When we talk about Wisconsin pulling, Hillsboro and Tomah immediately come to mind. There's a ton of great state and regional action too as evidenced by the Baraboo (BSTP) and Ellsworth (WTPA) shows this past weekend as well. In light of all this good pulling, regardless of organization, I submit the Mackville Nationals into the conversation. In my opinion, it's the state's best
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QuoteThe Original Michael
I hope they can get it back together soon. Reminds me of Brad Benedict's breakage at Bowling Green a few years ago.
Steve injured his left arm, that chassis may have to wait...Hope he recovers quickly.
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Like many of you I consider myself to be pretty patriotic. In pulling a good rendition of the National Anthem is great to start an event. Full disclaimer,
I cannot carry a tune nor hold a note for anyones liking, especially my wife, and its an incredibly difficult song for anyone to sing. However, seven year-old Reagan Schluter sang it here at the Southern Illinois Showdown tonight and KNOCKE
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Flyers for Muscle Tractors and Antiques. One of the best indoor power tracks in the country.
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My reply, in bold...
A. Modifieds. Engler's "Mission Impossible" I think the chassis work they did is still being built and patterned today. Allowing these vehicles to flex the way they do is what got us to this point. Banters and Stone were just as competitive during this time, but I think if you dropped an Engler vehicle into today's mods, it would be more competitive than Banters&
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Don's funeral arrangements -
Visitation for Don will be at Boultinghouse Funeral Home, located at 527 Main St, Rockport, Indiana, from 4pm to 8pm CST Friday May 12th. Additional visitation hours from 9am to 2pm CST on Saturday the 13th, with funeral services to immediately follow.
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After taking time to read the rules on the Facebook post, I think this is an excellent idea. The controlled conditions offered in the rule set are reasonable.
Any given weekend I encounter kids aged 8 to 15 on Antiques, younger on garden tractors. The youngest with necessary supervision, but many that have matured enough to handle the machines by themselves. Remember, kids are sponges for k
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Quoteno name
Not being a jerk, no name, but what could you have given GH 23 years ago?
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At that TIME I GAVE them advertisement in front of A LOT of people for $250. And that $250 was like pulling teeth to get! Golden Harvest at that time kept asking me why I couldn't sell more of their seed. I told them because they were not advertising enough. I also told them that the product th
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Photos from this past weekend's Crusade for Children Benefit Pull at the Grayson County Fairgrounds in Leitchfield, Kentucky. 110 hooks and $7000 raised for the Crusade
Crusade for Children Benefit Pull - Leitchfield, KY
It's nice to see improvements being made at local tracks like this, as has been done at the Hardin County Fairgrounds in Elizabethtown...Meade County (Brandenbur
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An opportunity to get on the track tomorrow, don't miss out! See flyer for more details on an event benefitting a very worthy cause.
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Quotehorsepower addiction
Refer to Masterson's thread, if the smoke tube won't flow enough to keep a Pro Stock
running to it's potential imagine what it does to Triple Bypass and Bone Twister,you know,
tractors making real power. The "razor's edge" that PS tractors run on is a boardwalk compared
to top running DSS tractors. It's been fun to watch the smoke tube jump
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2023 Pro Pulling League Schedule Main Page
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ASABE 1/4 Scale Design Competition
Many Land Grant Schools heavily involved with this program.
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Without promoters or clubs/associations there would be no pulling.
Here's a short list of icons in that respect
Ed Hart - First President of the NTPA. On site of the formation many important events and personally promoted some of them. His fingerprints are all over this sport.
The NWOTPA - No NWOTPA, no BG.
The Owensboro Gang - A meeting in the home of Billy Joe Miles in 1968
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The big picture here initially focuses on how we embrace technology and it's effect on society in the future. Whatever changes we've had in the previous 10 years will pale in comparison to what we will deal with in the next 5 years.
A.I. is a coming issue to deal with in many respects. It could eliminate a bunch of jobs, which leaves many with free time on their hands (thus searchi
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Pro Pulling League Champions Tour to Feature 35 Sessions of Top Flight Action in 2023
Sellersburg, Indiana (February 3, 2023) – The Pro Pulling League has a full season of pulling action on the Champions Tour slated for the 2023 season, spread across eight states from May to September.
The season fires off at The Puller’s Championship Invitational event at the Track at Holzhauers in Nashvil
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QuoteVery sad
At least the NTPA is going to refund money for the issues left on your subscription unlike the PPL magazine. Real glad I spent the money on there magazine to receive maybe one magazine and that was it
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Pro Pulling League Makes Significant Rule Change for 2023
Sellersburg, Indiana (January 27, 2023) – Motorsports have evolved from their rustic beginnings in the early 20th century, all under the premise of the need to acquire more speed, more power, more performance. Truck and Tractor Pulling is no different; from the moment that Ed Hart mounted that first set of 30.5x32 tires to his D21 for m
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-If you haven't been to Shipshewanna for the Midwest Winter Nationals, put it on your list of events to attend. Now.
-The Michiana Event Center has given Klint Tucker and company room to move and grow...basically freeing them of some limitations that Gordyville had. Much due respect to the work and efforts at Gordyville, but the MEC is on a whole other level.
-Competition as always w
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Champion Seed Returns as Pro Pulling League Western Series Sponsor for Seventh Year; PPL All-Stars in Action at Midwest Winter Nationals
January 12, 2023 - Sellersburg, IN - Champion Seed returns in 2023 as the title sponsor of the Pro Pulling League's Western Series, their seventh year in that role.
PPL Series Director Johnathan Mears offered, "we are proud to have Champion Seed as a
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Solid Junk was a cool tractor but not a controversial tractor. It offered a glimpse of what could happen when the stars aligned and an alcohol tractor ran to its potential. The Conner John Deere was pulling 5-7-9 I believe and that was far more worrisome; the Bad Medicine 2-180 was the tipping point where pseudo-component driveline of a Oliver/White platform was utilized and consistent laps sta
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You stick a roof over an event and that expense is likely #1 or #2, depending on if an event is sanctioned or not. Building rental has always been expensive but since the COVID year fees have risen dramatically. Many facilities get real expensive when the clock strikes midnight and a new layer of expense kicks in. The promoter wants to be done before midnight more than anyone else.
Sled rent
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Anyone watch the segment on Pawn Stars with pullers from the OTTPA club in North Carolina tonight? Brief, but nice look at an antique club.
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Two memories - One was at Freedom Hall for a TNT show that had a pulling track and a monster truck racing track also. My parents and I were seated on the monster truck side opposite the pulling track. I vividly remember one of the Banter 6 engine machines rattling the building.
Chapel Hill 1990, 1991? Sitting on rhe starting line and Engler with the full tilt Mission Impossible in the Heavy
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The current Dixie Deere has to be in that conversation. I can't remember for sure if it hooked SS initially or the precursor to PS but PS - SF - 4.1 now, so potentially 4.
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From the PPL Office -
"December 22, 2022, Sellersburg, IN - Pro Pulling League is proud to announce the continuation of exciting pulling events under new ownership 2023 and beyond.
Lucas Oil Products transitions from an ownership role to a sponsor of the largest pulling sanctioning body in the country, which enables them to maintain a high caliber presence in grass-roots motorsports.
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There are multiple tractors that have had this name but probably the more well known is Josh Miley's High Maintenan$e
Probably the most appropriate name for a pulling tractor or any motorsports competition vehicle for that matter.
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Black Widow, Tennessee Tracks, Mean Gene, Bad Medicine, Kentucky Sledhunter,
and a local favorite - Blue Knight (a 7000 Ford SS from late Seventies and early Eighties)
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QuoteLewis Conner
is it or is it not practically a rerun every year im 2 hours from the farm show and 2 hours from Murfreesboro i would rather go south
The reality is that every indoor event has X number of pullers that are there every year, by whatever measurement or metric the invitational committee decides.
It doesn't matter if it is Louisville, Murfreesboro, Shipshewanna, or wherev
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QuoteThe Original Michael
The problem with any "reality " show is they always try a put a bad spin on it. Pulling is a legitimate motorsport. Points, champions, fair and honest results. Totally opposite than what a reality show will portray. There is nothing real in a reality show.
Dick, that is not necessarily true all the time. There are cesspools like Tiger King and Sister Wives, but I ha
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