There are around 15 or 16 remote controlled tractor pulling events a year around the region. Everybody is running about the same equipment.” The only thing you can really change is where you put the weight depending on the track conditions.
There is not much as far as tweaking or cheating because the vehicles are basically built the same. If you’re retired and do it all the time, you could do it in a couple of days. If you are just working a couple of hours a night, it could take a couple of months. “It depends on how much time you put to it. “I build a new one when the urge strikes or when my wife says I can buy a new one - she hasn’t said that for awhile,” he said. Like anything else, building a tractor takes time and skill. It is kind of like a spark plug, but once it is glowing it stays glowing until you shut it off.” There is a glow heater that will heat the plug up. It is the principle of a diesel engine, pretty much, because there is a glow plug. You just plug the batteries into the connection and the nitro methane we use in the Traxxas 3.3 motor. “The lightest class is the garden tractor class on up to the heaviest class, which is a gas class with a chainsaw motor, and they weigh 25 pounds,” he said.
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“There is nobody really who specializes in the pulling aspect of this, but there are a lot of suppliers who can fit our needs.”īerry farms outside of Wooster in Wayne County and has a long history of participating in full sized tractors pulls, but has found this smaller scale to be enjoyable for the entire family, including his wife, son and daughter. There are so many different outlets for gears or motors or batteries,” Berry said. There is a guy in Pennsylvania who builds the bodies out of balsa wood. Randy Berry and his son Joe with just three of their fifteen remote controlled pulling vehicles Most of it is all custom made though.”īetween the remote controlled vehicles they have built and purchased, the Berrys now have 15 vehicles and plenty of fun. You can go out and pick up gearbox assemblies or steering front axles - there are different specialized components. There are different parts and pieces designed for this hobby. Electric or nitro vehicles, to build new, are right in the neighborhood of $1,200 to get it on the track and ready to go. “You can pick up a used one for $400 to $600, but you may have to add some electronic components or batteries. My son got there before we did and we no more hit the door and he said, ‘You’ve got to come see this.’ And I said, ‘If you want to get into tractor pulling, this is about as affordable as we can get into it.’ Then we went to our first remote controlled pull and saw what everybody had and I decided I had to build one,” Berry said. “About six years ago we went to the Ashland Toy Show. Randy Berry and his family were hooked right from the start after learning about the world of remote controlled tractor pulls.
The Ohio Scale Tractor Pulling Association (part of the National Radio Control Pulling Association) provides a venue for those with a big appetite for horsepower, but a budget and a size on the smaller side. For those who love the horsepower, excitement and wrench-turning of a black-smoke blowing tractor pull, but don’t want to spend the necessary funds to participate, a group of Ohio enthusiasts set their sights a little smaller.
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