[AT] Scales for antique tractors???

[Dean VP]

Greg:

The rules I have seen out here are fairly good. They just aren't enforced.
Primarily because some of those running the pull are the biggest cheaters.
They just hope everybody else will follow the rules. They are the first to
point out a cheater if they don't win however. It is a really sick
situation. 

I made the mistake of beating the pulling chairman's tractor at a pull with
a completely stock tractor. The next pull in the same weight class he pulled
with a highly modified and overweight tractor to make sure he didn't lose
again. Winning was the only objective, no matter what rules had to be bent. 

I just don't want to deal with that crap. Life is too short. 

I pulled for a couple of years without ever winning and nobody gave me any
trouble. And I was content and having a good time but I learned a little
each pull about tire pressure, hitch height and length, speed control and
weight balance. But I happened to win one time and all hell broke loose. And
I was completely following the rules. The real problem was JD's are not
supposed to beat Olivers!  Under any conditions. :-)  

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

Forbidden fruits create many jams!

www.deerelegacy.com

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Easley, Greg
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Something like that ;-)  The phrase "farm stock" causes a lot of folks
serious pain,
and at the vast majority of pulls really shouldn't be used.  There are
some clubs
around who pull true stock classes.  Lots of squabbling over what's
"stock" and what's
not at those.  It's readily apparent when someone with a bone-stock
tractor hooks to
the sled at one of our club pulls - they place last, but we don't
pretend to pull
stock tractors.

We really have it pretty good out here in Misery.  There are a handful
of antique pulling
clubs around the state, and for the most part rules are close to those
used by NATPA and
USAP.  Most, not all, but most, of the brush pulls will have rules that
are fairly close
to national rules.

There's been much debate about the NATPA over the years, whether or not
it's been good for
the sport etc.  One good thing is has done is to establish a baseline
set of rules that
are widely used here in the midwest.

Greg
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/woods/1416

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Dean VP
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Greg:

Is that known as situational ethics? 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

Forbidden fruits create many jams!

www.deerelegacy.com

http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm



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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Easley, Greg
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:23 AM
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Dean -

Tractor pullers never cheat.  We interpret the rules with creativity.



Greg
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