Rust and water and varnish, oh my!

I was glad to get Young Son's tractor to the show in Temple last Saturday. It did fine until I went to load up afterward. It kept sputtering and dying. Got home and got it off the trailer and up to the shop using the choke and having to restart it several times. Barry hadn't been able to use it or really maintain it for the past year of so. When I drained the tank there were periodic plopping sounds as it ran into the catch can. I've got the tank and sediment bowl cleaned and a carb kit ordered. The carb will need to soak a while. I want to get it running right and take it to the Texas Kickoff Show and Pull in January. Barry always wanted to pull it but was always worried something would break. Those old MF 65's are pretty stout. I want to give it a try. Friday night is Pull What You Brung fun.

Will that pull in Jan be in Temple too sir? Thank you sir. Wingnut

No, the Kickoff is in Hallettsville. I don't know the date yet, usually the 3ed weekend. It's indoors. As soon as I get a flyer I'll post it.

Transfer sled pulling is like a day off for working farm tractors because most weight that can easily be removed is taken off in order to get into as light a class as possible. Being in a heavy class with not much power isn't much fun.

Depends on what you consider fun. If you're one of those who has the attitude of it wasn't fun because I did not win then sure. It's probably never going to be fun for you.

There are folks out there who pull against themselves. The fun is in hooking up and seeing what the tractor can do. They "win" by just being there, enjoying the day, socializing, and testing their tractor. Coming home with the trophy isn't the end goal of the trip.

yeah, the Friday night pull is just you and your tractor seeing what you can do or maybe you and a friend matching up.

(quoted from post at 05:22:31 10/07/21) Depends on what you consider fun. If you're one of those who has the attitude of it wasn't fun because I did not win then sure. It's probably never going to be fun for you.

There are folks out there who pull against themselves. The fun is in hooking up and seeing what the tractor can do. They "win" by just being there, enjoying the day, socializing, and testing their tractor. Coming home with the trophy isn't the end goal of the trip.

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Well Mr. Barnyard. I haven't pulled so much in the last two years, but I went last weekend and I had a pull on Sat that I was very happy with. I have been pulling for 23 seasons and have had my share, and some would say more than my share of wins. This pull Sat. was only fifth place but it was out of 25 so I thought that it was pretty good so I was happy and yes, it was fun. Funny you mention about seeing "how it will do", because I was going to speak to that it my first post. That is something that I have heard people say a number of times. If someone wants to use his 40 HP hobby tractor to do some work, and hooks up to a chisel and drops it in eight inches with no weights is he going to be happy and have fun and "find out what his tractor will do?" Of course not. He didn't prepare it for the job at hand. If you Mr. Barnyard take your 40 HP hobby tractor that's weighted to 6,000 lbs to the pull and "hook against yourself for fun, will you have fun? Well maybe for you pulling the sled twenty feet while the winner pulls it 270 feet and the next to the last pulls it 190 feet would be fun, but usually from what I have seen this puller never comes back, and he didn't see what his tractor could do because he didn't give it a chance.