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Professional Tractor Pull Management
December 1, 2010. We are working on the schedule for 2010. We start out with the fixed dates, such as County Fair dates. Secondly, we give priority to the successful pulls from last year. Then we fill in the open dates with Pulls from our waiting list. It's always a struggle to satisfy everyone because there are not enough Saturdays in the Summer.
December 1, 2010. Based on the best information available about next year's insurance premiums, we have updated our pulling rates for 2010. If the price of fuel remains constant, these should be the correct rates. All rates stayed the same as 2009 except for our base rate which includes setup, first six hours of pulling, and packing up which will rise only $50.
October 10, 2009. Central Wisconsin Antique Tractor Pullers (CWATP) Championship Pull in Pickett. Qualifying Round: Successfully completed 81 hooks. The V&H eliminator had an additional 55 hooks for a total of 136 hooks in the Qualifying Round. It snowed during the pull. Championship Round: Successfully completed 51 hooks. The V&H eliminator had an additional 34 hooks for a total of 85 hooks in the Championship Round. The day ended with a total of 221 hooks. The pulling season is done.
October 10, 2009. Successfully completed 4,391 paid hooks on our eliminator during competition in 2009. This exceeds last year's record number of hooks. Since 2005, our eliminator has had a total of 20,265 competition hooks. For a detailed record and comparison to previous years, click on History of Pulls.
October 4, 2009. Perry Urben told me today that the end of year Central Wisconsin Antique Tractor Pullers (CWATP) Championship Pull at Pickett will only be a one day pull. It starts at 9:00 AM on Saturday, October 10th. The rules and weight classes are the same as last year.
October 10, 2009. Successfully completed 4,259 paid hooks on our eliminator during competition in 2009. Since 2005, our eliminator has had a total of 20,133 competition hooks. For a detailed record and comparison to previous years, click on History of Pulls.
October 3, 2009. We officially completed over 20,000 paid hooks on our eliminator in the last five years. Chuck Tesch was the 20,000th hook in Rosholt. I will give a free Tractor Tracks T-Shirt to the first person who emails me Steve@TractorTracks.net with the name of the person who made the 20,001st hook.
October 3, 2009. Rippin' Through Rosholt Blacktop Pull. It rained on the way to Rosholt and we had light rain throuout the last half of the pull, but it was still a successful pull. Classes on are eliminator ranged from 3500# Classic to 14,500# Unpaced Farm Improved including some Team classes and Truck classes (yes - truck pulling on blacktop). The unpaced tractors and trucks got us going about 20 mph on the rain slick blacktop on Main Street.
September 26, 2009. Luxemburg. It was raining when we arrived at the fairgrounds, but we successfully completed 116 hooks in the afternoon on a tacky track that ate a lot of horsepower. The grounds crew did a great job getting the track ready for a pull. Everyone had to watch where they walked, because if they walked where the track didn't have the wet clay scrapped off, it stuck to shoes to the point where you could hardly get your legs far enough apart to walk.
September 19, 2009. West Bloomfield. Blacktop pull on the County Road in front of the fire station. Completed 156 hooks from 3200# Pure Stock to 10,800# Farm Class plus three Team Pulls on a beautiful Fall day.
September 13, 2009. Northwoods Supper Club track in Eden. Perfect weather for a pull. We hooked 92 tractors from 2800# Antique Paced to 11,500# Special Classes plus 26 trucks. One of the diesel trucks got our eliminator going 26.8 mph - a record for this year.
September 12, 2009. Ripon. A first time pull on blacktop on the street where they are going to build a new hospital. Due to the number of tractors that showed up, we hooked every tractor twice in every class and took the best measurement for the official distance. It made for a nice pull with perfect pulling weather.
September 11, 2009. Pickett Steam Engine Show and Pull. Successfully completed 53 hooks on our eliminator. The other eliminator had a few less. We hooked all the Paced Classes from 6500# to 12500# plus the 7500# Open and 7500# Special Classes. The track was in the best condition it has been due the many days of dry weather and a sprinkling of added water by the track crew.
September 5, 2009. Waupun Super Pull. Beautiful weather and excellant track. During the afternoon, we successfully completed 76 hooks on our eliminator. The V & H eliminator had about 40 tractors and then switched to garden tractors. We hooked 4500# Antiques to 7500# Near Stock Classes. At night we successfully completed 77 hooks from 7000# 5 MPH to 14,500# Classes including 7500#, 9500#, 12000# Special Classes and Hot Farm Classes. The V & H eliminator hooked garden tractors in classes from Stock to Multi-Engine.
August 30, 2009. Juneau August Fest. A perfect day for a pull. The crowd all stayed until the end (it was a short pull).
August 30, 2009. I found out a couple pullers left a pull today because the pullers didn't meet their rules. I tried to get a copy of their rules before the pull to post on this website, but I was unable to get a copy. I am sorry. I will harder to get all the rules published before the pulls we attend. Steve.
August 29, 2009. Borth - HSS Motorsports (Hyler Septic Service). Fun in the mud. It rained the night before and the track was under water in sections when we got to the pull. Some early arriving pullers turned around and went home. However, we successfully completed 84 hooks wth 44 tractors from 3600# Stock to 12,500# Special and 40 trucks including 5500# Stock, 6500# Stock,o 8000# Diesel, and 6200# Street Altered Classes. It started sprinkling near the end of the tractors and a light rain fell for the last two hours, yet all tractor and truck classes were completed with a fair hook for all. We had to load up in the rain.
August 27, 2009. Successfully completed 89 hooks - a record number of tractors for this pull. This is the first year in a long time that rain didn't affect the pull attendance. The pull included two Points classes.
August 22, 2009. Successfully completed 102 hooks at the Brown County Fair in DePere. The other eliminator completed about 50 hooks for a total of about 152 hooks in four hours.
August 19, 2009. I just added a new feature to this website. We now have a FORUM. You can ask questions, make suggestions, post pictures, and discuss things related to pulling. Try it out by clicking on: TractorTracksForum.
August 17, 2009. I received a few emails lately questioning whether or not the Juneau Blacktop pull was still scheduled. It is. I just confirmed it today. Put your blacktop tires on your favorite tractor and drive to Juneau on Sunday, August 30th.
August 16, 2009. Montello. The City put a new coat of blacktop on the road next to the Park since last year. It rained all the way to the pull and on the way home from the pull, but during the pull our little spot under the sky was dry. someone was looking out for us and the pullers. We had 99 hooks to finish the four day pull weekend with over 500 hooks - a new record.
August 15, 2009. Nickel Farms. The newly built track was one of the best ones we ever pulled on. A total of 227 hooks from 3000# Antique tractors to 40,000# Eight Wheel Drive tractors. About a dozen trucks pulled after the Team Tractor pulls were completed. We finished before dark. This was a very well run first time pull on a new track. Thanks to Nickel Farms and Burg Pullers.
August 14, 2009. Waushara County Fair Truck Pull. Successfully completed 106 hooks. The first class, Stock Trucks, had 51 trucks for our largest single class ever with our eliminator. The track was in good condition.
August 13, 2009. Waushara County Fair in Wautoma. Successfully completed 85 hooks on the newly installed clay track in front of the grandstand. Tomorrow we pull trucks on the same track.
August 12, 2009. I just obtained the rules for the Brown County Fair pull in DePere and the Nickel Farms pull in Waupaca. Click on Pulling Rules on the left. Find the location of the pull and get the rules.
August 10, 2009. Brussels. Successfully completed 134 hooks. Due to the rains the last couple days and nights, we started with the team classes and then went from lightest to heaviest in the single tractor classes. The AB Connection pullers even had a light crawler class. The tracks was in good condition.
August 9, 2009. Winnebago County Fair Antique Tractor Pull is cancelled by the Fair Board due to rain. Tomorrow's pull at Brussels is still scheduled. See you there.
August 5, 2009. Winnebago County Fair. This is our only Wednesday night pull this year. Successfully completed 67 hooks on our eliminator plus about 58 hooks on the Luedtke eliminator for a total of about 125 hooks.
August 2, 2009. Scandinavia Corn Roast. Hundreds of people enjoyed watching a tractor pull on a perfect day while eating free sweet corn and listening to live music.
August 1, 2009. Corrigan Farms pull at Kolbs Corner near DePere. Completed 157 hooks from 3700# Antique to 13,500 Hot Farm Classes. The expected rains never arrived and Corrigan's had a good track.
July 25, 2009. Between our two sleds, we hooked 227 different tractors, steam engines, and oil pull tractors at the World Famous National Antique Tractor Pull in Symco. It almost rained a few times, but we never stopped pulling and the track was in good shape. On Friday night we hooked five steam engines for a "spark show". The Symco sled broke down, so we finished the day with our eliminator utilizing the whole track.
July 23, 2009. Saturday is the World Famous National Antique Tractor Pull in Symco. Last year we pulled more different tractors at Symco than at any pull in the state.
July 21, 2009. Winneconne. We hooked 156 tractors from 3750# Antique up to 17,000# Unpaced Two Wheel Drive Farm Tractors and 26,000# Unpaced Four Wheel Drive Tractors.
July 20, 2009. Rosholt Thresheree. The rains went around us and left a perfect track in Rosholt on an unseasonally cool mid-July day. The last few years it was hot in the tent and this year it was "hot" on the track. The day included special classes for N.E.W. Motorsports.
July 19, 2009. Truck night under the lights. We hooked 74 trucks from Stock to Open to Diesel to Super Stock to Modified Trucks. N.E.W. Motorsports provided the tough trucks.
July 11, 2009. The West Bloomfield Church "Pulling for Kids" tractor/truck had a total of 249 hooks with two eliminators. The weather was perfect. Thanks to everyone that helped make the pull a success. Special thanks to the Johnson Bros. from Rosholt for bringing their eliminator, scraper, wobble wheel, and manpower.
July 7, 2009. The next pull is at the church in West Bloomfield. Last year this was our biggest one day pull. This year we will have a second eliminator running simultaneously so it won't take so long for the heavier tractors to start pulling. Start time is 10:00 am. There are more than 40 tractor classes and you can hook as many times as you want. This is a Pull for Pullers! Click here for the rules: West Bloomfield Church Rules 2009
July 11, 2009. Successfully completed 1502 paid hooks on our eliminator during competition in 2009. Since 2005, our eliminator has had a total of 17,345 competition hooks. For a detailed record and comparison to previous years, click on History of Pulls.
July 4, 2009. Our eliminator repairs worked perfectly at Pickett Steam and Gas Club. We hooked 7500 Special, 8500 Special, 9500 Special, 12500 Special, and 6200 Street Altered Trucks. The other eliminator broke down on the way to the pull and arrived two hours late, but still completed the PI Tractor and Truck classes.
For the first time, we couldn't complete a pull. We only had three Modified trucks waiting to pull at Pound. Due to a sudden mid-hook stop/start jerk from a Modified Truck during a high speed hook, we broke an axle shaft in a rear end that drives the weight box. The break down lead to other mechanical failures and we ended up needing a whole new transmission, bearings, seals, axle shaft, and much welding, etc. July 3, 2009. We worked on the eliminator all week and now have it ready to go with stronger parts for the next pull.
June 25, 2009. We added a page to this website called "Pulling Rules". I am trying to gather all of the rules for our pulls (and others) and put the links on one page in alphabetical order. Click here to try it out: Pulling Rules. Today we added the rules for Rosholt and West Bloomfield.
June 25, 2009. Half way to another Christmas.
June 20 and 21, 2009. Mackville Nationals Website . We hooked Unpaced Tractors during the day on Saturday and the excellent crew at Mackville got the track ready for the nighttime show. (Prior to the Saturday night show, we taught the "pan dropping" eliminator how to use their eliminator with our Speed Board so the many people at Mackville could see the accurate speed as the Hot Tractors and Trucks pulled down the track. With all the favorable comments by the 4000+ crowd of spectators, the pullers, and the two announcers, maybe someday the expensive eliminators will invest some of their money on the latest equipment.) On Sunday, we completed the Paced Tractors and Street Stock and Street Modified Trucks. Simultaneously, the other eliminator pulled garden tractors and the lightest tractor classes using a pace tractor. It's always fun to watch the young boys and girls drive a garden tractor in their first competitive hook.
June 13, 2009. Finally the sun shone. It was raining when I left for the pull, but the sun was shining all day in Symco. The World Famous Union Thresheree track had 146 hooks. We will be back on this track during the Union Thresheree the last weekend of July. Bands, music, parade, adult pedal pull, threshing, sawmill operations, steam engines, and much more. Reserve the weekend to go to enjoy old tractors, old machinery, and friends in Symco.
June 6, 2009. Can you pull in the rain? Yes, if the pull is on blacktop. The Burg Pullers conducted a pull in Odgensburg today and it rained lightly all afternoon. The consistent light rain made all pullers equal (no alternating wet and dry conditions - it was always wet). We still had 218 hooks and finished all classes within seven and a half hours. The Burg Pullers were prepared with a canopy for the announcer, scorekeeper, and registration helpers. Good food was available inside the fire station.
May 30, 2009. My oldest son got married today. I needed someone to be responsible enough to run the eliminator all day and bring it back home after the pull. Thanks to Larry Bauer, lead operator, Perry Urben, back-up operator, and Marvin Selle, operator assistant, the AB Connection pulling group had a successful pull in Alaska, WI. It is always a pleasure to conduct a pull for the AB Connection group - good organization and good pullers. Thanks to everyone that helped me enjoy the day with my non-pulling family and friends at the wedding and reception.
May 26, 2009. Someone asked me - "How often does weather prevent a pull?" The weather score stands at 126 and 2 with a total of 126 successful pulls and only 2 rain-outs.
May 23, 2009. Cedar Valley Campgrounds completed their pull. A total of 99 hooks from 3500# Antique to 26,000# Four Wheel Drive Tractors. The large crowd stayed throughout a few light sprinkles to watch the 11,000# Pro Farm Super Stocks Tractors and a few trucks finish the afternoon fun.
May 16, 2009. The first blacktop pull of the season was completed on a cold, windy day. We had a total of 220 hooks from 3200# Pure Stock Antique to 10800 Turbo Farm Classes including 10000, 12000, and 14000 Team Pulls. This was a big increase from the 124 hooks last year. The sound system on Main Street worked well.
May 9, 2009. The 2009 pulling season is finally underway. The first actual pull was the Denmark pull and it was successful. Statewide it rained the night before the pull, but the Denmark pullers covered the track with plastic and the rains stopped late Saturday morning. After a slight delay in start time to allow for additional track preparation, the Denmark pull went nonstop to the end. This was despite a light rain late in the afternoon that made the pure clay track greasy and slick. We had 143 hooks from 4000# Antique to 11,000# Hot Farm tractors plus a few diesel trucks for exhibition at the end of the day.
May 1, 2009. Perry Urben has included the 2009 Central Wisconsin Antique Tractor Pulling Schedule in his May 2009 Newsletter. His complete newsletter is only for paid members of CWATP. We are reproducing part of it here as a convenience for CWATP members. If you are not yet a CWATP member, the annual dues are only $10.00 and the many benefits include newsletters, pull rules and classes, puller meetings, puller addresses, and discounted entry fees at some pulls. Contact Perry Urben at the address on the first page of his newsletter. April 30, 2009. Check out the new web page In Memory of Jeff Zabel. If you have any pictures of Jeff that you would like to share, please contact us. Jeff was a Founding Member of Tractor Tracks.
April 30, 2009. Our Tractor Tracks 2009 Pulling Schedule is almost full. Click on Pulling Schedule to jump directly to the schedule for our eliminator and for links to the latest official 2009 pull rules.
April 25, 2009. The first scheduled pull was a tune/test pull at HSSMotorsports in Borth. After a few continuous days of rain and more steady rain on Saturday morning, the pull was cancelled without us driving to the pull site.
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