Tractor Pull

Went to a local tractor pull with my Case 400 today (sorry for off color). Was hoping for a good day but what a bunch off cheaters there! I was in the 6000lb class, weighed in at 6150lbs. Everyone in that class was between 7000 and 7500lbs from what i could tell! so needless to say i was a little POed. the guy at the scale said we were there to have fun, I didn't! I'm thinking next year i am weighting my 400 down with about 1000lbs of extra iron then we will see who laughs! Sorry for the vent! 

1000 lbs over? what is the use of a weigh in then?

I pulled once just for the heck of it, supposed to be farm stock. I weighed 4050 with my fluid and the loader frame and was told I would have to pull in 5000. I f I would have had a couple wrenches with, I could have shucked the loader frame and pulled against a stock A John Deere. I had to pull against a Red tractor the guys said had an 806 crank. It also had about 4 inches of drawbar past the PTO shaft and I had mine set to standard length which is where farm stock was supposed to be. I spun out half way down the track and a guy I worked with gave me his trophy from the modified class. I know I could have whooped the A and it was the only tractor in the 4000 class.

We allow 100lbs and each tractor must pass over the scale JUST BEFORE they go onto the track to hook. Over weight by 101lbs or more for the class and you have until the end of the class to correct, if you cant correct DQ

I quit pulling some years ago. The attitude with many of the pullers I was around was that if you don't get caught it's not cheating. They also got themselves on the member board and started tweeking the rules until there was very little difference between the Farm Stock class and the Classic class. It started out real fair and I could bring my bone stock 17 and be very competitive against other stock tractors but then soon the cheaters dropped from the classic class, where you only had to "appear" stock, down to the farm stock. It's the same old story. Years ago the Classic class was supposed to be the stock class and then you had the open class for the hopped up tractors but the words "stock appearing" got thrown into the rules at some point and wham that's it. Eventually someone will come up with a new stock class and that will last a few years until the cheaters ruin it again.