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What do you think? they wouldnt let me drive -- you think my tractor is sexy? thats all i got for you. >> its a little tractor. >> exactly. this is the daytona 500 nascar equivalent of the tractor pull. theyre not pulling things like this. they started decades ago. they started using horses where guys would jump on the back of the sled to see how much their horse could pull. we ran into a fan yesterday, an old timer. hes been coming to the things when he was a kid. this is what he had to say abo...

Like it will miss the u.s. if youre hitting to the beaches, be careful. rip currents and big waves are going to be an issue. if youre heading inland, maybe to a tractor pull. this is what theyre pulling. a pretty elaborate setup. they can put several thousand -- 40,000 -- 80,000 pounds of weight on here and some of these tractors will be -- well, pulling it across the dirt good old fashioned style. you can imagine the kind of horsepower these puppies garner. it certainly makes some noise. listen...

Puppy. same deal over here. from norman, oklahoma, by the way, the severe weather capital of the world. but this is severe horsepower. about 3,000 in each one of these five engines, you do the math, about three nascar engines in one. 15 nascars on top of that bad boy. what are they doing? trying to pull one of these. this is the sled theyre trying to pull. and what they do is they have somebody who can drive one of these things, that necessarily wouldnt be me, but were going to give it a go anyw...

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The reason i cant get on one of the bad boys, they do wheelies. youre looking at five engines and each one has the equivalent of three times the power of a nascar engine. so on top of this is like 15 nascar engines. i cant happenedle that, are you kidding me? the sound alone of these things. noise abatement laws started to go off at 8:00. i hope i can expense the fine. but because you asked for it, were going to give it to you. crank it up, guys. get it here. start one -- start five.

About this competition. this is serious business there. >> bowling green, ohio. i wish we could stay all week long. >> i can tell. >> you can get an idea of how much puppy. >> i was saying you were a little geeked up about that power. i can feel the testosterone from here. and some of those tractors you were showing us, rob, it was something out of mad max, those engines were souped up. >> sorry, betty, i just lost you. im happy you are as excited as we are about those tractors. >> i here you. a...

Engine division. this sucker elaborately run by wayne purser out of norman, oklahoma. i asked him, whats the scariest thing thats happened to you while pulling on a tractor? >> the scariest thing that ever happened to me? i had a blown two-wheel drive. had some loose fuel lines, caught on fire. i was on fire. you cant see nothing all burning. i was rolling around on the ground. i didnt know it was on fire. burnt my legs up. had been to the hospital for a week. it totalled the car out. >> just li...

One is 12,000 pounds and slowly slides that weight forward and that pushes the sled down on the ground. and starts driving that stuff down on the ground and make it harder and harder and harder until it actually doesnt go any longer. well put the brakes on. so the farther that you go, the better your score is. and they actually -- they actually measure it via a laser. what youre looking at right now, thats the track, theyve been prepping that puppy all morning long. grating it, watering it down,...

Its 100 yards and theyre still working on that thing. its going to start tonight, theyre going to have the mini modified division, the version, we cranked those up, 12,000 to 13,000 horsepower, crazy, crazy stuff and one of those things like nascar, until you go, you havent experienced it. oh, by the way, guys, the road show has a new sponsor. were running out of money, so im hoping that pensoil takes care of us for the next go. send us your suggestions. >> look, something arrived in my e-mail b...

Whole lot of tractor. >> those things scare me. >> rob can handle that. five engines. 15 times it power of nascar -- i think you could do it. >> now we know why they were talking about the noise ordnance. a little loud. >> nothing sounds as good as an open header on a v-8. where should rob go? up to you. where to send mr. marciano.