The world’s biggest tractor

On our way to Julimar it became more apparent that the turbo still wasn’t working , the journey up and down the roads of the wheatbelt became painful crawling at 30km while cars wizz pass you.
During the journey you pass though towns smack bang in the middle of wildflower country, these towns come to life during the wildflower season Aug- Oct and is the best blooming place for all of your wildflower wanderings. Sadly this wasn’t possible for us but what we did find is the world’s biggest tractor!

In a town of 400 people, one pub, one restaurant and one grocery store, there now stands the world's biggest tractor.

The Chamberlain 40K replica stands in the rural WA town of Carnamah, 300km north of Perth.

At 11.5 metres high, and 16 metres long, the steel statue is big enough for a 4WD to drive clean underneath it, and can be seen from 2 kilometres out of town.

The Big Tractor was designed by engineer Frank Kidman, who had an original Chamberlain 40K parked close to the back door of his house so that he could take precise measurements of every part, and enter them into a computer.

Mr Lukins put enormous effort to ensured each component was exactly five times the scale of the original model, down to the nuts and bolts.

The statue was then fabricated piece by piece in Geraldton by a team of 58 tradespeople from mining contractor DIAB Engineering.

Project manager Xavier Sequeira says the Big Tractor was built by 58 people over about 12 months.
Project manager Xavier Sequeira said it took 800 litres of orange paint and 42 tonnes of steel to complete the structure.

"It was designed to look exactly like the 40K," he said.
"It's a dead replica."

The tractor parts were trucked 180 kilometres from Geraldton to Carnamah in 18 truckloads.

A large truck carried the orange front grill of a huge replica of an old Chamberlain 40K tractor.
Trucks carried parts of the Big Tractor to Carnamah in 18 trips from Geraldton.
Two cranes were used to install the tractor on-site, and it was bolted together by the same project team that fabricated each piece.Read more