Wow, Quick LESSON LEARNED..PIC INSIDE..LOL

haha... Well, I finally got new tires on my Bolens. Instead of turf tires, I got new tires (Carlisle Power Trac) from gearworks. Thinking this would help me from spinning out all the time. First pull (1,000 pound class) I start in 3rd (I have 6 gears forward, 2 reverse) gear. I was kicking butt... no problems with traction or anything.. I was looking at a full pull. 3/4 down the track I completly run out of Horsepower. (Ive never had this happen). So I am also going to add weight to my weight rack and pull in the 1500 pound class as well. This time, Ill pull in 2nd gear to help me out and make it eaiser for the engine. Here we go, not as fast, but we are doing good. Now here comes the infamous 3/4 part of the track and the enigne is doing quite well,
Then all of a sudden..... (link) I hit the clutch, and back her down nice and slow and the crowd loved it... (oh well)

I am now in the midst of fabricating some wheelie bars..lol

How are wheelie bars going to help at the point of when the hitch or chain breaks? When is comes to Garden Tractor Pulling, that is just the nature of the beast is for the front end to rise up (as long as you have excellent traction). I had always used turf tires and always just spun out. But I changed to new tires and that is what happened. Again, "lesson learned".

Traction advice: front-end up high = poorer traction, front-end down lower = better traction. That doesn't matter if its a garden tractor or 15,000 pound smoke-blowin' diesel. If you're winning with your front-end that high, enjoy it while it lasts. It won't be long before others who learn to keep the front-end down will be doubling your distance.

Most importantly, BE CAREFUL!

If a person can keep the front end off the ground 6 inches without going any higher with the use of the wheelie bars, then you would get better traction since all the weight is now divided between the rear 2 wheels. (same thing you said basically).

We have a 3mph max speed, so you are doing everything you can to keep any all momentum going... sometimes, it just doesn't work out. But the wheelie bars are going to make a MUCH better improvement.

Craig