[AT] Scales for antique tractors???

[Dean VP]

Walt:

At least you are admitting to what you are doing. I've watched the Brooks
pull several times and there is quite a bit of "pushing the limits" going on
there. A few years ago there was a JD hand start B that was out pulling
everybody, obviously not stock but still it was just performing better than
any JD B that I had ever seen. After the pulling was over I walked by the
tractor because it really puzzled me. What I found was that he had the hitch
about 2" higher than the maximum allowed and had weights sticking out way up
front. He had found the magic formula but I'm surprised he got away with it.


Rules don't mean a damn thing unless they are enforced. The Brooks pulling
track is one of the better ones in the NW however. 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

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Dean,
I know that you are  correct and I know that I am cheating even if Just a 
little but to make it right  the big tractor pulling ass. here has made two 
classes of tractors those that  are pretty much stock and those that are
not. I 
fall into the latter class  because I don't use a muffler. I still don't win
but 
i like to see just what I  can do against the big guys.
I actually have the most fun at the oldtime sled  pull at Brooks its just
for 
fun and everyone gets a little medal showing that  they competed. the big 
guys come there and just spin there tires because you  start out with almost
a 
full load and its real hard to get that sled to move  with another Case LA 
sitting on it. I even tried with two tractors once I did  pretty good till I
lost 
traction on the left wheel. 
When I'm running good I  do good but my tractor has a habit of not running 
good all the time.   
One time when it was really running good I accidentally put it in second  
gear I made the fastest pull of the day and it was full pull to my
surprise.
Got a real standing ovation when I drove back past the crowd.  
then their was this guy with a Massey Harris with a 6/71 GMC in it made a  
lot of noise looked real good all painted up and running hotter than "H" he
lost 
 it right after he let the clutch out didn't budge the sled 1 in. 
he looked  pretty down as he drove off. I had just made a pretty good pull 
about 1/3 the  way down with the same two tractors on the sled. 

But you are right we  should all try to be as stock as one can be. I know 
that's not possible because  these are old machines and need to be bored out
or 
heads shaved just to get them  running so most pulls will allow some of this

but not the guy who takes his LA  out to 900 in. or puts a big Jimmy in that

wasn't stock in the first place.  


Hey I'm just rambling on here sorry about that.


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

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