have you ever been been within 100 feet of a truck with over 1000 horsepower well this paper will bring you closer than ever. tractor pulling is an age old sport that started with just a horse and a wagon. do you know what tractor pulling is? no? well i’m going to tell you more than enough about it in this research paper US HISTORY WITH TRACTOR PULLING well it all started around the 1900s when all the farm equipment was horse drawn(pulled by a team of horses). farmers would talk about how their horses could pull a huge load, like a fully loaded hay cart or wagon of some type. so to prove their horses were strong like they say they are they would challenge their neighbours to a pull off to prove that their horses were stronger than any …show more content…
the rules just like today are different from state to state or county to county so no one could really figure out the game to like cheat because of the rule changes from year to year. in 1969 eight representatives from different states got together to create a uniform book of rules, which then formed the N.T.P.A (national tractor pulling association) in their first year they used mainly farm vehicles and went by the motto “pull on sunday,plow on monday”that stayed the same through the 1970s using mainly modified and stock farm tractors. stock tractor where your normal farm tractor that you would see on a normal day plowing the field. a modified tractor is a tractor with a more powerful non tractor motor on it the tractors stayed single engined until later a couple brothers from ohio had built a multiple engine tractor. after that people were building tractors with 2,3,4 motors and the guys who had stayed with single engines tried to catch up by modifying their motors with intercooled turbos and injectors which then made the competition harder and harder