Our resident photographer Charles Wickam recently shot at his first tractor pulling event. I wouldn’t have believed that Wickam hadn’t shot one before until he unloaded his excitement for an Allison V12 onto Facebook…that’s when I knew he hadn’t. I understand it completely…after seeing them in action, it’s very difficult to describe the kinds of violence that these trucks and tractors can unleash. There is such a large difference between what you see at a dragstrip versus the dirt that I don’t think it can even be compared. If the race cars scream like a rock star, pulling trucks yell and grunt like Dwayne Johnson trying to give Rosie O’Donnell a piggyback ride…you can hear the engine straining under the heavy load as the tires claw their way forward.
This footage is pure 1980’s VHS goodness, and features mostly Chevy trucks, with one seriously pissed off late 1970s Ford getting in the mix. Notice how most of the trucks have a pretty timeless look to them? We’d be willing to bet that a couple of them were driven to the track. Screaming big-blocks doing what they do best? Yes, please.
