Friday evening I attended a classic pull at Friestatt,MO which is 80 miles SE of me...The sled used was The Black Widow sled out of Columbus,KS...There was a total of 161 hooks which was
probably by far the biggest turn out this year for my area as most pulls have been short of pullers...Its mostly Division 2 tractors with a few Division 3 tractors....The pull started at 6 PM and I hooked
the 5000 Open at 12 midnight...I finished 2nd with a strong 301 powered D-17 Allis beating my 6000 Ford...The thing I will always remember is that just as it got dark a large swarm of mosquitos
attacked us...I think that some of us got bit 50-100 times as they wouldn't let up..Most of the spectators left..
On Saturday evening I went to a huge MSTPA,Outlaw,PPL pull at Buckner,MO which is 120 miles north of me..I got there at 4 PM and not long after the rain hit and the pull was called off a little
after 5 PM...So at 5:30 PM I headed 200 miles back south back to Friestatt,MO for the Spring River pull which started at 6 PM...I would have made it there by 8:30 PM but there had been a huge
wreck hours earlier on I-44 and traffic was still backed up for miles...It looked like a bunch of semis tangled...I finally got off on a side road and got there at 9 PM..This is one huge pull with tons of
IH's pulling several of the Out Of Field classes..Most of them drive them to 3-4 pulls that are held in that area...When I left at 12:30 AM they had lots of pulling left to do.
Once again the mosquitos were out at Friestatt and I received some more bites...Needless to say between the pulling and mosquitos very little sleep has been had for the past 2 nights..I itch from
head to foot.The funny thing is that this area had been very dry up until a couple of weeks ago and the locals said that there had been no mosquitos.
probably by far the biggest turn out this year for my area as most pulls have been short of pullers...Its mostly Division 2 tractors with a few Division 3 tractors....The pull started at 6 PM and I hooked
the 5000 Open at 12 midnight...I finished 2nd with a strong 301 powered D-17 Allis beating my 6000 Ford...The thing I will always remember is that just as it got dark a large swarm of mosquitos
attacked us...I think that some of us got bit 50-100 times as they wouldn't let up..Most of the spectators left..
On Saturday evening I went to a huge MSTPA,Outlaw,PPL pull at Buckner,MO which is 120 miles north of me..I got there at 4 PM and not long after the rain hit and the pull was called off a little
after 5 PM...So at 5:30 PM I headed 200 miles back south back to Friestatt,MO for the Spring River pull which started at 6 PM...I would have made it there by 8:30 PM but there had been a huge
wreck hours earlier on I-44 and traffic was still backed up for miles...It looked like a bunch of semis tangled...I finally got off on a side road and got there at 9 PM..This is one huge pull with tons of
IH's pulling several of the Out Of Field classes..Most of them drive them to 3-4 pulls that are held in that area...When I left at 12:30 AM they had lots of pulling left to do.
Once again the mosquitos were out at Friestatt and I received some more bites...Needless to say between the pulling and mosquitos very little sleep has been had for the past 2 nights..I itch from
head to foot.The funny thing is that this area had been very dry up until a couple of weeks ago and the locals said that there had been no mosquitos.
