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Author: Jerry |
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Date Posted: 08/23/04 9:16:03am In reply to: puzzled 's message, "ARMADA" on 08/22/04 12:08:26pm Yes, they did throw us out for cut tires. I told Andrew I had a wierd feeling about that pull the day before, even though we were told by a friend or 2 that we shouldn't have any problems down there. I think the last time we pulled there was 2000, and the rumbling then was about stock drawbars. We now have a Cockshutt drawbar with a 3" loop. I told my brother to make sure his UB Moline had the stock drawbar and also his PTO shaft installed if he wanted to pull Armada, which he did. That should make us both OK now, or so we thought... When they let Andrew through the gate to measure the drawbar height and get staged to pull, they said he couldn't pull because the tires are cut. I had the rules in my back pocket (because of the wierd feeling...) and an argument ensued with the officials. I asked them to show me the "no cut tire" rule. It wasn't in there. Here's a picture of the rules if you care to look. They were determined to throw him out anyway - their minds were made up. They said he could hook, but they would DQ him. Told Andrew to go ahead and hook. A guy that hooked in that class confronted us out in the pits and told us we didn't belong in that class. I asked "For what reason"? He said "Because we got cut tires". I grabbed the rule book again... He said they we going to have a class for us, and he suggested to us that we can turn our tractor up. I told him it's already as high as it will go, there ain't nothin' left, with a stock bore/stroke, and it will pass the dyno. He had a bewildered look on his face. Maybe the issue isn't cut tires after all, maybe it's something else, like the impression that we have a "souped up" tractor. Maybe it's local politics, who knows... You're guess is as good as mine... They decided to add a class called the "6000 Plus" for the evening session, to allow the pullers to hook that couldn't meet the rules(???). Nobody knew, at least we didn't, until they opened the registration for that class, what the rules would be. It was decided by the officials to be a "no speed limit, no dyno, reasonable rpm's, any bore/stroke configuration, etc." I figured that would put us "out to lunch", since that Cockshutt of ours can pass the dyno test of the earlier class. We entered that class, although my heart wasn't in it anymore after the earlier events of the day. I guess I did ignore Andrew's feelings, though. He was determined to hook as well as he and that Cockshutt could do. Just before he hooked, he asked me about the tire pressure and the 300# of weight on the nose. I told him to forget it and hook anyway, even though I knew the pressure was too high and too much weight on the nose. I totally ignored the fact that Andrew, at 16, can read a track as well as me, or anyone else, for that matter. When that class was done, he ended up in 4th place, out of, I think, 9 tractors. If only I would have listened to him about the pressure and weights!!! I realize this is a lengthy post, but I can't respond to any rebuttals, or whatever, until the end of the week, so I have to include whatever's on my mind now. Gotta go now - dispatch says they need to put me on another rescue mission... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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