Re: The Height of Ambition

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 19, 2005 at 14:56:56 from (64.228.11.36):

In Reply to: Re: The Height of Ambition posted by Allan in NE on January 19, 2005 at 11:49:42:

Allan: In my home town, we used to have tractor pulls, before the days of these automated sleds. Ours was a stone boat made from 4' x 10' sheet of 3/4 plate. We had boxes of sand, two sizes 200# and 100#, men put them on by hand and you had to start away with full load you chose. After each suceessful pull they would add more as you wished. The winner no matter how big or small was the tractor that could pull the highest percentage of it's weight with operator added in. The tractors to beat were Farmalls SA, H, SH and Cockshutt 30. They will all come in around 3 times their own weight. The M, SM big 6 cylinder Cockshutts and Olivers usually get stumped at around 2.75 to 2.8. of course we young teenagers at that time got regelated off to the little tractors. I've seen guys come there with big Cockshutts and Olivers, more weight added than SA or indeed even the H or 30 weighed. We've also seen a lot of disappointed age 30 something tractor drivers.

Granted we teenagers did have more time to practice. It was a lot of fun. Then they started letting more than one guy pull the same tractor. That kind of ended tractor pulling. I remember my dad's H came home with the clutch toast, as did a few other tractors. The guys paying the bills suddenly decided we needed a less finincally demanding sport.

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