{"id":1266,"date":"2005-04-14T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2005-04-14T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T13:08:33","slug":"tractor_pulling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Pulling: John Oncken Takes a Local Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/business\/\/index.php?ntid=36098&amp;ntpid=10\">John Oncken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A little background on tractor Pulls. They began with farmers gathering on Sundays to see who had the best tractor. Farmers took turns pulling a flat stoneboat or sled onto which men jumped as it was pulled down a dirt track. When the weight was too much and the tractor stopped, the distance was measured. Tractor pulls took off as a sport with the advent of the modern &#8220;sled,&#8221; which gradually adds downforce weight.<\/p>\n<p>The Wileman brothers started a small tractor pull in Edgerton in 1995, Kraig says. &#8220;Kurt and I built the track and ran it for a few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the 140-cow dairy herd of Crazy Acres was sold in 1998, the Wileman brothers got serious about tractor pulling.<\/p>\n<p>A year later the boys were competing in local and statewide events with the Badger State Tractor Pullers Association. Their big boost came when they began using better engines.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oncken: A little background on tractor Pulls. They began with farmers gathering on Sundays to see who had the best tractor. Farmers took turns pulling a flat stoneboat or sled onto which men jumped as it was pulled down a dirt track. When the weight was too much and the tractor stopped, the distance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}