I uploaded some video I took of the tractor pull (and edited together). I didn't get all the tractors, but tried to make the video a composite of several different types of tractors in the pull.
That home made tractor, I have seen two like it at the show in recent years. One consists of the front wheel drives off of both AC's and two hydraulic rams to steer the front tractor and you drive from the back. This one, as you said, you drive from the front.
The little blurb on the hood of the tractor says that many different tractors were used for the front (and that sometimes they hooked up three tractors in a row when it was really slick and muddy -- no idea how that worked), and that was actually used for many, many years. The whole thing is bolted together really solid, so I don't see the fear of the rear one jumping the front one, but as to the jack-knife thing I do not know.
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