From huge modern marvels to vintage relics, it’s easy to see why these amazing machines put a smile on the face of many enthusiasts
IN a show that does what it says on the tin, this is the guide you never knew you wanted (and still may not want) to the biggest, fastest and most powerful tractors on the planet.
From epic vintage restorations to cutting edge machines, it’s a global tour to find out everything that a tractor can do.
The series also interviews the men and women who build, modify and even race these mechanical marvels – including an enthusiast who is rebuilding a 120-year-old steam tractor.
This episode gets up close to Big Bud in Montana, the largest tractor ever made.
It’s longer than a bus and five times as heavy. Its eight massive tyres tower over an ordinary man.
Back on UK soil, in Cambridgeshire, is another legend of the tractor world – a selfdriving tractor with pinpoint precision.
But sci-fi farming doesn’t come cheap – the John Deere 9RX costs a whopping £500,000.
In Florida, Mike and Mary Kehl compete in the most powerful motorsport in the world – tractor pulling.
They’ve burnt through so much cash building their alcohol-fuelled competition tractor that they’ve dubbed it ‘Spending Their Inheritance’.
And in Dartmoor there’s a unique farm with an amazing solution to a big problem.
Farming 70 acres of Christmas trees is backbreaking work. But the world’s smallest tractor, at just 25.5 inches wide, can help out.
It’s all strangely compelling.