We spent a lot of time pulling and putting the tractor back together! It had become a family affair.īy the end of the 2009 Season we had decided to take the jump to an alcohol engine which involved many changes for the tractor. We spent the next seven seasons campaigning the John Deere 4440 “Loaded Gun” primarily on the OSTPA (Ohio State Tractors Association) Circuit garnishing a Championship, Puller of the Year Award, Family of the Year while finishing in the top third of the class each season.
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That winter I spent many nights and weekends in Andy Battrell’s shop in New Vienna, Ohio learning from his John Deere mechanic experiences how to tear the tractor down and put it back together bolt by bolt! On SI had my first pull at the Darke County Fair and placed fifth and drove off the track in one piece! You might say I was “hooked”. After a few weeks later, we purchased Brian’s tractor after he patiently showed and explained the “in and outs” of rebuilding the motor after you burn a piston. I should have known from my first encounter with Brian, who had just pulled and “burnt a piston”, that this toy, no matter how well I took care of it, was going to require a lot of hands on “putting back together” in order to play.Ī call home to my Dad expressing my excitement and interest in selling my boat and venturing into the world of tractor pulling began the pulling team partnership with my parents. He had been pulling the John Deere 4440 Super Stock diesel tractor called “Never-A-Nuff”, which at one time, had been owned and campaigned by Russ Mears. It was then I met Brian Stroud from Midland Ohio. I attended college in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the fall of 2001 a friend asked if I would be interested in attending a tractor pull at the Clermont County fair that weekend.
Little did I know at that time, that someday, I too would be pulling on that track at our county fair pull. Growing up on a farm, gave me plenty of access to tractors and machinery and I always made the county fair tractor pulls with my parents and grandparents one of the highlights of summer. I have lived and worked on the family owned crop farm all my life. The 2021 event was to have featured Region II Super Farm Tractors, Two-Wheel-Drive and Four-Wheel-Drive Trucks, and multi-engine Modifieds.Below you will find the history of how it all started one August day in 2001 from the Driver, Jeff Hothem’s Point of view…ĭellroy, Ohio is a small rural community in the Atwood Lake region of Carroll County.
Limitations on public gatherings due to emergency health orders stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic led to the pull's cancellation in 2020. "We're disappointed in the decision, but we're appreciative of the efforts of the Florence Township VFD's business association in trying to keep their pull going this year against these fiscal headwinds."Įdon's Village Park has hosted tractor pulls for over 20 years and first enlisted the NTPA as its sanctioning organization in 2019. At the pandemic's onset last spring, Randall listed sponsorship challenges as a chief concern among promoters along with the spread of the illness and restrictive orders. "The health crisis appears to have passed, but the economic calamities of 2020 may reverberate around our sport for some time to come," said Gregg Randall, NTPA's Executive Director. Organizers cited the challenges involved in securing sponsorship for the four-class event as the principal reason for its cancellation. The pull, originally set for Saturday, August 28, will not be rescheduled in 2021, and no tentative 2022 date was established. Columbus, Ohio-The Florence Township Volunteer Fire Department has notified the National Tractor Pullers Association that the group has been forced to cancel the Edon, Ohio NTPA Regional National event.
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