How to Win a Tractor Pull: Set Up the Hitch 

Thanks to your parents and grandparents for raising you with commonsense and love. God bless

Great job Rachel. Your knowledge and ability are amazing. Your Dad and Grandpa must have spent a great deal of time with you to pass on what they know to you like they did and should be congratulated.

I love watching your videos, I do all my own repairs and my daughter likes to help out. I hope she can stay interested and one day be as handy as you.

Thank you for all the informative videos you and your father have produced.

My granddaughter has been pulling since she was 11. She will be 18 this year and is still interested. We have won points several years in a row with a John Deere 720. I bought a 185 Allis and run it as stock for two years, Now I put a turbo on it and stripped it down to 5500#. So this year will be the learning curve all over again. I have some video on RU-vid of her pulling. I really enjoy your videos and advice on repairs.

We all love the work you do, keep up the good work you do...

Great information as always. You look really professional and businesslike in that fantastic blue top. Hurry up and make another video. Your Tractor Beam is pulling me in.

very good info, I always enjoy your videos

You need to show us in these videos with a sled attached. I have heard that having the weight lower allows more transfer of power as well. If you are too high, you are reducing your weight on front tires, which affects the amount of power you have on rear wheels, effectively you are using much of your power lifting the front of the tractor. Also, I want to apologize for all the men out there that keep commenting on your looks and the things they want to do with you. It is really disappointing to see people act this way. It is no wonder that so many ladies no longer want to do Social Media posts or choose to read/comment. Thank you for your great work. (Happily married Christian man from Texas.)

Really enjoyed this. Never been to a tractor pull. I know I would love it if I ever get the chance.

I think those top link straps are the hidden success on that little ford. Guys around here install the top links and support them to the drawbar with irons. Lift the drawbar up with plenty of pressure. Your rear weight transfer is now on the top link mount on the 3pt system. Really makes a difference

This is one cool girl !!! I love it. Great video, great info.

Brings back great memories. Fron the 50s and 60s. Fly pulls Dead weight pulls. County fairs North central Ohio. Thanks Rachel We love all of your videos. My Monther was named Rachel from a rance in south east Kansas. I have a sister Rachel And my wife of 49 years and I named our daughter Rachel. 😎🤗😍

Awesome video!

Great video Rachel!

They hooked you up! Great advice!

Great video

Good to know, You're Purty and smart ! Thanks Rachel.

Very Cool & lnformative Video...That Ford's A Beaut! ;-)

And all this time I thought those trophies were won by Dan. Good for you, Rachel!

thank you rachel

I can’t get enough of her!

Nice work Miss Lady

you took trigonometry and physics in high school,you made good advantage of your skills,even if you didnt have the math

You are the King

WOW, THANKS FOR THE ADVICE! I've been wondering about that. I'd like to and try out my 1952 F8N at a pulling event.

Very good

Hello Rachel and greet video as always. I was just wondering if these techniques carryover to larger more modern tractors as well with the same techniques and tricks still apply or is it just more applicable to the Vintage tractors?

It would be cool to see a video of you do a tractor pull. Great video.

Do you have a video about some of the older hitch types. I have a Farmall BN and wonder how the hitch system is used and what kind of implements can I use with it? Thanks for the help

Ms. Rachel : Slap hazard ; I pulled 3.5 tons down the road . My , Dad kept stomping the SUB's brakes ( Going down hill ). I quit we are going back up hill. Our , 9N pulled it back home. Pop , still using the brakes. The 9N 's rear tire ( plowed ) up the pavement. It , comes back 🕳️ when it rains. 😎 Bryan

would you do a video of the pto dyno that you use and or how to make one (diy) style ?

Rachel...... Just be a little careful nothing breaks low down, you have stabiliser bars to your top link.. if you have a snap on the lower draw bar, the pull will be on your top link............ Pulling on the top link means your tractor nose will flip up and over crushing you... Take care from Wales... x

Hello! Great video. I got a question. Csn you pull a tractor 🚜 which its engine has seized, by putting it in neutral and tow it by another tractor?

Good thanks i m fast coment 🇮🇳👍🚜

What classes does that 8n pull in? We've tried pulling ours off of a swinging drawbar in as close as our club allows and it did terrible wasn't transferring weight at all. So we've went back to the lift arms pulling from the factory location with adding weight to the front and it's been doing great. Can you do video on your wheelie bars for that 8n we've started pulling with a new club and would love to see your set-up.

You go!

Tochan u mean 👍🏻 Nice and simple explanation

yup that's about right Sask. Canada regulation weren't that far from your State only thing up here was no narrow fronts

All good advice no pulls in my area will allow you to pull off of 3 point or quick hitch arms

I love you!

so adoreable

Lovely clevis.

I am glad you have tractor fever .

Any videos from your pulling days???

Nothing like going to a tractor pull!

When are the videos of you pulling going to be posted 👍

I have a dumb question. I have a 1958 IH 350 UT. It has the wide front end, and the TA. Originally the hitch was supposed to work the Torque Amplifier. The harder it pulled, the more TA it would bring in. Who ever owned the tractor before me welded the unit so you have to work the TA lever yourself. I have talked to a lot of IH fans, and one of them had used this type of hitch, and said it never worked right, and that's why it was welded. Do you know anything about this option? I have a diagram how to put it together, and from that I could bring it back to stock, but I do see issues in the way the hitch was designed. I figure I could make one and work toward a hitch that would work fine. Like you said, I will have to raise the height to make it work right. I'd be interested in any input you, or any one else may have on these. Thanks and Smiles!

I have a clevis just like she has in her left hand laying under my work bench. Don’t remember where it came from, maybe the John Deere B when I bought it.

'MERICA ! #1 in Tractor Pulls ! :-)

What's on the front for counter weight? These ford's flip over backwards kinda easy if the weight is hooked up high. My son flipped our jubilee over on top of himself last August, months in the hospital and the dental work is still ongoing.

Hey Rachael, How about some Videos of you pulling??

It's all about leverage, with the position of the hitch. Do the 23 degree tires pull better than the factory tires? The 23 degree tread was originally developed for better wear on the road.

We want to see videos with some pulls.

I Like to see you driving tractor.

read a forum about farmall m some guy said install the stepped pistons, swap the intake manifold to one from a LP gas, remove the muffler and air cleaner go open air induction should get 80hp

Rachel, we have an NAA Ford. What model is this one?

My antique tractor can't enter. Too light weight for our tractor pulls. 1949 or 47 Massey Harris Pony Weights 1500 lbs

Hi Rachel, greetings from México. What's did you study, are you mechanical engineer?

Hi.

Estas hermosa .

The higher the hook up and the harder the tractor pulls gives more down pressure on the rear wheels giving more traction making it pull harder thus forth putting more down pressure on the wheels it's like a domino effect in your advantage just can get dangerous making the tractor want to flip over. One really should have wheelie bars when hooking just as or higher than the rear axle

thanks love your appearance

And no vido about You pulling?

tire pressure tire pressure also lol

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Oh come on!!! You can't say that and then no video no links nothing!?

“Clutch pedals”

!;-)

whats with the terrible camera angles cuts

Wait...... why would I ever want to wreck my antique...palm to face!

A Ford pulling tractor?? U should use that IH m . U wouldn't get laughed at!!

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"Clutch pedalS"? Never seen a tractor with more than one.

Rachel ,will you set on my face please???

Do you have a P.O. Box that accepts marriage proposals? Probably full already...