Lancaster Countian to compete BY DICK ANGLESTEIN HARRISBURG - Although man and machine can be considered veterans, it will be a new experience for both this Thursday af ternoon when they compete in the Pennsylvania Stock Championship Tractor Pull at Harrisburg. As the machine lunges forward to drag the weighted sled down the track, it will be its first such competitive attempt after an ap proximate quarter-century of spring plowings through fall harvests as a Lancaster County farm tractor. Gripping its wheel for the first time in full-size pulling will be Leonard Hollinger, Mount Joy, who has ex tensive experience in pulls but only in the smaller garden tractor classes. “It’s quite a step up in competition,” Hollinger explains, “but it will be interesting to see what we can do. Someone told me a similar tractor did pretty well in pulling so I thought I’d give it a try.” His tractor is a Co-Op Model E 4, which was manufacture quite some time ago by Canadian Cooperative Implements Limited. That firm is no longer in business. “I’m not even sure of its exact age, but it must go IvIUEI-LER I ll Bvills: XwSillc Coolers MAKE ME A BULK MILK COOLER THAT HAS EVERYTHING! in stock championship pull back to somewhere in the mid-1950’5,” Hollinger says. At 22 years old, a few years younger than the tractor itself, Hollinger will be competing in the 5500 pound weight class of the stock tractor competition. In stock pulling, competition is limited to farm tractors with no visual engine modifications. “All I’ve done so far,” Hollinger says, “is tune it up with new plugs and points. I’U be putting a different set of tires on it, too. But otherwise, the tractor is just as we took it in on a trade recently.” Leonard is the youngest member of the R.S. Hollinger and Sons, Inc., farm equipment dealership at Mount Joy, which includes his father Russell, and brothers, LaMar and Lynn. “ I know it’s going to be quite a bit different from pulling with garden trac tors,” he says. “It seems to me that a lot more is going to depend on the machine it self.” Hollmger doesn’t think he will have the extra operational flexibility that he had when driving a garden tractor. “With a garden tractor I could do more as a driver,” he explains. “First, I tried for a good QUEEN ROAD REFRIGERATION Tractor as old as he is weight balance between the front and back of the machine. Then, I’d shift my weight, while still remaining on the seat, to help com pensate for track conditions. S 1 # SRSS sil, IB J li r<* > y*nt ' > *&". After a quarter-century of Lancaster County Leonard Hollinger, Mount Joy, in Stock Tractor farm work, this vintage tractor will be driven by Pull at Harrisburg next week. The Mueller Model “OH” with HiPerForm cooling, Mueller-Matic Automatic Washing System, and built-in freezer protection control is the most advanced bulk milk cooler in the world. The nation's most progressive dairymen are using it. Shouldn’t you be? (4) D-2 1500 Gal. Girtons 1,000 Gal. Girton 500 gal. Mojonnier 500 Gal. Milkeeper ASK US TO SEE A WiflhffiSafl IN OPERATION, RIGHT ON THE FARM. Box 67, Intercourse, PA 17543 Phone; John D. Weaver - 717-768-9006 or 768-7111 or Answering Service - 717-354-4374 “If the front end started to rear up. I’d lean forward a bit or if I needed more traction in the rear, I’d lean back. “I could also shift my •*. , weight to either side if one of the wheels started spinning. “But shifting my weight isn’t going to make any difference on a full-size tractor. This Co-Op tractor THE BULK _ _ . __ _ including MILK COOLER A = c THAT HAS EVERYTHING THE MUELLER MODELS OH, MHL, AND MW WITH HIPERFORM MAKE ALL OTHER BULK MILK COOLERS OBSOLETE SEE THE MUELLER NEW MODELS ★ 500 MW * 600 MW The “MW” is one of the Lowest pouring Height Bulk tanks. Check with us all the new features on the “MW" bulk tank. if you are in the market for a bulk milk cooler and you don’t check all the advantages of the Mueller “OH" “MHL”, and “MW” you may be buying an obsolete cooler. jUSED TANKS! 400 Gal. Jamesway 500 Gal. Jamesway 500 Gal. Oari-Kooi 400 Gal. Oari-Kool Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 23,1980—C1S < r ) Y' | * 425 Gal. Esco 500 Gal. Esco 1500 Gal. "0" Mueller has a six-cylinder engine though and is solidly built for a machine its size.” Although it will be his initiation into the full-size (Turn to Page Cl 6) W *** it' ‘ts ,•«*«&, isi it' I 1 i ' i J XJ ' MM 24 HOUR SERVICE
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers