16v92 tractor

[skycheney]

Don't know if any of you have seen this before but its quite impressive, especially since it was built in 1977 and still holds the record as the biggest tractor and its still being used today.

[Avenger]

I can just picture climbing out of that thing after a day of plowing and shouting at everyone you talk to for an hour afterward.

1.317 million in today's dollars. And they say there's no money in farming.

But that was very cool. Thanks for posting it.

[yachtsmanwilly]

That guy HAS to have a sound attenuated cab; even so, pulling an 80 foot wide plow, you have to hear that for miles! In the tenure of my youth, I was a draftsman at Hendrickson Manufactiring and we had just built a BIG DUMP truck for the Alyeska Pipeline Co, with the "new" 16-92 Deroit. Reps came from all over the country to see it and hear it run. It was big enough that a building wall had to come out to get it ouside. A miscalculation to the chagrin of the company.

Thanks for the post SKY! Pretty easy aint it?

Altho this is a CAT, it pretty much show how size has progressed.

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