this Emerson-Brantingham Big 4-20 is the most traveled tractor there ever has been...

Oscar Cook of Billings, Montana was an early collector who used his airplane to search for antique tractors. In 1968 he opened Oscar’s Dreamland, a museum to showcase his collection of over 300 tractors.

This was one, and when his collection was auctioned off, it was bought by a collector from South Africa.

This started the journey of the Big 4-20. It was loaded into a container and shipped to the Sandstone Estate in the Eastern Free State in South Africa, a 17,000 acre international agri-business that produces wheat, soybeans, maize and sunflowers. The estate includes over 700 vintage tractors.

It held an event which was to prove a record could be set of how many pre 1966 tractors could work one field at the same time, Australians learned of this and had their own record breaking event in Cootamundra, Australia, which the Emerson attended.

The Emerson attended more events from Britain to Ireland and then was stored on a farm in the UK for the past 13 years, until its latest trip to the United States in 2021.

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