[AT] When did tractor pulls become prevalent?

[Spencer Yost]

Great video as usual Ralph.   Thanks!   By the way a few weeks ago I sent you an off-list message.   I was just passing along some info and wasn’t really something you needed to reply to but wanted to make sure you got it.


Spencer Yost

>> On Jan 21, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
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>> On 1/21/2019 6:51 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
>> I grew up in a rural-ish corner of Rhode Island, born 1962.  There was one big fair annually, the Rocky Hill State Fair.  I remember going as a kid, maybe as early as about 8, so starting 1970 or thereabouts, thru into my teens. There were horse pulls, oxen pulls, and truck pulls, but no tractor pulls.  The truck pulls were the big attraction.
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> The 1992 vintage tractor pulls were my second time watching local pulls. As impressive as the tractors were, the trucks that followed might have been even more so.
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> The relatively late model (at the time) trucks put on quite a show. Only a couple of casualties. A jeep seemed to have lost it's transmission on the second attempt. Plus an older two
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> wheel drive Dodge dropped it's drive shaft right at the starting line. The biggest surprise was the old orange Chevy ex Sask. Power service truck that I think did as good or better than most of the
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> others. I transferred some of it to video on youtube.
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> https://youtu.be/oC9pcY6aWrE
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> Ralph in Sask.
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