Normally tractor pulls are events where ridiculously powerful purpose-built rigs tow special sleds down a 100-meter dirt track. As the weighted sled travels, the weight slides toward the front of the ...

Sleds are specifically designed for tractor pulls and are engineered to impose more resistance as the tractor drives. Arriving in 1980, they could not be maneuvered independently until around 1992, ...

Tractor pulling is the rare motorsport whose competitors needn’t worry about breaking the speed limit, even in a school zone. But to complain about the maximum speed of 12 mph would be to miss the ...

It’s a hot August day, and you’re sitting on the metal bleachers inside a packed arena. In front of you sit two souped-up tractors with large sleds attached to the back, waiting in anticipation for a ...

Summertime is here again and out on the plains, and particularly in Wiggins, so is tractor pulling season. The groan and dust of a day of pulling could be heard and seen at the track in Wiggins Town ...

It’s not the golden trophies or cheering fans that get people to come back every year to participate in the tractor pull at the Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair — it’s the bragging rights. Erik Althoff, ...

SUMMIT STATION — Not yet as tall as its rear tires, Piper Marcus gripped the steering wheel of a John Deere tractor Wednesday evening at the Schuylkill County Fair. Ahead lay a clay drag strip. Behind ...

ROGERSVILLE, Mo.- The Southern Missouri Truck and Tractor Pulling Association hosted the 33rd Annual pull in Rogersville tonight to benefit a local high school agriculture program. Hometown tractors, ...

Black smoke fills the sky as a driver pulls a sled at the grandstand Thursday at the Elkhart County 4-H Fair. There were 387 total “hooks” this year at the event. Smoke, ear-splitting noise and sheer ...