Re: School Project Need Help!!!!

Posted by GeneMo on March 07, 2007 at 20:33:08 from (76.0.56.194):

In Reply to: Re: School Project Need Help!!!! posted by mike a. tenn. on March 07, 2007 at 09:45:55:

To my recollation, in the late 1960's local groups started having tractor pulls as money raising events, or just for fun, and the idea was to have farmers bring their tractors in out of the fields, as they were, with no modifications. I helped with some early ones in our area in about 1969. The tractors were classed by weight, then hooked to a big flat piece of steel, big enough to place a smaller tractor on for extra weight. Chairs were place at intervals, individuals sat in those chairs on each side of the track. As the tractor pulled the "sled" down the track, the people setting in those chairs would step on the moving sled as it went past. This added weight. If you had to leave you chair to take a break, you had to find a replacement about the same weight! In the bigger classes, a tractor was placed on the sled, and people still stepped on as it went past. Whoever pulled it the farthest won.

Well then people got to souping up the tractors, spending big bucks and a lot of the originators became disenchanted. It was supposed to be for working tractors, not hot rods (or so they felt).

About that time antique tractors were becoming popular. I pulled mine out of a fencerow in 1979. It had been abandoned there about 30 years prior. The antique tractor pullers felt this was a way to get back to the basics, pulling original tractors that had not been modified. Of course rules had to be put in place to keep folks from souping up the antiques. But their are still people who fudge, cheat or what have you.

Whatever sport you pick, archery, shooting, soccer, baseball, someone will want to push the edge of the envelope. Whoever has the most money wins!!!

Gene

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