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Tractor pulls for sale3/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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