TRACTOR PULLS: It's Not What You Think

[Sedalia Dave]

 

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

We used to have tractor pulls when I was a kid, but these things are NOTHING like the tractors we used.  After a day at the pulls we'd go out the next morning and use them for every day stuff, like plowing, mowing, towing combines and hay balers and hay racks and other equipment) towing trailers of feed or other things that needed to be someplace they weren't, pulling stumps, even pulling wagons full of hay (bales and loose) with boys and girls doing  what boys and girls do on hay rides.

 

Y'know, I sometimes think about those days and can almost cry at what we've lost.....all except bucking bales.

[sassnetguy50]

@Forty Rod SASS 3935 there is still a Farm Stock pulling class.  The safety/liability people have hindered the class because of all the safety parts you have to add to a stock tractor.

 

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=farm+stock+pulling+tractor

[sassnetguy50]

 

 

 

 

 

Some novelty videos.

[Pat Riot]

I love tractor pulls. From the little bitty lawn tractors to the OMG diesel monsters. I could watch for hours. 

[Dirty Dan Dawkins]

There was a video floating around of an old , I think, Case 110 or 150 or whatever steam tractor hooked to a modern sled tractor with unpteen hundred horse power. Weight trumped hp as the modern tractor simply popped a wheelie and buried its self to the axle. Both great feats of engineering, just different era and technology.