With all the nostalgia drag racing and car show stuff that has been hitting the blog lately, we didn’t want our readers to think that we’ve lost our affection for tractors. If there is one thing we love more than tractors, it’s hot rod tractors with gasoline burning muscle car engines in them. Enter this early 1950s Massey Harris with a Ford 390engine.
Firstly, it sounds totally awesome as the weight of the sled bears down upon it and the engine really has to start working. Secondly, when the Massey starts to climb the ring gear and the front end of the machine is a couple feet in the air it just looks cool, and thirdly, while the low rpm grunt of a diesel is impressive and all, nothing beats the sounds of a gas engine working it’s ass off!
A friend once summed up tractor pulling in an interesting light for us. They said, “It’s like one really long and intense dyno pull.” Due to the linear motion of the weight and how it
slowly starts working the motor harder and harder, we think the summation was right. Where a diesel would have lugged down and continued to pull (or dig trenches) at the end of the run, the gasser just runs out of gumption, after slaying the rest of the competitors by making a near full pull.
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS ANGRY OLD TRACTOR TAKE THE SLED ALL THE WAY TO THE HOUSE!
Looks like a full pull Great tractor, although it’s not a Fergie, but a Massey Harris which I think was just before Ferguson…could be wrong. Great Video Thanks guys
the harris was before the ferguson. thats Brent Van Dalen’s tractor from Lynden, WA. we pull with him. very cool dude. his dad also pulls with a modified john deere diesel. Brent has put a roll cage on his tractor since this video was taken.