Lena WI Pull

Lena WI

So I pull in the pits at Lena and it's 96 dreg. with 95% humidity, We get situated and then I here some one say there a storm on it's way, So I fired up my Lap Top and got Weather .com on it and sure enough there was this big old storm cell heading for Lena. So they took action and covered the track and as the rains hit My Grandson and I took cover in the camper and watched 20 yr old video's of Me and my Buddies Tom, David, Larry Fishing up North long before I got into Truck Pulling. Boy that brought back lots of memoirs. So the storm came blew things around tip over three porta-podies and moved the camper around a bit. I had to look outside to make sure I wasn't in funnel cloud.
So after the rain stopped the track crew jumped into action and got the track ready for the pull. As they where working the track up someone said they should run Mod 4x4 first to help work the track up. So I called Jodi and asked who I had to talk to too make the change in the line up for the day, and she pointed me to Lance. So binge bang boom I set the wheels in motion to have Mod as one of the early classes of the day.
So with the decision made I had to change tires and inform all the Super guys to switch tires also. So the pull started a little late due to the rain but we where up and running by 6:30 p.m. with two stock classes then Mod 4x4 , First up was Bruce with Bad to the Bone and he pulled the sled 333.31 feet, Next up was Steve Swanson and he pulled the sled 315.68 feet, ShaZam was up next and I Dropped to my Middle gear for this class and got hooked to the sled. As I took off from the line I eased it out for the first 20 feet then it was Hammer down and the tach zing up to 7900 and as I headed down the track. When Pat dropped the last stage on me I was sitting at 322.96 feet and in 2nd place, So now I pulled ShaZam onto the trailer and came back to watch the rest of the class run. Next up was Junk Yard Dog Sheila Whaled on John's Truck hard right out of the hole and made a good run but stopped short at the 318.70 foot mark. Next up was my Beer Drinking Buddy Craig and he really like this early Mod class today, Seeing how after he gets done pulling today He can start enjoying his favorite drink. So as Craig came out of the hole his truck picked up a few Whoopy Whoo's but leveled out and he made his way down the track and as the last stage hit Cold Ethyl Came to a stop at the 321.23 mark, So I called Jodi to see how close Craig was to my pull and she said he was just 1.73 feet behind ShaZam. So I made a note of his Tire marks on the track. Next up was Bruce with Poker Face and as he made his way Down the track He just barley made it past Craig's ruts so I thought I was still holding on to 2nd place, Next up was Derek Peetz and he had some issues coming off the line on his first try Like something had gotten wet during the rain, But on his second try he made it out of the hole and ran his truck down to the 315.90 mark. Next up was Jeff Kakuk and as he was heading down the track his rear end decided to stop working and he mustered a pull of 272.64. Fast Forward was up next with Randy Kleikamp doing the driving duties today, As Randy was backing up to the sled I had a flash back to the Woody Nationals when I hear the motor rev up as he inched closer to the sled. Luckily Randy kept it under control and kept it off the sled this time. He got the chain tight and came off the line hard and had a good run going when the last stage hit he fell into Poker faces ruts and I thought I dodged another bullet. But as I soon found out Poker face got by me with a pull of 323.63 beating me by .67 and Fast forward had a pull of 323.54 beating me by .58 So using the ruts on the track didn't work out to good for me today. Last truck in the class was Bob Ernts he pulled the sled 292.76 .
So Top 5 in Mod tonight.
1 Bruce Wagner BttB
2 Bruce Wagner PF
3 Fast Forward
4 ShaZam
5 Cold Ethyl


So OK we had Five other classes to go thru before Super Stock trucks came up so I took my time and change tires and got ShaZam ready. Chatted with a few Co worker that came down to see the pull. Finally at 10:30 p.m. it's time for the Super Stock Truck. Tonight ShaZam was 8th out of 12 truck in the class.
1st up was Dallas Luther with Mean Streek he made a flawless run again and landed his truck at the 310.66 mark. Next up was Tom Scheffen and he Yanked the sled to the 305.02 mark. Next up was Junk Yard Dog with John Driving this class and he made a solid run putting his truck at the 306.17 mark. Next up was Bruce With Bad to the Bone now I was in Staging and watch Bruce take off and as he headed down the track I hear Jodi announced he took over 1st place with a pull of 311.10, So I was kicking around weather to gear up or down for my run with two truck in front of me I had to decide NOW. Next up was Bob Ernst and as Bob was heading down the track his rear end gave up and broke stopping him at the 293.07 mark. I stood pat with my Gear selection and as Steve Swanson left the line he made his way down to the 304.22 mark. I motion to Pat to put the sled Far left hoping to get some Speed out of the wetter part of the track. So I pull ShaZam onto the track and get hooked up to the sled Pull the chain tight and find my line I wanted to pull. Brought the r's up and left the line with out any chatter and 50 feet out I'm Wide Open and the tach reads 7900 as I made my way down the track right where I want to turn the motor. We had a good head of steam and slid to a stop at the 306.08 mark. Putting ShaZam in 4th place with three truck to go. So up next was Ben Holtger and he made his run and Pat stopped him at the 302.49 mark. Next up was Mike Kauss and he's had one bad year of pulling. First off his motor wasn't ready for the first pull then when he finally got it in his truck he broke a piston ring and had to pull it apart and fix it missing two pulls, then when he came back he had front end chatter really bad at Rosholt and broke his locker, then at Marible he broke his traction bar and ended up blowing out his front tire. Well tonight his Front end was bouncing again and he made it to 303.33 mark. Last truck of the Class was Jack Peters and his run ended at the 287.03 mark.

So top 5 in Super Stock where.
1 Bad to the Bone
2 Mean Streek
3 Junk Yard Dog
4 ShaZam
5 Swamp Rat

OK this week I have Pulls in Green Lake on Thursday night, Corriagan's in DePere Friday night and Arlington WI on Saturday Night.

So See ya Next week.

Dan and ShaZam

Good read....................

Thanks,

Went to watch my good friend Terry Hardesty pull today. Lots of High winding BBF's there. very enjoyable. Took lots of video but don't have a clue how too download them

Dan, do you have any recent videos of you pulling? The only ones i have seen are older on streetfire.net

Dallas Luther's Mom video's the Super Stock Class and I ask him to upload them to you tube for me. Thanks to both of them I know how hard it is to get someone to take video's every week.


Green Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUVhAYL27AM&feature=related

Oconto Super
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zcb02nEeLI&feature=related

Oconto Mod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hm4E-kx2co&feature=related

Maribel Super
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVVZ2S4yWAk&feature=related

Gillett Super
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvSz7QUpHfg&feature=related

Francis Creek Super
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGvlut2kaac&feature=related

Rosholt Super
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zgo7VCAQ0&feature=related

Maribel Friday Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43FExHHykL8&feature=related

Maribel Saturday Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F634BuWPWg&feature=related

Denmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0bwFKJZaVU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Lena WI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVo2O1_mTzc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


Dan

Awesome! Thanks Dan