Plow Size-Tractor Pulling

[jfcaldwell]

Does anyone know of any pulls where the plow size of the tractor determines which class you pull in? We have three pulls in NE like this.

 

[gene bender]

Just how can you do that some soils a tractor will pull 4-14s yet same one will just pull 2-14s in other soils there is no way to have a fair rating but if you arent familiar with that fact i suppose you could have silly classes lke that.

 

[jfcaldwell]

Tractors are pre-assigned by the tractor clubs. Examples: B Farmall-1 bottom,C or Super C-small 2 bottom, H-big 2 bottom, M or Super M-3 bottom, W9-4 bottom. Soil type classification would be for 6-8 inches with silt loam to silty clay loam. Silty clay and clay are too heavy where sandy loam and sandy are too light.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

It would be whatever the manufacturer rated/advertised them at, I'd imagine.

You've certainly seen old advertising where a company says a certain tractor is a "2-plow tractor" or a "3-plow tractor." Some old timer once told me that meant 14" bottoms.

The Farmall 560 was advertised as a 5-plow tractor, for example.

 

[D beatty]

Are you tractor pulling with sled or are you into some kind of plowing contest? Around here if pulling sled we pull by tractor weight classes not by the size of plow that tractor pulls.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Where I come from in west-central Missouri, 50-60 years ago or longer they pulled like they always have horses. 2, 3, plow, etc. was determined by dealer statements. Each class, (at least where we lived), pulled what was called a "stone boat" that had weight added to it after each round. gm

 

[PretendFarmer]

I suppose an organization could think about pulling like that for fun. But I've never heard of it.

 

[D beatty]

Here in the mid 50s we had what they called a step on pull. That was a stone boat that started out with some weight on it and had room on each side for a person to stand on and as tractor went down track there was a person on each side of track( so many feet apart) and would step on boat as it went past them.

 

[jfcaldwell]

We use a regular sled and pull just like the weighed tractors pull. You have to pull in first gear, have no extra weights, only two rear wheel weights, no blower. One of the three pulls gives a first place trophy. There is a master list as to what class you pull in.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

The one I remember was wooden with runners. gm

 

[rfridy76]

My Super C will pull anything and just as fast as my 2 H's will.