tractor pull or should i say cat pull

Cats are crawler tractors, Track Type Tractors. Even when fitted with a blade attachment they are stilled called a track type tractor with a bulldozer blade. Gets me every time the news media calls an excavator a backhoe, where is the hoe in the back of an excavator???? or a wheel loader or backhoe called a bulldozer.:doh:

I know some pulls are just plain boring when you know what the factors are, weight, traction and horse power.

To me pulls are nothing more than a "mine's bigger" thing. About as exciting as watching paint dry. But then I played on tanks all those years, something that would have made a full pull every time while blowing stuff up! Guess I'm kinda jaded.

Rick

[quote="oldtanker"]To me pulls are nothing more than a "mine's bigger" thing. About as exciting as watching paint dry. But then I played on tanks all those years, something that would have made a full pull every time while blowing stuff up! Guess I'm kinda jaded.

Rick[/quote]

Now that would be fun. Maybe use old Internationals for targets. Just kidding Rick, I know you like red, not seeing red.

Vintage tractor pulling has turned into anything goes tractor pulling down under! It all started out low key but the mines bigger than yours has got in the way. Tractors with low rated truck engines fitted "71 GMs" manly, are now seen running higher than truck outputs. Single cylinder fowler crawlers have had blowers fitted under the bonnet, T40 six cylinder International engines have been bored and the rpm increased by more than 1000 rpm and all these changes look to be standard to most peopl! I think most of the cheats are just driven by win at all costs. Most of the great motor race events start with 2 people that wanted to prove that they had the fastest car and have grown into world wide events.

I pulled my TD6 at the local club's pull for about 10 years. This is a totally stock, antique pull, limited to 5 MPH, RPM must be within 10% of stock. the TD6 w/ Isaacson dozer will not quite pull as much as the 830 JD's & a super 99 Oliver, which usually got full pulls with the same weight on the sled...I could pull close to the 720's & 730's. Our sled is calibrated to show percentage of the tractor's own weight pulled, the TD6 usually pulled about 120%. I was usually the only crawler there, one year there was a D2, no dozer, & he pulled about the same percentage-wise as the TD6, as I remember...I always ran out of power way before running out of traction.

thanks for the input i guess i like too see a cat work a little for it's lunch but i do get what you where saying about mine bigger than yours. Ronm i like the idea of give a % of pulled vs weight that way you know how your doing.