Bobcat698
08-07-2005, 02:23 PM
Yesterday was the truck pull in Arpin Wisconsin.
It was held on blacktop and we were pulling 45,000 pounds. Basically they shut off a section of road that led to the park.
The sled was not self propelled, they pulled it back with a tractor each time. It had wood blocks in the front that it rode on. The axles made the weight box travel.
There were a good 75 or more trucks that showed up... Anything from Hobby 2x4s, 4x4s, old farm trucks and more. They pulled the diesel pickups last.
There were around 6 Dodges, 2 Duramax's, and 2 Powerstrokes. An 8.1L 2500 GMC also showed up and pulled in our class.
I weighed in at 7900 with some sand in the back.
One of the Duramax's has over 500HP at the wheels. He made it about half way down the 250 foot track and just started smoking the tires. There was black smoke on one side of the truck and white tire smoke on the other side
I made a full pull, I thought something had snapped when the weight box HIT the front of the sled!
The only other person that did was running a 95 regular cab Powerstroke.
He had his hitch set up in a unique way.. He had a coupler connected to his gooseneck ball in the bed, then had a hole cut in the bed and the bar ran down back towards where the normal hitch height is. Basically made a lot more weight be put on the front of the truck as well. He took first place in 3 classes (he was allowed to run in lighter weight classes. (this type of hitching isn't allowed at most places)
We ended up pulling off.. I pulled 103 feet and the Powerstroke pulled 117 feet. I took second and a $75 check
My pulls are getting consistently better:cool:
I took these places in this order: 5th ($10) 3rd ($20) 9th (intercooler boot blew off) and 2nd ($75)
I LOVE THIS TRUCK
It was a blast!
I will post some videos soon!
It was held on blacktop and we were pulling 45,000 pounds. Basically they shut off a section of road that led to the park.
The sled was not self propelled, they pulled it back with a tractor each time. It had wood blocks in the front that it rode on. The axles made the weight box travel.
There were a good 75 or more trucks that showed up... Anything from Hobby 2x4s, 4x4s, old farm trucks and more. They pulled the diesel pickups last.
There were around 6 Dodges, 2 Duramax's, and 2 Powerstrokes. An 8.1L 2500 GMC also showed up and pulled in our class.
I weighed in at 7900 with some sand in the back.
One of the Duramax's has over 500HP at the wheels. He made it about half way down the 250 foot track and just started smoking the tires. There was black smoke on one side of the truck and white tire smoke on the other side
I made a full pull, I thought something had snapped when the weight box HIT the front of the sled!
The only other person that did was running a 95 regular cab Powerstroke.
He had his hitch set up in a unique way.. He had a coupler connected to his gooseneck ball in the bed, then had a hole cut in the bed and the bar ran down back towards where the normal hitch height is. Basically made a lot more weight be put on the front of the truck as well. He took first place in 3 classes (he was allowed to run in lighter weight classes. (this type of hitching isn't allowed at most places)
We ended up pulling off.. I pulled 103 feet and the Powerstroke pulled 117 feet. I took second and a $75 check
My pulls are getting consistently better:cool:
I took these places in this order: 5th ($10) 3rd ($20) 9th (intercooler boot blew off) and 2nd ($75)
I LOVE THIS TRUCK
It was a blast!
I will post some videos soon!