Mail Call: September/October 2011

By Grit Staff
Published on August 10, 2011
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Tractor pulls are an excellent source of small-town entertainment.
Tractor pulls are an excellent source of small-town entertainment.
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Splitting wood by hand requires a few tricks as you become wiser to easier methods. Ready here to pick up one such tip.
Splitting wood by hand requires a few tricks as you become wiser to easier methods. Ready here to pick up one such tip.
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Brenda Brinkley's dad and his trusty International.
Brenda Brinkley's dad and his trusty International.
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Bob Chroninger and Jon Bednarski show off the Chroningers’ new Belted Galloway heifer.
Bob Chroninger and Jon Bednarski show off the Chroningers’ new Belted Galloway heifer.

GRIT’s reader mail printed in the September/October 2011 issue!

Pulling for Daddy

I was 12 years old the first time my dad “pulled” with a tractor. In those days, there were no hot-rod tractors or mechanical sleds. Farmers took their dusty tractors from the field to the county fair to see whose was best and to earn bragging rights among their peers.

Dad would pull out of the hayfield, unhook the baler, and away we’d go.

Today’s shiny pulling tractors never hook to anything but a mechanical sled. They might even rattle, bang and fall apart if anyone had the audacity to hook them to a piece of farm machinery.

Dad quit pulling for several years. He had work to do, children to raise — besides, tractor pulling is not an inexpensive hobby.

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