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After a successful inaugural year in 2011, The Ohio State University Quarter Scale Tractor Team will be hosting the annual Fall Classic Garden Tractor Pull at the Farm Science Review in London, OH on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 5:00 pm.
Fall Classic Tractor Pull

FSR Tractor Pull

2nd Annual Fall Classic Garden Tractor Pull at The Farm Science Review

Sponsored By: Quarter-Scale Tractor Design Team at The Ohio State University

Sanctioned By: OGTPA 

After a successful inaugural year in 2011, The Ohio State University Quarter Scale Tractor Team will be hosting the annual Fall Classic Garden Tractor Pull at the Farm Science Review in London, OH on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 5:00 pm.The Ohio State University Quarter Scale Tractor Team (QST) is a group of engineering students that build a ¼ scale tractorand compete against other university teams at a national competition. The Fall Classic is a garden tractor pull that was started by QST  as a fundraising opportunity. The first year was a great success attracting nearly 30 different teams. QST is expecting this to be another fantastic event in 2012 coinciding with the Farm Science Review’s 50th Anniversary.

 Tractor pull kid

The weight classes for this year’s event are as follows:

850 lbs. Youth Stock     

850 lbs. Stock

950 lbs. Hot Stock Single

950 lbs. Stock

950 lbs. Youth Stock

1050 lbs. Hot Stock Single 

1050 lbs. Hot Stock Twins

1050 lbs. Stock Altered

1000 lbs. Altered Twins

1100 lbs. Hot Stock Twins

1100 lbs. Stock Altered 

1100 lbs. Altered Twins

1000 lbs. Pro Stock

1150 lbs. Pro Stock Diesel

1100 lbs. Pro Stock

1250 lbs. Pro Stock Diesel

Tractor pull awards

All Pulling Classes are to follow National Quarter Scale Rules

For further information on the pulls or sponsorship visit the Buckeye Pullers website http://buckeyepullers.org.ohio-state.edu/.  Pre-registration for the pulls will open July 1 and run through September 10, 2012. If you are interested in competing or helping to sponsor the event please contact Andrew Klopfenstein by email at Klopfenstein.34@osu.edu or Ira Kuenzli by email at Kuenzli.12@osu.edu.  If you have any questions about the tractor pull, please email ogtpa@windstream.net or buckeyepullers@gmail.com or call Doug Arnett (OGTPA) 330-569-8945, Brian Retych (OGTPA) 440-537-0304, Andrew Klopfenstein (QST) 419-786-9840.

 

This year’s Farm Science Review will be held Sept. 18-20 at the Molly Caren Agricultural Center
in London, Ohio. Tickets are available for sale at local agribusinesses and any OSU Extension
office for $5 in advance, or $8 at the gate. Children 5 and under are free. For more information,
go to fsr.osu.edu.

 

Farm Science Review is sponsored by the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental
Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development
Center. It attracts more than 140,000 visitors from all over the country and Canada, who come for
three days to peruse 4,000 product lines from 600 commercial exhibitors, and learn the latest in
agricultural research, conservation, family and nutrition, and gardening and landscape.