Big Iron Part 1-4 Collection 240 min. DVD

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Big Iron Part 1-4 Collection 240 min. DVD

Get the first four Big Iron films in one box, would be $188 if you purchased individualy, this set would normally be $109, but for a limited time we can supply at the extra special price of $70

Big Iron Part 1 Big and powerful farm-machinery in the USA, DVD 

See 62 minutes of these big four-wheel-drive machines at work in the fields of North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Learn how farmers in the 1950's and 1960's designed the earliest of these tractors for their own use and how they evolved to what is used today. Hear the engines roar, see the dust bellow and watch the men and women who use these tractors on their big fields.

Featuring older production tractors which have worked in excess of 20,000 hours. Big Bud, Rome, Rite, Steiger and many more.

The enormous size of these tractors weighing up to 50 tons and their powerful engines producing up to 900 hp working one acre every minute.

Big Iron Part 2, DVD, More big and powerful farm-machinery in USA and in Europe

More American and European Big Iron. Rubber track machines challenge the big 4WD tractors. We also take a look at the production lines of some of the worlds largest tractor manufacturers.

Those covered include:
  • The Challenger - pioneer on rubber sole, in the mid 1980s Caterpillar looked at developing an articulated tractor to get back into the ag tractor market, but the engineers set their sights on the rubber track system
  • Big Roy - the Canadian Colossus, 600 hp is needed to move the 25.7 tons 4-axle Versatile 1080 prototype
  • From Steiger No. 1 to the Quadtrac
  • Bima - the French Giant, the Bidon brothers developed their revolutionary articulated hydrostatic drive tractor as early as 1983 with models ranging from 300 to 440 engine hp
  • Powerful - the Schülter 5000 TVL, powered by a V12 MAN motor with 500 hp
  • John Deere - "big green", both articulated and rubber tracked machines up to 450 hp

Big Iron Part 3, Around the world - Australia - USA - Europe, DVD

The third DVD in the Big Iron Series takes us further around the world looking at more giant tractors.

In Australis where many indigenous big 4WD articulated tractors work the 'broadacre' countryside we meet Laurie Phillips who built the Acremaster tractors.

Heading east a meeting with James Nagorcka and a chance to see several of the 210 tractors he build before developing the rubber-tracked tractor. Stopping off at One Tree we see the world's largest 2WD tractor the Upton HT 14-350 at 350 hp weighing in at 23 ton.

The Murray River Basin suits the huge Baldwin tractors which can be seen laser land levelling for flood irrigation. Across to Texas on the USA two Buhler Versatile's are hard at work after harvest. Heading north and visit the old Versatile factory in Winnipeg, Canada traces the history of this famous manufacturer. In Northern Europe we see the English built Massey Ferguson 1200 and 1250 Series tractors hard at work baling straw along with their larger cousins the MF 4000 series.

Big Iron Part 4, DVD South Africa, Russia & Eastern Europe, Allis-Chalmers to AGCOStar

AGCO's Articulated Tractors

Not an articulated tractor but equipped with four-wheel drive: Built in 1929, the 'General Purpose' by Massey Harris was ahead of its time. In the 1980's, well-known producers like Minneapolis-Moline, Oliver, Cockshutt, White, Allis-Chalmers, Massey Ferguson and McConnel merged. In 2002 AGCO bought up Caterpillar's Challenger series.

The South African Companies ACO and Agrico

Designed and built by Alf Coetzer, the ACO 600 with its 820 hp engine is a true giant. The company that produced this machine has ceased trading - and yet, the "Yellow Monster" keeps on working Hoppie Mulders' fields. With its robust and user-friendly articulated tractors, Agrico remains successful in the African market.

In the Empire of the Eastern Giants

In the former Soviet Union, more articulated tractors were built than in the rest of the world put together. In its plant in St.-Petersburg, Kirovets alone produced more than 460,000 tractors of the K700 series, which boasted up to 500 hp. Kharkov, with its production site in the Ukranian town of the same name, builds articulated tractors up to 170 hp.

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