Two enthusiasts have embarked on an eight-year project to build a beast, the Schlüter Profi Trac 8000TVL. It’s a massive powerhouse that previously had never got beyond the design stage … until now

It’s 1980 — only two years ago Schlüter introduced the Profi Trac 5000TVL, at the time themost powerful tractor on sale in Europe. The mightily impressive powerhouse was developed for the huge state-owned farm estate of Yugoslavia, but head of state, Josip Broz Tito, wanted something even bigger!