When is the tractor pull

Guests in the pit area must be 18 years or older, unless signed in by parent or guardian. Driver is responsible for the behavior and actions of their guests in the pit! This pull is presented by Orlo Ink Truck Pullers.

For questions about this pull, please contact Dave Weller at Trucks included in this pull are : Diesel, pickups, small block street 6, lbs , big block street 6, lbs , small block high output, modified street tire, street diesel, hot street diesel, modified diesel and 2 wheel drives. Truck and Tractor Pulls. Different to every other motorsport in the world, it is not about the speed, but distance pulled. The pulling track is a minimum of 30 feet wide by feet long.

Tractor pulling is a competitive motor sport in which modified farm tractors, modified tractors or trucks drag a metal sled along a prescribed course. The sled contains a box filled with weight that is mechanically winched forward as the sled progresses along the course. But, while that may have been a thrill for the spectators, it was a potential health hazard as well with tractors routinely rearing up under the strain of the pull.

Dan Stork left remembers tractor pulls at county fairs where the spectators became participants in ways that could have given new meaning to the term 'dead weight. They [the tractors] were basically out of the field. In the late 60s, a weight-exchanging sled was invented. Basically, the sled is like a flatbed truck trailer with wheels at the back and a sled at the front. A moveable mass of up to 65, pounds 29, kilograms starts at the back of the sled over the wheels.

The sled starts out a pull with an effective weight of the sled plus zero. As the tractor begins its pull, the weight is moved forward at a set rate, pushing the front of the sled farther and farther into the ground, increasing the friction that the tractor is pulling against.

The inventor of one of the earliest sleds named the contraption the "Heartbreaker. Gradually, competitors began modifying their weekday tractors and some built machines for the competitions only. In the 60s, two Ohio brothers figured out a way to add a crossbox gear system to allow several engines to connect to a common driveshaft.

Pretty soon, tractors with four engines were common and at least one machine got up to seven engines. Turbo-chargers were added to engines. The organizers had to split their divisions into "stock," "modified" and even "super-modified.