County Line Antique Tractor Club
What is tractor pulling?
Competition between humans has probably been around as long as there have been humans. In pioneer times, farmers liked to hold contests during slow times and after harvest (maybe that's where fall plowing came from). At first it was who could plow the straightest furrows or grow the tallest corn. Eventually it became who had the tractor that could pull the most weight the farthest distance.
Modern pros build machines that you would hardly recognize as a tractor. They substitute jet engines and add turbo charges. The device that they pull is a sled with weight in in (a different weight for each class), and as the sled moves forward the weight box moves closer to the front of the sled, making the sled harder to pull. The puller continues until the tractor will no longer move the sled.
Hobbiests generally just fine tune their old field and garden tractors. Their weight sled may be a stone boat with cement blocks on it. But, the results are the same: pull until the sled doesn't move.
History of Club
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