Tractor Pulling - Frenchie Styleee

[Phil W]

Hi all,

Went to France 2 weeks ago for a Holiday and advertised locally was Tractor Pulling. I haven't been for years so we thought why not.

The weather was not on our side, it was terrential rain, but as we were in the south of france when it stopped, it dried up quick-ish. Field was still muddy and you could see when the tractors came out with the ploughs to smooth the track that the mud was clamming up, but no matter.

There was a variety of tractors there, we were at the later session that had the bigger ones (lorry engines, bus engines, jet engines etc) and we even caught a couple of funny-car style ones come out with smaller engines, these were louder than the actual tractors (apart from the jets, they were just immense...

So, on with the pictures... (some are a bit blurry as we were on a hill, about 150m from the track and zoomed in quite far...)

 

[Phil W]

 

[Phil W]

 

[Phil W]

Phil

 

[Bunka]

**** me!

Are those mahoosive intakes what I think they're for...?

 

[233]

abolutely bonkers

its like truck racing soo rwrong but bloody good fun
my cup of tea

1000 bhp 5 ton and bloody mental

 

[Phil W]

**** me!

Are those mahoosive intakes what I think they're for...?

4 Jet engines

 

[DreXeL]

How are those jet engines connected to the wheels then?

 

[LizardKing]

Saw one just like that at the paris agricultural show a few years back, bloody massive!!!!

 

[saitrix]

How are those jet engines connected to the wheels then?

All I can think is they turn turbines connected to the wheels.

 

[DreXeL]

All I can think is they turn turbines connected to the wheels.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

 

[Clarkey]

they are usually helicopter engines they use.

 

[penski]

goddamn, I love tractor pulling. used to watch it obsessively on eurosport as a kid.

the physics behind it is great. they don't grip. at all.

they spin the wheels flat out, flinging the loose suurface of the track out behing them...

and as we all know, every action has an equal and opposite reaction...so the tractor goes forward

*n

 

[Jonny69]

One day I must see this in real life. There was one parked up outside a shop in France last week. Obviously their trophy piece which they were proud of but I'd love to hear what 7 top fuel hemis sound like passing by at full chat at about 30mph

That one with the 4 jets is like

For info the trumpets on the front aid flow into the engine at low speed. Otherwise you get standing waves, odd laminar flow and all sorts of nasties that smash up the turbine blades and demolish the engine when it's not moving through the air quickly.