You know us, we don’t discriminate by combustion type here. We’d like to prove that by showing you what has to be the most insane land dwelling diesel powered vehicle on Earth. This is a European based pulling tractor that packs not one, but two 40-Liter Russian tank engines. Each of those engines sport two grapefruit swallowing turbos. We’re talking a combined 4,800ci of diesel powered fury being unleashed on the sled each time the driver drops the hammer.
The name of the sled is, “Slaedhunden”. We looked for a meaning or translation for this word and have absolutely no clue what the origin is or what it means. Perhaps it means, “drinks a tanker full of diesel” or “the thing that keeps Al Gore up at night”. Again, these are only guesses.
Horsepower? Torque? No clue other than to guess a metric crap ton raised to a power of 10. We’ve watched plenty of diesel powered Pro Stock tractors in our day, and those babies crank out some serious smoke from one stack and an engine that is about a quarter of the size of ONE of the tank engines on this tractor. To see all four stacks rolling out the clouds of doom like this one does is show stopping.
Here are a few videos featuring the “Slaedhunden” tractor. The first is a start up, where it looks like one motor is run and then used as the pony engine to start the second, and the rest are of the tractor doing what it was designed to do…swallow diesel and drag the weight sled long and far.
Put on your gas mask and press play!
Probably translates as Sledhunter. One of the first quad-turbo Super Stock tractors here in the US went by that name.
Google translate says slaedhunden means “sled dog”. I also found a reference to the word “teufelhunden”, which was a slang term given to American Marines by their German opponents after the capture of Belleau Woods in 1918. It means “devil dogs”, which seems to back up the previous translation.
Regardless, this beast seems nearly capable of spinning the Earth in the opposite direction.
Interesting WWI reference. Forgive me for taking this further off track, but I can share some interesting personal history:
My grandfather was wounded by a German machine gun there. The burst that wounded him killed the last surviving member of his squad. He took cover in an abandoned German trench, and worked his way back and forth while popping up to fire his springfield into their position. The were forced to expend all of their ammunition trying to hit him. After he picked off their ammunition supply runners, they surrendered.
What makes me most proud of him is that he immediately saved this machine gun crew from being bayoneted by a survivor from the company of Australians that the Germans were chopping up until he forced them to concentrate on him. He said they were old men and boys, and he never showed me any animosity towards the German soldiers.
Sorry again for the thread hijack.
It is Danish, and means “The Sled Dog”
They did throw in a Hemi also, just to aid those poor diesels a bit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87GZz2xMJ6c