Tractor pulling (Continued from Page 100) poration. He reportedly contacted fellow Lancaster Countians Lester Houck and Mark Stauffer to see if they’d ne interested in NOTICE... SAVE HUNDREDS Buy a new Case Low Profile tractor, 43 to 80 pto hp, and we’ll take hundreds of dollars off the list price of the new matching Case implement of your choice. You’ll get $4OO off in May ... $3OO off in June. The sooner you buy the more you save! See us soon we're really dealing! TRACTORS HUT GIVE rou MORE THAN PERFORMANCE SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON ALL MODEL UNI—LOADERS. doing something about it DEPENDABLE MOTOR GO. East Main Street Honey Brook, PA (215)273-3131 STOUFFER BROS. INC. 1066 Lincoln Way West Chambersburg, PA (717)263-8424 RINKi FY Z miiKT RDfic EDWARDS FARM EQUIP. C. H, WALTZ SONS, INC. C. H. RIHFHM & SONS 133 Rothsville Station Rd 291 (Rt^^cieartield)* RDl.CoganStation.PA RD 1, Berwick, PA Lititz, PA Nazareth. PA (717)435-2921 (717)752-7131 (717)626-4705 (215)759-0240 NEVIN N. MYER & SONS, INC. RDI, C'.ester Springs, PA (215)827-7414 traveling across the Atlantic with their machines. Both men accepted the invitation and challenge. The underlying reason to bring tractor pulling to The • PARTS • LEASING • SERVICE • RENTALS • RECONDITIONED TRACTORS • CONVENIENT FINANCING CLAIR i. MYERS PEOPLES SALES & SERVICE A. L. HERR & BRO. Lake Road R 1 Oakland Mills, PA 312 Park Ave. Thomasville, PA (717)463-2735 Quarryville, PA (717)259-0453 (717)786-3521 MinucD>? lar T*r SUPPLY, INC. C. & P. FILE EQUIP. rfIUL anifVCK 0 lin,. R D5f Danville, PA RD 1, 35 East Willow St. (717) 275-0927 Spring Mills, PA Carlisle, PA 2 mi S. off Rte 54 (814) 422-8805 (717)243-2686 ZIMMERMAN'S FARM SERVICE E. W. BILEWICZ EQUIP., INC. Bethel, PA (717)933-4114 Netherlands was to bolster interest in the World Plowing Contest, which was being held in that country last Fall. The general consensus was that a lively and noisy tractor pulling demonstration from THINK “BIG 10 mi (MH.OADERS America could give the event a needed “shot in the arm.” It did just that. Officials for the plowing contest expected no more than 20,000 people to show up for the 2- day event. As it turned out, IIK&I3 Elmer Rd, Richwood, NJ (609)881-2692 28,000 were counted in on the first day, and 53,000 jammed the area on the second day. Lester Houck, one of the pioneers of tractor pulling in Lancaster County and in cumbent secretary of the National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA), remembers the preparations that were involved in making the 4000-mile trans oceanic journey. With tractor pulling being something totally new in Europe, the Dutch organizers needed a sled. A fully equipped and weighted Although my parents’ room was only separated from mine by a wall, you had to wind through all the up tairs rooms m between to get from the one place to the other. As a result, there were times when I could feel pretty isolated from the rest of the family. Sometimes late at night or early in the morning I would wake up and all would be quiet. In my childish mind, I would wonder if! was suddenly all alone m the world. Immediately I would lean out of bed and pound my clenched fist against the wall bordering my parents’ room. I wanted assurance that not everyone had gone off and left me. In a few seconds, my knock would be answered by my mother's gentle tapping on the thick boards. No matter what time of the day or night, she never failed to hear my anxious summons, and would soothe my fearful thoughts with her quiet rapping that all was well. LITTLE Of course there were other times when she would thump on the wall to rouse me out of bed, or summon me to her rooom for questioning of some dire deed I was suspected of doing, but all my life I will remember those taps that reassured me that all in the world was as it should be. Salute to you, Mother. Though never mentioned, it will be the little things you do that are long remembered. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13,1978 sled weighs 53,000 pounds - which made for quite a shipping order. The Lan caster Countians stripped the sled of the weight box and sent specifications to have an identical one built by the Dutch. That cut the weight of the sled in half and reduced shipping costs to $20,000. Once it amved in Holland, the newly con structed and properly weighted box was fit onto the sled and the contraption was ready for action. Lancaster Countian Dan Brubaker (Turn to Page 102) 101
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