When speaking to the members of the Acton Agricultural Society, Kevin found out they had designed a sled and their fair would come to fair and help us run a success Stock and Modified Tractor pull. In other words, it’s not a race, it’s a pulling event The winner is determined not by how fast the pulling vehicle goes down the track, but by which tractor drags the sled the farthest. That in turn, makes the sled harder to pull, eventually stopping the vehicle. This transfer of weight, or ever-increasing weight, creates friction between the skid pan (that’s part of the front of the sled) and the ground. As the Garden Tractor pulls the sled down the track, ballast (weights) that are in a box which is positioned at the rear of the sled are automatically transferred (mechanically winched) forward on the frame of the sled. It is when a special-built weighted pulling machine, which is more commonly known as a “sled” is pulled by a modified lawn tractor on a dirt track of a specific distance.
However, in 2011, Kevin Holmes brought the Stock & Modified Garden Tractor pull back to the track of the Schomberg Agricultural Fair groundsįor those of you who are not familiar with the Tractor pulling competition. It has been a few years since the Garden Tractors have made their spring debut in Schomberg. Hoping that their garden tractor would be the one that could pull the sled that Ed Gardhouse built, the furthest distance down the track. The men would sit in the garage with their sons looking on as they went over the specs to see if they could design a garden tractor that would bring home the bragging rights. In January of every year, the old garden tractors of years gone by were pulled out of back sheds and assessed to see if they were worthy of running in the spring pull at the fair. In the late 70’s, the rumble of the Garden Tractors headed down the Schomberg track to compete for the title of the strongest lawn tractor in Schomberg. Junior Dairy Cattle Show – Classes 50-51.Junior Beef Cattle Show – Classes 48-49.
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