TRACTOR PULLING: Behind the scenes of the world's most powerful motorsport

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]So, up to that then, we've got Snoopy 3 here. Yeah. Uh what what chassis are you running these days? Cuz you used to have Snoopy 4 not too long ago. Is is that still the case?

[00:00:09]>> Uh it's not running now. Now, it's in a process of a major rebuild. Right.

[00:00:14]>> Major rebuild.

[00:00:15]>> And what are your plans for that one? Uh we've just got to uh freshen up update it. It Well, it's going to be completely rebuilt. New chassis, new new new everything.

[00:00:23]>> So, it's going to be Snoopy 5, is it? Uh well, yeah, or we might change the name.

[00:00:27]You never know.

[00:00:28]>> We're going in a different direction.

[00:00:30]>> We we are going to make a single engine tractor as well. As well? As well. To pull in more of the UK classes. The heavier classes and the horsepower would mainly to go into Europe.

[00:00:40]>> Yes.

[00:00:40]>> So, but we still want to go tractor pulling in the UK.

[00:00:43]>> Yeah, so you need something for that.

[00:00:44]>> that fits our our country our classes.

[00:00:47]>> what classes your single engine one aiming for then? What class would that be? 2.5 ton. Right.

[00:00:52]>> 2.5 ton. There we go. So, that that would run against um turbines, V8s, uh converted uh normal diesel engines. So, they're all in that up to 6,000 horsepower. Right.

[00:01:08]Go on then, Wowie. Talk us through this beast front to back. What what have we What have we got going on?

[00:01:14]Uh >> What's in this machine?

[00:01:16]>> [laughter] >> When it was in the plane, this was the back of the engine. This is the supercharger. Yeah. Uh fuel injection side.

[00:01:23]All the way it goes through. We've we've changed the ignition. We've changed the con rods. We've changed the rod bolts.

[00:01:29]We've We've improved everything. Changed the oiling of the engine to make it more reliable. And then we've uh put put a drive on the back so as we can mount a clutch so as we can get a uh a drive out of it. Cuz on the on the plane, it would have a propeller shaft.

[00:01:44]>> That's it. Yeah. So, and then we drive both engines through one what we call a cross box. Overdrive it up into what we call a reverser. So, that's just a direct gear gear box with a with a reverse. And then it goes into the rear end, which was based on a Rockwell truck center section.

[00:02:01]And then after that it's all completely bespoke. Yes, it's it's uh we got the four gear planetaries based on caterpillar uh 22-in disc brakes.

[00:02:11]Um just all to take the torque Yeah. and the horsepower. Right. And but we we overdrive it up to get rid of the torque, but it's a fine line between Yeah. over-speeding the pinions and then you get So I'll back the engine in a what uh what's our PM on that?

[00:02:28]Uh it's she's happy to run 442, happy.

[00:02:32]And and it would run at 20 >> you go up from there. Yeah, two to one. Right.

[00:02:37]Yeah, so it's not excessive, but so we got about a 9,000 rpm into the pinion.

[00:02:41]Halving the torque at the back end, isn't Yeah. Right. So you're going for speed and power.

[00:02:45]Yeah. Yeah. And frictional grip, really.

[00:02:47]And and frictional grip, yeah. Right.

[00:02:49]Yeah.