Mental Jet turbine powered tractor Great Eccleston Show 2008 pulls trailer

A jet turbine powered tractor competing at Great Eccleston Show, Great Eccleston, Lancashire, England, UK. The Tractor Pull event was on Sunday 15th July 2007. The most powerful motorsport on the planet!

http://www.tractor-pull.co.uk/

These are JET TURBINE engines. Jet engines discharge a fast moving jet to generate thrust (turbojets, turbofans, rockets, pulse jets & pump-jets). In common usage, "jet" refers to a gas TURBINE Brayton cycle engine with a turbine-powered rotary compressor. ROCKETS burn solid fuel, pressurised through a directional jet; this tractor doesn't use rockets! That's what's used on a spaceship or a firework!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_turbine#Turbojet_engines
http://www.cloudnine.nl/cloudnine1.htm

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[umdiecker]

Happy festivities, all. Can't wait 'til next year's full pulls at Great Eccleston! More videos of tractor pulling soon!

[brenthoser99]

lame ass for not letting embed. how else are peeps supposed to know on websites.

[umdiecker]

@brenthoser99 turned on now - it wasn't turned on by default for some reason. Feel free to embed!

[manga12]

The turbine is a jet engine, but instead of using the thrust from the pushed air, it uses the rpms of the shaft to propel things via a shaft. about the same principal.

[umdiecker]

Indeed

[beeson1981]

Don't forget that horsepower is just a measurement of the torque an engine produces multiplied by the revolutions it's doing at that time.

HP = (torque x revolutions) divided by 5252

Turbines aren't horrible engine for tractor pulling at all! Large turbines produce buckets of torque but they need to be up to speed before they do so and that's not an issue with tractor pulling as they can wind up before they start rolling.

[richardarichter123]

wicked puller

[steelhorse1979]

what is the rear wheel speed on this

[JGMagoo]

Basically, a blowtorch against a pinwheel...with the pinwheel geared to the rear wheels.

[JGMagoo]

@11jstedm Torque can be multiplied by gearing. Horsepower cannot be multiplied.

[ahimel]

I think as a next logical step these guys need to step it up with small scale nuclear reactors. Go big or go home.

[manga12]

runs on the same principal you have a shaft with venes on it and uses hot gasses to spin and sustain the turbine.

flip it around a jet engion is a type of turbine.

[AgonxOC]

@manga12 I am not sure what you are trying to clarify here....