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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. i'm happy you are as excited as we are about those tractors. >> i here you. all right, rob, we will be checking in with you later. be safe out there because rob behind the whee...

Engine division. this sucker elaborately run by wayne purser out of norman, oklahoma. i asked him, what's the scariest thing that's 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 can't see nothing all burning. i was rolling around on the ground. i didn't know it was on fire. burnt my legs up. had been to the hospital for a week. it totalled the car out. >> just like that on fire and back -- actually, there's wainright there. a couple of participants from all...

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 doesn't go any longer. we'll 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 you're looking at right now, that's the track, they've been prepping that puppy all morning long. grating it, watering it down, grating, leveling it out, they've got two of them about 100 yards each, and by the time today'...

It's 100 yards and they're still working on that thing. it's going to start tonight, they're 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 haven't experienced it. oh, by the way, guys, the road show has a new sponsor. we're running out of money, so i'm hoping that pensoil takes care of us for the next go. send us your suggestions. >> look, something arrived in my e-mail box. >> rob, you look great in that thing. i'm sorry you didn't -- they didn't trust him to th...

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.