[AT] Scales for antique tractors???

[Dean VP]

Walt:

IMHO, I don't see how one can be partially pregnant.  Either you try to
follow ALL the rules or you are cheating. Using an excuse that others are
cheating so you have to, is the same to me as when your son or daughter is
confronted over drug use and their response is: "All the other kids are
doing it!" I cannot and will not buy into that logic. 

But we had a very bad example when our President said:  "I did not have sex
with that woman!" IMHO that did more harm than we will ever realize. It is
well known that kids these days are following that horrendous example. 

If we are not honest, how can we expect the next generation to be honest?  

Somewhere, somehow we have to set a good example or pay the piper. 

I realized I too would have to cheat to be competitive in tractor pulling. I
decided not to do so any more. Therefore I don't pull in competitive pulls
any more. YMMV.  Fun pulls or those honestly run I will participate in. My
primary enjoyment comes from hearing the tractor work anyway.  

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

Forbidden fruits create many jams!

www.deerelegacy.com

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One thing that I will never understand how  someone can be proud of
trophies 
that they cheated to win. 
I do my  best not to cheat but in tractor pulling these days its either
cheat 
or look  stupid.  So I have my Rpm's setup a bit more than stock and I have 
an LP  head to get better compression a small amount of difference but what 
most guys  call close enough to be stock. 
The scales that we use here are pretty close  and will weigh the tractor the

same each time at the same pull, but when you go  to the next one it may
very 
some from the last pull. We just adjust our weights  to compensate for the 
difference and if everyone uses the same scales it all  comes out equal in
the 
end.


Walt Davies
Cooper Hollow  Farm
Monmouth, OR 97361
503 623-0460  

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