They’re kind of like the pro-street drag racers of the tractor world; not always that useful or comfortable, but definitely more fun. Just the look of them is enough to make you want to bolt a set of Trelleborg low-compression tires to a John Deere 420.
The height/width ratio of the tires on this machine isn’t quite what I’m drooling over in my imagination. That said, it’s not far off. The big engine smoke helps with the awesome to watch factor, too….
You know you’re good when:
The Mercedes Benz Unimog – It’s diesel, has an equal number of forward and reverse gears, and has spider-pattern tires. Add a PTO shaft and this discussion would be over….
If you’re from the wide open farmland of the Canadian Prairies, you know there’s only one show you need to watch: The Prairie Farm Report. Since 1983, Bill Wilson has brought the greatest farm innovations by farmers, for farmers. If this clip doesn’t convince you that agricultural programming doesn’t get any better, then there is just no pleasing you, Mr. Powers.
Catch it on Saturdays at 6:30 pm and Sundays at half-past noon on Citi-TV in Winnipeg. Everywhere else, check your local listings. Or to love it in absentia, check out their (unofficial) facebook group.
If all lawn tractors were like this, the world would have a lot less problems:
In Communist Russia, traktor exhausts YOU!
In all fairness, the owner of this video says it’s the first start of the year. I say it’s still a heck of a lot of smoke.
Yeah, it’s a gas engine. But let’s see your Kubota do this:
You haven’t lived until you hear the drum solo around 2:29….
Yeah, and it still doesn’t look that big on YouTube. Then again, I’m driving a Mazda station wagon, so I’m one to talk.
As it stands, it is currently the largest conventional tractor at 370 max. horsepower. The motorvation behind it is the cleanest-burning 8.4 litre engine, which also gets mad fuel economy. Stuff that in your recycled bamboo pipe and smoke it, Al Gore.
The best part is that the video is almost like the ads for exotic sportscars (see Lamborghini ad below). Which is fitting, considering they’re probably about the same price.
New tractors: how to waste money when you’re not a lonely douchebag.
…and your John Deere hits the floor!
Enough with the redneck jokes, here’s the video:
