Can't Forget Saturday Night

See how busy I have been? I forgot one of the highlights this past week - Saturday Night at the races. Freeburg held it's annual Homecoming last weekend. On Friday nights they have the tractor pulls and then Saturday it's the trucks. LOTS of trucks. All makes and models, gas and diesel, old and new.

If you haven't been to a truck pull, imagine a 20' long trailer that sits very low to the ground and has wheels at the very back end - called a sled. They hook the sled to you with a big chain, give you the green light and you take off and pull it as far as you can. Oh, and there is this VERY heavy weight on the tail end - over the wheels to start - that moves forward on the trailer - towards your truck - as you are going down the track. The front of the sled eventually begins digging into the dirt.

Only the good ones get more than 150'. The best get 225' or so. The very best that night was a Dodge Ram Diesel, for the second year in a row, I might add. Some break things on their truck in the attempt - like U-joints. Thats the thing that connects the drive shaft to the rear-end.

Some of the guys are REALLY serious about their trucks. They have the monster, all-terrain tires; propane-cooled, chipped-up monster diesels; huge ladder-bar style arms holding the rear suspension in place. Big bucks. And the crowd was all into it, including us. We had a blast.

I took one of our flatbed straight trucks up to the race track about 7 AM Saturday morning and backed it up to the fence near the finish line. At race time we packed about 12 people on our 'stage' with lawn chairs and had a blast. I do have pictures but in the intrest of protecting the innocent, they will remain in my private collection. Sorry.