If you like this type of thing you should come to the Thresheree in July's in WI.
Most here have at least heard of Iola.
Turns out a few miles up the road in Symco we have this event, and a couple weekends later a GIANT hot rod show at the Union Thresher grounds.
I live like 10 minutes away, and to be honest, it wasn't until maybe the last ten years I fully understood how lucky I am to have this stuff of this magnitude in my backyard.
Symco features a different manufacturer every year. The tractor pull on Saturday is an all day event, and is designed to encourage stock tractors with a year built limit and a speed limit on the pulls. Goes by weight class, light ones pull early, 10,000+ is last. Pretty fun seeing someone weight up a JD A to over 10k lbs and let it chug in low gear lol.
We had an old fellow in this OLD Allis Chalmers a couple years back hook up. It was a 4 cylander engine, but it had to have a block about 3 feet tall(talk about stroke lol) not even sure without google investigation what model it was, probably from pre ww2, likely 1930's.
I am not even kidding when I say you could have used the second hand on your watch to count the cylanders fireing when it lugged down all the way, it would NOT die, finally broke the wheels loose so they flagged him but people lost their minds yelling and cheering.
i don't mind the newer style high speed mega power pulling once in a while, but I grew up with IH H's and JD 50's and such so I have a soft spot for stockers from that era getting some work in.
