Have you ever seen a flying pig? A speedy DMV line? A floating tractor? 

I can’t assist with those first two dreams, but if you’ve ever wondered what it would take to float a 13,630-pound New Holland tractor, Mitas Tires of North America had just the sight for you at the 2018 Farm Progress Show outside of Boone.

Mitas, a Charles City-based tire manufacturer, wanted a way to demonstrate tire flotation ? how easily heavy equipment could move through fields without compressing the soil, which would hurt crop yield. What else was there to do but rent a tractor, add new wheels and deploy it into a retention pond at the Farm Progress Show?

The display last week was actually the first time a floating tractor demonstration would be successful in the U.S., as Mitas marketing and communications manager Jeff Miller told the Charles City Press earlier this month. A similar demonstration was apparently successful in Offingawier, Netherlands, using Charles City-built tires two years ago.

If you’re still not convinced, Mitas offered an alternative use at the demonstration last month: “fishing on the weekends.”