Every year, Monster Jam sells millions of tickets to its monster-truck shows, which are “less demolition-derby crash-fests than aerial acrobatic shows involving 12,000-pound vehicles,” zhelfand writes.
Like the wheel, monster trucks were conceived by multiple men, but the godfather of monster trucks is Bob Chandler. Chandler, something of an engineering savant , owned a four-wheel-drive shop outside St. Louis. He liked to go off-roading in local creeks and mud pits. Over time, as he went looking for more things for hisF-250 to conquer—abandoned coal mines, slag heaps—the truck got bigger. Eventually, he added giant tires from a fertilizer spreader.
At first, crushing was enough. Soon, promoters added drag races, small jumps, and gimmicks like tug-of-war. Monster Jam used to ram trucks through R.V.s filled with flour; they’d explode like a powdery firework. Before my trip to the Meadowlands, I’d assumed that the whole point of a monster truck was to smash stuff, but my understanding was outdated.
Today, a lot of monster trucks don’t look like trucks. They have fibreglass shells that are molded into pirate ships, dragons, or zombies.“The trucks are built almost identically,” Delsanter said. The technicians’ magic is in adapting to the dirt. If the track is tacky, Delsanter balloons the tires. If it’s marbly, he likes them flat, for traction. On a sandy track, some mechanics tighten the sway bar. The right touch can make the difference in a race. Delsanter is very competitive.
A typical Monster Jam event has three parts: racing, two-wheel skills , and freestyle, the grand finale. In the stadium, the dirt crew was manicuring. The track looked great—a spiral of ramps surrounding a huge tabletop of packed dirt. The biggest jumps were ten feet tall. The first two tiers of seats were full—nearly fifty thousand people. “We sell four million-plus tickets a year,” Dalsing said. “That’s more than.
Humans move about ten times as much dirt and rock around the planet’s surface as all geologic processes combined—earthquakes, landslides, rivers, wind. That’s impressive, when you consider that those processes carved the Grand Canyon. As you might expect, we do this heedlessly. Civilizations tend to start in river valleys where fertile soils can support an abundance that seems divinely wrought; the name Adam comes from the Hebrew word for earth or soil. For dust thou art.
Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging. Later on came carnies, who brought tightrope walkers, learned pigs, and head-on railroad collisions. The plowing matches evolved into tractor pulls, in which a team of oxen dragged a sled filled with heavy objects—often the fairgoers themselves. Eventually, oxen were replaced by motorized tractors, and then by purpose-built pulling machines.
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