Well this is something different! This little tractor is powered by a turbo-diesel engine of unknown cylinder count and displacement (to us anyway). We’e guessing that it may be a Yanmar diesel or some other small three cylinder job but we’re just taking a shot in the dark. What we do know is that the tractor sounds really, really pissed off when the driver gets up on the throttle and the engine starts to get loaded down, shooting a column of smoke a couple of stories into the air like one of its much bigger brothers in the Super Stock division. The tractor makes plenty of power and the setup was good because he drags the sled right downtown, much to our delight. We don’t know what the gearing situation is like but without the sled hooked to this little monster, we’re thinking that it would be insanely fun and scary to whip around on the streets with.
Like we usually do, we’re going to rely on the readership to educate us about this hellacious little tractor. It is 15 shades of pissed and the guy driving uses his body like a motorcycle rider to try and eek the last couple of inches out of the thing when the weight box comes all the way up to the front of the pulling sled itself. What are the legal combos for this class. Does anyone know? Tell us in the comments section. Even if you don’t know, watch the video because it is totally awesome.
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS TRACTOR PULL THE SLED OUT THE BACK DOOR WITH A LITTLE DIESEL ENGINE AND A WHOLE LOT OF SMOKE AND ANGER –
I’ve got one of them in factory original condition. IH Cub Cadet 782D. 606cc Kubota, 3 cylinder engine. Rated for about 15hp if I remember correctly.
Don’t know nothin’ ’bout that tractor ‘cept it’s pretty cool. However, Brian, you made the ultimate slip-up, at least for us Diesel guys – you wrote that the driver “got on the throttle”. Diesels, of course, HAVE no throttle! The correct statement is “went full rack” or “smacked the accelerator” – something like that.
Sorry Brian – you know I love ya but I couldn’t let this slide by – it’s for your own good.
Dan
Not completely true, I have a diesel in my Unimog that has a throttle. It uses the throttle to make a variable vacuum signal that controls the injector pump.