# Why aren’t video wills legal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 4, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-aren-t-video-wills-legal/995570 "2024-01-04T00:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
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> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > In Canada, you can get away with [scratching your will into the side of a tractor](https://globalnews.ca/news/926746/dying-sk-farmers-will-goes-down-in-history/). See this thread from a decade ago: > [@65th Anniversary of Will on Tractor Fender by Dying Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/65th-anniversary-of-will-on-tractor-fender-by-dying-farmer/672304/): > > It’s a famous Saskatchewan wills case: a farmer, trapped under a tractor, scratched his will into the fender with a penknife: The will and the penknife were entered as evidence in court, which granted probate. The tractor fender will has apparently been cited many times in probate cases and texts around the world. The last witness to the events is now 80 years old; at 15, he helped to free the trapped farmer, who died a day later in hospital. The University of Saskatchewan is having a 65t… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-aren-t-video-wills-legal/995570)._