Talk:Tractor pulling

All I have to say is there are more truck classes than listed. A Truck Pulling specific page should be started. Also, the video used to show "2WD" trucks and how they pull is technically inaccurate due to the fact the truck used, named BAM-BAM, is a 4 Wheel-Drive Super Stock, that sometimes puts siped tires on and pulls in the 4WD Modified class. My only cite for this is that I've grown up truck pulling, my dad drives a 4WD Super Stock named Bocephus and I've been watching BAM-BAM pull since I was a baby.

I'd also like to point out the the whole "funny car" thing is 100% false. Funny cars are in drag racing, not truck pulling. Also, it has been around far longer than since 1983.

I'll have to do some double checking (looking in the archives of the Bowling Green (MO) Times, but am reasonably confident I will find that the 1st pull was in Bowling Green MISSOURI in July of 1929. I recall seeing it a number of years ago doing genealogy research, plus the fact that as far as I can determine, there has never been a Vaughnsville, MO. Add into the fact there IS a Vaughnsville OHIO, and that it is close to Bowling Green OHIO would probably explain any confusion — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveDarnell (talk • contribs) 15:48, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

I have added a section on Australian Tractor Pulling and also included links to the web site for Australian Tractor Pulling. Please feel free to comment/contact me --CATTSIT - 8 September 2010 I am the promotions officer for tractor pulling in Australia. —Preceding undated comment added 12:34, 8 September 2010 (UTC).

This page, as it says on the page itself, deals primarily with the US. While I only have limited knowledge of the sport in the UK, I will add what I can (this will be very limited). More importantly, in addition to this, the copy itself could be cleaned up/made more concise which I shall get cracking on with. (Mr.PJA (talk) 11:43, 19 July 2010 (UTC))

I don't know much about tractor pulling, but I do know that the National Competition is held in Bowling Green, Ohio. Knowing this, I would question the first sentence of the second paragraph of the history section. I would assume the correct sites to be Vaughansville, Missouri and Bowling Green, Ohio: not the other way like the current information says. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wordupvb08 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

This page needs work... I don't know much about wiki, but I do know that a lot of this info needs to be seperated. I'll work on it, but I'll be slow. --Jayhollinger 22:06, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Should the rules be removed? These same rules are not covered the same in all the different organizations... (ATPA, NTPA, etc...)Jayhollinger 20:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I would agree, I have been to many tractor pulls where these are not all the same. Some allow alcohol buring tractors, as well as custom and non-stock engines and carburators. --MJHankel 06:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

A good bit of clean up. Having no knowledge in this area, I elected to leave the rules in place. LorenzoB 05:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Liebherr T 282B

Would this: Liebherr T 282B be allowed? --92.74.31.46 (talk) 21:57, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

This article is really bad.

Horse pulling did not start in 1860. Horse pulling competitions have been around pretty much since people began using horses to pull things. In other words, horse pulling would have been in Europe at least by 920 A.D. when the padded horse collar began to be used.

Horse pulling did not involve people standing on a barn door. In fact, the entire notion of using a good barn door for something like this is nuts. Not to mention the fact that no barn door would actually stand up to the stress. Also, you couldn't very well have a genuine competition where people could shift their weight or fall off.

The early horse pulling competitions in the U.S. could have started with logging. It's a natural evolution that if you use teams of horses to pull logs people would be curious about whose team could pull the biggest log. Another possibility however could have been work construction sites where stones may have been moved on reinforced sleds such as when the Erie Canal was built.

A horse pull simply involved loading more and more weight onto a sled until either only a single team successfully pulls the sled or until all teams fail to pull the complete distance (in which case the team that pulled farthest wins).

Tractor pulls differ sharply from horse pulls because tractors don't get tired. Hence it is necessary to have load that increases. This is in fact what happens as the carriage shifts from the rear wheels of the sled to the skid pad at the front of the sled. This description is very poor in the article since it gives the erroneous impression that the weight itself increases. It is silly to suggest that when the carriage is over the rear wheels that the weight is sled plus zero. The only thing that actually changes is the amount of drag as the load shifts from wheels to skid.

Likewise, tractor pulls would have begun after the first common appearance of tractors during WWI and almost certainly involved tractor versus team of horses. There is little doubt that a team of Clydesdales or Belgians could have outpulled the early tractors.

Also, I can't imagine who put in that ridiculous line about draft horses being bred for high strength and low stamina. Draft horses routinely worked the entire day; their stamina is quite good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.248.200 (talk) 06:41, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

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very poor class representation

i will be editing most of the descriptions of the pictures on this page, since "allis chalmers diesel pulling tractor" simply does not suffice, yeah its an Allis Chalmers on diesel, what class does it run, how much does it weigh, how standard is the engine? thats all stuff that could be very interesting to the reader if they're on a page like this. another note is the very vague "tractor with 3 1500hp v8 engines", again, what kind of engines, chevy style or hemi? how old is the picture, where is it taken, who owns the tractor? and what class does it run? i can probably figure this out with a quick pulling-reference search and asking around on facebook but thats information that should be on this page. Dakota5488 (talk) 07:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)