Sunday featured lawn tractors, 4×4 truck pulls and mud drags. Saturday’s competitors pulled tractors of all classes through the mud in hopes of winning cash prizes. Mel Langton, of Ranch Lake, Ont., provided the Terminator sled the tractors pulled at the County event. The tractor (or lawn tractor) that pulls the farthest wins. The weight box starts at the rear of the chassis of the sled and as the tractor moves forward the weight box moves toward the front of the skid plate. The sled looks somewhat like a flatbed semi-trailer with a weight box on top and a skid plate at the front. Although the sport was recognized then, it did not become popular until the ’50s and ’60s. In the mid-1860s competitions with horses and barn-doors, using people to add weight became common place. Pull on Sunday, plow on Monday, has been the motto for tractor pulls since the 60s.įarmers first pulled heavy equipment with human power, then with horses. “We are very pleased with number of participants that have come to pull.” “Local County people helped to make this a successful event,” said Jacqui Burley, manager, Loch Sloy Business Park and member of the County Pull organizing committee. Picton’s Loch Sloy Business Park hosted the event for the second year and more than 40 volunteers operated the gates and assisted in all aspects of the two-day event. The “County Pull” is a non-profit organization started in 2010 by Picton area tractor pull enthusiasts, under the leadership of president Steve Everall. Tractors, trucks, mud dragsters, and lawn tractors owners from near and far came out to “test their mettle”. Lovers of raw horsepower gathered in Picton for the second annual County Pull on the weekend. Photos and story by Reg Smith with Bill Samuel Henry Terpstra of Picton with his International Turbo at The County Pull, 2012.
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