Posted by JDseller on October 25, 2012 at 20:54:32 from (208.126.196.144):
I saw the post below about tractor pullers/pulling/manners/attitude. Got me to thinking about tractor pulling in general.
I don't know if anyone noticed that I don't respond to the guys wanting help to turn up/soup up their old tractors. I used to pull tractors years ago but it was a real stock pull then. They would Dyno the tractor and you had to be under factory spec plus 10%. Then the different weight classes. It was kind of fun and really compared tractors and drivers. Did not cost an arm and a leg to do. Only lasted a few years until too many where trying to cheat and the classes where dropped.
The tractor pulling of today is just comparing pocket books it seems. The cheating that has made the NTPA a joke seems to be going full bore in the antique tractor pulling. You have a JD two cylinder that turned 1050 rpm factory turned up/souped up to turn 2500 rpm. Does not seem like much fun to me. Some guys might have up to a $100K in antique pulling tractor.
I have spent much of my adult life trying to fix things to work. It just does not set right with me to see things deliberately turned up so far that they are not usable for anything else.
My one son got into the demo derbies several years ago. He was shocked when I made him work on it at his house. Why waste all the time and effort on some thing you are going to go out and wreck???
I really liked the old time tractor pull they had down at the Missouri Valley show. Just line up on an old style sled and people step on as it went along. No prises just pull to see how you would do.
It seems like too many of the pullers are always trying to get around this or that rule. So lets just have a no holds barred tractor pull. You have to have safety equipment but other than that anything goes. Weight the tractor right before it hooks on the sled and then let her RIP. If it goes 200 MPH and blows up. Well better luck next time. Lets take all the cheating and BS out of it. The tractor weights so much for each class and then anything goes short of nuclear fission. LMAO
Here is how an announcer might do a unlimited pull:
Well folks Billy Bob is back this week with his Boeing 747 engines back in his old school bus frame. It looks like he really spent some money this week. That looks like SUPER Gorilla Duct tape holding the engines in this week. You remember last weeks accident when his dog chain hitch broke and he did not get stopped until the next county. So it really looks like he has her all tuned in for this week's pull. The judges made sure he was using a good 1/4 inch chain this week. You all know how we always preach safety here at the "No Holds Barred tractor pulling Association". Well folks Billy Bob is already to go now........ HE really has a good pull going at the hundred foot mark. He seems to have it all lined up for a full pull as he passes the two hundred foot mark. Oh no he just had a some real bad luck at the 250 foot mark. It looks like he dropped his draft beer and it shorted out his high tech ignition system. Well folks that has to be a real heart breaker there. Man-o-man that was a real waste of a good cold beer. I really hate to see that happen. Well folks lets all give Billy Bob a round of applause for a good show tonight. Maybe he can save up some of his garbage truck driving money and get that fancy cup holder he has his eye on down at Wally World. We hope to see him again next week.
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