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What do you think? they wouldn't let me drive -- you think my tractor is sexy? that's all i got for you. >> it's a little tractor. >> exactly. this is the daytona 500 nascar equivalent of the tractor pull. they're 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. he's been coming to the things when he was a kid. this is what he had to say about it. >> sit along the track. as it came to you, you stepped on the track. look at it now. you...

Like it will miss the u.s. if you're hitting to the beaches, be careful. rip currents and big waves are going to be an issue. if you're heading inland, maybe to a tractor pull. this is what they're 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 to this. that is just one of five engines, five engines, each of which takes five gallons to run...

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 they're trying to pull. and what they do is they have somebody who can drive one of these things, that necessarily wouldn't be me, but we're going to give it a go anyway. going to get on the front of this thing and we'll see what happens. i hope i have it in neutr...

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The reason i can't get on one of the bad boys, they do wheelies. you're 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 can't 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, we're going to give it to you. crank it up, guys. get it here. start one -- start five.