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Indy Super Pull
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Build to dates have been proposed by the pullers! For the very reasons you outline. Pulling lacks vision and leadership at all levels. If you’re familiar with the NTPA rulebook, drawings of your chassis have to be submitted to tech. One of those rules that is in there but given very little if any teeth. The demand would be high and yes other chassis shops would pop up, that’s basic economics
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Tell me what has improved. First a history lesson on monopolies; in the United States professional sports are exempt from anti-trust laws. I have read and studied this in-depth, bottom line they don’t produce a tangible good like oil and John D Rockefeller to import or export. Second ANYONE who believes competition of sanctioning bodies has been good for tractor pulling has either lived with t
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Billet axles, hollow chromoly axels, etc, have all been tried. We have over 40 years of history starting with mods using truck rear ends with external CAT or Franklin planetaries. Not a fan of Doc’s design as it still uses internal planetaries and nine bolt hubs and as the video posted in this thread shows still susceptible to breakage. As stated previously stop trying to put a bandaid on some
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A little research shows their is no SFI spec. To the guy who says it can happen in a component I’m still waiting on an example. Seen a tractor destroy a planetary at Mt. Gilead Ohio this year in the super stock class. No wheel coming loose. The planetary itself acts as a tether because even though the internals of the planetary may be trashed the wheel doesn’t come off. Front tires yes but n
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I see this happen to lots of ag rearend classes. Any videos of this happening on component chassis or an incident occurrence of component vs non component? Isn’t anybody turning a rear end harder than an unlimited mod and you don’t see this kind of breakage. Might be time for serious conversation to happen about allowing components in all classes for durability/safety. Cast that is 60 years o
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Any results?
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To the top! Any news?
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Robert Alves
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Welcome to the LGBTQ community of tractor pulling. They may feel like a Claas on the outside but genetically they are still a Deere. Can’t argue science, guess pulling is just as confused as the world around us.
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I was able to go Saturday night and the crew put on one belly a show. Tom Jackson, Bobby Neal, John Fankhauser, hats off to you gentleman. The track, Larry Phillips and crew did a phenomenal job. That man should be teaching at the NTPA banquet on Saturday on how to build a track. By far the best track prep crew I have seen in a long time. The crowd and iron present were great. If you haven’
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Quotebandit496
In the past I have speculated on such an endeavour. Fewer "national" classes, "limited" two day schedule (weekend), only certain teams qualify and that is what they get to run (no county fair pull for them-you don't see John Force at a weekly Norwalk race), limited number in the class-maybe 10. I could see about 8-ten classes: heavy tractor class-both fuels; light tractor cl
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QuoteThe Original Michael
I believe pulling has always devalued itself. The bull riding event at the Denver National Western Stock show this year paid $15,282.53 for second place in the bull riding first place paid 19,844.48
That’s for bull riding and you figure a bull rider if he has the best of everything: rope, vest, helmet, boots, spurs and chaps at $500 a piece would be $3000 in equipmen
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Well - 2 years ago
I believe pulling has always devalued itself. The bull riding event at the Denver National Western Stock show this year paid $15,282.53 for second place in the bull riding first place paid 19,844.48
That’s for bull riding and you figure a bull rider if he has the best of everything: rope, vest, helmet, boots, spurs and chaps at $500 a piece would be $3000 in equipment. A tractor puller has a 1
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Checked FB page and site, no results, anyone have them?
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QuoteDoc Riley
Some thoughts:
NTPA was without funds and sponsors in the late 1990's. WPI was formed as the business end pulling, handling all income and sponsorships. NTPA was the rule making body. PERIOD. The Cope/Skoal days saw KENDALL MOTOR OIL, CHEVROLET TRUCKS, as sponsors of NTPA pulling, but the sponsorships were all SIGNED and administered by WPI. Anything to due with money=
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SMH - 2 years ago
QuoteDoc
Some thoughts:
NTPA was without funds and sponsors in the late 1990's. WPI was formed as the business end pulling, handling all income and sponsorships. NTPA was the rule making body. PERIOD. The Cope/Skoal days saw KENDALL MOTOR OIL, CHEVROLET TRUCKS, as sponsors of NTPA pulling, but the sponsorships were all SIGNED and administered by WPI. Anything to due with money=WPI....any
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Do you care to divulge? Many of us were there and the guy who didn’t sign his name at least addressed you with respect.
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Staab! No Limit Manufacturing, hands down!
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NTPA will never exist again as it’s own entity. Under the dark of night and without a vote from the member states then President of NTPA Loy Thomas and then WPI CEO David P. made a back room deal that sealed NTPA’s fate forever. There used to be two sets of financials one for NTPA and one for WPI and NTPA was slowly paying off its debt and was going to be its own entity again. On that fateful
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QuoteIdea
think about this ideal sequence of events
LLSS gets component chassis move weight to 5700, unfortunate result is some cast tractors get parked not being able to run and balance like a component
However, some current LSS pullers tired of fighting the big dollar game jump ship to new 5700 LLSS and leave fewer LSS, but builds numbers in 57LLSS
Remainder of current LSS then merges
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QuoteDick Morgan
I think the Todd and other pullers that hook mostly at the national level are caught between a rock and a hard place. Local fair boards need tractors to fill classes, fans want to see good quality equipment at a show and local shows have to survive. It's so easy to say that no national pullers should ever go to a local event but that's going to kill the sport completely
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QuoteThe Original Michael
I had to look on the NTPA website and found "Member State Contacts" under the Contact section.
Hoosier State Tractor Pullers Association (Indiana)
Wisconsin Tractor Pullers Association
Wolverine Pullers, Inc. (Michigan)
United Pullers of the Carolinas (North & South Carolina)
United Pullers of Minnesota
United Pullers of Iowa
Ohio Truck & Tractor Pullers A
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QuoteOG
The failure of the NTPA over the long term has been its inability to set up a Professional or Championship level of pulling that is distinct and separate from the county fair level. The economics wouldn't allow it when they couldn't keep their sponsors. In the years since the loss of Copenhagen/Skoal et al they have been forced to survive on the charity of the participants an
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QuoteDoc Riley
No one really ever comments on what NTPA could do different.
When money comes into WPI the bulk of it goes to the pullers.
New venues don't just pop up and the new facilities (Dodge City / Atwood) both believe in the NTPA brand.
Why do people always try to get ALL the RULES the same? NTPA and it's rule process are made in the best interest of the NTPA and it's
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Mike Salinas gets a lot of things right in this article. NTPA leadership should take notice even better Wysong and the WPI. They lack vision, as Salinas points out what are you doing to attract younger generations? Nothing! The good ole boys club needs dispersed and new leaders allowed to come in.
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Go back to a 300’ track and combine the class. Outdoors on longer tracks the alkies have the momentum advantage, as exhibited this past summer there are going to be outdoor tracks that favor a diesel set up. Hats off to the Ross family they accepted a challenge and have been awesome to watch! I really think a 300’ track levels the playing field!
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Smith isn’t even in the same realm! One weekend doesn’t make you the best! It’s what you do week after week year after year for years on end! Title of champion only goes to one person, until he’s un seated, there is no conversation to be had.
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