00:00Bigfoot 5 is the biggest, it's the widest, the heaviest monster truck out there.
00:30At 4.7 metres tall and weighing in at 38,000 pounds, Bigfoot 5 really is a true monster.
00:47And it was built by Bob Chandler, who didn't just create this beast, he invented the whole
00:53sport.
00:54Bigfoot was the first.
00:56I started out with a stock pick-up truck.
00:58I wanted to go more places so I'd put bigger tires on the truck.
01:01Then the next thing you need is stronger drive shafts and axles and things.
01:04Then you don't have enough power so you put a bigger engine in the truck, right?
01:11I started doing exhibition events.
01:16Went to any kind of event I could find, from mud runs to hill climbs to truck and tractor
01:20poses.
01:21From that point on it was known as Bigfoot.
01:26As performances grew wilder, drivers looked for new ways to entertain the crowds, and
01:31the car crush was born.
01:34You've guessed it, Bob invented that too.
01:37My friend comes to me and says, I've got two cars out in a farmer's field, let's see if
01:41you can drive over it.
01:42And the promoter saw it and he says, I want you to do that in front of a crowd.
01:49When we did the first car crush in front of a crowd, it just amazed me.
01:53They just loved it.
01:55And to me it was something kind of simple, the truck just drove over the cars.
02:01The bar was raised at shows, and as the stunts grew bigger, so did the danger levels.
02:17People were getting hurt.
02:19I know of three drivers that have broke their backs in these trucks early on.
02:23I was doing a show, and the promoter came up to me and says, you need to invent something,
02:26you need to do something, because this truck would drive right up to seats, nothing would
02:31stop it.
02:32It's going to hurt people bad.
02:35We designed a kill switch, we call it.
02:38There's somebody on the sideline that can press a button and stop that truck.
02:42That was one of the biggest things that we've ever done for Monster Trucks.
02:46And for this vehicle, things were about to get even bigger.
02:53We saw this military junkyard, and we see a trailer with ten foot tall tires on it.
02:58And we're looking at that and I said, I want to put them on my truck.
03:02These tires are off of an Alaska land train.
03:06Now sporting one ton tires, five ton axles, and sixteen inch gas cell shocks, Big Foot
03:14Five became the world's biggest monster truck.
03:19I got the best, nobody else can top it.
03:21And the tread on these tires allows for a pretty cool trick.
03:25Jim Kramer, my compadre in this business, he'd get out of the truck, take the tire down
03:31as it's rolling, and then grab the back of it and pull him all the way up, and he'd walk
03:34on top of that tire for a while, and then jump back in and finish driving the truck.
03:39Still amazes me when it drives down the street, people just are awed at this thing.
03:44It's just a one of a kind.
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