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Second Farm Equipment Expo
HARRISBURG - The
tractor pulling competition
at the Farm Equipment Ex
position wrapped up on
Saturday, with the 9000
pound class qualifications in
the morning and the finals
held that same evening.
The mechanical horse
power pulling contest was a
crowd-drawing event despite
the $5 a head charge to at
tend the final piston-popping
matches.
The stock tractor pulls
were a first at second an
nual Expo, with three weight
classes. The 5500 and 13,000
pound classes were held on
Thursday, with close to forty
and fifteen entries respec
tively.
Qualifying in the 9000
pound class out of 23 entries
were: Paul Hoch; Harry
Barnck, Jr.; Ray Mowry;
Gary Brown; Craig Frey;
John Wetmore; Elton Muth;
Donald Zaleski; Russell
Byers; and Dean Innerst.
These men, along with the
Thursday finalists, were
ready to draw their positions
for the final one-pull elimina
tions m the Saturday cham
pionship decision.
In the 5500 pounds finals,
the top three placmgs went
to entries who hadn’t placed
in the top three on Thursday.
The championship trophy
went to George Easton, R 1
Cogan Station. He had the
winning pull of 167 feet, 2%
inches with is Oliver 88. On
Thursday, Easton had
placed ninth with a pull of
116 feet, 10 inches.
Gilbert Watson, R 2 Mars,
and his Farmall M came in
second with a pull of 165 feet,
11% inches. Watson came
the closest to the top on
Thursday, placing fourth.
And, Carl Modica, Jr.,
Asbury, N.J., driving his
Farmall M, had the fmal
third place pull with 165 feet
Tractor pulls
Champion of the 9000 pound class was Harry Barrick, with his Oliver 1855
and winning pull of 159 feet, SVz inches.
even. His best pull on
Thursday got him to seventh
place.
In the 1300 pound class,
David Gross, of R 1 Ham
burg, held onto third place in
the Thursday competition
and in the finals. With his
John Deere 4230, he turned in
a fmal pull of 189 feet, 4% in
ches.
The champion of the 13,000
pound class was Randy
Greene, R 2 Canton. His win
ning pull of 173 feet, 7 mches
was made with an Interna
tional 1206. Greene’s best
pull on Thursday was ranked
the tenth best, just barely
qualifying him for the Satur
day night finals.
And Larry Klinger, R 1
Winfield, who followed Gross
in placing on Thursday, trad
ed his fourth place for a se
cond in the finals. His Oliver
1850 dragged the load 168
feet, 6 mches.
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climax
Another Oliver topped the
9000 pound finals, only this
model was an 1855. In close
competition, and after a pull
off match, Harry Bamck,
Jr. out-distanced Paul Hoch
to trade his second place
ranking for the grandcham
pion. Barrick’s pull
measured 159 feet, 5% in
ches, where Hoch’s Case 930
wound down at 140 feet, rune
mches.
Third place went to Henry
Achenbach, R 1 PenArgyl,
whose Ford 5000 turned m a
pull of 172 feet, 10% mches
before the Barnck-Hoch
pull-off.-SM
The fmal results for the
tractor pulling debut at Expo
were;
5500 pounds
1. George Easton; 2.
Gilbert Watson; 3. Carl
Modica, Jr.; 4. Mike Miller,
R 3 Carlisle; 5. Dale Shupp,
R 2 Tunkhannock; 6. Donald
Remlev, R 3 Benton; 7. Paul
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Hoch, R 1 Shippensburg; 8.
Claude Homan, R 1 Centre
Hall; 9. Richard Troxell, R 1
Andreas, and ’O. Larry Kl
inger, R 1 Selinsgrove.
9000 pounds
1. Harry Bamck, Jr., R 4
Newville; 2. Paul Hoch; 3.
Henry Achenbach; 4. Elton
Muth, R 1 Alburtis; 6. Craig
Frey, R 2 Conestoga; 5. John
Wetmore, R 4 Honesdale; 7.
Dean Innerst, R 3 Red Lion;
8. Ray Mowry, R 1 Roarmg
Spring; 9. Russell Byers, R 1
Ruffsdale; and 10. Gary
Brown, R 1 Lake Ariel.
13,000 pounds
1. Randy Greene; 2. Larry
Klinger; 3. David Gross; 4.
Albert Kiefer, R 4 Bangor; 5.
/ Ray Reighard, RD Wood
bury; 6. Gary Fry, R 1 Win
field; 7. Robert Kiefer, R 4
Bangor; 8. Paul Hoch; 9.
Ronald Jumper, R 3
Newville; and 10. Barry Ott,
R 2 Bangor.