The reason I like the Big Buds is because they are just steel and more steel. No plastic, no fluff, no mass of hoses and wires, no unnecessary sensors to tell you when something is thinking about thinking it may break next week, maybe. Just lots of heavy steel, a big engine and transmission and driveline along with a hydraulic pump, sure you can add a GPS and auto steer if you want. Just about anybody can work on them with a little mechanical knowledge and you can rebuild them forever and keep them working. A basic simple to operate and maintain tractor like the Big Bud is a no brainer great investment for any farmer needing a big tractor.
So glad you guys were invited to see the new tires getting put on the Williams 440. 2003 my family went on a vacation around Montana, and my choice of stop was the Williams farm to see the 747. Got to know Robert and Randy real well from that, plus whenever they'd come to North Dakota for toy shows selling the toy models. Hope you can make the trek to film them seeding this year!
We remember the first Big Bud in Australia at Agquip field days at Gunnedah NSW 1977 if my memory is good....The man with it was Bud Nelson ...There are still a few working in Northwest NSW....
Big Bud Nelson was the chief mechanic for Willie Hensler who had a Wagner dealership in Havre MT when the John Deere/Wagner agreement left them with no 4wd tractor to sell. They designed and built the first Big Bud tractors.Ron Harmon bought the company in 1975.
THIS BUD'S FOR YOU! Those BUDS are BIG, BODACIOUSLY, BEAUTIFUL! I can't wait to see some BIG BUDS in action! Thank You Welker Farms for sharing your world with us! Until your next video ~~~ Stay safe, healthy and happy!
Me too!...and the Cornstars don't even have any BIG Equipment...' cept for those "big" Titan tires on their Magnum! Course that million $$ bin site is plenty big, if not a bit wobbly on top and cracked on the bottom!👀🎯😎
OH!!!! Triples on the beast! That would be amazing! I believe you first posted the 747 tires video on a Tuesday and the following Saturday, I made a trip 150 miles down to Iowa to see it. I've climbed that ladder and sat in that seat. It was a really fun trip to see her. The farm shows have had the 700 out, but the tires used on it look drastically under-sized. I think it needs LSW's also.
Your Big Bud videos are my favorite farming related videos on youtube a few of the shots of the 747 in relation to people and other tractors or even building kinda shows how big that monster really is. Its hard to believe any piece of equipment outside of a mine exists let alone a farm tractor. Just WOW
Someday I gotta make a trip to Montana and see a big bud in person. The wife wants to take our 5th wheel camper to glacier park so I’d have an excuse to make a detour.
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Thanks for taking us along for the tire upgrade to the Williams bros 747’s. Was great to see all the tractors together. Interesting that they upgraded the one and are running one 747 this year instead of two. Can understand that would save on costs. Was an interesting day. Thanks for taking us along. Take care. Please keep us posted on 747 info. The Iowa Farm Boy.
Nice!!! So cool to see you crawling under the 747. Your video of it’s tire change inspired me to go visit it before it went back to Montana. I took a bunch of video of and maybe someday we’ll put up a video of it on Garage Story. We’ll see! Thanks for the video!
Titan tire is owned by Titan international. Headquarters of Quincy Illinois. Across the Mississippi 21 mile south is Hannibal Missouri . Not only Mark Twain’s home but Hannibal-lagrange university.
What I believe is the coolest and what you guys and the Williams should be proud of is that these aren’t museum pieces! These are still work horses doing what they were intended to do and keeping up with todays demands!
That is a fine looking tractor. With the massive machine around those comparatively small tires, it appears to be the low-rider of articulated tractors.
SCOTT (Legarms) I see you got a mention on Rich Deboss DGHD VIDEO today (22/4/2023) at around 10 minutes ish they are splitting a case 9350 Steiger... need I say more?... and you featured in those moments, oh well it's nice to know Rich watches your channel as well 🤔😁 Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
@@WelkerFarms I remember when that video came out, it was good to see Scott having some time off 🤣🤣 nothing like keeping your hand in so you don't get rusty, during that time. I hesitate to think how many years I have been watching both your channels, but I do enjoy doing it each and every video, BTW are you going to enter something in Rich's car show this year? Have a think about it with all the stuff lying around the farm I'm sure you could create something, assuming you have the time with house building and cropping etc BTW give Halfass Kustoms a look, Brent does some amazing builds and is quiet a character I think you will enjoy him. Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
They only built one Big Bud 747 so that will never happen. The cost to buy the only one ever built would be way too much not that the owners would ever actually sell it.
Hope y’all have a great crop this year buddy!! From La. We have a beautiful corn crop laid down by and bean crop is up and beautiful and sugar cane crop is about laid by. Been having the right rain and it’s all off to a good start. May god bless all the farmers with a great crop!! 🙋🏼♂️😁👍
Werner Enterprise had that setup in a freightliner classic pulling a show/office trailer used for recruiting new drivers. It was at a truck stop in Kuttawa Kentucky in the late 90's. Electric over hydraulic extended hood, bad rig..
Bob, Nick & Scott, that Big Bud upgrade ,wow what a Beauty, thats one Great Video Fellows, Blessing to you all, Cheers and Best Wishes, Regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia👍🐕🐎🐎🐎🦄🦄🦌🦌🐂🐃🐄🐖🐏🐑🐐🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦃🦃🐔🐓🐓🦋🦋🦋🏵🏵🏵🏵🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌻🌻🌻🌼🌼🌼🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴
curious if they upgraded the tranny when they bumped up the horsepower. We have 2 series 4 buds with the fuji teko power shift and were told not to take the 3406b's over 450 horse.
That's awesome you have two series four buds, no they have the same fujitech transmission. They were told that you can go up to 600 but it isn't probably a good idea to push it that far.
The reason I like the Big Buds is because they are just steel and more steel. No plastic, no fluff, no mass of hoses and wires, no unnecessary sensors to tell you when something is thinking about thinking it may break next week, maybe. Just lots of heavy steel, a big engine and transmission and driveline along with a hydraulic pump, sure you can add a GPS and auto steer if you want. Just about anybody can work on them with a little mechanical knowledge and you can rebuild them forever and keep them working. A basic simple to operate and maintain tractor like the Big Bud is a no brainer great investment for any farmer needing a big tractor.
Props to whoever folder the flag in the 747. Nice to see folks show respect for the flag.
Y’all are the nicest people I’ve watched on you tube. May god bless y’all and keep blessing the lords word and look forward to future videos
Thanks! God bless!
More than I need for my lawn garden.
Man that is one good lookin 440 Bud and nothing beats good lookin BIG rubber on a tractor.
So glad you guys were invited to see the new tires getting put on the Williams 440. 2003 my family went on a vacation around Montana, and my choice of stop was the Williams farm to see the 747. Got to know Robert and Randy real well from that, plus whenever they'd come to North Dakota for toy shows selling the toy models. Hope you can make the trek to film them seeding this year!
We remember the first Big Bud in Australia at Agquip field days at Gunnedah NSW 1977 if my memory is good....The man with it was Bud Nelson ...There are still a few working in Northwest NSW....
Big Bud Nelson was the chief mechanic for Willie Hensler who had a Wagner dealership in Havre MT when the John Deere/Wagner agreement left them with no 4wd tractor to sell. They designed and built the first Big Bud tractors.Ron Harmon bought the company in 1975.
We had a big bud 370 when I was a kid. Chrome pipe. Made by Ertl.
THIS BUD'S FOR YOU! Those BUDS are BIG, BODACIOUSLY, BEAUTIFUL! I can't wait to see some BIG BUDS in action! Thank You Welker Farms for sharing your world with us! Until your next video ~~~ Stay safe, healthy and happy!
Glad to see you took a shower Nick 😀😀😅 loved your well used hat lol Weller farm God bless you all
Seeing Ron Harmon, looks like a regular human not the superman he must be! Test of time has proven the design was right!!
Kudos to Titan Tires.
Love these big bud videos. Would love to take one for a drive. Cheers from Sarnia Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Just something nice about tires with new stickers on them.
Funny,, I mentioned a Detroit 60 series swap for efficiency on the big buds last year and SOMEONE said it couldn't be done. Cheers,ed
As long as it isn't wider or longer than the frame, just about any engine can be put in a BUD. I hear the 60 series is a good running engine.
@@WelkerFarms that's what I said last year,, when YOU said the huge Detroit wouldn't work.
@@WelkerFarms you got called out might be time to detroit swap a tractor.
It would be underpowered
Really nice seeing going over to see your fellow Big bud owners! That 747 looks great. Rob from the 🇬🇧
Great to see the orginal big tractors. Better built than todays tractors and easier to work on. Hope to see the newest BigBud soon from the factory.
With hard work and talent, anything is possible but never achieved without God!! Love your videos Welkers!
AWESOME TRACTORS = BIG BUD.....Thanks Nick and Scott + Dad 👉🙏🙏✝ ❣👍 Shoe🇺🇸
Hope you stopped by the Walleye Tavern. 😉
I was most impressed that Nick’s drone flew in that wind!
Love big buds. Still wish you guys would go back to California and buy that 2nd biggest big bud and bring it home
Should we make a online chip in for them ?
I wanna hear that Detroit run in that 440
Great to see more Big Buds.😊
Well done Buds.😊
You know it's a good day when you see Welker farms and Tony fast post videos nice job guys love those big buds
Awesome video. . . . as I was getting closer to the end of the video, I was saying to myself, "Awe, . . . some more would be better!" 😊
Wow. Scott from Titan tire gets around. I just saw him with Cole in Iowa. Those big buds are So cool.
Me too!...and the Cornstars don't even have any BIG Equipment...' cept for those "big" Titan tires on their
Magnum! Course that million $$ bin site is plenty big, if not a bit wobbly on top and cracked on the bottom!👀🎯😎
OH!!!! Triples on the beast! That would be amazing!
I believe you first posted the 747 tires video on a Tuesday and the following Saturday, I made a trip 150 miles down to Iowa to see it. I've climbed that ladder and sat in that seat. It was a really fun trip to see her.
The farm shows have had the 700 out, but the tires used on it look drastically under-sized. I think it needs LSW's also.
Great detail shots of the 747, need those.
I hope a visit to the Williams farm happens in the future to see thatctractor hard at work. Leg Arms we need more house videos !!! Thanks.
Great video footage nick of them putting the new shoes on the big bud
I must have just missed you guys. I was in havre Tuesday/Wednesday and Thursday for work. The weather was anything but nice Thursday 🥶
Some day I would love to see that 747 tractor some day !
“Whack A Welker”😂 Bob is a true gem👍🏼
Your Big Bud videos are my favorite farming related videos on youtube a few of the shots of the 747 in relation to people and other tractors or even building kinda shows how big that monster really is. Its hard to believe any piece of equipment outside of a mine exists let alone a farm tractor. Just WOW
Great video. Thanks for sharing! Beautiful tractors.
Someday I gotta make a trip to Montana and see a big bud in person. The wife wants to take our 5th wheel camper to glacier park so I’d have an excuse to make a detour.
🔥tractor looks great with the new shoes on her 🔥👊🔥🔨🏍⚙️🚜
Great video as always! God Bless the farmers!
Big Bud has always been the best looking tractor I have ever seen.
My late father loved your big bud vids i know he would enjoy this one too ☺️
Big Bud Friday…my week just got waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better!
i live in bozeman and we were recently in havre for our hockey state tournament and i saw the bud but i didnt get to see that it was the 747!
Thanks for another great video.
It was interesting and enjoyable.
Thanks for taking us along for the tire upgrade to the Williams bros 747’s. Was great to see all the tractors together. Interesting that they upgraded the one and are running one 747 this year instead of two. Can understand that would save on costs.
Was an interesting day. Thanks for taking us along.
Take care.
Please keep us posted on 747 info.
The Iowa Farm Boy.
Will do! Thanks Steve!
That'd be cool to see that tractor working in the field did I hear you right that implement is going to be 86 ft wide wow
Agreed, that is wicked good looking Big Bud.
I love the Detroit engines they have a
Unique rumble to them.
I love this. A tractor you can count on and bill didn’t get $$$ every time you use it.
That was fun, I've always been a tire guy. Thanks for taking us along. Amazing big tractors.
Incredible workmanship.
That is a monster of a tractor, and those tires are massive tires
Nice!!! So cool to see you crawling under the 747. Your video of it’s tire change inspired me to go visit it before it went back to Montana. I took a bunch of video of and maybe someday we’ll put up a video of it on Garage Story. We’ll see! Thanks for the video!
Titan tire is owned by Titan international. Headquarters of Quincy Illinois. Across the Mississippi 21 mile south is Hannibal Missouri . Not only Mark Twain’s home but Hannibal-lagrange university.
thanks, bob, been missing your cameos
More coming soon, thanks Dave
Does that 440 have some kind of autosteer like yours does
You got it fella. Big Bud rules the farms of the world.
....A Detroit powered bud.....im watching
Keep the old girls going love the big buds rolling through the field
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Thanks guys for the video.
Those tractors will outlive anything else ever made in a farm tractor line. What a beast?
Respect guys🙏🙏
What I believe is the coolest and what you guys and the Williams should be proud of is that these aren’t museum pieces! These are still work horses doing what they were intended to do and keeping up with todays demands!
Make you wish you owned it and had thousands of acres to tend to! What a beast!
would be so cool to see a Bud Track
Great to see Mr. Scott" Titan" Sloan getting dirty. Those machines are awesome. Triples would be so cool but not realistic. Great job guys.
That is a fine looking tractor. With the massive machine around those comparatively small tires, it appears to be the low-rider of articulated tractors.
Good looking machine. Only thing that could make it better is if it moved to Shelby.
Awesome video thanks for sharing 👍
SCOTT (Legarms) I see you got a mention on Rich Deboss DGHD VIDEO today (22/4/2023) at around 10 minutes ish they are splitting a case 9350 Steiger... need I say more?... and you featured in those moments, oh well it's nice to know Rich watches your channel as well 🤔😁
Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
We're also fans of their channel! Here's a link to a collab video we did a while ago (th-cam.com/video/qtDc-jPhug8/w-d-xo.html)
@@WelkerFarms I remember when that video came out, it was good to see Scott having some time off 🤣🤣 nothing like keeping your hand in so you don't get rusty, during that time.
I hesitate to think how many years I have been watching both your channels, but I do enjoy doing it each and every video, BTW are you going to enter something in Rich's car show this year? Have a think about it with all the stuff lying around the farm I'm sure you could create something, assuming you have the time with house building and cropping etc
BTW give Halfass Kustoms a look, Brent does some amazing builds and is quiet a character I think you will enjoy him.
Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
Give 'em tires until it can hardly turn! 😉
Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻
This had too be a fun trip!!
The 440 Bud looks much more awesome with duals on it. Would love to see you guys add a 747 to your farm. 👍
They only built one Big Bud 747 so that will never happen. The cost to buy the only one ever built would be way too much not that the owners would ever actually sell it.
God bless you Welker family. I hope you guys had fun and I can't wait to see the lean mean weed killing machine and you guys planting
Hope y’all have a great crop this year buddy!! From La. We have a beautiful corn crop laid down by and bean crop is up and beautiful and sugar cane crop is about laid by. Been having the right rain and it’s all off to a good start. May god bless all the farmers with a great crop!! 🙋🏼♂️😁👍
Beautiful tractors. Is this what you call a Big Bud fanfest.That was a good one Bob.
Waiting to see a triple 747 Bud on the farm
**sing** I like Big Buds and I cannot lie... **sing** 😁😎🤟
When is the new one coming to your place
Bob have to bring back the 740 to Montana, get some dual 1250 LSW on it.
New or old, these Big Buds are just awesome. Best looking machines around in my opinion.
they have a new big bud! 2022 I think welker farms is the perfect home for it
They are so beautiful!!
you should have The Tres Grabber for handling those tires
Yes
Looks awesome!
God bless!
What’s amazing is I believe that 16V71 Detroit is 2 separate 8V71s mated together.
Werner Enterprise had that setup in a freightliner classic pulling a show/office trailer used for recruiting new drivers. It was at a truck stop in Kuttawa Kentucky in the late 90's. Electric over hydraulic extended hood, bad rig..
I love to see a big bud on tracks
It's still going to be a good 2 weeks away for seeding on the Hi-Line
Love those Big Buds, never get enough of them.
Oh sweet! I got one of those 'Farm Fit' shirts too at F2F.
Those new tyres really give a fresh, modern, update to the old, tall, high profile tyres and small rims - a bit like a sports car upgrade.
Bob, Nick & Scott, that Big Bud upgrade ,wow what a Beauty, thats one Great Video Fellows, Blessing to you all, Cheers and Best Wishes, Regards Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela Qld Australia👍🐕🐎🐎🐎🦄🦄🦌🦌🐂🐃🐄🐖🐏🐑🐐🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🐨🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦃🦃🐔🐓🐓🦋🦋🦋🏵🏵🏵🏵🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌻🌻🌻🌼🌼🌼🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴
Didn’t I hear that they where going to restart the production of the big buds I hope they do
The first one was at the Con ex Con ag expo in Las Vegas in March. Looks similar to that series 4 with a modern Agco cab on it
Cool 😎 heavy iron 👍
That 747 is such a behemoth, awesome piece of machinery
Yep...can't believe it lives outside
When are we going to see the new Big Bud?
8:25 nascar offset for turning left fast 😏🖖🏼🇺🇸
I think it is time to go to California and make a deal on a 740 Big Bud and restore it 😊
Anything is possible 😁
Tracks are no match for LSW's! Titan and Goodyear Farm Tires killin it again!
Great video guys keep up the good work and tractors look awesome and may God be with you?
Always well done.
curious if they upgraded the tranny when they bumped up the horsepower. We have 2 series 4 buds with the fuji teko power shift and were told not to take the 3406b's over 450 horse.
That's awesome you have two series four buds, no they have the same fujitech transmission. They were told that you can go up to 600 but it isn't probably a good idea to push it that far.