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Up. not getting the 2,000 horsepower out of that motor that he needs to pour into the track in order to make it out there and try to be competitive tonight. >> and a tough ride for scott tedder, but this guy is very happy. >> l.d. nation, hey congratulations. what a run, man. you guys put on a pretty good show. nice job. >> yeah, i'll tell you what, now, when you get in a punch like that, i'll tell you what -- there's 15 of us, and any one of us could've won, and when you get a win like that, i tell you what, you got to celebrate. >> well, like you said, you were hanging out at the starting li...

We took advantage of a new term called rural lifestyles. >> we show cattle here for many years and my dad sells john deere tractors for them. >> we traditional sell our hogs for the last 22 years in the swine barn and my kids and grandkids are now showing. >> if you want to learn how to do gardening or container garden, we want to show you how. you want to learn how to coupon and cut your grocery cost, we're going to show you how. >> ali, joining us on the phone, he's on the road in wisconsin. what are people saying about how they are adjusting their lives in this recession? >> i'm kind of fas...

Engine as well and you've got some people who are enjoying the tractor pull. what happens after that? the person who goes the longest wins. pretty simple, huh? there's 11 divisions. as i mentioned, a lot of competitives. and in this coliseum, which will be lined with 60,000 viewers cheering on their heroeses in agriculture, as they run down this track, which is still being graded, 300 feet of dirt being packed down for this weekend's 43rd running of the national tractor pull championship. i'm rob marciano in bowling green, ohio. >> 60,000 people watching tractors go raying. some of them up to ...

>> just another joke. >> we spent some time in austin. >> another thing we have going on is new york pet fashion week. that's very important. >> i wish we had video of that. >> that's oddly disturbing. we've got the hampton classic horse show. a lot of things going on between the pet fashion show and horse show, a lot of pet things going on. bowling green, ohio, the national tractor pulling championships. take a look at this. >> reporter: you think your ride has some power? how about rims? look at those bad boys. this tractor pull means business. we've got all sorts of tractors here. this is s...

The big boys. wade's got five engines, each one of them has the equivalent power of three nascar engines. they can crank 10,,000, 12,000 horsepower of five gallons each engine, only to run about 300 feet. not very good mileage. what are they doing? pulling this thing. they've got sleds bigger than this. they hook on, get somebody in here who knows how to drive it, which wouldn't necessarily be me, but we'll give it a go. once they hook into this thing, the tractors get going. and they gun it. and they'll spin their wheels at 100 miles an hour, they won't be going because they're dragging some ...