Tractor tragics revere these rare tractors, made from spare tank parts 🚜| Landline | ABC Australia

[@dukwdriver2909]

Cutting up 32 Grant tanks. I can hear Aussie Armour Museum crying from here, UK. Great piece of history I never knew about before.

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

😂😂😂 yep

[@czarkusa2018]

History worth documenting, thanks to all.

[@MrLooperg]

Now that was something worth watching.

[@agalah408]

My father Eric worked at Uptons for years in the 90's I'll take this clip and show him. He'll be keen to see it.

[@johnkauppi7078]

My neighbour,Harry Newell and his brother built 2 Upton type tractors at home on the farm.They used Grant tank final drives and the tank transmission,running backwards.Then a Road Ranger transmission,running normally.1 had a supercharged Nissan truck motor and the other was a Detroit 8V71.The rear tyres were 23 by 26 rims welded over the tank track drive sprockets.They had the quietest diff I've ever heard on a tractor.Both tractors still survive.

[@Laverne-Washingto-51231]

The efficiency of agriculture machines is a beacon illuminating the path towards a world where farming is both productive and environmentally conscious.

[@306champion]

I've always loved the "UPTON". I've never personally seen one but I remember well the articles and photos in Power Farming Magazine back in the day. Back when if you couldn't buy what you wanted then you built it, like all the tandem hitch tractors that would pull three twenty eight run combines on an A frame. I was only a kid back in the sixties but I've seen what us Aussie's are capable of and are proud of them.

[@kdegraa]

Good story. The ABC needs to do more stories like this.

[@FrankSimon-n6o]

They are built to last well done to all it's fantastic to watch good on the Aussie 🇦🇺🤠👍

[@rlnah]

Kinda similar to the Honey Bee tractors built up here in Saskatchewan Canada. Cool to see how tough these were built!

[@JAB8]

Thank you Landline!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

An old knothead I know made a rig like this from the rear end of a R-35 Euclid rigid frame quarry truck and an old 'B' model Mack with an 18 speed 2-stick quad tranny, Mack, of course. Worked right well!

[@Jesse-B]

In news just to hand, the Upton family has started converting tractors into tanks 😋

[@Thepigfromthepot]

Well done

[@brittenv1000]

Great to watch . 👍

[@olspanner]

Brilliant Aussie Ingenuity!

[@markissboi3583]

Aussie Upton 1967/78 vs usa's Big bud never heard of the Upton till today KZbin keeps alot hidden from your recommendations even though you look up aussie tractors The first twoBigbud tractors were the 250 Series, purchased in 1968 for use on the 35,000 acres at Semenza Farm between Fort Benton and Chester, Montana. Initially designed by Wilbur Hensler, built by employees at Northern Manufacturing Company, and made for the Rossi Brothers, Big Bud 747 came later in 1977 also Handbuilt - Then a farmer in WA built a big ass twin tractor cummins engine that pulls a 127ft wide seeder THIS tractor pull was bad ass ive never seen any finish

[@noelduffey2395]

The Bell tractor are similar in their design. Their build being extremely heavy duty . But still not as big as these animals. Thanks for uploading the video.

[@baldrickdaisy8982]

What an awesome story 👌

[@thevox1075]

Better as tractors than tanks. A tractor helps to produce, a tank just destroys.

[@ogaugeclockwork4407]

I got to climb around Upton engineering’s scrap yard as a kid. By that time all the Lee’s and Sherman’s had gone, but there were still Alligator’s and Buffalo’s there!

[@machinerydoctor]

Great sucess story .

[@martin-vv9lf]

I enjoyed that video. I had heard about upton tractors in passing due to their record breaking hp. I suspect there would be more still in service if they had lift arms and power take off shafts.

[@wazza33racer]

Ive even seen a home made copy of an Upton, same power train, but the engine was a Nissan 2-stroke diesel.

[@samwest9444]

Hopefully they have a go at building tractors again like Laurie Phillips

[@bigears4014]

Clever Australians using anything they could to make something

[@mauriceupton1474]

Excellent, I totally approve.

[@robertwilliams2623]

Jest think of the things you could learn from this men would love to hangout with them.

[@kenmelrac]

Try remaking the video without the crappy background (it's not appropriate) non-music!

[@donttalkcrap]

5:11 Pink? They look yellow to me

[@bigears4014]

The first ones were pink , that the colour you get when you tip lots of paint together

[@peterclark7879]

It all comes back to don't tell me what you can't do tell what you can do. No glass half empty glass half full.

[@jensdobernecker609]

It looked to me that the one with the open hood had a Scania V8 in it.....

[@ShainAndrews]

Always with the music....

[@TheMNrailfan227]

Is it just me or do these Upton tractors remind me of the 500hp Honey Bee tractor made in my homeland of America?

[@chris-zl4wm]

massey ferguson 5200.

[@martykath4427]

Tragics is such a condescending word. Some people collect art of a useless nature others have a liking for the useful things that may or may not have been part of their past life .

[@jesseharriott4253]

Just rams a screw into the battery post. Yup bush mechanics lol

[@sapient74]

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