A tractor considered something of a legend among enthusiasts has gone on show at rural trade shows, decades after rolling out of a NSW tractor maker's property.
He spent a lot of his early work life making repairs to tractors that broke down — sometimes in the middle of fields that were thousands of hectares in size — and eventually started making changes to the machines.
The family business had collected military paraphernalia and had a two-acre yard full of army tanks, the designs of which would serve as inspiration for the Upton HT14/350. "So I designed this really big one, and it was — and still is — the biggest factory-built two-wheel-drive tractor in the world."After a five-month build, the Upton HT14/350 lumbered"like a big giant" onto the agricultural machinery scene at the AgQuip Field Days and outperformed larger machines.
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