By Brenda Erdahl
Staff Writer
Although only moving at 6 miles per hour if that, the amount of weight behind two 8-ton combines when they collide lifts the back wheels off the ground and tips the cabs dangerously close together.
“It’s scary. The first hit, when the two cabs come up they almost hit each other, it’s really, really close …. it’s so much fun,” said Ezra Smith of Maple Lake who last year won the combine demolition derby and $1,000 prize at the Wright County Fair with his 1969 Massey Ferguson 410.
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