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Home for about 12 hrs. with the big truck & back to the Bluegrass again. Saw this post, figured I'd add to the debate, or lack of...Can't sleep anyway cause the furnace guys are making a bunch of racket in the basement installing the new one... They have the protest pot thing up here in Michigan's thumb. It's 300 bucks that the protester has to put up. Not sure if that's a good number. That amount might scare some folks away from protesting someone, unless it's a no-brainer. I'm a big fan of the speed rules. Especially the way the NATPA does it - 1 horn in the first 50 or 100 ft., and after that the next horn gets you DQ'd. Some of them ugly red ones (sorry...) and them yellow one's and so on have a pretty stiff 1st gear, so I guess a 2.5 to 3.0 mph limit would work, and no "1st gear only" junk. Far too many old tractors have a real slow 1st, including my real pretty red Cockshutt. But you need a sled with an AUTOMATIC horn system, none of this "push the horn button when you feel like it" garbage. I've seen that happen before. And forget a dyno rule - I've seen alot of strange things happen... OK, about tires & wheels - this should get the hornets buzzing. What about wheels - some came with cast/pressed options, and some only offered cast. Let's say you set a limit at 15.5...then you might have the orchard/wheatland pullers hollering. Now the real issue that will get the hornet exterminatin' Orkin man to drinkin' - what's a none-altered, uncut tire? Here's my thoughts without getting too long-winded. If you have a no-cut rule, and the tractor pulls away from the sled and the footprint of the tire doesn't make full even footprint (or close to it...), toss him out. My 16.9's are top-cut, and it's real noticeable with the footprint it makes on a pulling track, or even my driveway. Forget arguing a sharp front edge...it won't stay sharp for long. It's the backward sloping of the lug that gets the bite from the pressure on the front half or so of the lug. OK, the cubic inch thing...How much tolerance are you willing to give? It would be awful rare to find a 50 yr old tractor that ain't been overhauled at least once. Most were overbored with factory kits, M&W and so on. So how much will you allow? Mill the head and increase the horses. How much can you mill it, or can you even tell it's been milled? So you got the compression ratio at 10 to 1 or better. OK, racing gas to the rescue. But it's colored and smells different, that'll get you tossed. Home grown fuel to the rescue or E85 (I believe it has a 105 rating...). OK, we'll fix his wagon and check the specific gravity... The Orkin man is now drunk...no way he wants to kill those hornets, there's too many of 'em and they're really mad... By the way, Dave, this is Andrew's old man. Still says you're #1 in his book of who's who... You all keep the shiny side up...
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