So, organizers began to search for ways to progressively add weight as the tractor moved down the track. But as farmers began to modify their tractors, that didn't provide enough of a challenge and it was hard to distinguish the most powerful tractors. What was fascinating was to see machines that would "Pull on Sunday, plow on Monday."Īt first, the competitors pulled sleds that were loaded with a given weight as in the Rhode Island tractor pull photo at right. Event organizers at Bowling Green, Missouri and Vaughansville, Ohio found out the noise and smoke drew spectators.īy 1950, county fairs across the country featured tractor pulls. Nothing was said, but it was silently noted who "won" these calm competitions.īut there is one agricultural competition that is anything but calm the tractor pulling contest.Īs early as 1929, farmers began hitching their field tractors to weighted sleds and roared down a track to see who could pull it the farthest. When hybrid corn was introduced, idle conversation at the café would get around to how big a yield each farmer had. Going to church on Sunday with the family, a horse-powered farmer would probably check to see how straight his neighbor's furrows were.
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