
Today, fixed weights on drags are dragged for a set distance and additional weight is added in successive rounds. These events became the formalized sport of horse pulling, which is still carried out today with draft horses, specially bred to have high strength for pulling heavy loads.
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In other situations, a flat board or skid would have a horse or team of horses then hitched to it weight would be added, usually in the form of rocks, and the driver would urge his horses to pull the load, with more weight added as competitors were eliminated the animals pulling the most weight or for the greatest distance were judged the strongest. In some cases, they compared horse teams pulling large loads over distance, such as a fully loaded hay cart or wagon. Prior to the invention of the tractor, when farm implements were pulled by horses, farmers would boast about the strength of their teams and seek to compare and contest in teams with one another to see who had the most powerful animals.

This means that, as it is pulled down the track, the weight is transferred (linked with gears to the drag’s wheels) from over the rear axles and towards the front of the drag. The drag is known as a weight transfer drag. When more than one tractor completes the course, more weight is added to the drag, and those competitors that moved past 91 metres (300 ft) will compete in a pull-off the winner is the one who can pull the drag the farthest. When a tractor gets to the end of the 100 meter track, this is known as a "full pull". The sport is known as the world's most powerful motorsport, due to the multi-engined modified tractor pullers.Īll tractors in their respective classes pull a set weight in the drag.

Tractor pulling is popular in certain areas of the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe (especially in the United Kingdom, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Denmark and Germany), Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Vietnam, India and New Zealand. Truck and tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a form of a motorsport competition in which antique or modified tractors pull a heavy drag or sled along an 11-meter-wide (35 ft), 100-meter-long (330 ft) track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls the drag the farthest. Problems playing this file? See media help.
