Fully Loaded Takes the WIN in Goshen, Indiana!!!!

Out of a tough class of 10 great competitors, the Fully Loaded Team takes the win in Goshen Indiana! The team was the first hook, first class of the evening session in Goshen at the Elkhart County 4H fair. The Fully Loaded pulled 333 feet for the first hook and the officials decided to re weigh the sled which started the class over. After making some fuel and boost adjustments based on the computer readings, the team dropped to the last hook and took it out the gate for a distance of 345 feet to take the win! 

The team is currently heading down the road for a pull on Friday, July 29th in Evansville, Indiana. We now have a two point lead on the second place tractor, “Taking Care of Business” driven by Aaron Hull. But two points isn’t any too much! Anything can happen! Stay tuned to find out if we can hold on to first place in the points!

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Busy past couple of weeks for the Fully Loaded Team!

The past couple of weeks the Fully Loaded Team has been busy with, pulling, maintenance on the tractor,a and participating at several NAPA Auto Parts Stores for meet and greets!

We start off first in trying to catch up the webpage at Freeport Illinois where the Fully Loaded Team takes a second place finish in session one and then ends the weekend finishing 6th place.

The team then travels on the following weekend to Henry Illinois. The team had hoped for better placing, but ended up in 7th place but 5th place points standings in the Lucas Oil PPL Champions Tour points.

After these two events the team managed to remain first in points on the national circuit!

During the down time between Henry Illinois and Goshen Indiana, which were about two weeks apart from each other, the team did some preventative maintenance on the Fully Loaded as well as upgrading some rear end parts from heavy cast part to billet aluminum rear end housing cover and differential carrier! These we all made by Bill Humphrey at Humpco Machine in Salem Ohio.

As you can see, quite a bit of difference! This will allow approximately 70 or so lbs of increased moveable weight for the Fully Loaded. This is a big help when itcomes to attempting to properly balance the tractor at various events.

During our off weekend, on Friday, the team traveled to Carnegie, PA where we were setup on display at NAPA Auto Parts of Carnegie. It was a great time, but super hot! But fun was still had by all who attended.

The very next day, the team arrived in Adrian Michigan for a meet and greet ad the Lenawee County Fairgrounds Adrian/Blissfield NAPA Auto Parts Store annual Cruise-in Car and Motorcycle Show! Boy were there some neat cars there! We met a lot of great peoplewho, some who really didn’t know much at all about the tractor pulling sport. It was fun to share and explain to them exactly how our sport works! 


Moving on to our next event at Goshen, Indiana!

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Henry, IL Photo

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Henry, IL Video

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Henry, IL Video

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America’s Pull: Henry, IL Results

MAVTV UNLIMITED SUPER STOCK TRACTORS 
FLOATING FINISH
Finished Vehicle Driver Name City, State Brand  Distance
1 LESSONS LEARNED NEIL GETTINGER HAGERSTOWN, IN CASE 334.71
2 EXTREMLEY ARMED AND DANGEROUS TERRY BLACKBOURN BENTON, WI IH 334.22
3 INTERNATIONAL THREAT JOSH BLACKBOURN SHULLBURG, WI 331.18
4 FULL TILT MIKE NOVINGER SHELBYVILLE, MO MF 320.18
5 TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS AARON HULL DORR, MI JD 318.02
6 RUNNIN BARE JEFF  HIRT PORT CLINTON, OH IH 315.44
7 FULLY LOADED JEFF HOTHEM DELLROY, OH JD 311.85
8 FAST LANE JEFF HIRT PORT CLINTON, OH CASE 310.91
9 MMG 1000 AARON HULL WAUPUN, WI MMG 310.68
10 LONG MACHINE GLEN LONG ALDRICH, MO IH 308.81
11 THE SQUEALER DARREY MEERE OBLONG, IL JD 7720 307.89
12 DOMINATOR DEERE MICHELLE NOVINGER SHELBYVILLE, MO JD 295.29
13 OUT OF TIME AARON HULL WAUPUN, WI JD 290.93
14 DAD’S TOY RON BARGA ANSONIA, OH CASE IH 275.86
15 HOME BREW RAY GUMMERSHEIMER COLUMBIA, IL OLIVER 274.36
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Freeport, IL Photos

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Freeport, IL Videos

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Freeport, IL Results

Midwest Summer Nationals
Freeport, IL
July 8, 2016

MAVTV Unlimited Super Stocks – Unofficial Results

1 – Extremely Armed and Dangerous – Terry Blackbourn – 317.3
2 – Out of Time – Aaron Hull – 303.26
3 – Taking Care of Business – Aaron Hull – 303.23
4 – MMG 1000 – Lyle Hull – 298.75
5 – Dominator Deere – Michaele Novinger – 297.69
6 – Fully Loaded – Jeff Hothem – 294.54
7 – Runin Bare – Jeff Hirt – 294.19
8 – Full Tilt – Mike Novinger – 285.11
9 – Fast Lane – Jeff Hirt – 270.95
19 – International Threat – Josh Blackbourn – 269.72
11 – Dad’s Toy – Ron Barga – 261.01
12 – Lessons Learned – Neil Gettinger – 200.64

Midwest Summer Nationals
Freeport, IL
July 7, 2016

MAVTV Unlimited Super Stocks – Unofficial Results

1 – Lessons Learned – Neil Gettinger – 314.67
2 – Fully Loaded – Jeff Hothem – 307.85
3 – Taking Care of Business – Aaron Hull – 307.05
4 – MMG 1000 – Lyle Hull – 305.17
5 – Out of Time – Aaron Hull – 292.09
6 – Runin Bare – Jeff Hirt – 290.1
7 – Full Tilt – Mike Novinger – 286.84
8 – Dominator Deere – Michaele Novinger – 286.29
9 – International Threat – Josh Blackbourn – 276.36
10 – Home Brew – Ray Gummersheimer – 275.43
11 – Fast Lane – Jeff Hirt – 189.29
12 – Dad’s Toy – Ron Barga – 187.79

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Mound City Missouri ’16

The Fully Loaded Team ended up with a dual third place finish for the two day mound City Missouri Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League Event. This left the team having an 8 point lead over T.CO.B (310) who currently holds the second place position in the end of year points race followed closely by Lessons Learned (300), MMG 1000 (290), and Runin Bare (290) to finish out the top five.

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The tractor didn’t run super well the first night, and after some checking the team found that the front drive hub that runs the fuel, oil, and msd system had come loose and broke free from its intended location! After correcting that issues and running the valves to ensure proper adjustment the team headed then to the track in an attempt to get another win under their belt! The second night the track was a good track but a very tricky one. The team decided to try a “cross track” approach which proved to work out somewhat, but just not quite good enough, landing the team with yet another third place finish! The work to get the tractor back together with the front drive shaft issue paid off, but we didn’t go quite far enough to take the win.
The next event for the team will be a two day pull in Freeport Illinois for the Lucas Oil Pro Pulling League Midwest Summer Nationals, Thursday July 7th and Friday July 8th.

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