Normally tractor pulls are events where ridiculously powerful purpose-built rigs tow special sleds down a 100-meter dirt track. As the weighted sled travels, the weight slides toward the front of the ...
It’s a hot August day, and you’re sitting on the metal bleachers inside a packed arena. In front of you sit two souped-up tractors with large sleds attached to the back, waiting in anticipation for a ...
SUMMIT STATION — Not yet as tall as its rear tires, Piper Marcus gripped the steering wheel of a John Deere tractor Wednesday evening at the Schuylkill County Fair. Ahead lay a clay drag strip. Behind ...
SUMMIT STATION – When you come right down to it, one of the great tests in life is trying to pull a 30,000-pound sled 350 feet in less than 30 seconds at the wheel of a 70-horsepower tractor. At least ...
Black smoke fills the sky as a driver pulls a sled at the grandstand Thursday at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair. There were 387 total “hooks” this year at the event. Smoke, ear-splitting noise and sheer ...
The first class of 8,000-pound tractors at the Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair’s farm stock tractor pull didn’t even get to finish pulling Friday evening before a flash rainstorm put the whole operation ...
SELINSGROVE — With modified, “hot stock” and pickup trucks, this is not your grandfather’s tractor pull. In fact, your grandmother might be tickled to see a woman closing in on the championship in one ...
COSHOCTON - Some people bowl and some golf. But Ron Brokaw of Bellville likes to compete in tractor pulls. An open class pull was held Tuesday at the Coshocton County Fair. It featured seven classes, ...
Allentown Fair patrons who head to the grandstand at 6:30 p.m. on opening night Tuesday will experience a lot of smoke and noise, but it won’t be from a mega rock concert. The entertainment won’t be ...
Nick Simonds had no idea what to expect when he took his family to a truck and tractor pulling event in Tappahannock, Va., in 2018. But it didn’t take him long to get hooked. “I didn’t know anything ...
ROGERSVILLE, Mo.- The Southern Missouri Truck and Tractor Pulling Association hosted the 33rd Annual pull in Rogersville tonight to benefit a local high school agriculture program. Hometown tractors, ...