Reading the Wall Street Journal and sipping coffee early this AM I came across another tractor-related article (a few months there was one on the rapidly escalating prices for vintage tractors), with video on the web site .... the World Plowing Championship, this time in Austria. Twenty-three countries with entrants. The rating system for fieldwork is ..... interesting (80 points for straightness, 60 points for burying surface greenery, 40 points for correct planting depth, and so on). No GPS or sideline coaching allowed. Seems a Steyr tractor and Austrian driver took the competition, as the Scottish winner of last year's competition had difficulties with the transition from the lighter/sandier Scottish soil and cut clumpy, uneven furrows. This stuff is more complicated than race car driving, which usually can concentrate on tire and suspension issues between racetracks.
Anyhow, cool stuff if you've ever tried to plow something (I have, to a very limited degree, and ........ I'd have earned 1/2 point, for showing up; winner of event had 350 points).
Anyhow, cool stuff if you've ever tried to plow something (I have, to a very limited degree, and ........ I'd have earned 1/2 point, for showing up; winner of event had 350 points).
