[AT] Tractor Pulling

[Richard Fink Sr]

Grat nice tractor. Nice photos of them all. The guy with the Cat was 
really missing something. I have the most fun with my Cat R2 is at 
pulls. It now has a blade on it and works at the new place. And don.t 
look like it was restored any more. But that is what it was built 
for. Maybe he did not do all he should have  [[internal]] ant thought 
it may fail if worked????
R Fink
PA


At 10:20 PM 7/30/2007 +0000, you wrote:

>     Hi all.  I don't post much anymore although I do keep up with the list
>every few days or so.  I enjoy all the topics and conversations - even the
>"interesting" ones.  Several years ago I restored a 1927 Wallis 20-30 and
>received much good advice from this list.  It's a great resource.
>
>     I love my old Wallis and treat it well, but I do enjoy hearing it growl.
>   Threshing is a nice steady load for it and so is plowing but this weekend
>I got to really test it out at a tractor pull in Purdue this last weekend.
>Super fun!  It was a small town fair event so things were nice and relaxed.
>Kind of hot though at 36C (97F) with little breeze.  The Wallis performed
>very well.  So well in fact that I won first place in 4000-5000lbs!  I was
>up against a MM Jet-Star, a MM Z, Massey 201 (neat!), and two others that I
>can't remember.  A M-H 44 I think was one.  Oh, the other was a JD A or AR.
>Most of them were around the 5000lbs mark and all on rubber, while I
>squeeked in at 4200lbs on full steel.  Now granted, the other tractors were
>all pretty well worn while my old girl is pretty much rebuilt but I'm going
>to savor the moment anyway.  :-)   It was laboring so hard at the 150 foot
>mark that both the flagman and I thought it was all over but it settled in
>and grunted out another 27 feet!  Finally it ran out of oomph, but it never
>did slip.  One for the steel wheeled guys I guess.
>
>     Some of the other machines there were very interesting.  A Cat 15 and
>IHC TD-6 showed up.  A Ford V8 powered Minneapolis and an IHC WD-9 with
>extra WD-9 trailer power-unit were cool.  There was even a turbo-charged JD
>AR!  Dad brought his Maytag washing machine display trailer and won first
>prize for it too. Good times, small town style.  I took some pictures.
>Click the link if interested.  Have a great day!
>
>http://groups.msn.com/GrantsOldTractorGoodies/tractorpull.msnw?albumlist=2
>
>Grant Weir
>Saskatoon, SK.
>Canada
>
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