Danville FFA Pull - 10 minutes off of 80 - Central

The pull will be held on April 29th. The short version of the rules is this: every other class is paced, there are unaltered tire classes and cut tire(tapered cleat only) classes, tire size limits depending on the weight, and a variety of open tractor classes. No RPM limits on any class. We can find a class for practically anything older than 1967 - if you have any questions e-mail me and I can try to answer them. I had a nice response the last time that I posted, and wanted to try to provide some additional information.

The Danville FFA is attempting to make this a family event, so in addition to the pull the FFA kids will be doing a youth safety day course from 10-1 for elementary aged kids on: animal handling, ATV and lawnmower safety, flowing grains, forestry and logging, PTO and Corn pickers, Tractor rollover, and Water safety/air quality. There will also be a pedal pull just for fun for the youth. Penn State is also doing a Farm Rescue training for local emergency reponders and the general public will be able to witness much of their training, which should be very interesting. Then at 5:00pm local acoustic artist Van wagner will be performing a concert at the fair's stage pavilion. Van is a former Danville FFA member and sings a variety of original music ranging from bluegrass to blues. He has become very popular locally. His website is www.vanwagnermusic.com if you're interested in checking his stuff out before suggesting this event to your wife. And finally, we will be recognizing 18 students (assuming they pass the course) ages 14-17 for completing the farm machinery certification course that the FFA has bee sponsoring all spring - allowing them to legally work for people other than their parents.

This will be the first time we try this, and I am very excited about it. The kids and I have put a tremendous amount of time and effort into planning this, and I hope to see many new faces. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me or give me a call at (570)764-3985, and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

The non-turbo class sometimes has guys like Rocky Miesle, Dick Warg, and Danny Wenner. If you've ever seen Clarence Wenzler pull his Cases at some of the national pulls these guys can usually keep him on his toes - he can beat them, but they don't leave him much room for error. I'm going to try to get a bunch of those guys in, but they usually only show up to test and tune for the money pulls. Any ag/industrial engine can be under the hood as long as it is made by the same manufacturer.

The Turbo class will probably be light too - usually only 2 or 3 at a good pull, and one of them (my dad's) is out of commision for the year. M's with upgrades - DT466 - are potential, but I doubt that there will be many if any there - it's too early in the season for them to be out of the shed for test and tune as our local fairs don't get busy till August.

95% of the tractors are in the "small tire" classes, but you can run pace and non-pace with the same tractor. The guys that run pace all year long at most of the other local pulls seem to really like the opportunity to open up their tractors a little just for fun in the non pace classes - cut tires or not.

Hope this helps :)

Open classes can run 18.4x38 tires with any cut all the way up through.