And the winner is.........

I ran across this>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQ87nt9Yeg today on Youtube - I would NEVER have picked the winner! :shock:

Reminds me of the radio ads from back then... "Moline mighty mo, Moline rarin to go, Moline machines have more power, do more work every hour"

Not an antique tractor pull but how deep are your pockets.

(quoted from post at 10:57:33 08/11/16) Not an antique tractor pull but how deep are your pockets.

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Roger that! :shock:

sure dont know where the word "antique" fits in here. those tractor would not last one day in the field working!

So, someone please explain why the IH 560 is so popular??

(quoted from post at 18:38:00 08/11/16) So, someone please explain why the IH 560 is so popular??

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What's so wrong with it?

Rick

Less than 2% of the US population is a farmer and very few of those use antique tractors in their operations. Most antique tractors have been relegated to fence rows and scrap yards or sitting in a barn or out building somewhere rarely getting started or used. Sure, many of us on here use antique tractors for various tasks (raking, tedding and baling hay; pulling the grain drill; pulling the firewood wagon - John Deere A and 720D here), but we are for sure a very small minority. Much of this work can be done quicker, easier and more comfortable in my newer, larger tractors, but I use my old 2 cylinders for the hobby of it.

These tractors are not made to work in a field any more than some of the "show" tractors on display at local fairs and festivals throughout the country. However, tractor pulls are a great way to involve new and young people in another form of our hobby. I think any way to enjoy old antique tractors is a good way- whether that's using them for their intended purpose, rebuilding them to better-than-new conditions with clear coat paint jobs and smoothed castings, or even heavily modifying them to better pull transfer sleds.

Guessing it's the RD450 and RD501 that makes it so popular. I don't know that any of these tractors are using those engines, but there are plenty all over that do.

Less than 2% of the US population is a farmer and very few of those use antique tractors in their operations. Most antique tractors have been relegated to fence rows and scrap yards or sitting in a barn or out building somewhere rarely getting started or used. Sure, many of us on here use antique tractors for various tasks (raking, tedding and baling hay; pulling the grain drill; pulling the firewood wagon - John Deere A and 720D here), but we are for sure a very small minority. Much of this work can be done quicker, easier and more comfortable in my newer, larger tractors, but I use my old 2 cylinders for the hobby of it.

These tractors are not made to work in a field any more than some of the "show" tractors on display at local fairs and festivals throughout the country. However, tractor pulls are a great way to involve new and young people in another form of our hobby. I think any way to enjoy old antique tractors is a good way- whether that's using them for their intended purpose, rebuilding them to better-than-new conditions with clear coat paint jobs and smoothed castings, or even heavily modifying them to better pull transfer sleds.

You bore it out to fit 806 pistons, open up the venturi a little bit, crank it up to 3200 rpm, clearance the block to add some stroke, looking at 100+ horse that can get into the 5500 pound weight class if you remove the hydraulics.

I think a lot of those guys were set up to run
without a speed limit. The ones who were went
farther. Notice the few who didn't get the horn?

Most of them don't know how to distribute their
weight, either. When you've got a slick spot turning
everyone left like that, you move the weights on the
back to the left. The weight up front distributes
equally between the back tires when the wheels come
off the ground. Helping Chris back east one time,
everyone was moving their front weights to the side.
I made a big show of moving the front weights back
to center after I had covertly moved 400 pounds out
against the tire on back. He was the only one who
went straight.

Were they running two sleds? I didn't notice the
second one til the end when the lights were on.
Could explain half not hooking a left.