Typically, reverse gear is actually a higher ratio than 1st gear, about 1/2 way to 2nd, iirc. It would have helped the Cars Movie tractor tipping at the end, but he wouldn't have made it up any better. I figure his clutch was halfway to being burnt out at the beginning, especially if he does this a lot.

Aaaaah The good old Russian Roads.

Smokey and the бандит!!

The бандит is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of Used cars over country lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

бандит is a truck-driving Russian who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Putin to pick up a truckload of Cars from Kiev and drive through Donetsk and then return it to Moscow within a specified amount of time.

Quotes!

Russian Trooper: Did you see that? They went right through our roadblock!

Valery Bolotov: You som'bitches couldn't close an umbrella!

That tractor is a Porsche Diesel Super 339, if I'm not mistaken.

Note, there is a significant weight advantage on that steam tractor. But you just can't deny the sheer power of steam engine, the torque that it outputs at low revs, 0-1RPM is just massive where as combustion engine has really none..

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We certainly have tractor pulls in Australia, and they are popular elsewhere so I don't think you can claim it all to yourselves

I found that if you google "stupid sports" you'll find that many of the results were thought up in a pub in the UK... surely tractor pulls aren't as dumb as putting ferrets down your trousers?

Oh gosh, I hope there aren't any ferrit legging fans on vs...

Pop-up spike strips would be good, but I'd put them *after* the water stop sign projection (which would be moved out a bit). They already had to stop traffic for 20+ minutes to clear road so the dude could back up and get his truck out. Backing up a semi is hard, particularly if you've got double trailers (triples are near impossible unless you've got savant-like reversing talent).

If they popped his tires, add hours onto that to replace probably 10+ tires if he gets the whole semi tractor over the spike strip. However, even that is still better than letting the dumbass drive into the tunnel at full steam and causing massive damage.

seems to me that tractor tires were actually designed to do this kind of thing

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According to the video's description the planes are Air Tractor 802 Fire Boss

Yeah, that panel at 3:10 does not look good, lol

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