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Sam T-Ga 
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010 at 9:52pm |
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How does a dead boat pull work? I have never been to one much less pulled in one. I read on the Gray, Tn GOTO is having a dead boat pull. Sam T-Ga.
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MARK W (NY)
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010 at 10:50pm |
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Sam, The dead boat pulls arround our area of NY. is basicly a long flat sled with a load of dirt piled on it . Each person hooks to the boat and pulls it 20 feet. ( that is considered a full pull.) If everyone pulls it the 20 feet, they add more dirt ( usually with a bucket tractor) they keep doing this till someone pulls it the fatheset in any given round. This takes a while to do. We even had to put tractors on the sled once when the bucket tractor diddent show up.
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010 at 11:50pm |
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They're more commonly called a "dead weight pull" Same idea different means of adding weight.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 12:16am |
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These guys really need a track and a lot less green but it should give you the idea:
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 12:23am |
Rfdeere, was that pull in Rushville IN?
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 12:25am |
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I assume so from the title. Not my video, I just had it in my favorites.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 12:49am |
The title didnt come up the first time (dont know why) a buddy of mine filmed it. Ive seen it thats why i was wondering. If you look up the videos by rmpruitt you will be impressed, he does a great job. He doesnt hardly miss a pull anywhere within about 4 or 5 hours from here. (SWOH-SEIN) Most are on youtube.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 7:29am |
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Last time I was at the Gray, Tn. show they had a regular Progressive pulling sled.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 8:07am |
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That looked liked a hole digging contest to me! First one to China wins!
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Sam T-Ga
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 8:12am |
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That looks about as much fun as watching corn grow. If that is going to be the kind of pull at the GOTO, not going to be much of a pull. Like John said see who can dig the deepest hole. Sam T-Ga.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 8:26am |
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Our county fair used to have a boat with weights. Then they got volunteers to sit in chairs along the track. As the tractor went by,each guy would step on the boat to add weight.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 9:35am |
 CTuckerNWIL wrote:
Our county fair used to have a boat with weights. Then they got volunteers to sit in chairs along the track. As the tractor went by,each guy would step on the boat to add weight. |
That sounds like a more interesting way to do it. I guess it will depend on how they weight it; but watching someone go a couple of feet is sort of a bore.
I will be at GOTO and had hopes they were going to have a sled for the pull and see some folks roll some coal.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:43am |
These are common in horsepulls and although the track gets torn up, but not to this extent. In Clay City, Indiana about 45+ years ago I remember seeing these at the Clay City community park on concrete. It was also done by adding weight after each round. Pretty slow but at least they did not tear the ground up.
Horse pulls in Michigan and other states have what they call machine pulls but not like progessive machines in tractoe pulls at all ! Jim
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:45am |
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Tractor not tractoe. Big fingers. Jim
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:59am |
D17JIM wrote:
Tractor not tractoe. Big fingers. Jim |
Jim, If you click on post options you can go back and edit the original post rather than posting again. It makes cleaning up mistakes neat and clean.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 1:32pm |
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Agreed on the hole digging...my first thought was, ?why do they keep spinning when any guy with pulling experience knows that they are not going to move forward only down?
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 3:49pm |
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all county fair tractor pulls used the 'add more people' method when I was a kid.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 6:24pm |
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I am sorry guys but that is one of the silliest things I have ever seen.For God sake take some of those concrete blocks off.Like John said as fun as watching corn grow.I could only watch for a minute and had to turn off.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 6:36pm |
CTuckerNWIL wrote:
Our county fair used to have a boat with weights. Then they got volunteers to sit in chairs along the track. As the tractor went by,each guy would step on the boat to add weight. |
That's how I remember them doing horse pulls at the local fair back when I was knee high
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 7:19pm |
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I finally watched about half the video. That's just plain stupid. A couple guys that were actually moving the boat(weren't driving Green) were stopped before they spun out. If the boat stops moving forward, why keep spinnin your wheels? Maybe the object was to see who could dig the deepest hole faster.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 7:41pm |
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We pull dead weight on concrete.Lots of fun.4500# class is all wd45's and 1 Minnie.
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 10:21pm |
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Well looks like I want be taking my puller to the GOTO after all.Hope they have fun digging holes!!
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010 at 11:02pm |
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Well, I'm not sure I understand the object of this activity......if it's just to dig holes, I think the green ones won. However, if it was to move the weight laterally, I think the red ones had a slight edge, but, only a slight edge. Now, if it was to loosen the soil for planting...........very inefficient, but I guess the land owner won
Edited by LouSWPA - 26 Mar 2010 at 11:03pm
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Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 5:39am |
Here is a pull with a sled in sand lake michigan
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Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 5:44am |
Tug Pulls, i.e. "Dead Weight Pulls", are a really good way to break stuff.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 6:53am |
Here is one more a dead weight pull , we call it stone boat , in Coral Michigan.
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Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 9:46am |
Most of the pulls around central New England are of this type. We shut down anyone who starts digging up the track like that. I'm guessing that the pull in that video was running according to a set of rules that are unfamiliar to me - doesn't make it wrong, though.
Our pulls are fun - just a little slower-paced than the progressive sled pulls!
Edited by Dave(inMA) - 27 Mar 2010 at 10:00am
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Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 7:52pm |
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The video Ted showed above dramatically shows the difference between a good track and a not so good track (the video I posted). And I will tell you I have seen a lot more tractors pulled off the track of a distance pull on a chain than compered to dead weight.
Edited by Rfdeere - 27 Mar 2010 at 7:52pm
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Posted: 27 Mar 2010 at 9:29pm |
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They used to use the old stone boat at the NY pull Dad and I took the tractors to. The track wasn't anything spectacular but much better than what is in that video. They would use concrete blocks about 1,000# each starting at 1 and going up 1 at a time. You could pull your tractor until it wouldn't pull anymore. Usually, as long as you were able to start, you went the full length of the track. There always seemed to be a couple of tough spots that tried to stop you mid track though. They had tractors lined up at both ends pulling that old boat back and forth all day long. It was great hearing all colors work as they pulled down the track. Much better than the hole digging contest shown above IMHO.
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Posted: 28 Mar 2010 at 11:05am |
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I wouldn't even say that I saw anyone in that video who could even be considered a competent tractor operator, much less, a tractor puller. Anyone who has ever done fifteen minutes of field work knows that more throttle is the last thing to do when the tires begin to spin. We pull a lot of dead weight in Michigan, and I prefer it to transfer, but a good track is a must, I've seen those field pulls before, and they can work out, but someone needs to stop the spinning, and keep the area graded down. On a good track, a good tractor will pull 200 to 250% of it's own weight, and the trick is not just the pulling, but getting it to move in the first place, something transfer pullers never worry about.
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