00:00 Bigfoot 5 is the biggest.
00:03 It's the widest.
00:06 The heaviest monster truck out there.
00:10 At 4.7 metres tall,
00:39 and weighing in at 38,000 pounds,
00:42 Bigfoot 5 really is a true monster.
00:46 And it was built by Bob Chandler,
00:49 who didn't just create this beast,
00:51 he invented the whole sport.
00:53 Bigfoot was the first.
00:55 I started out with a stock pickup truck.
00:57 I wanted to go more places,
00:58 so I put bigger tyres on the truck.
01:00 Then the next thing you need is stronger drive shafts
01:03 and axles and things.
01:04 Then you don't have enough power,
01:05 so you put a bigger engine in the truck, right?
01:07 I started doing exhibition events.
01:13 Went to any kind of event I could find.
01:17 From mud runs to hill climbs
01:19 to truck and tractor pulls.
01:21 From that point on, it was known as Bigfoot.
01:25 As performances grew wilder,
01:27 drivers looked for new ways to entertain the crowds,
01:30 and the car crush was born.
01:32 You've guessed it, Bob invented that too.
01:36 My friend comes to me,
01:37 says, "I've got two cars out in the farmer's field.
01:40 Let's see if you can drive over it."
01:43 And a promoter saw it, he says,
01:45 "I want you to do that in front of a crowd."
01:49 When we did the first car crush in front of a crowd,
01:51 it just amazed me.
01:53 They just loved it.
01:56 And to me, it was something kind of simple.
01:58 The truck just drove over the cars.
02:01 The bar was raised at shows,
02:03 and as the stunts grew bigger,
02:06 so did the danger levels.
02:08 It's a bad work out.
02:10 You're not even going to close it.
02:12 [screams]
02:17 People were getting hurt.
02:18 I know of three drivers that have broke their backs
02:20 in these trucks early on.
02:22 I was doing a show, and a promoter came up to me,
02:25 he says, "You need to invent something.
02:26 You need to do something,
02:27 because this truck would drive right up the seats.
02:30 Nothing would stop it.
02:32 It's going to hurt people bad."
02:36 We designed a kill switch, we call it.
02:38 There's somebody on the sideline,
02:40 they can press a button and stop that truck.
02:42 That was one of the biggest things
02:43 that we've ever done for monster trucks.
02:46 And for this vehicle,
02:47 things were about to get even bigger.
02:53 We saw this military junkyard,
02:55 and we see a trailer with 10-foot tall tires on it.
02:59 And we're looking at that, and I said,
03:00 "Well, I want to put them on my truck."
03:02 These tires are off of an Alaska land train.
03:05 Now sporting one-ton tires,
03:08 five-ton axles,
03:10 and 16-inch gas cell shocks,
03:14 Bigfoot 5 became the world's biggest monster truck.
03:19 I got the best.
03:20 Nobody else can top it.
03:21 And the tread on these tires
03:23 allows for a pretty cool trick.
03:25 Jim Cramer, my compadre in this business,
03:28 he'd get out of the truck,
03:30 take the tire down as it's rolling,
03:32 and then grab the back of it
03:33 and pull him all the way up,
03:34 and he'd walk on top of that tire for a while,
03:36 and then jump back in and finish driving the truck.
03:39 Still amazes me when it drives down the street.
03:41 People just are awed at this thing.
03:44 It's just a one-of-a-kind.
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