[SEL] Can Launching/now tractor question. OT?

[Steve Barr]

Curt

I'm not sure about the additional volume of tractors,  I try to take a few
pictures in effort to show I have balance... (I was a antique tractor
owner ('49 John Deere A) before I was an stationary engine owner...Doesn't
that sound political...sorry)  Boy, I feel better now....

I do like tractors on steel...and even more, the bigger ones that opened
the prairie...I guess I have good taste...(I guess you do as well as your
most recent page had more tractor than engine pics on it...)

About the wheelie bars.  All of the antque tractors that were running on
Saturday at the show were pulling ~20 feet on a dead pull.  If you could
budge the pan, you most likely were going to pull the 20'.  They pulled
back and forth ~25 pulls until they had a winner.  I don't remember which
one won, but I was impressed at the effort that they put into moving just
the weights...

Sunday, there must of had 75 garden tractors pulling a regular pulling
sled (the garden tracors had their little wheelie bars on).  


Steve
--- Curt <curt at imc-group.com> wrote:

Steve,
Sure are a lot of tractors sneaking into your photos these days. Are you
slipping to the dark side too?
I noticed that none of the pulling tractors shown have wheelie bars on 
them? This is a requirement here in the south to prevent rolling one over.
Is the use of this safety device not wide spread across the country?
Curt Holland
Gastonia, NC
 
 
Steve Barr wrote:
 
I saw an excellent example of can launching this weekend.  A 3lb coffee
can (empty of course) was launched from a large hp engine at the show in
Delmont, PA.  This engine has a 10x10 BxS and is of a sideshaft varity.
 
It launched the can quite high and came down to land in the manure
spreader (used to move apple mash after being removed from the cider
press).  The owner will not be identified, to protect the feelings of the
manure spreader.  It was trully an excellent display of the power of these
engines.  Pics from the show can be seen at:

http://www.oldengine.org/members/sbarr/ShowReports/2004Delmont.htm