odd pulling rules? - really?

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maybe the same winner(or color) everytime? !!

Some local club rules around here are slanted for club members, can you believe that? The one that got me, they specifically announced I would be pulling for exhibition only,no price to be awarded, I had weights and fluid one year and a loader on the next year !!  A club member was allowed concrete "weights" inside his deere rims because it would be the same as the heavier cast rims/hubs he did not have !!!

2 drivers per tractor per class ? They must have been multiple classes at one time, did it grow too big and just start taking to long?
     my AADD will set in after awhile on a slow,slow hot afternoon

We have the same rule here, you can only enter one class for 1 pull. I think it reads the same way as yours does though (2 drivers).

I don't have a problem with allowing the same tractor to not be entered multiple times by other drivers. It gets old in my opinion to see the same tractor pull several times each class. Also seems like an unfair advantage too. I agree with the weight classes starting too high. Start down low so it's tough to get a B or CA light enough to pull.

I've seen the one tractor-one class rule at fairs where the pull is on an evening during the work week. Sort of makes sense, as the event wouldn't finish until the wee hours of the morning if people were entering every class they could.

A couple things bug me.

The few local pulls are really easy to get along with, too easy.  They did have a talk in the drivers meeting last week, reminding people about certain rules that are being bent to the max.  One was the antique classes are supposed to be, run them as you farm them.  That's fine with me, but some people come with everything taken off the tractor that's not needed so they can put the weights where they need to.  To me, its obvious that they don't "farm" anymore with that setup.   The only thing I have done to my 45 diesel is the snap coupler bell and drawbar is removed and a solid one piece drawbar is in it's place that has a hole where the snap coupler bell pin hooked up to to mount it in the front.  If I needed to use it with the snap coupler bell back on, it would take me about 15 minutes to trade it out.  There is prize money in our classes.   I do it just for fun, but some people take it to an extreme.   I do like that in our antique classes, they make all of us pull in first gear.  Their attitude is, if you can run in more then first gear in a supposed stock class, you obviously have more hp then you should have and shouldn't be in that class.   They have brought in the dyno from time to time, and threatened to use it if necessary, but I haven't seen them use it yet.   I hope someday they do, just to keep things in check.  

The two Clubs I am a member with run pretty fair and straight forward rules. I showed up to one pull this year not looking at the rules thinking they were the same as the other clubs. I was wrong, I could not run front weights passed the front wheels at all, so I didn't, there were a couple of guys complaining about the empty bracket out front giving me an advantage, thats when I got a little disgusted, but at least they didn't chase me off, as long as I come back without the bracket on the front I will be fine, I came home with 2 3rds and a 1st that day, I wonder how long it will before they find something else to complain about if I continue to beat some of them guys.

I just wish the clubs kept hitch height, weight placement and RPMS ALL the same, thats what starts making it hard to try and set uo the tractor depending on where you are going. I also pull with the Ironanchor circuit, they have straight fordward rules. The county fairs around me is what I get disgusted with. They used to be fair, but many of them use a professional circuit to help them put on the fair classes, what use to be pretty much stock tractors is no more, and plus they run limited weight classes that suit them. A good portion of the tractors that are there are a spawn off of a hotter tractor that runs in the pro circuit. How can you look me in straight in the eye and tell me you farm with a JD A turning 2800RPMs and drain the block after one run in the stock class, or a MM pulling in the #6500 class in 3rd with a electric fuel pump supplying the carb that is feeding a GVI intake thats been cut down and welded to fit a 4cyl. Granted my D17 is not bone stock, but I would not be afraid to put it to work on the farm for part of the day knowing that it would stay together. It is nice to get the upper hand once and a while, I was able to beat that particular A last year at a pull in Sept. I took 2nd and he was 4th, and the other two hot A's from the same stable were a few behind him. They did not look happy that day, I will never forget that day!!

Is there any "stock" farm pulls out there anymore?