are safe (other than from the weather) and not going to get cut up for scrap anytime soon.
The farm is putting up a big shed right now to house many of these classics.
Glad to hear it.
in Hungary there are raba-steiger tractors the 245 and the 250 were made by the steiger license they produced the cougar 2 model the 300 was not licensed
245:goo.gl/images/BB5P93
250:goo.gl/images/tNAZPd
300:goo.gl/images/q8hLwQ
there are a lot of them but you cant really see them going because they not worth the effort and money to keep them running
Do they still build Raba tractors? I have some sales brochures on them.
All I can say is Woooooow and thanks.
Nice video. Steiger is one of my favorite tractors. I have been looking for books on history of Steiger tractor, do any exist or Are going to be published? Great collection.
I know a guy with a blown up pink panther. Do you know how many of these were made?
no one knows because it wasnt a standard option and was custom so who knows a hundred people might of got it or three no one knows because it wasnt standard or a option
I like to call the referbished a full rebuild you would never leave out side my dad says rebuil when we fix a few thing cleen up some stuff and fix tin and paint then i like to call it fixed up
Many of the tractors in this video have been fully restored now since this was published. See collection in this video th-cam.com/video/pTfWcZ8MRIQ/w-d-xo.html Half the battle is just locating these rare machines. It’s great they are all in one place.
Them Oliver 2250's are rare I subscribed thank you and are you toy tractor times ?
+John Deere Yes BigTractorPower.com has been a part of ToyTractorTimes.com since 2001.
Great video!!
And farmer always say they are not making any money. That is a fortunes worth of tractors
Very interesting video, thanks!
+tsint Thank you.
are you going to sell the allis charmers 440
Cows didnt rub up on the step, its worn paint bacause its a step.
Of course not on the steps but they did on the fenders and hobby the grill.