04x10 - Army Tractor Pull

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- [Schwag] Attention!

The garage has been taken over by the Army,

and Jesse is planning for a tractor attack.

- Full pull!

- [Schwag] Grab some grub, cake on some camo,

and get in shape.

- Ten hut!

- [Schwag] You're in the army now.

Take cover!

Incoming!

- Boom!

- [Narrator] Join us now as Jesse and his g*ng

of maverick mechanics rip, grind, and burn.

Transforming ordinary street vehicles into monster machines

in the "Monster Garage."

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Narrator] This week's challenge.

Turn a good old American Army Jeep into a tractor pull.

What's a tractor pull?

A mean pulling machine on steroids.

[engine revving]

The rules, the monster must appear to be stock.

They get 5,000 bucks for parts.

The crew has seven days and nights.

The first day they design, the next five they build,

and on the seventh day, they pull.

If successful, the team gets a $4,000 set of Mac tools.

And the clock starts now.

[jeep clunks]

General James hits the ground driving,

and charges into the garage

with an authentic World w*r II Jeep.

Recruited for the design team,

Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Sergeant,

pro tractor Puller, Joe Edder,

Second Lieutenant Brian Johnson,

and automotive designer, Keith Coucher.

- This is a cool one.

I've been waiting to do this for a while.

I've been going to tractor pulls

since I was, I mean, a little kid and, you know,

it's pretty technical now.

Before it was kind of like a hillbilly sport

where they just, grr, you know, guy with big overalls,

an open face metal flake helmet.

[engine revving]

We got that Jeep, but I don't know

how much we'll actually use of it.

- I think the cab, the hood,

all the sheet metal should come off of it.

See what we got to work with.

- Yeah, I mean it'd be great if we can use that frame

and extend it.

Gotta run two engines.

I scored a couple of 502s that are built

with some pro chargers, which should probably be good

for probably a thousand horsepower a piece.

What's the sled weight?

- Just like for the two wheel drive trucks,

they're pulling probably about

a 65,000 pound weight transfer slip.

- Gotta get a full pull.

Full pull!

[engine revving]

What's the wheel base we should extend this thing out to?

- From the center of the rear axle

to the very furthest point is 15 feet.

- Joe, so what we're looking at on this then

is taking that same frame, coming off here

and putting the engines there and just extending the cab.

The engine cab.

- [Joe] Yeah.

- This gives you guys a chance to show, you know,

what you're really trained to do.

And not everybody's like a soldier,

or a infantryman, or a pilot.

You know, there's a hell of a lot of guys

that all they do is work and fix stuff all day, every day.

Planes and cars.

- Bottom line, we're a soldier first, but technician next,

and we take a lot of pride in that.

I mean, that's the key to our survival on the b*ttlefield

is maintaining our equipment.

- All right, cool.

Let's get to work.

Ready? Full pull!

- [Narrator] For this Jeep

to get a full pull in five days,

a semi-truck rear axle is needed

to put the full in the pull.



for the pulling power of two supercharged engines,

and three foot tires will spread some dread.

[engine revving] [intense heavy metal music]

Day two for this assignment,

the garage has drafted a build team of military manpower

and civilian specialists.

From Hamburg, New York, tractor puller for life, Joe Edder.

Private first class, Jesse Dugan, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Sergeant,

Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Master Sergeant Derek Preston,

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Staff Sergeant Jeffrey M. Morin,

Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

Tractor pull builder from Louisburg, Kentucky, Tim Porter.

And specialist Benjamin Smith, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

- What's up, men?

Well, cool, so we're gonna take this little jeep

and make it into a tractor puller.

Engineering wise, we got a lot of work extending the frame,

making it strong, making a roll cage,

putting a rear end in it, hooking two motors together,

which is gonna be a pretty big task.

We put the rear end in, then we can put it in

nice and straight and true to the frame,

and then stack everything against it.

- Yeah.

- You know, drive shaft, trans, motor, motor.

- That's what you normally do is start at the back

and build everything forward.

- You should get to work probably.

- Yeah, let's get hot.

- [Narrator] The team falls in to begin the tear out.

[seat clanks]

[liquid sloshing]

The Jeep needs to be stripped down to the frame,

and this team is up for the task.

- Good to go.

This is what we do right here.

Make things happen.

- [Narrator] Some of these troops are on their way

to support the w*r effort,

while others have just returned home.

- Me and Smith are actually from the same unit.

- Same company. - Same company.

So, you know, we were in Iraq together and everything.

I was there for six months, he was for a full year.

- Full year.

Afghanistan before that.

[metal clanking]

- It's got the little military lights on it.

Blackout lights so you can drive.

[tools whirring]

- They built them for general purpose military use.

They couldn't have it falling apart, you know,

over in Germany and Normandy.

- [Narrator] This WW2 Willys Jeep

was made to survive the elements of w*r,

and half a century later,

it proves its resilience in the garage.

The team battles to remove the body,

but the Jeep bites back.

- I just gave myself a lobotomy.

Put a light bulb in my mouth.

That was just a nice fat shock.

[electricity crackles]

- [Narrator] The Jeep is tough,

but nothing is too tough for this team.

After launching a second attack, they tear it in half.

- Easy steps.

Bring it down.

All right guys.

- Hoo-ah!

- [Jesse] What's that?

- Hoo-ah, that's a military motto.

Hoo-ah is like a gut check.

- [Narrator] With the body removed,

the focus turns to stripping down the frame

and acquiring parts.

Joe and Sergeant Preston go on a mission

to retrieve a rear axle,

while the rest of the team keeps cutting.

- Specialist Smith's gonna get in here

with the plasma cutter, just clean everything out.

Take the rear half off.

He's gonna come back in, take the shock mounts off

'cause we're not gonna be running shocks on it.

- Let's go, let's get hot.

- A large part of my skill came from active duty.

I was in the reserves for a year.

My name is Benjamin Charles Smith.

I'm a 44 Bravo metal worker.

I really enjoy it.

You know, it's a dirty, dirty job, but I don't mind.

Went to Afghanistan for a little while,

came home for about six months, and went to Iraq for a year.

As far as maintenance goes, I mean,

it's just side of the army

that people really don't know about.

You know, you see on TV, you know, you see that one picture

where that fighting is.

You don't see everything left and right behind you.

You know, that's where we are.

- We gotta pop it out.

That way it'll just drop down and it'll come out

with everything else, and we'll get

the cherry picker in here

and we'll yank this whole assembly right outta here.

Let's dispose of it.

All right.

Myself, I'm deploying on the 29th of August.

I'm going to Baghdad, Iraq

to work on the joint coalition task force engineer cell.

So, I'm really excited about it.

I actually volunteered for that.

- [Narrator] Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Sergeant

went from fabricator to instructor.

- I teach various engineer disciplines,

vertical construction, utility operations

from the electrical power production,

power distribution to water systems, waste systems.

I originally joined for a three year commitment.

Three years turned into 22 years.

It just, it was a structure,

it gave me the discipline that I lacked, needed,

and it was just something I fell in love with.

- [Narrator] The front axle is torched off,

but they still aren't finished tearing.

The front frame is in the line of fire.

[upbeat rock music]

- What you see here is not all that we're using,

but you still gotta cut the rear end box.

These two pieces of metal that run here and over the tire.

That's it. The rest we build.

- h*-h*!

We got parts, man.

- Right on. Right on.

- Just wanna lay it down either way.

[welding rods sizzling] [upbeat rock music]

- A few days ago, we didn't know each other

and we came together and because of the standardization

and the team effort that we're raised with.

It all comes together.

[metal clanging]

- [Narrator] The builders successfully annihilate the Jeep.

What remains is less than half a frame,

and to commemorate their successful day,

the chief presents a token of army excellence.

- You know, in the army we have the motto

that it's a team effort, it's a tradition.

A coin of excellence, and on the back of this coin

is instilled are seven army values.

- Thanks, man.

- It's our pleasure.

- We gotta put that on the shifter.

Put the army values.

- [Narrator] The Jeep has been decommissioned,

and the team ends day two

knowing that tomorrow they will have to start building

a tractor pull almost from scratch.

Munster Garage factoid.

Nearly 10% of all US soldiers are mechanics.

An estimated 70,000 soldiers keep the army on the road,

in the air, and out of trouble.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Narrator] Day three, the build team marches in

and occupies the garage.

- Guys are really pumped up.

We did PT this morning, physical training.

We did a little run about four miles, some pushups, sit ups.

You know, it's prerequisite for the military.

- [Narrator] An early morning workout

doesn't slow these guys down.

They get started on mounting what's left of the frame

to the new rear axle.

[upbeat music] [tools whirring]

- This is the bread and butter of the whole machine here.

We got all the power going into the rear end.

I got some quarter inch plate that we're gonna tie in

and kind of a-frame it and, you know, tie it all together.

- [Narrator] Joe Edder can pull his own weight

when it comes to fabricating a tractor pull.

He's been building and racing them for half his life.

- I won four national titles, you know,

and it's just I started young.

That's is all I've ever done.

So I got to be good at it.

Class I run is what they call a modified class.

It's basically four motors.

Run what you brung, hope you brung enough.

To build a chassis, you know, at the thing,

it's just a piece of steel and when you get all done,

it's a work of art.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Narrator] The frame is united with the rear axle

so they turn to the tires.

The truck tires that fit the axle

don't have the proper traction for tractor pulling

so they need to be modified.

- What we gotta do here is we're gonna route grooves in,

and then cut the tire down to make just V lips on it.

I think this is a good job for Lieutenant Johnson.

- [Narrator] Lieutenant Johnson returns from the design team

to assist in operation burn rubber.

- This thing's got a little blade on it

that heats up real hot, and then you can just use it

to cut through the rubber.

Only problem is we burn these up pretty quick.

Here you go.

Little souvenir from Monster Garage.

- Look at that. - We'll probably have

about 400 of them.

- [Narrator] The tire tread is a crucial element

to get a full pull, but not as important as the engine.

A 502 big block enters the garage.

- Rations by JEGS.

- Rations by JEGS is real. - Real fast rations.

- Here you go. - Must mean they're good.

- [Narrator] And the only thing better

than one big block engine is two big block engines.

- Nice. Very nice.

- [Narrator] These twin 502s will be supercharged,

so Dugan and Morin began to chip off the new blocks.

Jesse shows up to assess the situation.

- Yeah, we got some work to do.

- [Narrator] With a total of seven builders

working on the monster, Jesse decides to stay out of the way

and begins building a roll cage and box frame

that will be mounted once the vehicle is assembled.

Angle iron and a front axle are rolled into the garage.

The remains of the Jeep are given new life

with 15 foot angle iron implants to extend the frame.

Once this is done, the front axle is mounted.

- We're getting ready to put the front axle on here,

but we gotta cut some notches in this channel right here.

So it's a pretty precise job,

so we're gonna use a water bottle.

[intense heavy metal music]

- [Narrator] The most basic yet critical element

of tractor pulling is the sled hitch.

Attached to the rear axle,

it connects the pulling sled to the tractor pull

and needs to withstand thousands of pounds of drag.

- It's a critical weld.

That's why I'm doing a series of welds.

Three passes on each side.

- [Narrator] Preston uses his tank welding experience

to give it extra strength.

- You know, like this thing here is gonna make it

probably about I would say about 1,800 horsepower.

So I would say it should be able to drag

probably 45,000 pounds or so.

[engine revving]

- [Narrator] And to pull that kind of poundage,

the engines need extra power.

Dugan and Morin continue work on the engines

to prepare them for the superchargers.

- We walk the old cam outta the block

with the new supercharger going in.

We need a different camshaft.

So yeah, we got some new ones that got shipped in,

so we're getting ready to install the new ones in here

so we can get this engine buttoned up,

and get the pro chargers on.

♪ I lost my ankle with the devil ♪

- [Narrator] Still nursing a broken ankle,

Jesse takes a novel approach to operate his welder.

- This is the floor, and this will go above the drive shaft

to keep the, you know, I don't want the drive shaft

to hit me and God forbid I get hurt.

Five surgeries one year.

Two shoulders, my jaw surgery, appendicitis,

and now my ankle.

- [Cameraman] Marriage.

- Yeah, and I got divorced.

Come here, buddy.

Hold that right there.

- [Narrator] But even with a parts list of injuries,

Jesse still shows up to do his work facing any opposition.

[metal clanks]

[Jesse chuckles]

- Ow, that hurt.

I think it's time to go home.

I had enough for today.

- Did it headbutt you?

- It hit me right in my ear.

If I'm looking for a warning sign to go home, that was it.

Let's get the hell outta here.

- [Narrator] Jesse's bell is rung

and the build day is called to an end.

Day four, the build team infiltrates the garage,

but they're a builder down.

Joe's driving in a tractor pull competition in Tennessee

and won't be back until tomorrow.

So the team forges ahead and attacks their first obstacle.

- LT, what do you got on the tires, man?

- Oh, we got that hot knife.

Problem with that is it's really slow.

Like, there's no way we were gonna make our deadline

and on top of that, just making these like four cuts,

we burned up like four blades.

- Yeah, that's not gonna work, guys.

I got a guy who owes me something.

Let me get in touch with him,

see if he can do something short notice.

- Okay, let's get hot.

- [Narrator] Tim tracks down some tractor tires

while the army develops a backup plan.

They fabricate a hand tool with a sharpened edge

that when heated will cut bigger chunks out of the tire.

[upbeat heavy metal music]

- That's what we do in the military.

We just improvise.

Can't always expect to get it.

We gotta plan for the worst case scenario right now.

- [Narrator] Sergeant Derek Preston is a welder

whose experience in the army has ranged

from working in the White House to the b*ttlefield.

- When I came in the military,

I was in the military probably six months

and I was in the first Gulf w*r.

So I've done my time in combat.

I like the army.

Yeah, I can't complain.

It has its moments but, you know,

for the most part it's been good to me.

This is wild.

You know, it was just not starting to sink in, you know,

the last couple days be like, okay, I'm really here

on "Monster Garage."

- [Narrator] The hand blade may cut the rubber,

but it also burns it.

Specialist Smith gives his idea a shot.

An air g*n with a razor blade tip.

[tool whirring]

- How long will it take to groove those tires?

- How long will it take? - I would probably need

to work on it the rest of the time we're here.

- Okay. - No joke.

You know what I mean?

So we need to make an assessment on that.

- [Narrator] The army has finally come up with a way

to cut the tires, but the process may be too time consuming.

They check with Tim to get an update on his tire recon.

- I made a few phone calls and actually found a guy

who just happens to be down the road in Riverside,

has a set of used tires and wheels

off a two wheel drive pulling tractor.

- Why don't you go and procure 'em?

LT, continue on just in case those tires

aren't what you're looking for, and we can modify these.

- [Narrator] The engines have been modified

to support the superchargers.

So the guys from Pro Chargers stop by

to help with the install.

- It's a high speed compressor.

Spins about 50, 60,000 RPMs.

Just forces air into the engine.

Tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.

- [Narrator] To top it off, each engine will be equipped

with blow through carburetors from Carb Shop

to add some pulling power.

- They are the subject matter experts coming in,

working hand in hand with the army.

In the military, our normal scenario, we have that a lot

because we purchase our equipment from civilian companies.

This is perfect for him.

I mean, he gets great training,

he's getting the civilian experience.

- [Dugan] They call me Hollywood back in my unit.

- Already? - Yeah.

- [Smith] Why?

- Because I got picked to do this.

Private first class Jesse Dugan.

IMOS is 63 Whiskey, that's a wheeled vehicle repair.

It's all diesel engine, stuff like that.

I was in Iraq for six and a half months.

I went straight from basic training overseas.

I mess around with my own car, so to be a part of this

is completely wild, and this is just great.

I'm having a blast. Hoo-ah!

- [Narrator] Joe sends a present from his motor shop.

A used transmission from a dump truck.

- [Dugan] What do we got here?

- [Narrator] Because the engines will be running

at 2,000 horses, the dump truck tr*nny is needed

to turn the horsepower into pulling power.

[intense heavy metal music]

Jesse hobbles in and continues work

on his self-contained roll cage.

- You notice there's no one over there sitting on the couch

looking through catalogs?

No one doing a lot of pointing and expertise things?

Everybody's just working.

- [Narrator] And to add to their work,

the tractor tires that Tim bought roll into the garage,

and there's an immediate problem.

- Tires.

That's not gonna work.

You're talking that rim going on that hub?

Not gonna work.

- The axle that we got Monday is bigger than typical

so you can see the size of it.

The brake drums won't fit inside of this wheel.

That's 15 and three quarters.

That brake drum there is 17, you know?

- [Sergeant Kevin] 17 and a half.

- 18 and a half.

This part here is too big.

Our problem is simple brakes.

Change our brake plan.

I didn't count on it, honestly.

I didn't count on them not fitting over these

'cause everybody uses them.

This is a little bigger.

I've never used a two speed, but I can adapt that.

- [Narrator] The oversized brake drums

are removed from the axle,

and Tim heads to the monster graveyard

to find a smaller brake system.

- Whose front end is that?

He finds something that piques his interest.

A front axle sacrifice from the Pike's Peak racer.

That might be it right there.

- [Narrator] The rotors and calipers are salvaged

and transplanted onto the rear axle.

- Right here just like a regular caliper.

- Sweet. - Coming together.

- Sweet. - Coming together.

- [Narrator] Tim may have put a stop

to the brake assembly problem, but there's another issue.

The lug nut pattern of the new tractor tires

doesn't match the bolt pattern of the rear axle.

To fix this, the center of the original truck tires

needs to be cut out.

Once this is done,

they are welded into the new tractor rims,

and the problem is solved.

So far, the wheels from this monster

have been giving them resistance,

but this team is prepared for anything.

As day four comes to a close, the builders are on target

to accomplish their mission.

Monster Garage factoid.

Both Ford and Willys manufactured Jeeps for the military.

So Henry Ford had every Ford part stamped with a letter F

so he wouldn't have to replace any broken Jeep parts

made by Willys.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Voiceover] Freeze!

Put your hands up! - Day five.

♪ I dunno what I've been told

♪ I dunno what I've been told

♪ Monster Garage is good as gold ♪

♪ Monster Garage is good as gold ♪

- [Narrator] The build team charges into the garage

and prepares an attack on the rear axle.

- Basically, we need to have the chassis,

what we call a rolling chassis, done today.

- [Narrator] Customized tractor rims are put onto the axle,

but don't fit.

The inside of the wheel is binding on the brake system,

so they need to be grinded down.

- This was too big for the inside of the rim

just a little bit.

We're trimming all that down, and we keep trying that rim

to take off a little bit until we get that rim to go on.

- [Narrator] Tim Porter is a tractor pull builder

who served in the army for 14 years as a mechanic.

But it wasn't the army that taught him how to wrench.

- The first thing I can remember ever working on

was my grandmother was she rode motorcycles.

She had one that quit.

So it ended up in our garage so I tore it apart

and when I got this motorcycle going, you know,

that was probably my first thing

I can really remember fixing.

- [Narrator] The engines are ready to be mounted,

but not before the couplers are attached.

- All right, that looks like all of it.

I've never coupled an engine together, but I mean,

I'm gonna give her hell.

Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Michael Morin.

My MOS is 63 Bravo, which is a light wheel vehicle mechanic.

Actually, most of the time I'm wrenching at home.

You know, I'm all about that race cars,

and four by fours, and monster trucks, and rock crawlers.

And I mean, my whole family's into it, you know?

The wife tolerates it, but my daughter loves it.

This is great.

It's surreal to be sitting here in the garage

and know that I watch this show every week,

and then to have this team here,

the whole team just clicked.

You know, we're here for a common goal.

You know, we're here to set forth an image for the army.

[upbeat heavy metal music]

- [Narrator] Joe is back from his tractor pull competition

and helps Morin install the coupler

so the first engine can be mounted.

In order to run two engines,

a coupler is mounted to the crankshaft of the front engine.

Then a second coupler is installed

to the harmonic balancer of the rear engine.

Then a chain is secured,

allowing the engines to run simultaneously.

The first engine is lowered onto the frame.

- That's basically where the motor's gonna set

inside the frame rails, and right now

we're not running into any clearance problems with anything.

- [Narrator] Engine mounts are fabricated,

and the front engine is secured.

[upbeat rock music]

- Good enough for government work.

- [Narrator] Jesse arrives and puts the pedals to the metal

of his box frame unit.

[upbeat rock music]

- Boom!

It works.

- [Narrator] The band Das Klown puts on a happy face

to play in the garage.

- He's the only clown I like.

They have to be spewing punk rock

and have a lot of tattoos, or I don't like the clowns.

[fast paced punk rock music]

[fast paced punk rock music continues]

- I think it's pretty funny

that that dude's been doing construction.

For years they haven't played.

- Hi.

- [Narrator] Before the second engine can be mounted,

the couplers must be aligned.

[metal clanking] [intense heavy metal music]

- [Sergeant Kevin] Actually, [indistinct] there.

[intense heavy metal music]

- [Narrator] Once in place,

the chain is wrapped around the sprockets for a tight fit.

The engines are coupled

and the second motor is permanently mounted.

A B&M transmission is forked over to the team,

and is conjoined to the twin turbos.

[intense heavy metal music]

The brakes have been ground down, and once again,

it's time to fit the tractor rims.

Finally, the wheels fit onto the axle.

Jesse gives them an inspection

and wants to see if the rims are true.

- Will it fit that way?

It's tight, but it's got a half inch

of radial run out on the bead lock on the lip.

So once that extends out to here, you know, that's.

- [Sergeant Kevin] Yeah, we gotta know what we're doing.

- And at speed when it's spinning it like,

you know, 1,500 RPMs.

That's oh!

No, it'll make my fillings come out.

- [Sergeant Kevin] Vibrations.

- Well, the big hoop, you know, the wheel,

they cut the center out of it, which isn't the best way

to get something perfectly true.

And when you put that hoop in there, if it's c*ck at all,

it's gonna be like one of those kooky cars

and wobble all over the place.

So it's a drag race for them, you know?

I mean, they're just trying to get it done fast,

and they're hard workers and you can't fault them for that,

but, you know, it sets us back.

So, it's the army, man.

We'll fix it. [chuckles]

- [Narrator] At the end of day five, Jesse stays late

to finish his roll cage, and the build team hits the bunks

because tomorrow they will need to do more in one day

than most people do all week.

- [Schwag] Coming up, the builders are on their way

to finish their full metal puller.

- I can't quit, but I can get fired.

- [Schwag] When you got the US Army on your side,

failure is not an option.

Smells like victory!

♪ Monster, monster garage

- [Narrator] Day six, the team enters

to make a frontal as*ault on the tractor puller.

Jesse stayed late the night before

to finish and mount his box frame roll cage

so the team could add the finishing touches.

[intense heavy metal music]

- We're gonna have the wheels sent out

and have 'em trued up.

They're either gonna mill it down

to make that surface totally flat,

or they're gonna heat it more.

I don't know how the shop's gonna set it up,

but they're gonna do it.

But the rim will at least be straight

and then there won't be any wobble

in the rear end when it dries.

- [Narrator] With the rims on the way to be milled,

the team pushes forward to finish their puller.

[melodic bluesy rock music] [welding rods sizzling]

Jesse arrives and shows off his tractor attire.

- Got me a new belt buckle.

Full pull!

Dude, did you see that steering and stuff that they made?

That kinda bums me out.

That's the worst thing about this show

is I'll spend a lot of time

making something really like world class and bitching,

and really take a lot of pride in it,

and then just [imitates ballon blarting].

[welding rod sizzling]

- [Narrator] The grill from the Jeep is cut off and mounted

to remind the tractor pull where it came from.

- Let's do it.

Do what we gotta do, guys.

Believe it or not, 10 and a half hours standing here

thumbing this ain't gonna get it done.

Let's move.

- [Narrator] This monster is almost mobile.

- Is that all? - Yeah.

We'll get back to it.

- [Narrator] The engines are ready to roar,

but there's something missing.

The exhaust.

- Gotta make two sets of zoomies for this thing.

- [Narrator] Two sets of zoomies means 16 pipes.

So Jesse recruits Sergeant Preston to accomplish the task.

- Only 16 left.

[upbeat rock music]

You think this is gonna make it?

- How much time, Joe?

- Eight hours and 16 minutes.

Let's go!

- Waiting on rims.

[upbeat hard rock music]

- [Narrator] Sergeant delivers the drive shaft,

and it's installed between the two tr*nnies.



[upbeat hard rock music] [welding rods sizzling]

- It's gonna be loud as hell.

Gonna set the timing on the motors,

and we're basically all set to put some fuel to it.

See if it runs.

[intense heavy metal music]

- I love loud. Very loud.

- [Narrator] The 502s are fine tuned, filled up,

and ready to spin.

- Them fancy whirly gigs better work.

[engine cranking]

[engine revving]

- [Narrator] The supercharged engines roar to life.

[engine revving loudly]

The engines are ready and it's time to turn the tires.

The tractor rims have been milled and are now true,

so they can finally be mounted.

- Let's put them tires on and go run it.

See what it does.

We'll go full pull to the liquor store.

[builders laugh]

[fast paced heavy metal music]

There you go. Very good.

That makes me happy.

Look at that thing.

[fast paced heavy metal music]

It's glorious.

- [Narrator] Jesse adds some extra army value

to the finished monster.

- We're filling the military,

which is the best of the best, and this week should show

guys that have never done this stuff before

and then to come in and to just bam, knock it out.

Just because they're willing to bust their a*s and do it.

It's awesome.

- So it's about right there.

[engine revving]

- [Narrator] The moment has come

to put this monster puller to the test.

[engine revving] [intense heavy metal music]

It's time to dig some dirt.

The tractor pull is hitched to a Trans Am

and Body Drop adds some extra weight.

- [Jesse] You ready Body Drop?

Throw it in here.

[engine revving purring loudly]

[engine revving loudly]

- [Narrator] The tractor pull mission is accomplished.

- Full pull!

[engine revs loudly]

- [Narrator] The tractor puller has been brought to life

and is ready for combat.

[builders scream]

- We got hot. We got hot.

- That was awesome.

- You like that? - That's too cool.

- What's the verdict?

- We need to give out some tools.

Full pull!

[drums beating rapidly]

Just like everybody else, Mac Tools, Monster Garage CD.

- Awesome. - Good job, guys.

- Thank you. - Here I got you something.

Since you're so generous with your coin,

you take this one.

Take that one.

That'd be your little good luck charm in Iraq.

- Thank you, Jesse. k*ller.

It's Tommy Franks commanding general coin.

Thank you very much.

- [Jesse] No problem, man.

- Cool. - Thanks, guys.

[upbeat hard rock music]

- [Narrator] Build cost tally, $3,500.

- [Voiceover] Build cost.

- [Narrator] 10,662.

- [Voiceover] Freebie value.

- [Narrator] 42,240.

- Total cost. - $56,402.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Schwag] Ah, gimme the country life, monster farm hands.

It's the Big Schwag here at the Tulare County Fair

in the heart of central California

for another "Monster Garage" challenge.

Check out the caged c*ck, the goats, and the chicks.

Now that's what I call cute.

But seeing as this is farm country,

the big attraction is the tractors.

These aren't just your everyday

run of the farm type of tractor.

No, these are pulling tractors.

That's right, built for power, not for speed.

- It actually comes off a helicopter.

Most military helicopters have this.

- This is a 1941 Dodge Military with a 588 road act.

- It's the challenge of being able to transmit

the horsepower to the ground.

- It's all you back in the seat, and hold on.

- [Schwag] What's that, pulling fans?

Here to take on Tulare's toughest tractors

is the pulling monster made army style.

That's right, all the way from the LBC.

Now that is a tractor puller.

Twin 502 supercharged big blocks

plowing 2,000 horses ready for action!

You gotta be kidding me.

Build team member Smith is here to cheer on

the latest entry into this down home sport.

- Oh man, this is truly an honor.

- [Schwag] Ten hut!

Now reporting for tractor pulling,

it's the monster farmer himself, Jesse James.

- It's camouflaged.

- [Schwag] Why does he do it?

Because it's loud, it's powerful,

and it's cool!

[engine revving loudly]

The goal of a tractor pull

is to drag the 45,000 pound sled as far as you can.

This course is 300 feet long.

Very few can make it all that way.

[engines revving] [intense rock music]

Smith lends a hand in prepping the Long Beach pull master.

- [Jesse] What have I got myself into?

- [Smith] I know, dude.

- [Schwag] Now it's time to see

what the army tractor puller can do.

[engine revving loudly]

Pull, Jesse! Pull!

[engine revving loudly]

[spectators cheering and applauding]

You gotta be kidding me!

Ladies and gentlemen, full pull!

Did you expect anything less?

[spectators cheering and applauding]

- [Jesse] It worked.

- [Smith] Yeah!

- [Jesse] Yeah, that's it!

- Yeah. - Is it loud?

- Yeah.

[engine revving loudly]

- As long as we're the loudest one, that's all that matters.

Full pull!

Too cool. Too cool.

- [Jesse] Go ahead now, dude.

The full pulling fabricator takes Smith over

to check in with the cheering troops

and share in the triumph.

[people cheering]

As the night winds down, Jesse heads back to the barn.

I mean, garage.

'Cause he's got no time for pulls that aren't full,

c*ck that don't crow, and tractors they don't drag!

He's got metal to burn, sparks to fly.

The next "Monster Garage" challenge

is just around the bend!

[intense heavy metal music]