Big Roy and a couple Big Buds in one trip? That's a good trip.

What a machine, impress design.

@brettbudgehabeck542

5 жыл бұрын

Looks like Mike has found himself a good donor engine for when he picks up your 1150 haha

@grantfort8852

5 жыл бұрын

Good looking tractor

I worked for Versatile for a few years and every time I walked past Big Roy I thought, what a shame to have it just sit there. It should be in a field pulling gear.

By the look on your face Mike you were more excited than the boy !

Nice! An important piece of north american tractor history. Amazing to watch your videos, thanks for your work!

@piperdoug428

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, us Tobans are proud of our manufacturers.

Can't tell who was more excited, you or that young man. Great to see Big Roy out and about

Absolutely love your videos Mike, cheers from Ontario.

I've seen that tractor about 3 times and I loved hearing it run in real life

@BRPFan

5 жыл бұрын

Jocelyn Decorby Love the sound of that Cummins KTA1150 engine! Same as in the 1150 and 1156.

Very cool, thank you for sharing your story. God bless you and your family

Awesome video mike looking forward to many more

How cool is that! To bad the Welkers weren't around! And as some one else said, this tractor is a piece of history!

That's a big tractor! I remembered reading about this tractor in the past. Cool video!

That’s fantastic. What an honour. Looking fwd to seeing the complete vid. Bucket list checks on this trip: Not only seeing Big Roy in person but driving it as well...yup, that’d be two checks right there; Meet Welker’s @ their farm......yup, got that one; Drive a Series one Big Bud.......yes sir that’s another tick in the box; & Drive the one off Big Brute.....yup, nailed that one too. Great job Mike!!

So jealous of you driving Big Roy but great vid love seeing it n running👍thanks Versatile museum

@BRPFan

5 жыл бұрын

Versatile has donated a number of items to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum but it’s not a Versatile museum.

That looked like a lot of fun‼️

Can't remember for sure but fairly certain I saw that tractor plowing at the Farm Progress Show in Illinois in the late 70's

Love the Big Roy. You are one lucky Guy to get to drive it.

Great video! I have been to that museum & seen Big Roy. What is even better, I got to listen Mike speak the NFTS last years supper.

That is really awesome wow 👍👍👍👍 nice video with Leg arms also have a great evening

I'm pretty jealous that you got too drive that monster tractor! That is one long tractor. Thanks Mike.

You lucky, lucky guy. Thanks for sharing!

Very very nice mike

Big Roy looks more like a train engine with rubber tires than a tractor! Very cool though. THanks for sharing.

Big Roy, Big Bud, Big Scott, and Big Mike. Love it.

That was an awesome tractor

You are a lucky man Mike to get the chance to drive that big machine. I have operated many bigger machines. That one would be a real monster for sure.

Awesome! I’m jealous! I wish I could have talked the Williams brothers into letting me take Big Bud for a spin.

Nice vid mike ...big tractor 👍

Walker farms would love Big Roy... nice video

OMG that is so cool!

hey mike,like to say gid'day from nz.checking your vids out after seeing you on welker farms.keep up the good work, look forward to your channel and vids kind regards Marty

@sigarius1783

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah we look forward to watching restoring vidjas off the "welker" Versatile. Lol.

That is awesome Mike

Huge but beautiful machine!!! Nick Welker sent me...dig this machine. Looks like it's a manual shift 2 sticker like many of our old trucks here in the Hawaiian Islands. She's a beauty!!! I'd love to refit Welker's Versitile. After seeing a 13spd in one the Welker's Big Bud's I'd love to drop in a Great Lakes 3408 Cat V8 to a Mack RQ 720 into drop down gearbox to some Timkin axles...maybe extend the rear to accept tandem Timkin Rears. Don't know much about farm equipment, but do know my trucks. I drove with every Class 8 diesel engines...Detroit from 6-71 to 12V-92TT, Cummins from the NH220 up to the NTC444 & my ALL TIME FAVORITE Cat 3406 up to the 3408. Shifted Roadranger's from the 8spd to the 18spd...but I prefer the RTX 14615 & the RTO 14615 when driving with the Cat engines. But my ALL TIME Favorite are the Dana Spicer 5X4. I thought the Stieger's & the Big Bud's were big that thing f###ing HUGE!!! Remind's me of the TEREX rock trucks we use in Mass Excavation!!! Good Video Mike!!! Aloha, Chief

Turning radius? Where we’re going we don’t need turning radius!

Would Have been pretty cool back in the day if they put that into production for awhile!!..

600 ish HP and 40 years later thats what just about all high end 4wd tractors are these days

@RJ1999x

5 жыл бұрын

A huge difference though. The 600 hp of today wouldn't pull 1/2 the load of 600 hp of the 1970-80's

@Kopjar1

5 жыл бұрын

Like a new 600 horse quad track, little tiny engine needs to be working its bag off to maintain that power where as this 1150 would just play with anything you could hook up to it.

I love this tractor.

Awesome!

I thought that thing had 2 engines, one in front and one in back. You need to do a video on the Versatile 2525 track machine. That was a prototype as well. That would be a cool tractor to have..

It would be neat to see this thing doing field work

Listen to her lope💪💪 man that things AWESOME ❤️❤️😊😊

Sir. I am SO envious of you right now. Driving Big Roy! So friggin' jealous. At any time did you yell, "Somebody find me a plow! Or a cultivator!" You know, something to drag through a field?

That’s very cool

Ditto what bping777 said. Now that's a vacation trip for the photo album!

Would be awesome if you drove a J I Case 1200TK.

I would like to see a versatile 300 on one of your videos. Unless I’ve missed it. If you need to find one, we have three in Ontario Canada you could try

Hey Mike, do they ever do field demos with it pulling implements?

nothing like a Big Roy! I heard a rumor that was a 2nd one that was built and is somewhere in Colorado . . . not sure if this is true.

@farmhandmike

Жыл бұрын

From what I was told a second one was maybe partially built but never completed. Like maybe went just as far as a frame weldment only on number 2

Reply to Brad not Landa Man, you are getting around! Just at Welker Farm...

you got to be the luckest man alive What is the best tractor you have ever driven ????

Nice tractor. What the whining when you got close the back?

Did versatile ever do any field work demos with big roy?

Legend. Did it ever do any field work?

Wow! Well, if that wasn't fun...👍

Imagine with dual all around😛

So did you buy Welkers 1150 Custom?

When I used to go up there for a week with my grandparents. Grandpa had adopted a john deere D that we put through the parade every day. The rumors where the big roy design never took off due to it trying to pull its tires off the bead with implement in the ground. Is there any truth to that rumor?

I just did a review video of the toy on RUMBLE

I wonder how the field testing went with it? From what I have seen in videos you can do better with LSW tires than tracks.

@justinstearns9723

5 жыл бұрын

If I remember right they had trouble with tires not holding up on it, Which isn’t too surprising given that it has to steer 4 axles at a time.

It looks like it could drag a big implement around!

Hi, Mike. It's me again from Portugal. How many HP has the Big Roy? Thanks

Where would this have "worked"? North slope( (Arctic) and oil field application

What was the idea behind this concept? What jobs was it intended for?

@jeepanimal2943

4 жыл бұрын

I cannot prove or disprove this information, it is only what I have found in my own asking of the question.. "Why didn't they continue?" I believe there might be a marketplace for these monsters today...But, basically, it was intended for large operations in the Canadian and American mid West, the same thing that the Big Buds were made for. But this one was canned by the factory as a possible product line, because there were no implements large enough to tax it's power. Again, I cannot prove or disprove this information, it is only what I have found in my own research.

And to think we now have FWA that have the same ponies as Roy, lol.

@nellsonstout7001

5 жыл бұрын

PIPER DOUG not quite yet

@piperdoug428

5 жыл бұрын

@@nellsonstout7001 Fendt Black Beauty with a tune is pretty damn close.

@nellsonstout7001

5 жыл бұрын

PIPER DOUG but I don’t think it’ll equal it. Those 1150s put out some big torque numbers

Is Big Roy the largest farm tractor or is Big Bud the largest farm tractor? Both have videos claiming they're the largest. Both look very impressive. Wikipedia say it's the Big Bud though. Not taking a side with either, I'm just curious to which is indeed the largest. 🤷‍♂️

Are there any in use on farms anywhere?

@justinstearns9723

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, this is the only one ever built. It was a concept/test tractor and never made it into production.

Does anyone know why it never went into production? Was it not built quit right for the job? Most today have two axles 8 tires rather than four axles 8 tires: could that be a big extra expense? Also that many wheels over the same spot might be a compaction problem..... Still it would of seemed to me that it would of had a place for some kind of job!

@lynwessel2471

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like an impractical design for only 600 hp compared to the Big Bud and Rite tractors. Steiger had a twin engine prototype at Farmfest in the mid 1970s but scrapped the design and unfortunately also the tractor.

Get the welker Versatile please

Big Roy dosent even look like a tractor???? Looks like something you would see at like a space station or something???

TIENEN QUE FABRICAR TRACTORES INMENSAMENTE MAS GRADES PARA ASER LOS TRABAJOS DE LA TIERRA EN EL CAMPO DELEN PARA ADELANTE COMO SE MUEBEN LA AGUJAS DELRELOK EL TIEMPO PASA INMENSAMENTE RAPIDO

Right on! Great video! Seen Big Roy many a times! Awesome museum we have there ah? While at the museum did you see the TA78 combine? It’s my buddies combine. Made in 88 at Versatile when Ford New Holland owned it. The only one ever made just like Big Roy! Last year Big Roy pulled the TA78 in the four daily parades. I got it lined up for my buddy to drive it in Saturdays’s parade! Here’s a video I made of cell ph video clips. kzread.info/dash/bejne/em1msdSenpPXZLQ.html

Hey mike are you a versi dealer/salesman?

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That tractor looks awesome it should have gone into production I know for a fact and if I had a farm I definitely would purchase this type of tractor because of the versatility 4 axle that means it won’t get stuck easy and has plenty of power for pulling!

Was getting concerned you wernt going to tell us about the power under the hood. Then wow, top man☺

I bet big Roy can pull a tree out of the ground

Это что за танк?

concept for what?!

I love how the grille is modeled after and old rolls royce

OR, BIG BUDD COUNTRY

Ok Mike Less. This is the first vid of you I have watched. I love that you, MN Millennial and Welker Farms have come to Canada. I know that you guys even How Farms Work adhere to Canadian driving laws yet with that said you break the most Canadian law of all, grammar. "Anyway" is not plural. It is not anyways. I cringed when auto correct didn't even correct that. The word is "Anyway". The only farm youtube channel I watch that gets this correct is MN Millenial. My only rant. Good vids other wise. I would say I put in my two cents, but us two color flagged northerners stopped using the penny a couple of years ago. So take my nickel sense. BTW the only reason this comment was edited was to make sure my grammar was correct.

30 minutes from me

@piperdoug428

5 жыл бұрын

Thresherman is such an awesome time eh.

@rogueexcavating3839

5 жыл бұрын

PIPER DOUG yes sadly I will miss it this year expanded my excavation company this spring and just can’t spare the time witch is to bad I look forward to it

Megint egy feleslegesen nagy gép?

Big but ... not practical.....