Setting up F20 and F30 for pulling

Posted by Steve The F20 Guy on July 16, 2006 at 15:03:12 from (68.98.168.216):

Greetings to all the Farmall partisans on this site. I posted the following message on the Tractor Pulling site and got a couple of nice responses and thought I would post it here to see if I could get a few more ideas from you fellows. I am kind of partial to the old F20's and 30's inasmuch as the first tractor I learned to drive was an F20 when I was 7 years old pulling a side delivery rake raking oat straw behind the combine and still have 4 F20's sitting in our sheds, including the first 1934 F20 that was sold on rubber back in our home county to my Grandpa. I figured that it would be fun to set one of them up for COMPETITVE unstyled antique tractor pulling probably in the Division 3 class. Anyway, here is the question and any and all are welcome to offer there opinions, and thanks in advance for sharing your ideas.

....does Merfeld(Dubuque, Ia area) build engines for the old F20's and 30's too, or does someone over by Peosta that runs the really strong pulling F20 and 30 with the wide front end that I watched pull at the Ankeny Expo a few years ago do those? If neither of these fellows do this commercially for F20's and 30's, do you know of anybody else around Iowa, or elsewhere for that matter, that does? Or at least of someone who provides components for one to build their own? Would anyone on this board care to offer any advice to a wannabe F20/30 puller what he has to do to make one of these old girls give all of the others out there a run for their money while still holding together and not busting a crank or otherwise blowing to pieces, and please give me some idea as to what to expect to have to spend and be consistently competitive in the "original appearance externally but do what you wish internally class", which I believe might be division 3?
Thanks in advance to all who care to respond to a new guy on the block.

Replies:

• Re: Setting up F20 and F30 for pulling El Toro 05:06:43 07/17/06 (0)
• Re: Setting up F20 and F30 for pulling El Toro 04:26:20 07/17/06 (0)

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