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Quoteresearcher
Jim, if you are not familiar with "Tractor Data.com", you probably will find it very helpful for you to take any given tractor model and turn it into real life in your pulling book.
Tractor Data gives you many tractor specifications - engine type, engine fuel, fuel consumption (sometimes), horsepower, tractor weight, number of transmission gears and speed, etc..
I went to you
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QuoteFarm Stock
Sorry. Driver included but no weights. My son usually pulls and weighs alot less than me. We pull in the 12500 lbs class. Around here we have farm stock for articulating tractors, open class is 50000lbs. The first time my son pulled was in a 835 versatile. He left the parking brake on and caught the tractor on fire before he got to the line. We got it put out and he was able to
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QuoteFarm Stock
1466 with a cab. 3lm turbo and stock model 100. Turned up the pump and adjusted the bump screw. Tractor weighs 12500 empty and we use 23 degree Firestone. With the clay around here we pull in 1st high and 4th low. I didn't bother turning it back down to farm this year and I actually think it ran cooler.
Thanks, that's helpful!
I think you're saying it weighs
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QuoteDirtfarmer
Unless it is a weight class under what, 14,000?
In my book the weight classes start around 2000 lbs. and go up to 30,000 for 2wd. It's possible nobody will bother to go over 25,000. That may not be practical anyway.
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Quotejd43
This sounds like a fishing expedition. If not, why is it fiction vs nonfiction?
I'm certainly not trying to get personal information. I'm primarily a fiction writer. I do write some nonfiction. I wouldn't try to write a nonfiction book about tractor pulling without getting more personal experience. I only tried pulling once and my little Allis CA stalled and wouldn't
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Good morning everyone, my name is Jim Davis and I live in South Carolina.
I am a tractor pulling fan, especially of antique and farm stock type classes.
I am currently working on writing a novel about a family who enters a tractor pull.
Much of the book deals with the human interactions, but I am looking to put a lot of fun tractor pull material in the story. I've written everything right
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