The new Big Equipment Co. facility in Havre, Mont., has two Big Buds parked out front, one of which is the famous 747 that Ron Harmon build. HAVRE, Mont. – The Big Bud 16V-747, the world’s largest ...

"It's a total loss," Ron Harmon said. "It was a hot, long fire." Fire erupted at the 38,000-square-foot facility at 1287 U.S Highway 87 in west Havre around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, said Harmon, who was in ...

The cause of the fire that burned an internationally-known custom tractor business to the ground Christmas Eve near Havre — the Hi-Line city’s largest blaze in three decades — remains undetermined, ...

HAVRE, Mont. – The Big Bud 16V-747, the world’s largest tractor with 1,100 horsepower, is parked outside the Big Equipment Co. building in Havre. Only one 747 was ever built, but from the mid-1970s to ...

Big Equipment Co. has led the agriculture industry in rebuilding and custom-building older tractors for farmers, many of them Big Buds. Without computerized systems, these tractors worked the fields, ...