I just saw a map with areas that are going to experience black outs...mountain states were the worst followed closely by most of the west. Keep buying electric cars they said it will be fun they said! Keep shutting down power plants they said it will be fun they said. Cut off domestic oil they said it will be fun they said! Common sense is not so common these days.
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Cliff,
Just an FYI you likley think I'm an out of touch old curmudgeon (there could be some truth in that) but I also am conscious of the environment. We've been recycling for 40 years,my truck averages 27.5 MPG and my shop is covered with solar panels.
Do I believe there is Climate change? Yes. Do I believe it's as bad as some would lead us to believe? No. According to AL
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Cliff,
You are 100% correct but I can tell with certainty that the "Climate" has been changing since the beginning of time and for the largest part of those millions of years man was not here to influence that change. If you believe that doing away with any fertilizer besides organic is a good idea good luck feeding your family in 10 years. When I was a kid corn was 75 to 100 bushel to the acre
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P.S. they will kill far more humans through starvation than climate change will ever kill!
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It really does appear that politicians are truly more interested in saving mother earth than the people living on mother earth. If the population starts dieing off due to starvation what good is saving mother earth? The earth will be here long after humans kill themselves off and it will still go through Climate change with us being long gone it always has!!!
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Sasha,
My understanding is that most failures on the high powered tractors is the front pinion bearing not the ring and pinion. When I was running the GN Mod class I had one rear-end failure and it was the front pinion bearing. Before and after that I've run the RN class with hundreds of passes on two tractors with only one broken tooth on a ring gear. The higher power seems to really be
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The Original Michael,
Regardless of the kinds of changes there will be opposition from pullers and/or fans. As an example if you were to reduce weight it would likley do away with 5 engine tractors, you as well as a LOT of fans would be unhappy not to mention some pullers. Lowering the hitch could accomplish the goal but likely would cause competitors to speed up tire speed then destroying tir
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With the advancement of tires the pullers pay the price. Not only do they have to pay the price of the tires but the price of modification of their tractors. I'm mostly talking about the Mod tractors when I refer to having to make these changes. I remember when the Puller 2000s came to the pulling world and people had to redo their tractors in order to hold down the front. Moving engines
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Brent,
There have been rule proposals to do just that in recent years but they didn't gain much traction with the powers that be. As a puller I find it embarrassing to bump the sled, in some cases you're just trying prove you're not broken as bad as the other puller because you could drive to the sled and they couldn't.
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Something the came up at our last event in Fremont, Mi is that with a 340' pass the tractor and sled were well beyond the grandstands and most of the fans were looking at the back of the sled on the long passes. They had the mod class set heavy I was the first hook and only went 288' but even then I was past the end of the grandstands. I remember one year at the Enderle Pulloff America
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BrandonA,
I've been to busy trying to get my tractors on the track and get my hay work done to look at this lately.
My only initial thought is that if they are going to ask pullers to make more pases there needs to be compensation for the pullers. We have one fellow mod puller that never comes back for a pulloff and said he won't until they pay extra for that pass.
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Straighten Up,
Take a trip to Lake Cumberland in southern KY, you can spend a whole day looking at houseboats that cost $400K +/- with $140K +/- ski/wakeboard boats tied to the back of them. These people will spend $500 +/- on gas at the lake on any given weekend and that's just for the boats not to mention the gas to get to the lake. They do this with NO chance of bringing in a dime. At le
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I guess I have a few questions, first is it a myth that there aren't enough children up for adoption? If not why do people go to foreign countries to adopt? Aren't most foster children coming from dysfunctional families as opposed to unwanted infants? Why isn't there more emphasis put on the younger generation for birth control as opposed to looking at abortion as the solution?
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I find it very ironic the the pro choice groups are planning protest at churches on MOTHERS day...mothers day really!!!
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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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