Brad (and Amy) Bickles Beautiful Baby

What a bunch of "B's". Congratulations to Brad and Amy Bickle. Libby Corrine Bickle was born on June 2nd . All are doing well and are amazed at the wonder of God's handy work in creating new life. It is truly a miracle!!
Congratulations again!!!!!
Hope to see you ALL soon cheering on that light blue Ford!!! :-) (and the Lil White one too!! :-))

Thought for the Day: EVERYTHING that has life, has that life breathed into it from God. We will pray that someday very soon you will accept His gift of un-ending Life, only that one really counts!!! lw

Busy weekend

Well we made it back from CA. My wife and I went to "sunny" California for our 17th anniversary. It was a great time, sun struggled a few days to come out but was still a beautiful and relaxing get away.
Hoping to get to Muskegon this Friday night to get a couple test hooks in. Doing a Carb change and would like to make sure we have the jets dialed in. If all goes well we hope to head to Marshall on Saturday. Sounds like we need to be there around 3:00 or so.
We changed some of the hitch height brackets around to save a little weight in the rear and it lookes like we built one of them maybe a bit on the "light" side. Had a bit of a bow in the cross piece when Lil Whitey got back from Remus so we added a couple pieces of flat stock to give a bit more "beef" to it. Hopefully that will eliminate that problem.
Hope ya'll can make it out to Muskegon or Marshall. See ya then.

Remus

Lil Whitey made it to Remus for a couple hooks. Brad Hyma was the "hired gun". Sounds like it went well, Ed Aten and his "Silver Bullet" kinda cleaned up sounds like, apparently he was not just sitting around all winter?!?!?! Sounds like it went good Ed, congratulations. Brad / Ed feel free to comment.......tell us all about it.

Remus Test & Tune

We will not be able to go to Remus Test & Tune. Our little Emma turns 9 this week and she is having a party that day!! Ya'll do some major testing & tuning without us, hopefully we wont need much of that!!

Warsaw IN Test n tune / open class

Went down to Warsaw Indiana last Saturday to do some testing and they had a couple open classes at night. Hooked first time with normal STS tires, big carb, 6200#. First hook of the year, track was really soft, didn't get much ground speed. Was a good hook. We then put the smaller carb on seemed to do about the same, the larger carb seems to only help on the top end and with not getting much ground speed the top end speed was low. We then put on the 35" tires (not much tread on them, it seems to come up missing after taking out on the road for a galavant), those tires seemed to get more tire speed but had pretty bad bounce. About the same distance, maybe a bit shorter. Test n tune was done by then. We set it up to run the 6500 open class. We used the 1250 carb, 33"STS, and added weight in front to get the weight. Ended up with a 304' hook. There was a turbine tractor and an Alcohol tractor in this class as well. The turbine pulled a 301' and change, (he had to hit the brake, was headed hard left) and the Alky about took it around the track. So.......we beat a turbine......got smoked by an Alky........AND gave lessons about spark plugs to ALL those oil burners!!!!! Gotta give you guys a hard time, after all you guys are good at dishing it out as well. :-)
Was a fun day. Brad B and Brad H both went with and helped tremendously in the pits and video camera. Thanks guys!!! I had a lot of fun.
Bickle is "upgrading" as well this winter and will be "playing for real" in a few weeks. Can't wait for the unveiling Brad. Also his wife is due to deliver a new little baby for them in next few weeks. Hope all goes well Brad & Amy!!

Gonna be hookin soon

Heard rumor of a test-n-tune down south, Haisley Machine, April 25th. Not sure will be back together by then, reworking the hitch a bit. Changing a the weight configuration a bit as well. If we don't make this one will try to the test and tune up to Remus on May 23.

New club website

There is a new website representing the pulling club. The prior "Michigan Farm Stock Tractor Pullers Association" can now be found at mttpull.com

Check it out!!