Big time tractor explosion in Shipshewana Indiana at the Midwest Winter Nationals 2022 

Drives me crazy to see thousands of dollars worth of safety equipment and something like this visor up. Often see helmets not strapped as well. Hopefully this opens some eyes and changes behavior.

The safety cable at the front of the engine is meant to direct the block and head forward in case an engine unzips. It did its job before it broke. They have mandated more cables now.

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I was laughing pretty good over that too, I think he was in shock from that thing detonating in his face!!!!! I heard parts bouncing across the concrete floor!!!!!! Hope everyone was ok!!

Looking at a blown motor in dead silence and you tell the driver to back up. That’s when you are good at your job. 😀

Better yet, at 1:06 the driver pushes in the clutch and shifts into reverse.

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I believe the flag man was actually pointing to the driver asking if he’s ok

It was a miracle for sure.

Just go through the video slowly and you will see it unfold.

Yeah he has been at the receiving end of a couple major engine explosions as the flag man!!!! Time for some new rules on engine Tie downs!!! That thing flew 30 plus feet into the wall!!!!

I thought years ago they wrapped a blanket like thing around them?

You could put all the restraints you want on that engine and it would of snapped them all. This is a classic example of bottom of the stroke engine explosion which is most time caused by parts failure in the valve train or possibly a piston melting. The best approach to minimizing this sort of engine explosion is as people stated applying of some form(s) of engine restraints but it also needs to include monitoring of crank case pressure and once a certain threshold that is x% above normal the engine needs to be shut down before it grenades and if does blow up hopefully the explosion is less violent and the engine restraints are then able to hold. Note I am basing my statement on what has been developed and is now required for Top Fuel Funny Cars and Dragsters where engine cylinders are quite literally filled with a fuel charge of 90% liquid Nitromethane/10% Methanol which allows the engines make in excess of 10,000 horsepower

@@randykroells8049 they do have what they call a clutch blanket that they all run, but they are supposed to have a 1/2” cable looped around the entire top end of the engine to keep it from ejecting out the tractor but it must have failed or wasn’t installed correctly!!

@@gullreefclub nope it’s called a lot of material removed from block for clearance and a lot of boost

Glad it didn't though.

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You got that right.

That engine was 90,000 I know the guy his name is smokey

No one got hurt.

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@@ChucksPullingVideos Cable is meant to flip the motor forward not hold to block down.

@@ChucksPullingVideos no way!!!!!! Seriously, I agree with you cables are not enough!!!! Lucky nobody got hurt bad!!! It about sent the top end threw the wall it looked like on beer money pulling video!!!

@@ChucksPullingVideos Nope, need to tether the head to the bottom of the block. Mondovi tractor does this with the Light Pro's they work on already. Expect a rule change of some sort for this.

We were surprised as well. We're also surprised that we didn't know the piston was on there earlier.

@@beermoneypullingteam i am really surprised that nobody got seriously hurt

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HAHA

We can't believe it either.

No one was hurt

It is yes.

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the block split, means to much cylinder pressure from to high compression and to much boost.

Very lucky

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@@beermoneypullingteam not a problem. Long time listener first time poster

Very lucky.

A big one at that.

Definitely not.

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Let's not...

Someone there said safety straps broke

Yes they did have the required cable installed

They did have the cables.