We have a United Trailers Super Hauler, very heavy built. We haul a 7500 lb Mod with a support vehicle with no issues. They are built in the Bristol, IN area.
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We have two pullers for two reasons, first we both love driving the tractors. Second is that we feel we have better odds to be at the top of the class with two shots. I've always felt that since we are already driving the distance why not both have the fun of driving and hauling the second tractor cost virtually nothing over hauling one. Now the cost of that second ride is another issue co
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Carlsson,
Have you witnessed an unlimited class where the sled stops them at 300', there is NO excitement from the crowd VS a hook where they go 350' + and the crowd goes wild? Why is a long track and some speed so dangerous? We often go down the track at 35 MPH in RN2, I never feel in danger. A sled operator would need to verify this but my guess that if they go that fast in the He
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I know it grates on people's nerves to talk about longer tracks but do believe this would make for a better show with the Unlimited Mods. Think about the excitement at the Enderle last year, good dirt long track great excitement. Just because these ideas are being talked about doesn't mean people don't like the class I personally love and appreciate the pullers and the tractors, I
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An executive order was the latest reason the pipeline was stopped...was it going to save our fuel prices, no but it sure didn't help matters. When Presidents just talk about things like this it affects futures. As for farmers and ranchers fighting this it's not nearly as intrusive as wind turbines or solar fields. I have a twin 36" gas line running through a farm and if someone didn
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P.S. since the so called good old days there have been two major tire innovations that have changed the game drastically and made it harder and harder to stop these powerful tractors. The sleds have barely been able to keep even as good as they are these days.
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Logan,
Agreed more bars are not a good thing for consistency.
To further some of the discussion about the Unlimiteds, I've felt for years that that class often doesn't put on as good of a show as some other mod classes because the sled has to be so heavy to stop them in a reasonable distance that they suffer greatly on the starting line as well as slower passes. As an operator of
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Logan,
Competitors tend to gravitate to what works the best especially with amount of money that it cost to build these tractors. Right now that seems to be 4 Hemi's with big blowers, even the guys with the most HP (4 Hemi's with screws) aren't dominant at this point because they are too hard to make good passes with constancy.
Even in the GN and RN Mod classes the same thing
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Pretty much everything in life has some kind of limits. Back in the day there were no weight limits and what you ended up with is tractors that weighed 50 K...have you seen the photos at BG with 5020 Deeres with barrels and weights and everything but the kitchen sink chained on to them? Add 10K HP to that and no three sleds together could stop them! No rules would be a recipe for catastrophe so
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Fan 2,
You do realize being a fan of the class why they make the sled so heavy don't you?
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I read a story recently that talked about the fact that all of Ukraine's ports are being destroyed so their farm exports can't happen.
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I'm not sure the VP position could be dumbed down any further...there is a reason she couldn't get any votes in the primaries!
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Fan 2,
If you don't like a single engines class or a twin engine class then do what some have suggested pullers do and step up and go to a more expensive show to see what you like.
There are lots of events every summer that run single engine mods all the way from small blocks to blown Hemi's and they seem to survive. People complain constantly that tractors are to expensive to buil
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OG,
I can't really argue with that sentiment, I do think that there are a lot of classes that should be lower level classes and if pullers want more they need to step up their program.
As for the Mod classes I think it should be that the basic tractor chassis and rules are the same from one level to the next (that way pullers could step up to the next level as the budget allows) but the
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OG,
In defense of upper level pullers, there just aren't enough competitors to separate things to the level that is talked about. As an example there is one 2WD team that often gets a call to fill in at RN events...particularly during the week. That then creates hard feelings with some RN pullers as they feel they are being robbed as they support the whole RN circuit. The problem becomes
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We have solar on our shop roof, one set for the shop and one set for the house. Most months our bill is a little over $11, that is for reading the meter I believe.
I have an acquaintance that sells and installs solar in Massachusetts and had been doing some commercial solar fields. A few years ago the state of Massachusetts passed a law prohibiting the commercial fields as they were eating
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We pull NTPA and are scheduled for two hooks in Langford.
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I did not know that...I need to get out more! They say you can remain silent and be thought ignorant or speak and remove all doubt...I'm good at that!
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Jim is as good as they get, I'm very surprised he would work a PPL event.
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You are correct the pipeline was never in production although what I've seen it was supposed to be in use way before 2030. As I said above just talking about it makes a difference in oil futures. The rational makes no sense but it happens. Oil, leases on land that MIGHT have oil vs oil leases on land that is proven to have oil ( can you say ANWR ? ) are two totaly different things.
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Another view,
While what you say is factual as you put it the fact remains that when politicians (Biden in this case) make policy it affects the markets. Biden's policies of shutting down the construction of Keystone XL, restricting oil leases, shutting down fracking and many other regulations all have an impact on oil futures as well as current prices. So yes I think I can place a big pa
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I'm assuming that the track will be installed on the asphalt? If so I would think the success of the event will depend somewhat of how the track shapes up...that could be tricky.
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Didn't PPL have an event in KY about five or six years ago that ran three tracks, seems like that event ran for about three years. Seems like it was sponsored by the company that Brad Moss was involved with, can't remember their name.
I never made it to Tomah when they were running three.
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I'm confused, my Facebook page is full of "turn the pipeline back on". This pipeline has never been completed and has never carried an ounce of oil. Granted it's construction was halted by the current resident of the white house (I have a hard time calling such an incompetent person the President). It was also stalled by the other incompetent that was in that office before Trump.
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I'm too old school for Rap. I get that the younger generation listens to it and I even like the beat just could never follow the words then when I did hear what they were saying WOW!!! Talk about degrading your own people. I remember when I was young hearing the music of my parents generation and thinking wow that's some old crap...now I listen to "Old Crap" from my younger days.
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Not much trust here. It's looking more and more like Duram is going to pin the whole Russian hoax on Hilary. If it hadn't been for that the Dems would have had a lot more votes to make up.
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Scales have been a point of contention as long as I've been pulling. Almost every year an agenda item is presented at the NTPA rules meetings. The agenda items are any where from requiring a concrete pad to requiring certified weights being used to test the scales after being set up at an event. For the most part most classes can deal with a couple hundred pound differences as they have a l
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For the sake of the sport,
I have no idea why that was the case I just know that the mods were not NTPA sanctioned because if they were our two tractors would likey have been there.
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Just sayin,
Look up the definition of Race and the definition of ethnicities. The definition of ethnicities or ethnic fits the the Jewish situation much more than Race. I honestly do not remember hearing a discussion about Jewish people and them using the word race as opposed ethnicity to describe them.
Just because Hitler didn't understand the meaning of race doesn't we should g
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Jake,
What you are saying in my mind is much more related to ethnicities than race, Google ethnicities and its exactly what you are talking about.
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