Chad and everyone else like to beak my aggies because of a lifelong affinity for farm tractors that I cannot seem to get around. I am not a diehard lover of any one particular brand as lots of guys are but I certainly have my favorites. Anyway, this isn’t about my favorite tractor as much as it is about a fun contest involving a tractor and a really, really angry sounding mega truck that challenged the big John Deere machine to a tug of war at an event. We’re not going to reveal whether the 1941 Chevy bodied truck, with its agricultural tires and heavily modified engine has anything for the diesel John Deere tractor with its quad rear tires and powered front axle. We just like the fact that it happened!
I have said it a 100 times if I have said it once and that is the fact that these mega trucks have evolved from things that would barely get around their own backyards at crawling speeds to legitimately awesome racing and performance vehicles that can jump like trophy trucks and skim across mud pits and ponds. They have begun to spread and get built all over the country as well. Mega trucks were certainly a southern export because it was Florida and the Carolinas that they really began to grow in popularity and now they are coast to coast and promoters are finding fun and exciting ways to make money which means more purse to pay which means more money for racers to spend and the mega trucks are evolving in line with that.
So, lay you money down! The betting windows are about to close. Big green John Deere tractor or the nasty 1941 Chevy Mega Truck?!
the older I get, the more I understand the tractor thing. I stuck my truck this spring in a pretty precarious way, had it sitting a couple of inches from M’s Mustang… and the 35 hp tractor had no problems dragging it out. Literally, drug the butt end out sideways, at idle. The outcome of this contest was predictable, I’m just surprised there weren’t any hard parts hanging out of the loser…
Well, that one went exactly as I expected.
Yup, when a 6,000-lb truck meets a 15,000-lb tractor, the tractor is always going to win, it doesn’t matter how many HP the truck has!
Weight and gearing.
Truck still very impressive No hopping or windup in the chassis and able to move lots of dirt.
In this case SIZE does matter!
Tractor probably weighs more lIke 20-25k, better tire footprint too, and an advantage in gearing…I go to pull events in summer where tractors like this will weigh 30k or more out of field and in some instances the sleds struggle to stop them…
Ever since I saw a 14 HP Farmall literally pull down a house to demolish it I knew never to hook up anything but a sled or a plow to a tractor.
I worked at the Waterloo plant for a week where they make those tractors and it is crazy cool to see it go from raw chassis to complete. They are way sturdy and the option of AWD definitely helps even more. If it can drag an implement 20+ feet wide that is ripping a foot into the ground, 4 skinny little tires are no match regardless of power. Also saw the engine factory where they build the compound turbo engine setup from bare, raw castings. Too cool!!! Recommend the tours if ever in Iowa.