Tractor Pull Lineup ....

Photo below of the lineup of tractors that registered last weekend at our annual pull and show event, just east of Edmonton, Alberta. We had 135 number plates used up, a few of the tractors had two different pullers driving the same tractor which we allow. A great variety of colors and sizes, we have ten weight classes. All are 1960 and older .... strathconavintagetractor.com is our website, this year's results are not posted yet.

That means a separate plate for each class entered? We find that if the pullers will stage so that they are backing up to the sled as it is coming to a stop and guys aren't putting on a show of getting in position, or waiting for the drag to get off the track that a lot of hooks can take place in a day.

That's a good turn out. Would have took a while to get through that many hooks

We stage them one class at a time in a lineup at the head of the track, one right after another. That's just the parking area in the photo. People can walk by and browse, etc.

Been years since i last pulled , last time was right after i got the old ugly 806 . I had just finished up planting when my one friend called and asked for help with plowing a new farm his son had just taken possession of . So i told him that i would . On a Friday evening around 5 Pm i closed the shop and jumped on the 806 with my plows already hooked For the around 20 mile drive down to his boys new farm . My buddy told me that they would be up at the pull just off the road down to the farm and he would watch for me and come down and pick me up and run me back up to the shop so i could get my truck and go home. As i went by the Strawberry festival there was Donny setting on his 706 and he waves as i go by , so down over the hill and pull into the farm and park the 806 and let it cool down a bit while i WAIT and wait and wait . No Donny HUMM i would like to get home sometime here. Ok i'll drop the plow and run up to the pull and see what is taking so long . So i drive the 806 back up the hill and pull in and there is Donny setting at the end of the track on his 706 so i get off and walk over and he says YEA YEA i am next up on this hook . Ok so i stand there and watch him do his thing and make a full pull and he come back and first thing out of his mouth is ya know when this class is done it's the 13500 class whats the 8-06 weigh ?????? i don't know never weighed it but i do know it is heavy and he says go weigh it hey i did not bring my fast hitch draw bar oh you can use mine .l So we went and weighed it and i was 100 Lbs light told don i was a 100 light and he grabs a 100 and throws it on the deck plate and we pulled in the 13500 class dead weight against over 50 tractors and one by one they started dropping off with each addition of a slab It got down to five left in the class and one slab left at the end of that round it was down to me and Stanly and his 1456 , Stan was one of my customers , they added the last slab and stan and i both made a full pull i did mine on the first hook it took him two . Now what no more slabs to add to the stack and we both made full pulls , they wanted Stan and i to split the wind but the crowd wanted to see who was top dog . What to do what to do and all eyes fell on Mike Coy Mike was a wee bit on the chunky side of around 350 , he climbed up on the stack and stan and i went at it again and once again the 806 made the full pull on the first round and Stan spun out and came back around and tired the other way , Now he might have beat me if he would not have done a wide open side step standing his 1456 up in the air and when it came back down hitting the track it bounced off for ft weights on the track . Now had Don brought more weights with him that evening the out come may have been a lot different . Donny's Dead row 650 dollar 706 narrow ft fast hitch gasser was the winningest tractor anywhere around And this is FACT for i don't know how many years at times i would run it and win the class i pulled in , his boy would win everytime out and don would win . Two years in a row at a local pull about fix six miles north of me DON Mike and myself plum cleaned house from the 8500 up thru the 14500 class with that one 706 gasser . I built that engine and tuned that engine , you could pull that engine down to where you could count the fan balde as they went by then pull the T/A and she would come back to life with a vengeance . Being a narrow ft one may call it cheating but being a narrow ft one could pull to the corner of the track and gain maybe four feet over a wide ft. tractor . .

Maybe I'm confusing you with someone else TV but didn't you post that story (or one very much like it) about a month ago when replying to someone else?

It is nice to see that many people interested enough to bring their tractors and put on a show. I imagine a good time was had by all! Congratulations to your group.

Impressive!!

Crazy Horse, you best have a wonderful time there, OK? Looks and sounds like there's gonna be lots of fun!

Great picture and an awesome turnout Crazy Horse. My nephew and his son where in attendance there this year and had a great time. He was texting me pictures and explaining stuff all afternoon while I was harvesting. Going to get there one of these years.

Could have . For a few years there we pulled mostly antiques some with my S/MTA and some with a M M U in divison three . That one was one of my crown jewels of engine building . only new parts used were rings bearings and custom made gskt's . Everything else was acquired from dumpster diving or well used used parts or total junk parts . That tractor had four different drivers in four classes and for two years running it was top points in all classes , Built three more dumpster dive engines and all of them were out the gate rides . Plus at times i would drive Donny's 706 , he also farmed with that tractor . Yea the group of us had loads of fun . I started pulling back in 69 with my 450 diesel along with a buddy who also had a 450 D . I could get mine into the 7500 class and my buddy who had a wide ft only get in the 8500 class and we would take them up to 10500 . The EPA would have had Cardact arrest over them as we had the wicks turned way up along with pump work , no we did not go blazzing down the tracks but we would make the end of the track . One of my friend was watchen the pull as i started and about a 1/4 way down the track some guy standing next to him made a comment oh look he is about done look at that OLD 450 starten to smoke and my friend said oh you ain't seen nothing yet he is just starting to pull as the smoke got blacker and the fire started coming out the pipe , weren't no skeeters left in the area when done and at the end of the track . I look back at all the wild and crazy stuff we did back then. we had no fancy truck or trailer to haul them to the pulls we drove them sometimes it was and hour and a half one way . Weights were loaded on a hay wagon and either Mike , myself or the one neighbor would pull the wagon . If the pull was up at Bunker Hill when it was over the whole gang of myself Mike , Ronny , Ernie , Wade would come back into town and hit the local watering hole and close it . Well Lubed Ronny started it with his 504 Diesel if he was not pulling the wagon and do wheel stands . Wade and Ernie had 560 Diesels . Mike and i had 450 Diesels . We all would take off riding the brakes and fill the air on S/ Ellsworth with black smoke laving the watering hole at around 2:30 . We would generate a crowd as Mike and i started our 450's City guys never seen nothing like that before . We would park them on the patio inft of the door . Katy , Jack and George the owners of the bar did not care as they consider us family since were were in there all the time . Heck when George got married we were invited to the wedding . Those days were the best.