Seriously, you do not have to give the time of day for tractors to love this video. Why? This is a video about homemade awesomeness, the kind of thing that we love to celebrate here. Harry Lee’s tractor collection is filled with the greatest freaks ever and he built almost all of them himself. Lee was a guy who worked with Farmall tractors his whole life so when he retired from active farming and had the time to mess with the beasts of burden he worked every day in the fields, he did. His creations are on full display and they are multiple engine, chassis, and axle monsters that look as fun to drive as they were to use.
The main tractor celebrated in this video is an International Harvester 400 twin diesel unit that was built by a farmer in the Northwest with the last name of Garrett in the 1950s. It was not built as a show tractor, the guy farmed with the monster for decades. 9ft wide, 15,000lbs, and used for 30 years, it is steered with sticks like a tank. The tractor bodies and engines are chained together and that allows each side to articulate as it goes over uneven ground.
These are inventions made for fun and functionality. These are units used to grow food and feed families. These are things built during long nights and cold winters on farms. These are awesome. Harry Lee does not want his stuff called a hot rod and we can get that but what other name can we give it?! Multiple engines all hooked together? That’s as hot roddy as it gets!
