Work for OSTPA (Ohio state tractor pullers association) and those tractors are around 3000 hp and can cost upwards of $400,000 and they are pulling a sled. If you look as they’re pulling there is a pan that moves towards the tractor as it’s going down the track there are switches inside that sled as the pan moves forward that drops the lower pan and applies pressure to the ground which makes it harder for the tractors to pull. They put weights in the upper pan and each weight is 2000 pounds This is just a little rundown of the sport.
The sled has a weight box(thing moving) on it driven by the tires. as it moves forward it puts more weight over what is known as the pan. thus making it more difficult to pull. Longest distance pulled wins.
Tractor pulling is a major motorsport here in the US (and Canada) in the rural areas. Virtually every county agricultural fair will have some form of tractor pulling There is a national sanctioning body NTPA (National Tractor Pulling Association) which regulates safety gear and the sled specifications. One of the major innovators in the sport was a man named Gardiner Stone. In the early 1980's when pullers in the unlimited class were using multiple drag car engines (sometimes as many as six) he started using WW2 vintage Allison V-12 engines from the likes of a P-38 lightning or P-40 kittyhawk. Later he used the gas turbine engines out of Huey helicopters. Classes run from Miny Mods that are basically a lawn tractor with a V-8 out of a muscle car to the unlimiteds. They also pull with pickup trucks and over the road large trucks. The tractors in the video are super stocks which are based on a production tractor with diesel but have as much commonality with a stock tractor does as a NASCAR stock car as a road car does
In addition. they use a hand throttle and individual wheel brakes on the rear axel to steer because once the fronts are off the ground, the steering wheel is mostly useless. but if you steer too much you slow the wheels and shorten the pull
Briglad! Welcome! Thank you for all the amazing knowledge and how about that Gardiner Stone! P-38's in a tractor?! Incredible, I appreciate you taking the time to share all this amazing to-the-point information
Been watching you for a while now and I'm loving you seeing our wacky world of motorsports over here! Tractor pulls are super fun to go to, my local fair has one every year with the same style of tractors. The video doesn't do them justice, they are loud and screaming, especially when that turbo is going full tilt!
Thank you MrSir, glad you've been enjoying my trip down the rabbit hole! I can imagine it's much like the NHRA vehicles in the way that videos do the noise and rumble ZERO justice 😂
First puller in the class has the option to accept the pull, or turn it down and come back at the end for a second try in hopes of improving the distance he pulls. But only the first puller in the class is given that option.
At the beginning the weight on the trailer they are pulling is at the rear and start sliding forward as they go down the track. It gets progressively and progressively harder for the tractor to keep moving the sled. The faster you can get moving and maintained that the further you will go before you get bogged down to a stop.
So funny you put this vid up tonight, I just got home from watching tractor pulling!!!!! This year we are only going to 4 pulls, I had a major stroke, so it's hard for me to walk.
BOB, WELCOME! Thank you for finding the video, I hope you had a great night at the show! Sorry to hear about the stroke, but at least you're still making it to the ones you can! Have a great day, be well
Ive been around truck and tractor pulling my entire life because my dad used to compete in them. The sport is very simple. The sled that they are pulling has a weightbox that moves forward as they go down the track and puts pressure on the pan and digs it further into the ground. And whoever pulls the sled the farthest wins. They can change the weight and settings depending on the class. There are different leauges of truck/tractor pulling too. I live in Ohio so one of the big leagues here is the OSTPA (Ohio State Tractor Pullers Association) and the NTPA (National Tractor Pullers Association) which have events all over the country. Then we also have what we call Brush Pulls which are more of a local community thing and is what my dad competed in. My dad used to run a 1978 Ford F250 in the Altered gas class and did very well. The classes for trucks and tractors range from Street legal or Farmstock all the way up to Supermodified and Unlimited classes. Which can get very expensive especially if you break something😂. We actually just had the final pull of the year in my area a few days ago. I hope this helps a little bit and answers some of your questions
Trenton, you absolute legend! Thank you for your knowledge and it definitely has helped/answered the questions....I didn't even think of the top end costs if something explodes.....that being something that wasn't MEANT to explode 😂😂 thank you foe the comment! I appreciate it
@@ExploringTheSmoke no problem. And yeah especially when for a lot of these machines in the higher classes just the engines alone cost $50,000 or more. It definitely hurts the wallet when something goes wrong lol.
These are medium-heavy duty farm tractors with diesel engines running on a water-methanol injection system. They make 3000 buff horses at the top. But the torque is another animal. Ive seen engines rip themselves from frames.
Last one standing at 2:29 is from my little 800 population town. Justin and his dad are both pullers. Justin’s brother Jason, passed away in a car accident in 2013. He was also a tractor puller.
They are pulling a machine most people call a sled there is a box full of weight that slides up the machine as the tractor or truck pulls it up the track once it hits a certain part a spike box digs into the dirt eventually stopping the pull farthest one to pull wins
Now look for 6200 pound modified 4x4 truck pulls. Something else you may wish to have a look at, is Rock Bouncers these are hill climber pipe frame 4x4 vehicles. Also Swamp Buggy racing from Naples Florida. And maybe mud bog 4x4 trucks.
This is also quite big in parts of Europe actually. I've been to quite a few events in Sweden, but some of the wildest vehicles were from Germany or Netherlands. As for sponsor money, I guess it's hard to make massive money but the Fox team from Denmark was sponsored by Lego back in the day. Personally, I think the wildest vehicles they drive are those powered by 4 gas turbines, but you also will sometimes see builds like 5 V8s, triple V12s or a single 42 cylinder radial engine.
James, welcome!! Thank you for the incredible information, I can see why Lego would want to get behind it because it's fun and "built by hand" I'll also have to look up episode 276, thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed
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I have seen a tractor pull with my grandfather at the Indiana state fair. I also have a tractor pull facility in the Lancaster area of Pennsylvania known as The Buck... although I haven't been there, but I have seen it.
The class that has the most horsepower is Unlimited Modifieds. 5 supercharged hemis, running on Methanol, each engine produces around 2500, take it times 5, and u get 12,500 horsepower, tire speed up to 100 mph+, this class is why it’s the worlds most powerful motorsport
If you live anywhere in the American mid-west, you have a tractor pull and perhaps a rodeo or two under your belt. Good X's! Hint: Dark smoke = oil. Light/white smoke = coolant.
Yeah I thought the thick black smoke may have been oil, though I don't think I've ever seen it spew like that before 😂 I did weirdly stay in Wisconsin a while, I never even though about rodeo's or tractor pull!! Haha thank you for watching Thomas and the knowledge, appreciate it
@@ExploringTheSmoke He's close, these are diesels.... black smoke is overfueled hot, white smoke is usually overfueled cold (meaning basically a percentage of raw fuel). Since these are heavily boosted engine they run draft tubes, that's what you're usually seeing stuff pour or blow out of underneath the chassis as the tremendous combustion pressure gets past the rings (some is normal, a lot is usually an indication of internal damage) and pressurizes the inside of the engine. Those tubes are where that pressure is relieved, so if you see one suddenly start blowing quarts of black oil on the ground, someone's cracked or holed a piston. A lot of times though these engines will fail catastrophically rather than gracefully... there's a lot of footage of charge pipes blowing apart, turbochargers switching from internal to external mode (i.e. leaving the vehicle one piece at a time), and blocks cracking above the mains so the upper half just pops out of the bay and flops onto the dirt like a dead fish.
I had a friend that campaigned a four engine pulling tractor back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. In every off-season, I would build him four identical Big Block Chevy V8 engines. Occasionally he would have a failure, as in all motorsports, but most of the time, the engines lasted the season. He only gave it up due to his Parkinson's disease becoming bad enough that he couldn't hide it, with officials not wanting to be liable for anything that might have gone wrong with him at the wheel. About the strangest puller I've ever seen was a jet powered tractor that relied purely on the thrust, rather than have an engine(or engines) providing power to the two enormous rear wheels.
@@ExploringTheSmoke I had really high hopes when I saw the tractor, as I had previously seen the jet dragsters do their thing, but it was an older designed jet engine with no afterburner, so it was a bit limited in what was possible. The guy always finished around the middle of the pack, so the setup had a great level of consistency, which let the guy attract enough sponsors and winnings to basically compete and have fun for free. Oh, there are other classes of pullers, also. Some are just like gutted 4x4s and such, but all provide an entertaining watch. Such pulls are often piggybacked onto Monstertruck shows, as well.
@@ExploringTheSmoke Speaking of awesome been playing f1 manager 23 since early release and it's a waaaaay better game and way harder to progress. did pick williams and i'm thinking of finishing the first season and recording the second one for a series. Just need to sort out a few things. making sure Sony vegas still works and remembering how to use it ^^* Slight update for the first season. my second driver. Who i found out mid season had the worst overall on the f1 grid where f2 drivers had better stats than him. Put his williams into the wall twice in one weekend. He killed 2 entire power units which have ers the engine and gearbox. with 11 races in the season left. in f1 each team is limited to 3 power units per car. if you go over that limit you have to take grid penalties for new parts and Pay out the rear to get new ones. All in the millions. 5 mil for an engine 2.5 mil for ERS 1 mil for gearboxes. He has had at least 5 gearboxes 3 new engines and god knows how many ERS replacements. Not including parts that wear over time. Williams runs off a low budget as they don't have much money with how theyve not been at the front for years. XD Real struggle when one driver has put me in - money. I can't develop the car or build replacement parts. Because even car components have wear on them. like the underfloor, if you use it a certain number of races it can fail inspection and you have to replace with new. it's a rather realistic take on it and fun. But i'm regretting not realising he was that bad untill it was mid season XD
@@ExploringTheSmoke This is also another sport that is celebrated overseas, as they have these on the continent quite often. Look up the "European Tractor Pulling Committee", ETPC. Last year they had an event in Great Eccleston. From what I gather this is *adored* in the rural parts of Denmark and Netherlands.
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Work for OSTPA (Ohio state tractor pullers association) and those tractors are around 3000 hp and can cost upwards of $400,000 and they are pulling a sled. If you look as they’re pulling there is a pan that moves towards the tractor as it’s going down the track there are switches inside that sled as the pan moves forward that drops the lower pan and applies pressure to the ground which makes it harder for the tractors to pull. They put weights in the upper pan and each weight is 2000 pounds This is just a little rundown of the sport.
Mike, welcome!! And thank you for the information, I think these machines are incredible, thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed
The sled has a weight box(thing moving) on it driven by the tires. as it moves forward it puts more weight over what is known as the pan. thus making it more difficult to pull. Longest distance pulled wins.
Ahhh so kinda what I had envisioned in the old brain box, cheers Scrambler!
Pro stock and super modified tractors are way more wicked and cool to watch. Definitely something to check out
Pro stock and super mod tractors added to the list, thank you Cameron! Glad you enjoyed
Tractor pulling is a major motorsport here in the US (and Canada) in the rural areas. Virtually every county agricultural fair will have some form of tractor pulling There is a national sanctioning body NTPA (National Tractor Pulling Association) which regulates safety gear and the sled specifications. One of the major innovators in the sport was a man named Gardiner Stone. In the early 1980's when pullers in the unlimited class were using multiple drag car engines (sometimes as many as six) he started using WW2 vintage Allison V-12 engines from the likes of a P-38 lightning or P-40 kittyhawk. Later he used the gas turbine engines out of Huey helicopters. Classes run from Miny Mods that are basically a lawn tractor with a V-8 out of a muscle car to the unlimiteds. They also pull with pickup trucks and over the road large trucks. The tractors in the video are super stocks which are based on a production tractor with diesel but have as much commonality with a stock tractor does as a NASCAR stock car as a road car does
In addition. they use a hand throttle and individual wheel brakes on the rear axel to steer because once the fronts are off the ground, the steering wheel is mostly useless. but if you steer too much you slow the wheels and shorten the pull
Briglad! Welcome! Thank you for all the amazing knowledge and how about that Gardiner Stone! P-38's in a tractor?! Incredible, I appreciate you taking the time to share all this amazing to-the-point information
Been watching you for a while now and I'm loving you seeing our wacky world of motorsports over here! Tractor pulls are super fun to go to, my local fair has one every year with the same style of tractors. The video doesn't do them justice, they are loud and screaming, especially when that turbo is going full tilt!
Thank you MrSir, glad you've been enjoying my trip down the rabbit hole! I can imagine it's much like the NHRA vehicles in the way that videos do the noise and rumble ZERO justice 😂
First puller in the class has the option to accept the pull, or turn it down and come back at the end for a second try in hopes of improving the distance he pulls. But only the first puller in the class is given that option.
Thank you scrambler, as ever coming in with the knowledge I need!
At the beginning the weight on the trailer they are pulling is at the rear and start sliding forward as they go down the track. It gets progressively and progressively harder for the tractor to keep moving the sled. The faster you can get moving and maintained that the further you will go before you get bogged down to a stop.
A good old fashioned who wants it the hardest
So funny you put this vid up tonight, I just got home from watching tractor pulling!!!!! This year we are only going to 4 pulls, I had a major stroke, so it's hard for me to walk.
BOB, WELCOME! Thank you for finding the video, I hope you had a great night at the show! Sorry to hear about the stroke, but at least you're still making it to the ones you can! Have a great day, be well
Ive been around truck and tractor pulling my entire life because my dad used to compete in them. The sport is very simple. The sled that they are pulling has a weightbox that moves forward as they go down the track and puts pressure on the pan and digs it further into the ground. And whoever pulls the sled the farthest wins. They can change the weight and settings depending on the class. There are different leauges of truck/tractor pulling too. I live in Ohio so one of the big leagues here is the OSTPA (Ohio State Tractor Pullers Association) and the NTPA (National Tractor Pullers Association) which have events all over the country. Then we also have what we call Brush Pulls which are more of a local community thing and is what my dad competed in. My dad used to run a 1978 Ford F250 in the Altered gas class and did very well. The classes for trucks and tractors range from Street legal or Farmstock all the way up to Supermodified and Unlimited classes. Which can get very expensive especially if you break something😂. We actually just had the final pull of the year in my area a few days ago. I hope this helps a little bit and answers some of your questions
Trenton, you absolute legend! Thank you for your knowledge and it definitely has helped/answered the questions....I didn't even think of the top end costs if something explodes.....that being something that wasn't MEANT to explode 😂😂 thank you foe the comment! I appreciate it
@@ExploringTheSmoke no problem. And yeah especially when for a lot of these machines in the higher classes just the engines alone cost $50,000 or more. It definitely hurts the wallet when something goes wrong lol.
@@Trenton-om9qs mannnn if you saw the face I just pulled reading and imagining that 😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂
An Ohio boy who's dad used to pull tractors. Hey did I write this??? 😂
These are medium-heavy duty farm tractors with diesel engines running on a water-methanol injection system. They make 3000 buff horses at the top. But the torque is another animal. Ive seen engines rip themselves from frames.
@@johnboe412 that kinda torque pulls the earth away 😂😂
Last one standing at 2:29 is from my little 800 population town. Justin and his dad are both pullers. Justin’s brother Jason, passed away in a car accident in 2013. He was also a tractor puller.
Thank you Slinger for the information, pretty awesome that he'll love on forever in video form 💪🏻
You can tell if it's a dirty diesel or not as you'll see it chugging along like a coal train, 'choo choo'
@@redacted2458 😂😂 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I think you are ready to learn about the American sport of Lawnmower Racing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sandy, SIGN ME UP 😂😂
They are pulling a machine most people call a sled there is a box full of weight that slides up the machine as the tractor or truck pulls it up the track once it hits a certain part a spike box digs into the dirt eventually stopping the pull farthest one to pull wins
Thank you for the knowledge, you're a real one 💪🏻 thank you
Now look for 6200 pound modified 4x4 truck pulls. Something else you may wish to have a look at, is Rock Bouncers these are hill climber pipe frame 4x4 vehicles. Also Swamp Buggy racing from Naples Florida. And maybe mud bog 4x4 trucks.
Ahhh yes the swamp buggies will be coming, and I've seen some awesome hill climbs in cars/trucks/bikes etc, you're a legend Scrambler
This is also quite big in parts of Europe actually. I've been to quite a few events in Sweden, but some of the wildest vehicles were from Germany or Netherlands.
As for sponsor money, I guess it's hard to make massive money but the Fox team from Denmark was sponsored by Lego back in the day.
Personally, I think the wildest vehicles they drive are those powered by 4 gas turbines, but you also will sometimes see builds like 5 V8s, triple V12s or a single 42 cylinder radial engine.
Smarter Every Day episode 276 is a great introduction to this wonderful sport btw.
James, welcome!! Thank you for the incredible information, I can see why Lego would want to get behind it because it's fun and "built by hand" I'll also have to look up episode 276, thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed
"How many horsepower are these things?"
answer - all of them
😂😂😂 Thank you Thursday!! Glad you enjoyed
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Thank you Bud, have a great Sunday 💪🏻
Grew up watching them in VA and NC.
Damn lucky!!
In a nutshell. Its a contest to see which tractor can pull the greatest weight the furthest.
Thank you Karen, glad you enjoyed the reaction
The sled driver has the same amount as balls or even more than the tractor puller.
Holy crap I only just thought of the guy in the SLED!!! 😂 Crazy!!
I have seen a tractor pull with my grandfather at the Indiana state fair. I also have a tractor pull facility in the Lancaster area of Pennsylvania known as The Buck... although I haven't been there, but I have seen it.
What the tractors are pulling is a sled with a moving weight, the objective is to pull the sled the furthest.
Thank for answering and the knowledge Nick, glad you're enjoying
that "e-brake" is actually the throttle
Thank you for the knowledge Jesse, I appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed the reaction
The class that has the most horsepower is Unlimited Modifieds. 5 supercharged hemis, running on Methanol, each engine produces around 2500, take it times 5, and u get 12,500 horsepower, tire speed up to 100 mph+, this class is why it’s the worlds most powerful motorsport
12,500 horses....in a "tractor"?!? Insane!! Thank you for the comment and the knowledge Alex, glad you enjoyed
@@ExploringTheSmoke yea! It’s absolutely ridiculous!
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If you live anywhere in the American mid-west, you have a tractor pull and perhaps a rodeo or two under your belt. Good X's!
Hint: Dark smoke = oil. Light/white smoke = coolant.
Yeah I thought the thick black smoke may have been oil, though I don't think I've ever seen it spew like that before 😂 I did weirdly stay in Wisconsin a while, I never even though about rodeo's or tractor pull!! Haha thank you for watching Thomas and the knowledge, appreciate it
@@ExploringTheSmoke He's close, these are diesels.... black smoke is overfueled hot, white smoke is usually overfueled cold (meaning basically a percentage of raw fuel). Since these are heavily boosted engine they run draft tubes, that's what you're usually seeing stuff pour or blow out of underneath the chassis as the tremendous combustion pressure gets past the rings (some is normal, a lot is usually an indication of internal damage) and pressurizes the inside of the engine. Those tubes are where that pressure is relieved, so if you see one suddenly start blowing quarts of black oil on the ground, someone's cracked or holed a piston.
A lot of times though these engines will fail catastrophically rather than gracefully... there's a lot of footage of charge pipes blowing apart, turbochargers switching from internal to external mode (i.e. leaving the vehicle one piece at a time), and blocks cracking above the mains so the upper half just pops out of the bay and flops onto the dirt like a dead fish.
@@mfree80286 thank you for the information Michael, they are absolutely phenomenal machines and the drivers are just as wild!
I had a friend that campaigned a four engine pulling tractor back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. In every off-season, I would build him four identical Big Block Chevy V8 engines. Occasionally he would have a failure, as in all motorsports, but most of the time, the engines lasted the season. He only gave it up due to his Parkinson's disease becoming bad enough that he couldn't hide it, with officials not wanting to be liable for anything that might have gone wrong with him at the wheel.
About the strangest puller I've ever seen was a jet powered tractor that relied purely on the thrust, rather than have an engine(or engines) providing power to the two enormous rear wheels.
A jet powered tractor sounds WILD!! Thank you as always for the kick ass memories Larson, glad you're enjoying
@@ExploringTheSmoke I had really high hopes when I saw the tractor, as I had previously seen the jet dragsters do their thing, but it was an older designed jet engine with no afterburner, so it was a bit limited in what was possible. The guy always finished around the middle of the pack, so the setup had a great level of consistency, which let the guy attract enough sponsors and winnings to basically compete and have fun for free. Oh, there are other classes of pullers, also. Some are just like gutted 4x4s and such, but all provide an entertaining watch. Such pulls are often piggybacked onto Monstertruck shows, as well.
@@LarsonPetty more for me to look into if anything! Didn't even think of monster trucks
Depends on what class of tractor pulling but yeah thousands of horsepower I've seen a couple that are like 10 or 11 thousand
To be completely honest I spend more time around drag racing than I do tractor pulling
Thank you for the knowledge Engineer! Glad you enjoyed
I had no idea this was a thing XD
Well Dragon, I'm glad to have brought something awesome your way today too!
@@ExploringTheSmoke Speaking of awesome been playing f1 manager 23 since early release and it's a waaaaay better game and way harder to progress.
did pick williams and i'm thinking of finishing the first season and recording the second one for a series. Just need to sort out a few things. making sure Sony vegas still works and remembering how to use it ^^*
Slight update for the first season. my second driver. Who i found out mid season had the worst overall on the f1 grid where f2 drivers had better stats than him. Put his williams into the wall twice in one weekend.
He killed 2 entire power units which have ers the engine and gearbox.
with 11 races in the season left.
in f1 each team is limited to 3 power units per car. if you go over that limit you have to take grid penalties for new parts and Pay out the rear to get new ones.
All in the millions.
5 mil for an engine
2.5 mil for ERS
1 mil for gearboxes.
He has had at least 5 gearboxes 3 new engines and god knows how many ERS replacements. Not including parts that wear over time. Williams runs off a low budget as they don't have much money with how theyve not been at the front for years. XD
Real struggle when one driver has put me in - money. I can't develop the car or build replacement parts. Because even car components have wear on them. like the underfloor, if you use it a certain number of races it can fail inspection and you have to replace with new. it's a rather realistic take on it and fun. But i'm regretting not realising he was that bad untill it was mid season XD
@@ExploringTheSmoke This is also another sport that is celebrated overseas, as they have these on the continent quite often. Look up the "European Tractor Pulling Committee", ETPC. Last year they had an event in Great Eccleston.
From what I gather this is *adored* in the rural parts of Denmark and Netherlands.
@@mfree80286 thank you Michael I'll give it a look!