If you don’t have a chill run down your spine, or multiple chills run down your spine while watching this video you are either a psycho or you need to seek medical attention immediately. This video from an unnamed tractor pull being held (apparently) in 1998 shows a tractor powered by a pair of turbine engines getting crazy on the launch, leaping airborne, busting away from the sled itself, rolling over, and finally it was primed to make a run at the crowd before the driver got it stopped. The driver actually climbs out of the tractor which about the fifth miracle in this video because he has a single weenie bar over his head for protection and the tractor makes a complete roll on the course.
We have seen tractors blow up, pitch engines out, and split massive blocks in half like they were made of pottery but to see one of these beastly things break the bonds of the one thing keeping it from running roughshod through people is a really weird sight. Heck, just to see one turn over is strange in and of itself. Don’t be distracted by the angle that the tractor catches on the second or third bounce. Instead pay attention to the first or second bounce where the thing is completely flat and there’s several tons of tires, engines, and steel levitating about three feet off the ground. When it actually gets free of the tractor and turns over though, wow. We thought it was over at that point but as you will see, as soon as it was back on its wheels it really tried to take off.
How the driver (who had to be dazed, right? You HAVE to be dazed from that) got it shut down and stopped we’ll never know. If that man were unconscious this would be a completely different story. You can truly respect the power of these rigs when they aren’t trying to haul the weight of the world behind them!
