Tractor Pulling in Canada

What is Tractor Pulling?

A brief description of what Tractor Pulling is.

History of Pulling

History of Tractor Pulling

What is Pulling?

The simplest answer to that question is to say it is the classic contest between an immovable object (the weight transfer machine) and an irresistible force (the tractor). Basically, the tractor attempts to pull a weighted sled a set distance.

At first, the contest is easy because the weight of the weight transfer machine (sled) is over the rear tires of the sled. As the tractor pulls the sled down the track, the weight moves forward, creating more resistance for the tractor to pull against. Finally at the supreme moment of pull, the weight on the sled is directly over the front end of the sled. This causes enormous friction with the ground, which finally brings the tractor to a halt, with the distance the tractor has traveled measured from a point called a starting line to the point at which the front of the sled now rests.

The contest is not a timed contest. It is a measurement contest. The length of the track varies, depending on whether the track (dirt in all cases) is indoor or outdoor.

Indoor tracks can vary in length from 150 feet up to 300 feet. Outdoor tracks are the standard 300 feet.

If the tractor does pull the sled the measured distance of the track at that pull facility, it is call a "full-pull."

The object of the contest is to come up with one competitor who, given the rules of the contest, has pulled the greatest distance. He then is declared the winner. If two or more competitors have both recorded full-pulls, then only those competitors pull again until one tractor has set a distance none of his fellow competitors can overtake. In most cases, no tractor pulls more than two times in one session before a winner is declared.

To make the contest as fair as possible, each vehicle within the contest must weigh the same. As with wrestling, or boxing, you would not call it fair if one contestant weighted 200 lbs. while his opponent weighted 150 lbs., so too with vehicles engaged in a pulling contest. Standard weight classes have been established over the years so that all vehicles pulling in a contest within a particular class must scale the same weight. The vehicle is weighted with the driver in his seat.

One more stipulation makes the contest fair. Like vehicles compete against like vehicles. A Super Stock tractor does not compete with a four-wheel drive vehicle, nor do four wheel drive vehicles compete against two wheel drive vehicles.

Pulling is the fastest growing motorsport in America and is good clean family entertainment.

On behalf of everyone who has worked to make pulling what it is today, we hope you will enjoy looking at our pages, finding out more information about pulling and hope you will attend an event near you soon.

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