Back when tractor pulling was tractor pulling
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Topic: Back when tractor pulling was tractor pulling
Posted By: Claus
Subject: Back when tractor pulling was tractor pulling
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 10:57pm
No helmets, fire suits or roll bars. Yikes!
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Posted By: Oldoug
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2010 at 11:02pm
| That guy looks scared and like he's holdin' on for dear life!!! |
Posted By: orangereborn
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 12:08am
| I've gone thru the years watching the old way gradually change. But last Friday night I saw a pull where restraints, cages and helmets proved their purpose....Dale |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 6:47am
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At least he's got wheely bars.
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 8:19am
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What the heck is that thing? Has early bar grill of 190, has series III fenders, No holes in the hood for intake or exhaust, Exhuast is on the outside like a 160 the axel looks like theres a drop box to the wheels-(might be picture illusion), 4 bolts and nuts sticking out of hood under the Allis-Chalmers decal, and some little round A-C badge on grill screen. And a host of other things that don't look factory. |
Posted By: redline
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 8:34am
------------- If it weren't for the last minute, I wouldn't get anything done! |
Oldoug wrote:Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 11:57am
| Over on E-BAY there is a Magazine for sale called Shop Magazine ,This picture is on the listing.They show in side pictures and a write up on this tractor! |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 1:38pm
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Thought you would be showing two tractors backed up to each other with a log chain tieing them together. That's tractor pulling. LOL God Bless. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: farmtoybuilder
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 1:51pm
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The good old days! I've have done stuff like that. ) Could you imagine setting in seat of today's tractors without all the safety gear! I'm sure glade for all the safety gear,roll cages and stuff they require today! And its amazing no one has been killed or seriously hurt yet with some of these motors coming apart! I keep dreaming of having a D-21 puller someday ))) Have to settle for a mini one ! ------------- 5 different TT-10's,5 TT-18's Terra Tigers,B-10,2 B-207's,B-110,2 B-112's,HB-112,B-210,B-212,HB212,2 Scamp's & Homilite T-10. Still hunting NICE HB-112 & anything Terra Tiger & Trailers for them. |
Posted By: gcalent
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 2:04pm
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Yea, and the front axle is home made, as well as the fenders,(there broke not rolled), and the cowel cover is painted the wrong color. A great look at a early super stock probably, that`s the way we did it back in the day before cookie cutter Green came along.
Looks great love to see the old ones. ------------- Pullin With AC |
Posted By: ALinIL
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 2:30pm
| The Tractor was a "Modified 180". I believe this is a friend of mine. Now lives in Countryside IL. Was a Engine turbo engineer for AC at Harvey. Later worked for IH and retired about two years ago. Has many patents for turbos. Would rather not give name. - AL |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 4:27pm
| Boys you got it all wrong ,I think he wants to grin as big as he can, just dont want the dust+ dirt in his mouth !!!! I have the magizine the article was in and he was an engineer at Harvey Works ; I bet that was a fun job to have, !!! |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 8:17pm
| It is a 190 or 190XT (look at the brake arms) .. twin turbos with the big turbo just ahead of the dashboard sideways....I know who it is but just can't remember his name. |
Posted By: Larry(OH)
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 9:12pm
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Kinda looks like a younger Barney Taylor with hair ------------- '40 WC puller,'50 WD puller,'50 M puller '65 770 Ollie *ALLIS EXPRESS contact* I can explain it to you, BUT I cannot understand it for you!! |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 9:27pm
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looks like a drop axle to me, 180-185. ------------- |
Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 11:22pm
I agree but it looks like he is sitting higher in the saddle than a 180. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 11:56pm
Methinks that might be 'pucker factor' altering the seating position. I remember going to small-town tractor pulls, and seein' super-stockers show up lookin' like that... none'a this six-engine arena-stuff... most were straight from the field, and then a few that were headin' straight to the track. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 8:04am
| Can't be a 190 rear end, unless it was a high crop. Look at the line of the axel to the center of the wheel. its not in the center but above it. Fenders are home made for sure. |
Posted By: JimD
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 8:18am
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I'm with Bob. I went to a pull one time and unloaded a day early (it was also a show). I looked up the hill, and wondered what was going on so I took the C up and it was an impromptu old fashioned pull. Big chain and 2 tractors.
I pulled against a chromed-out C with my rusty and rough C. It was like fishing for bass instead of catfish. It's a real sensation when you start going backwards! IT was a draw by the way.
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Posted By: Slade (TN)
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 8:47am
Brakes on 190's are above and forward of the axle....
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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 9:41am
| You can clearly see the left brake housing and the lever with the adjusting bolt and even to the left of that the long PTO engagement lever under the platform....it IS a 190 or XT driveline. That tractor always ran very well whenever I saw it.....just can't remember the guys name. |
Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 10:10am
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what appears to be axle in picture is the brake housing, which is higher than axle. I too first though 180, but upon closer inspection, it is a 190. fenders could be trimmed down originals, but just cant tell from picture. sharp tractor!
------------- 210 "too hot to farm" puller, part of the "insane pumpkin posse". Owner of Guenther Heritage Diesel, specializing in fuel injection systems on heritage era tractors. stock rebuilds to all out pullers! |
Posted By: ac_bowsers
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 10:14am
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I like the fact that it appears to have a Budweiser sticker on the engine shield!!!
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Posted By: Jordan(OH)
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 10:22am
His hat musta blew off. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 10:59am
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After finally figuring out what I was looking at, I can now see that it is the brake housing I was looking at and not the axel. The axel is back in the shadows. Not use to seeing brake housings hanging out in the open like these are. OK so my vision is not good,so wheres the fuel tank and the battery box and the rest of the platform thats been narrowed up? |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 4:41pm
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I see it now,,,couldn't see the forest,,,all the trees are in the way. ------------- |
Posted By: JoeO(CMO)
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 4:53pm
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The left fender looks like a "Z" bend as they are alot smaller radius than any fenders coming out of AC plant and with old "U" steel fence posts or seed corn sign posts welded on for stiffners. Just a thought. ------------- |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 6:02pm
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The name is Terry Wood/s I think........from the late 1970's early 1980's. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 6:24pm
| Your right DR. Terry Wood, I have the -TRACTOR SHOP -magizine right in front of me, its the FALL 2008 issue; Larry Swenson has a write up about tractor pulling and theyre are great photos of AC pullers , Duane Cates in 1980 with a 3 turboed D21, MARK Gettinger with his 21, SUPER ALLIS a black D21 is in there ,Terry Wood on a 190 + also a great looking modified nf D19, he has a BIG grin on the 19 just not so much dirt + dust flyin ; I put a 2 turbo setup on a 180, need more gears as 8th aint fast enough but man the motor gets warm !!! |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 9:44pm
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Yep, those were the days. Back then there were many more colors, not 95% red or green with all others making up the remaining 5%.
Speaking of classic pulling, any favorite announcers come to mind? I miss George Hendrickson that did the pulls at the Iowa State Fair. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |