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We sat in our living room and watched our friends pull at three different events last night...OSTPA at Wauseon,OH, NTPA at Seymour,WI and the Fendt series in Farley,IA. Was it perfect, no ,was it worth my time absolutely.
I like to remind people that when I was a teenager I had to wait months to see the NTPA results in the Puller Magazine.
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BrandonA,
Yes its was great once I figured out how to watch it. My only critique would be to have a graphic with the distances up on the screen occasionally.
If I sounded negative on my original post it was from my personal lack of tech knowledge.
I tell people often that when I was young I had to wait months to see the results of pulls when the Puller magazine came out.
I think the Outla
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Limited Pro Puller,
Am I an NTPA puller...yes...do I like to watch other people and organizations...yes.
On Friday I tried the YouTube route and could not find the pull, I was finally able to watch it on my phone when a crew member of ours sent me a link. Saturday even he couldn't find a way to watch. After posting on here some friends reached out and I found it on YouTube.
My whole
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I've loaded both the Pro Pulling TV app and the SpeedSport app and neither one will show me anything...they show the event without having a way to start the steam.
I know I'm not very techy but dang why does it have to be so hard?
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CPR,
I'm pretty sure a friend of mine bought that tractor but only ran it with the Rolls for a few years. Something broke on it (blower drive I think) and it's been parked for mamy years.
Funny story about him and me: we were at a pull in Brookville,In and I went something like 415' and let out of the throttle for two reasons. First reason was the the Flagman (my crew Chief Ric
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Milt Bergman was the king of that game...he ran any number of different engines on his six engine mod.
Dan Dechant may not have different kinds of engines but he has some very unique engines. Three Ranger V-12 engines with Pro chargers.
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Buckeye fan,
So it's your opinion that we drove a thousand miles one way to an NTPA GN event to embarrass ourselves and show up with junk? We struggled through two of the worst weekends of pulling I can remember, we didn't manage one full pass with either tractor out of three hooks. We love pulling and love competing in front of fans. It was a very long drive back to Indiana with our t
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Thirty years ago the mod classes were made up of mostly tractors with the engines three in a row, can you say cookie cutter? These tractors fell out of favor for the current side by side engines up front with one behind. Those of us running the side by side setup are often accused of being cookie cutter but back in the day there were WAY more three in a row tractors. The first time I saw a tra
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No, this time last year I wanted to do that for last summer but then realized that I don't have the stamina to get that done. We are a small team and Mod tractors take a lot of work so we decided to be satisfied with our two engine setup.
I've had back issues most of my adult life and with age those things don't get better I can assure you. I just had a conversation with my w
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Saw on the Wicked Facebook that they chose too high of a gear...they haven't run with the 14-71 blowers much in the last few years, that might be part of it.
I myself haven't run with three engines for several years and it would likley take me a few passes to get things right.
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Part of the reason for more sponsorship is a guy named Dan Schroer, Dan has been working very hard on getting sponsors for NTPA.
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CPR,
I don't know about that...why were they spraying either into it if it's not the real intake? I'm pretty sure I saw them doing that after they were hooked to the sled. I don't really care either way...just an observation.
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I think the harsh winter weather that is affecting the Midwest combined with the heavy band of snow that hit the southern states has a lot to do with the turnout. Also the change to a PPL sanctioned event might have had some effect, although most of the pullers that typically come down for this event are affiliated with PPL. The Barga family likley would have come but they are waiting on parts.
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Not really my state but my neighboring state and the state I've pulled the most in for the last 15 years. Urbana,OH is one of the best tracks I've pulled on. It is unusual in that it is good for tractors and trucks and that is rare.
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When I was younger my family showed Quarter Horses, this took us to a lot of county fairs. Often times we would be in one area of a fairgrounds and on another part of the fairgrounds they would be having a tractor pull. I seemed to always migrate over to the pull between my show classes. We always went to the Indiana State Fair with our 4H Horses, so again I would migrate to the pulls. This was b
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One reason you won't likley see more weight in the Unlimited class is the sleds and tires. They already have a hard time stopping them within a reasonable distance. I don't know how it is since Bauer changed his sleds two years ago but I know in the past they would have to borrow weights from a second sled to stop them on certain tracks. If you watch the distances they are usually cl
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If I remember correctly they had two issues, they had trouble making weight and on a marginal track the front was too heavy. It seems that those were the things talked about, it was beast and fun to watch though.
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cpr,
I think you do great job, was just curious how this fit in with the current established announcers. Good luck hope to see you out there.
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CPR,
I'm confused, I thought the promoter hired the announcers for their events. What am I missing?
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I've been running V-8 engines since 1990 and they have all required side shields...even my single engine econo-mods.
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That is a loaded question, it really depends on breakage. Some years you can get by with very little breakage other years something breaks every pass (my year this year). A valve breaking seems minor but by the time you replace a piston or two maybe the rods then the big expense and time of getting the head repaired.
If you run pretty often figure on freshening the engines each off season, ro
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Stormy,
For a once or twice a year event sure, for a whole summer circuit, no way that will work. The lower two thirds of the classes will be gone after two events.
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Opportunity knocking,
First off none of my comments are a knock against the Simon's for trying this, I just don't see it as a model that will work long term as some seem to think it should.
Just using my tractor as an example, I just had what I hope is the worst year I will ever have. Lots of relatively small dumb breakage not to mention not being able to get out of my own way at
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Typically in every class at every level there are two or three competitors that are at the top more often than not. How long do you think the rest of the class will continue to donate? I know that I'm not a top tier tractor at the GN level, why would I do that? At the RN level I am a top tier tractor even then I'm thinking long and hard and likley wouldn't do it very often espec
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I don't know the other two but I do know PK. Phillip Kelley, he pulls a Super Farm called Red Blooded Binder from western PA. He is the NTPA Super Farm committee chairman, from what I've seen having been a committee chairman myself he does a very good and thorough job in that position. In his real job he is a camera operator for TV broadcast for the NFL as well as NASCAR so he has a
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A few thoughts on FullPull,
I think at times in this digital age we tend to expect miracles. I'm a pretty old guy and vividly remember as a kid having to wait months for the Puller magazine to come out to read the results of events as well as points standings. There came a guy about 20 years ago ( I'm totally guessing because I'm terrible with dates) called Pulltracker that wou
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Hp
Session 2 BG Les K 251.42 DQ, Bill V 219.52, RJ 290.90. These are guys that have been making killer passes. Bill wrecked his tractor in Rokwell in the Mod class, The Dirtslinger almost wrecked his tractor...have you EVER seen that happen? Esdon of all people wrecked his tractor in Rockwell, most of the DSS class looked like amateurs, even the winner looked like a hobby horse going down the
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Patches
Full hitch, since going to 6200 we've not lowered our hitch as a matter of fact my wife's tractor didn't have all of the weight on the front at BG and still didn't carry the front a lot. Keep in mind we don't make the power of some of the tractors in class do and we are still running Firestones.
Dick
The short answer is yes.
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Harold,
Have you noticed how many of the vehicles in the light classes have come within inches of wrecking the tractors? We're not talking about inexperienced pullers we are talking about pullers that have been at the top of their classes. I was leading the points last year until I couldn't make a decent pass at BG. Did I raise hell no but I did have a conversation with Big at BG th
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