The Story of BIMA Tractors - Incredible tractors from France 🇫🇷

It's my first video in english! I hope you enjoyed it! Please consider subscribing!😊

Thanks to Mathieu Bonaventure for helping me and explaining many things about BIMA
@FARM-Connexion great forum with a lots of knowledge abut BIMA tractors.

00:00 Introduction
00:43 Jacques Bidon BIMA Vision
2:13 BIMA 150 Polytrac
5:50 BIMA & Albaret
8:02 BIMA & BH Industrie
8:37 BIMA 4400

Sources:
Tracteurs Passion Et Collection N27

Materials:

[MatheoMisiak]

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[MACHOMISTERYMAN]

for years i have been enamoured with the bima tractors, but have never found as much information on them. thank you for making this video and shedding some light on a truly revolutionairy but sadly mostly forgotten engineering masterpiece!

[SchrottiJr]

I am actually surprised noone other than Claas stole from this idea. The Xerion is an absolute beast in hilly terrain, tight spots and on silage pits, it´s only limit is the traction you can produce by putting on weights. We have a custom disc implement for the front so we can one pass cultivate and seed in fields you wouldn´t dare drive with something like an 8R or some articulated tractor, their cog is way too high.

[UsatMVS]

I'm surprised by the amount of positive comments on that video! It definitely deserves them but I'd have never thought that it would be that successful, great job Matheo!

[Brad]

Fascinating! Great documentary on a tractor I have never heard of until today. The BIMA tractors do seem to have been way ahead of their time. In fact I have a feeling that some farmers may have looked at these tractors and turned away due to being difficult to repair. Shame that there was not more models built or even worse that if this tractor would be made today with current technology I think it would be a great machine!

[camced]

I rarelly watch farming related content on youtube, even though i work in the farming industry (manufacturer side, not farmer side), but I need to say that this is a really great documentary. The images choosed to represent the speech are pretty good, the speech itself is of good quality and i learned about a tractor i've never heard before
Take my like and my sub!

[TrevorStruthers]

I have watched every video and love them!

[Feldynn]

What an interesting story, it amazes me that something as technologically advanced for it's time never caught on especially looking at some of the modern equipment out there now! As you mentioned Claas maybe has drawn inspiration from this and I wonder if the Syn Trac project did too, either way this is a great piece of history and I thank you so much for putting it all together!

[georgestirewalt]

What A Tractor and what a shame, that their no longer being made. Good video, keep up good work.

[hankelrod]

We have owned 2 Versatile BiDi’s and still use the 9030 with 14000+ hours every day still. The concept of cab forward design is perfect for many applications. I often dreamt of building a cab side forage chopper for it, throwing forage over the cab to a trailed wagon to open fields & greenchop. I figured one man could chop & empty wagon into bagger as a 1 man chopping crew. About 15 years ago I bought an old Hesston 7655 side dump forage harvester for that purpose. Some of the old engineering from Bima tractor & versatile BiDi’s & Hesston side dumps were way ahead of their time for smaller farms with limited labor.

[barteklasota]

Świetnie mówisz po angielsku powodzenia

[guidolavespa]

Cool!!!! Thank you for your documentary!!! It's a really fascinating technique, like Schlüter tractors

[ukaszlukas]

Oooo co za zmian. Jak dla mnie może być 😲💪😁

[LtMoDdundee]

Brilliant documentary about a fascinating machine! Thank you :)

[timkjos]

Given its weight distribution as shown in the last model, I'm surprised the BIMA didn't attract attention in the U.S.

[Modlendingen]

I remember the Bima from a VHS i got as a kid, Big Tractors 2 or 3 i belive. They showed the BIMA and Schluter as well :)

[powrotdokorzeni]

Fajnie że poszerzasz horyzonty 😀👍
Zasięgi zapowiadają się fajne patrząc już po pierwszym odcinku 🤯 trzymam kciuki 🤠👍

[robertkopacz]

Świetny akcent...
W pierwszej chwili myślałem, że to z okolic Cheshire..., ale kolejne zdania raczej można umiejscowić, gdzieś koło.... Włocławka.
😂😂😂
Pozdr 🎩

[SchnelleKat]

Great youtube recommendation for me! Beautiful designed, and I'm sure plenty of horsepower and parts to work with. i wonder if someone can find a sales brochure on them. (I collect). Thank you for providing the all Scources and Materials in the video description. Maybe i will try to 3D model this for farming simulator game.

[matthewgray]

Awesome video, thankyou for the English narration