Wow. This is extreme tractor pulling.

[sgtsampay 117]

Wow, I'm surprise none of these guys broke an axle doing this. Wow, tough tractors.

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,300]

Hmmm....seems a bit abusive to me but hey...there not my tractors. The guy with the JD 212 looked like he was doing something real kinky with his tractor , seemed to be jumping on it way more than the other guys.

Mike...........

[Kelly 1,029]

Notice most of them were Simplicity/Allis, with a Briggs in them, and that was only about 70 miles from me, I race cars at the county fair there.

[jay in nc 210]

i thought B-10 allis-chalmers - simplicity garden tractors had weak rear ends. but i must be mistaken!

[Rollerman 290]

Stone boat pulling has been around for awhile, but I've never seen it done like that?

[KC9KAS 4,741]

How much weight were they trying to pull?

I agree....ABUSIVE!

[VinsRJ 721]

Those poor bevel gear boxes in the Allis and Simplicity tractors.

[DoctorHfuhruhurr 137]

They must have to measure in centimeters.

[Jake Kuhn 1,554]

Wow that is a little abusive,Jake

[refracman 167]

I can see why their useing mostly AC's and simplicity's, you can lockup the rears so their full time posi, I have to agree thats some abuse!

[squonk 41,012]

What a bunch of boobs! You got one guy working there kicking little pieces of rubber away by the tires when it's under power and going behind the tractor while it's still backing up. Then the one guy is headed for the crowd and they let him keep pulling. I know they probably have some sort of kill device but my God, what happens if the chain or hitch breaks.

[71_Bronco 1,072]

Hmmm....seems a bit abusive to me but hey...there not my tractors. The guy with the JD 212 looked like he was doing something real kinky with his tractor , seemed to be jumping on it way more than the other guys.

Mike...........

What exactly does bouncing do? The only thing I can think of is that when its on the "down" bounce, it makes a greater contact patch and hopefully greater traction? Correct?

And Squonk, I agree. The things they were doing were definitely unsafe. If anything broke, there could have been some bad injuries.

[AMC RULES 37,125]

I too was thinking that safety wasn't being taken into consideration enough, but aside from that, there had to be some serious weight they were trying to move, right?

Considering the size of those tractors, seems pretty incredible they were able to get 'em going at all.

From experience pulling, can anyone guesstimate how much weight they were hooking up to? :dunno:

[shootinok 15]

I don't have any experience pulling at all - but if those appear like they could be filled with concrete. Guessing on the size of 1' x 1' x 4' long they would weigh in at about 600lbs (avg concrete is +/- 150lbs/cf)

Early in the vid they're pulling 4 (2400lbs) then they go to 6 (3600lbs)

Just a guess

how much is normal in a pulling competition?

[SousaKerry 501]

considering not one of those guys seemed to put much into the tractors I'd say the pretty much count on breaking them

[hm12460 53]

The older tractor's sure were built tough. Can you imagine a new Home Depot Cub Cadet or John Deere trying to pull a load like that? Surely something would break immediately.

[fourwheels0 191]

ok i don't get it?. nobody pulled anything over a few feet.

i thought in pulling once you get it moving you keep going as far as you can up till a set limit like say 50-100 feet.

oh'well i guess thats the way they do it there huh?.

also once you get moving the bouncing will only make you loose traction.

[Rooster 191]

:shock:

[AMC RULES 37,125]

:teasing-wedgie:

[Ken B 3,164]

Safety aside and all of that, one thing I can say is things do move along rather quickly. I used to go to many tractor pulls and it takes them forever to clean the track for each new participant. That and cooking out in the hot sun makes for a very long day. I wonder if slicks are against the rules? Things would sure break big time if you could use slicks!

I've owned many of these Simplicity / Allis Chalmers tractors through the yrs. They are pretty darn tough tractors and the Briggs motors of that time were plenty stout.

I'm with Vince on the OUCH to them bevel gear boxes! It is hard to find a good replacement and they aren't cheap. I'm sure it puts a lot of strain on the entire drive train. I hate to see any tractor get abused like that. But hey, it ain't my tractor.

[Duff 206]

OK, I've only been to one real tractor pull (Granby, Mass. two summers ago) so I don't claim any expertise in the area, but what these guys were doing looks just plain stupid! Now a stone boat on clay with safety precautions, operating the machines within something approaching sane limits, and some expectation of a "full pull" make a heck of a lot more sense to me than what these guys are doing. Am I missing something?

Duff :handgestures-thumbup: