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My midweek Pulls. Seymour WI Cedarburg WI Grayslake’s IL
Well this week started out on Tuesday Night where the NEW Mod trucks where pulling at the Outagamie County fair in Seymour WI. This is a Tractor pull with a few Truck Classes mixed in on a ½ mile oval clay track. They did have it set-up right with two Tracks one for the Local Farm Tractors Classes and we ran on the inner track with the big Tractors and Trucks on the famous 007 Sled of Jim Luedtke’s. I started the night out with my Mod gear in the box but Jimmy was letting the trucks fly down the track at some pretty good speed tonight. So during a pause in the action due to a leaking air hose on the sled I switched to my Super Stock gear to give me a little more wheel speed during the pull. After the airline was fixed they had Three Mod Diesel Trucks and then we switched to 4x4 Mod, Which I was the first puller in the class. So after watching the Mod Diesel trucks pull they where out in the 330 foot mark, I figured if I make it that far I’ll have to keep my pull and sit and watch. Well as I was driving onto the track I saw Jimmy Shift a gear in the weight box tranny so I don’t know if he sped the box up or down but that was the only change he made to the sled.
So I got ShaZam all line up and was given the OK tighten the chain up signal. So with the chain tight the flag man gives me the green flag, I slip ShaZam into 3rd and I played Tractor with the tires for about 5 feet then I gave ShaZam full throttle and the tach went to 7800 rpm’s and floated between 78 and 8000 rpm’s during the whole run as I let the tires eat that Seymour Clay until I seen that 22 dreg’s of banking coming from number one corner, and I felt the last stage hit and ShaZam came to a neck snapping stop at 315.83 with a track speed of 25.80 mph. This is the fastest ShaZam ever went down a track. Now the flag guy say you going to keep it or turn it down. It looked like I was deep enough into the corner so I said ya I’ll keep it. With that I drove ShaZam back to my trailer that I had parked on the infield of this Clay track. So Up next was Cold Ethel with my Beer Drinking buddy Craig Emmes Driving, Craig had a little bounce coming out of the hole but he recouped from that and was Hammer down in no time flying down the track. Craig had flash backs from his pull in Gillett WI a few weeks back where he got out of the throttle at the end of the track and lost all his momentum to finish 2nd for the night, Tonight he stayed in the throttle till the sled stopped him at 313.01 with a track speed of 25.30 mph. My Next beer Drinking buddy was up Dean Wagner with Burn n desire, Now Dean was having a hard time figuring which gear he wanted to run tonight He had the big one in and then at the last minute he switch back to his smaller gear. Well he should have left the bigger one in the box, When the pan hit Dean was sitting at 288.26 and had a track speed of 24.70 mph. So Ok at this time I went to ask Jodi just where I stood in the standings Cuz I didn’t know my footage at that time. When she said I was 1st I said Hot Dame, But then Me other beer drinking Buddy Bruce was up next with Poker Face and he’s been putting a whooping on me 6 out of the 8 pulls this season. But tonight was ShaZam’s Night to shine, Bruce left the line great but his tires never caught up to the track and he was just spinning his wheels till the last stage hit and stopped him at the 300.03 mark with a Track speed of 25.40 mph. With one truck left to pull I said the worst I can do tonight is 2nd place. So Mike Kauss was the last truck to hook to Jimmies sled for the night, As I left the line His motor never got up on his Cam and he bogged really bad as he passed the 75 foot mark he stabbed the clutch once to try and get his r’s up but he knew he was done for the night. Mike got to the 276.19 mark before the 007 sled stopped him. So 1st place here tonight and a big o pay check for me.
So Ok we get all loaded up and chained down Dean and I where having a few beers to celibate my win tonight, Bruce and Craig loaded up and headed home seeing they both had to work in the morning. And then the Rains came, when I heard the first wave of rain drops the size of baseballs hitting the trailer I said to me self I done ****ed up here. I’m in the middle if a Clay Bowl and there’s no way in hell I’ll be able to get out of here in the morning with my 45-foot trailer. In like 3 minutes we had 2 inches of standing water around the camper. So with that in mind I crawled in for the night only to have dreams all night that I was stuck in Seymour Wisconsin and couldn’t get out of the mud pit. Well the Sun came up and there was still standing water every where But I locked the hubs in and fired up the Grunt truck and tried to back up and get lined up with the gate to get out of there, But with in 10 feet I was just spinning my clay filled tires gone no where. Will I figured I might as well take ShaZam off the trailer and try pulling the grunt truck out that way but then out of the corner of me eye I seen this big Farm tractor driving in the parking lot next to the fair grounds. Seems there a Farm Tractor dealership next door. So I took a walk over there and asked if they’d send a tractor over to pull Dean and me out of there. They said sure we will, so 20 minutes later they showed up with a brand New Big *** Four wheel drive Case to pull me out seeing Dean had managed to get out onto the track after getting his 4 wheel drive to lock in and made it out into the parking lot.
So now we only had 9 hours to kill till the pull tonight in Cedarburg WI and it’s only a 2-hour drive. So we got some breakfast and headed down that way, Pulling into the parking lot 2:30 p.m. and found our parking spot there for the evenings pull. Getting here early always get you the best parking spots. So with 7 hours to kill and driving always seems makes me tired I took a little nap till 5 p.m. when all the noise from the track crew woke me up. As I came out of my Camper I see Jimmy’s here with 007 again as we walked by I asked if the sled was set like last night, And Jimmy Smiled and said yes it is, So cool beans where going to fly again tonight. So Dean and I took a walk to the fair for supper and found a nice food booth that was selling Philly Steak sandwiches So I got one of those and a Pulled Pork sandwich for later tonight after the pulls over. I always get the munches after the food booth seems to close. So we have the drivers meeting and Bud the Track Boss explains to us that at 9:20 p.m. theirs going to be a big kaboom fire works. That’s there signal that in 10 minutes there’s going to be a 30-minute fire works show that the fair board wants the truck pull to stop for until the fireworks are done. So Ok we get the show going for the night the NEW Super Stock trucks are the second to last class for the night seeing there's a group of Badger Open stock trucks pulling in Union Grove WI and there going to get here later.
Well this week started out on Tuesday Night where the NEW Mod trucks where pulling at the Outagamie County fair in Seymour WI. This is a Tractor pull with a few Truck Classes mixed in on a ½ mile oval clay track. They did have it set-up right with two Tracks one for the Local Farm Tractors Classes and we ran on the inner track with the big Tractors and Trucks on the famous 007 Sled of Jim Luedtke’s. I started the night out with my Mod gear in the box but Jimmy was letting the trucks fly down the track at some pretty good speed tonight. So during a pause in the action due to a leaking air hose on the sled I switched to my Super Stock gear to give me a little more wheel speed during the pull. After the airline was fixed they had Three Mod Diesel Trucks and then we switched to 4x4 Mod, Which I was the first puller in the class. So after watching the Mod Diesel trucks pull they where out in the 330 foot mark, I figured if I make it that far I’ll have to keep my pull and sit and watch. Well as I was driving onto the track I saw Jimmy Shift a gear in the weight box tranny so I don’t know if he sped the box up or down but that was the only change he made to the sled.
So I got ShaZam all line up and was given the OK tighten the chain up signal. So with the chain tight the flag man gives me the green flag, I slip ShaZam into 3rd and I played Tractor with the tires for about 5 feet then I gave ShaZam full throttle and the tach went to 7800 rpm’s and floated between 78 and 8000 rpm’s during the whole run as I let the tires eat that Seymour Clay until I seen that 22 dreg’s of banking coming from number one corner, and I felt the last stage hit and ShaZam came to a neck snapping stop at 315.83 with a track speed of 25.80 mph. This is the fastest ShaZam ever went down a track. Now the flag guy say you going to keep it or turn it down. It looked like I was deep enough into the corner so I said ya I’ll keep it. With that I drove ShaZam back to my trailer that I had parked on the infield of this Clay track. So Up next was Cold Ethel with my Beer Drinking buddy Craig Emmes Driving, Craig had a little bounce coming out of the hole but he recouped from that and was Hammer down in no time flying down the track. Craig had flash backs from his pull in Gillett WI a few weeks back where he got out of the throttle at the end of the track and lost all his momentum to finish 2nd for the night, Tonight he stayed in the throttle till the sled stopped him at 313.01 with a track speed of 25.30 mph. My Next beer Drinking buddy was up Dean Wagner with Burn n desire, Now Dean was having a hard time figuring which gear he wanted to run tonight He had the big one in and then at the last minute he switch back to his smaller gear. Well he should have left the bigger one in the box, When the pan hit Dean was sitting at 288.26 and had a track speed of 24.70 mph. So Ok at this time I went to ask Jodi just where I stood in the standings Cuz I didn’t know my footage at that time. When she said I was 1st I said Hot Dame, But then Me other beer drinking Buddy Bruce was up next with Poker Face and he’s been putting a whooping on me 6 out of the 8 pulls this season. But tonight was ShaZam’s Night to shine, Bruce left the line great but his tires never caught up to the track and he was just spinning his wheels till the last stage hit and stopped him at the 300.03 mark with a Track speed of 25.40 mph. With one truck left to pull I said the worst I can do tonight is 2nd place. So Mike Kauss was the last truck to hook to Jimmies sled for the night, As I left the line His motor never got up on his Cam and he bogged really bad as he passed the 75 foot mark he stabbed the clutch once to try and get his r’s up but he knew he was done for the night. Mike got to the 276.19 mark before the 007 sled stopped him. So 1st place here tonight and a big o pay check for me.
So Ok we get all loaded up and chained down Dean and I where having a few beers to celibate my win tonight, Bruce and Craig loaded up and headed home seeing they both had to work in the morning. And then the Rains came, when I heard the first wave of rain drops the size of baseballs hitting the trailer I said to me self I done ****ed up here. I’m in the middle if a Clay Bowl and there’s no way in hell I’ll be able to get out of here in the morning with my 45-foot trailer. In like 3 minutes we had 2 inches of standing water around the camper. So with that in mind I crawled in for the night only to have dreams all night that I was stuck in Seymour Wisconsin and couldn’t get out of the mud pit. Well the Sun came up and there was still standing water every where But I locked the hubs in and fired up the Grunt truck and tried to back up and get lined up with the gate to get out of there, But with in 10 feet I was just spinning my clay filled tires gone no where. Will I figured I might as well take ShaZam off the trailer and try pulling the grunt truck out that way but then out of the corner of me eye I seen this big Farm tractor driving in the parking lot next to the fair grounds. Seems there a Farm Tractor dealership next door. So I took a walk over there and asked if they’d send a tractor over to pull Dean and me out of there. They said sure we will, so 20 minutes later they showed up with a brand New Big *** Four wheel drive Case to pull me out seeing Dean had managed to get out onto the track after getting his 4 wheel drive to lock in and made it out into the parking lot.
So now we only had 9 hours to kill till the pull tonight in Cedarburg WI and it’s only a 2-hour drive. So we got some breakfast and headed down that way, Pulling into the parking lot 2:30 p.m. and found our parking spot there for the evenings pull. Getting here early always get you the best parking spots. So with 7 hours to kill and driving always seems makes me tired I took a little nap till 5 p.m. when all the noise from the track crew woke me up. As I came out of my Camper I see Jimmy’s here with 007 again as we walked by I asked if the sled was set like last night, And Jimmy Smiled and said yes it is, So cool beans where going to fly again tonight. So Dean and I took a walk to the fair for supper and found a nice food booth that was selling Philly Steak sandwiches So I got one of those and a Pulled Pork sandwich for later tonight after the pulls over. I always get the munches after the food booth seems to close. So we have the drivers meeting and Bud the Track Boss explains to us that at 9:20 p.m. theirs going to be a big kaboom fire works. That’s there signal that in 10 minutes there’s going to be a 30-minute fire works show that the fair board wants the truck pull to stop for until the fireworks are done. So Ok we get the show going for the night the NEW Super Stock trucks are the second to last class for the night seeing there's a group of Badger Open stock trucks pulling in Union Grove WI and there going to get here later.