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BigART
04-09-2004 07:05:44
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Div 5 in reply to Al, 04-08-2004 13:43:51
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In other words, you don't think, a 12 15 or 20 mph antique classes would work on rubber tires? Just what kind of mph does your tractor run, I'd drive a long day to see a class of antiques that'd have to slow down to get in those classes!I would readily support an open class, but seems every association has their own intrepretation of "open" also, guess you'll just have to keep having rules meeting and checking rpm's, while your 'new rules' let the hi dollar boys support the machine shops, building new trans gears to maintain their ground speed with their lower rpm limits! Not words of wisdom, just watch, and see those with the desire and money, spend it, despite the rule changes. Most antique pullers I know, are smoker pullers at heart, either stock or hot farm, but the rules and enforcements were never the same at any pull, or the same twice at the same pull---. I realize I'm backward, but I'd also take a day's drive to see a steel wheel tractor in the 12mph class at a usap pull---find one for me John!! I appreciate the machinery and know how behind the antiques, but with tractors out there in the 20k and up range, I'd think it would be nice to be able to hook it in mult associations, without mechanical changes. The most obvious problem is, by the nature of the beast, you guys are attempting to, and in many ways successful, in regulating engines from 2 cyl to 6 cyl to be competitive versus one another, but they obviously weren't when they were stock class tractors, and they won't be with rpm limits based on individual engines either. If you go as far as to legislate out one "dominate" model, you legislate in the next closest tractor!
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