I'm not sure you should penalize pullers for performing well. Some have worked 20 years to get to a good performance level. Maybe because of their budget or whatever. We quit pulling the farm stock and got a 466 Hot Farm tractor a few years ago so my grandson and I could share the seat (he's the better driver). We are slowly building up to a competitive level. Can we afford to put $50,0
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I am aware of the Interstate 11000 class which has 5 hooks and averages 4 tractors per event. They are all Southern Pa. and South. They don't pull North of there. It sounds like a good class for that area. We just do fair pulls etc. were we fit in. We still run the GT42 2.8 which seems to be a sturdy turbo. I think all the organizations are great and only showed Interstate because of how far
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I'm sure that no 2 box turbos will dyno the same. If they are from the same supplier and not tampered with I still think a $1500 turbo vs a $5000 one would give a more even playing field. It would also keep the cost down. I asked one group why they switched to pulling tires. The answer I got was they are cheaper to buy used. That just isn't true. I had 3 sets that came off our farm trac
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You've hit the nail squarely on the head. We pull in the northeast with what was once an original East Coast 466 Hot farm tractor when they had the 2.8 box turbo rule. When that class started it was a great class for those who wanted to step into points pulling in a known league with known rules. I even had the privilege to talk to the founder of the class and when pullers wanted to go wild
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Thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear they were good to work with. I'm sure we'll need some parts from them someday. Just for info. we run a 5 disk at 210psi. We have a gauge right by our shift lever. On ours building boost and letting her go is a little tricky with the wet clutch.
Have fun and good luck.
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Schedule posted this morning.
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I ran a 4320 for years with a worked on rotary pump. I could run 7th in the 9000 farm and 6th in 11000 farm. So your question has a lot of variables. Class your running in, cubes your competing with, turbo size for the class, tires your running and the cc's of the fuel pump. Are you running with P-pump tractors? Need way more info to give you a ballpark type answer.
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They all came up for me.
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A guy we pull with mated the front of a 4440 with a 4320 rear. Big job. We are at the iffy stage on HP for the wet clutch according to Rursch . I'm not sure what route we will take once we go over that hump. Maybe put our motor in a dry clutch chassis.
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We run a Rursch wet clutch. I don't know what class you run but we put a billet input shaft in ours. We learned the hard way.
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I've watched a few BMPT videos. I'm not sure the non-pulling public gets to see them. It may be an algorithm where if you've visited other pulling videos it comes on your FB page. Some of them I like but some I'm not interested in. He is definitely getting a self-advantage with doing them and I have no problem with that. It takes time, money and equipment to do it. I think it
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That would be 548 cu. against a 531 and a 636 against a 619. Has to be the 619+17. 540 is pretty easy to get out of a 466. A lot of Riverside 585's out there. Yes I know Lemke engines are their own design not stock block etc..
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I can't remember what brand was on the 4320 when I started pulling but they were bias. It needed new tires, so I bought Goodyear short bars which were popular then. On a dry power track, they were the best ever. I pulled at a local pull and the next day dealer got request for those tires. Farming with them wasn't good on wet ground so I switched to the radial 23 Firestones and they seem
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Get a leaf blower or 2 in case you need to cool it down quick for a 2nd run with a sled reset or pull-off.
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We bought our tractor with the RPM on it. They have been great with any questions we had on it. We sent it out for an update they said it needed and a glitch on one reading. It was done within 2 weeks at no charge even though we were'nt the original buyer. They are number one in my opinion. Never had that kind of service from any pulling vendor I've ever dealt with.
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Thanks for all your time and work.
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I have those same questions.
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Thanks for the results. How many are taken to the finals?
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Thanks for the video!
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There were a lot of guys that weren't nationaly known who built tractors and got the sport off the ground in local areas. Gerorge Kuback was the pioneer here in Northeastern Pa.He with Cornell manufacturing who built barn cleaners designed and built his clutch assy etc.. He tried many turbo combinations before finding one large turbo and then finding a fuel pump combination and proper rpms t
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It's going to be a whole new show next year. It's going to be a show of pre-90's tractors and classes. Classic type classes like SS, single engine mods, hot pre 1960's class and an 12000 Farm stock class. They're tired of all complaining about the rest of the 99 classes that are being run and want to be there. Let's go retro. I bet that would get a lot of the old t
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It's always confusing anymore. Rules are different wherever you go. Here in the East a Pro farm was 540 cubes and a Hot farm can be anything from 410 to 619 cubes depending on the club.
Watching some videos, a Hot farm in some parts of the country is more like a limited pro. I guess I'm too old to follow it all. I hope old Henry can getter done.
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JD parts page says 5/8 x 3". Might have to go longer where you attach the tie bar depending on how thick yours is.
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Jason Schultz/Let's grow pulling had Donny Bauer explain how his sled operates. The video came up on my Facebook page. I like what he said at the end. Maybe someone can find it and post the link. Neat info.
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Depends on what you already have. If you have a pickup capable of pulling a trailer, you're 1/2 way there. I pulled a JD4320 for a lot of years and upgraded clutch and some fuel work. I bought the tractor originally for $7500 with less than 5000hrs.. Today's market that tractor is $15000+ and I had less than that in it for pulling. We used it on the farm too so we rebuilt the engine 1x
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It's nasty outside and I thought it would make for a good conversation and some popcorn. I know many associations are tied to PPL in Pa. and New York. I asked the new owner of the Buck about them not having Tractor/truck pulls on their 2023 schedule. He sent me an e-mail and said waiting on PPL decisions. So what's up ?
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I priced a new turnkey Don Slama SF in 2007 was $165,000 so a new PS has to be in the $500,000+ range today.
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Brent Naylors Elbow Deep. He makes a living at being elbow deep.
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Russ and Deb Hildenbrand for sure. Check out his Facebook page and all the crazy stuff he does in the shop.
Kris Hoyt and the crew. They used to race snowmobiles across ponds etc.that would make good off season footage.
Lots of characters in brush pulling for sure.
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We run a Raush wet clutch and a modified quad with a 7.6. Don't shift on the go. We broke the input shaft and damaged some gears 2 years ago and did not shift on the go. Running 10,500 Hot and Altered Farm class. Just a heads up if you want Atlas gears get them ordered asap. A guy that pulls with us was running a 466 with a guad and it finally puked. he always shifted on the go. He replaced
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