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Truck and tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a form of a motorsport competition in which antique or modified tractors pull a heavy drag or sled along an 11-meter-wide (35 ft), 100-meter-long (330 ft) track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls the drag the farthest.
Antique tractor pulls. Watch antique tractor pulls this summer at the Iowa State Fair. Kick off the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, Aug. 8, with free antique tractor pulls at 10 a.m. Gates open at 9 a.m.
The Rumely Oil Pull was a line of farm tractors developed by Advance-Rumely Company [1] from 1909 and sold 1910 to 1930. Most were heavy tractors powered by an internal combustion, magneto-fired engine designed to burn all kerosene grades at any load, called the Oil Turn. [2] Rumely Oil Pull, ignition & lubrication A running Rumely Oil Pull ...
Rumely's most famous product, the Rumely Oil Pull tractors, powered by hot-bulb engine using kerosene, was first developed in 1909 and began selling to the public by 1910. [ 1 ] Meanwhile, Advance Thresher Company was founded in 1881 with a factory in Battle Creek, Michigan .
The Washington County Tractor Pull will be held Saturday, May 25, at 6 p.m. at the Washington County Agriculture Education Center, 7313 Sharpsburg Pike, Boonsboro. Washington County Tractor Pull ...
Doodlebug tractor is the colloquial American English name for a tractor home-made in the United States during World War II, when production tractors were in short supply. The doodlebug of the 1940s was usually based on a 1920s or 1930s era Ford automobile which was then modified either by the complete removal or alteration of some of the ...
An Avery tractor pulling three sod cutters on a farm near Larned, Kansas, around 1916. The Avery company made many traction engines, such as the 1907 steam tractor model. At that time steam was the only form of power and the tractor resembled a miniature locomotive. In 1909, Avery began manufacturing gasoline tractors. [6]
TNT Motorsports was a popular promoter of monster truck races, tractor pulls, and occasionally mud racing in the 1980s. TNT was an acronym for “Trucks n Tractors” founded by the late Billy Joe Miles of Owensboro, Kentucky. Events were shown on Powertrax on ESPN, Trucks and Tractor Power on TNN, and the syndicated Tuff Trax. [1]