Well, I suspect you will find differences from location to location, but here is a site that tends to have pretty good guidelines: Hot Rod Garden Tractor Pullers Association - Sanctioning Rules and Regulations
Grandfathers CubCadet - Choosing A Class?
I grew up watching tractor pulls at local fairs in Massachusetts, and have played with building some custom mowers over the years but I want to start competing with my grandfathers old CubCadet 122. I am having a hard time finding information about classing as it seems to change from group to group based on location? What I am afraid of is building something that will limit who I can compete with, since custom power-sports in general is a dying hobby due to the new generation of things not to mention this is already a niche sport as it is being tractors. I know I am going to have to travel a bit to enjoy this so I have to be prepared for that to some extent. I am now located in the Tampa FL area and I would have to go back to MA to get the tractor, I do not own property down here so I can't really do much with it at home as far as riding it. I would think there would be enough events down here to get some use out of it so the fun does not die after I am done building it, I could do some mudding with it too or trail riding if I played with the gearing.
Stock pulling takes away half the fun of the sport in my opinion since I love modifying things, so I need to pick a class to run the tractor in...or at least some boundaries that will allow me to fall into one class or another from location to location. Which brings me to my next question of what to do with the engine or what I should swap it out with. Seems like most people are dumping the old cast Kohler blocks lately for a twin cylinder OHV engine (the sport must be getting increasingly more competitive?) but those are not cheap. There is only so much I can do with a 12hp flat head so is it worth modifying it? If I went with a new twin cylinder OHV it would be a Kohler since its a bit more purist to the tractor, even though the Predator twin engines are popular. The only thing that came to mind with the original flat head was running it on alcohol, not sure how that would match against the new 22-25hp twin engines. If I blow it up on alcohol I can always look into a new twin OHV. The engine may change the class I am able to compete in as well, if it falls into too high of a class I may not have enough local people to compete with. Advice?
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Stock pulling takes away half the fun of the sport in my opinion since I love modifying things, so I need to pick a class to run the tractor in...or at least some boundaries that will allow me to fall into one class or another from location to location. Which brings me to my next question of what to do with the engine or what I should swap it out with. Seems like most people are dumping the old cast Kohler blocks lately for a twin cylinder OHV engine (the sport must be getting increasingly more competitive?) but those are not cheap. There is only so much I can do with a 12hp flat head so is it worth modifying it? If I went with a new twin cylinder OHV it would be a Kohler since its a bit more purist to the tractor, even though the Predator twin engines are popular. The only thing that came to mind with the original flat head was running it on alcohol, not sure how that would match against the new 22-25hp twin engines. If I blow it up on alcohol I can always look into a new twin OHV. The engine may change the class I am able to compete in as well, if it falls into too high of a class I may not have enough local people to compete with. Advice?
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