Years back in my part of the country they started with a dead weight. There would be a chair & a stake on each side of the track every 10 feet, with a volunteer assigned to each. As the sled went by, an "official" walking beside the sled would tap the volunteer on the shoulder & he would step onto the sled, thus adding their weight to the load. At the end of the run the volunteers would step off & walk back to their chairs while a heavier tractor pulled the sled back to the start line. For pulls in the next weight class more dead weight such as concrete block or a tractor would be added at the start line. In some cases the winner of the lighter class would put his tractor on & "victory ride" each pull in the next heavier class. When everything worked as planned each volunteer stepped onto the sled at just the right time & at the end of each pull returned to his assigned chair. Didn't always work that way. Sometimes a 250 or 300 volunteer would step on the sled early or late to favor his buddy's chances. Willie
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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