Re: Re: Re: Re: Super A and C

Posted by Hugh MacKay on April 21, 2003 at 04:31:47 from (209.226.247.133):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Super A and C posted by ih_bug on April 20, 2003 at 21:10:48:

ih bug: Back in the 1950 we used to have tractor pulls in my hometown. We didn't have the equipment they have today for tractor pulls. We improvised an used the equipment for horse pulls where they weigh in their teams, and pull is based on percentage of the teams weight, rather than the guy who pulled the most. A team of horses or oxen will pull in most cases twice their own weight. They use a stone boat which is just a 4' x 10' x 1/2" steel plate turned up on both ends. Heavy angle iorn is welded to upper side edges. The winner is the guy pulling highest percentage of his own weight, not the guy who pulled the most.

When you apply this to tractors, it gets interesting, as adding a lot of wheel weights, etc . is no advantage. Tractors will all generally come come close to 3 times their own weight. In those days our area was loaded with Farmalls, Cockshutts, Masseys, Olivers and Fords in that order as well Three tractors that always stood out and were the ones hardest to beat out were Farmalls SA, H or SH and Cockshutt 30. Having said what I said last evening you will find those Farmalls I listed are all very close and on any given day anyone of them could come out on top. My dad's brother used to attend that fair with his Aryshires, he lived 40 miles away so didn't bring his SA. He made the comment one day that he could take any one of the Farmalls and win. His argument was that if he was smart enough to farm his 100 acres and 20 cow dariy herd with a lone SA, he was probably a better operator than most. The guys took him up on his chalange. The tractors he pulled that day were SA, SC, H and SM. Each time around 3 other guys would take the other three tractors. Uncle Wallace would came out on top no matter which tractor he had, so I guess there was some truth to the fact that if he was smart enough to do all his farming with SA, he probably was quite good. He did however burn the h@#$ out of clutch on my dads H.

Those pulls were a lot fun, generally we young fellows were relegated to the small tractors. Since we took more time to practice on it than the older guys we got very good at starting a heavy load on a hard track. There was more than one 45 year old guy showed up there with a SM, Cockshutt 40 or Oliver 88 loaded the the hilt with weight, only to go away red faced.

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