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The
first recorded "motorized" pulling events took place
in 1929 - one in Bowling Green, Missouri., and one in
Vaughnsville, Ohio.
Forty-One
years later, in 1970, four men from the Silk Hope and Snow Camp, NC
communities went to the National Tractor Pulling Finals in Ohio after
seeing an article in the Farm Journal.
After
two years and a lot of hard work in promoting and creating interest in
tractor pulling, they held their first pull in the Pleasant Hill, NC
Community. By 1973, they had formed the North Carolina Tractor
Pullers Association (NCTPA). Shortly thereafter, they were able to
purchase a 35,000 lb. Weight Transfer Machine from Ohio. They used this
Weight Transfer Machine until
June of 1975 at which time they upgraded to a new 68,000 lb. Weight
Transfer Machine along
with a portable scale that they purchased at a cost of $35,000.00
dollars.
At
that time, the NCTPA was the only sanctioned association in North
Carolina by the National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA) Inc.. During
this time, the East Coast Tractor Pullers Association also existed and
mainly ran pulls close to the southeastern coast of the country.
Sometime in the mid to late nineties, the East Coast Tractor Pullers
Association and the NCTPA merged to form the United Pullers of the
Carolinas. Today, the United Pullers sanction pulls in North and
South Carolina, Virginia, and Eastern Tennessee.
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