Stock tractor pulling question

i was actually thinking of going all out and spending all this money( which i dont have lol) and try to build one of these so called "stockers", but i sat back and thought about it and how much more fun it would be to do what you guys are talking about- just get everything set right, go have a good time and beat up built engines!  

This is about stock tractor pulling, why are these other topics being brought up? 90% of the time, they guys pulling stock tractors, can out pull the guys that went out and spent all the money souping the engine up in their tractors.

DougG wrote: Its hilarous when people spend a bunch of money on engines that dont have a clue and engine shops know this ; they spend all this money , get on it and it runs just like before and they wonder why ; cause they got screwed , if you watch the track , know your tractor balance most of the time you can chug right past them while they set there scratching their head

 I agree abso-frirkkin'-lutely, and that was the point of my choice of topic... know your tractor, watch what others do....whether right or wrong, and apply, or not ,what you observe depending on what you see.  wi50 agreed, pure stock pulling is challenging, Chuck Luedtke would agree, too,  it took me a couple three years to get in the groove. It really shouldn't take long to see and feel in the seat of yer pants  whether your set up to be competative or not.  Today with a video camera in every cellphone , its simple to look at a video of your pass , and maybe a little more difficult to decipher and figure out what you might do just a wee bit better. I learned to pull farther thru incremental change... not by adding gobs of power and shortchanging  balance and traction.  Its all gotta work together , and when it does , it's a beutiful thing, eh?    Every tractor has a sweet spot.... a speed and weight and drawbar heigth  class that it loves, wi50 mentioned an old  fence row diesel , D17 I think,  it was in its sweet spot, and shined.    If your a peanut follower ..., do as he does, don't pull, just come on here and pretend.

   Benny, hang on to a plug wire , get your new  bride to crank it over.....  Do you need more juice?   Nothing wrong with a good mag.    Ken Mi , runs one  on his WC , can't fault his tractors git up & go.

We had one of those "mouthy-know-it-alls" build up a WD-45. Was supposed to be gettiing 120 hp, had a stroker crank,maybe 6", ran Farmall H rods, with Chebbie pistons, petronix igniters, and I don't know what else. Took it to the track at our fair, wound her up, let fly the clutch, got past the shut off point 'bout 75-90' and dug two holes. Took her back to the pit area, and shifted weights and some other witchcrafty type thingys, came back out for a second pull, got about 20-30' farther down the track, but was beat by a couple of bone-stock tractors just in off the range. He loaded his "Wunderhorse", went home, left the club, sold ALL of his AC stuff and no one hears from him again! 

I have 3 different unstyled WCs that i pull with in stock pulls. Our club puts on 2-3 percentage pulls during the summer. We end up getting a lot of different guys trying it because we limit it to stock. Everybody has a lot of fun and being it is a percentage pull the guy with a B Allis can compete with the guy that has a WD-9 IH.  To me it is just as much fun watching these tractors the way they came from the factory (OK I guess a lot of them are worn out) as it is watching ones that are modified.

We started a "Field Ready" farm stock pull last year. Still working on ironing out the rules, but what it boils down to is 10HP per 1000 lbs of weight, stock rpms, stock block for model of tractor(to many combine engines in D17's and IH 460/560) Basically any part on the tractor has to be in the FACTORY parts book. ALso Factory tire sizes.  

Charlie, you have to know when to draw the line.

Each weight class we have Farm Stock (True all stock components) 1st gear only, then 3.5 MPH (Not as strict as Stock) and then 6 MPH for the hot guys.

I've been following this thread and I don't respond very often.  But there is a lot of opinions and some valid and some not.  I have been pulling off and on since the early 70's.  With that said, anyone that believes more power is not better is not facing reality.  Now if you go out and pull without balancing the tractor, gets the air pressure right in tires, reading the track, etc, power is not important.  But if you are pulling against somone who does this as good as you do, or someone else in the class does. believe me, the one with the most power will win no matter what the class is called.

I'd like to build a stock puller too. Maybe this summer I'll start on it in between all the other projects. 

"Farm Stock" is supposed to be tractors off the farm. That class has really expanded in the past couple years. And theres not a general set of rules for that class that everybody goes by yet. A "farm stock" shouldnt be running over 6 or 8 mph imho.....

Our "Farm Stock" class has a speed limit of 3mph

   At my age those 100# suitcase weights are getting heavier to toss around. Would like to trade these 5 for 10 #50 weights before I drop one on my foot.  

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