SMOKIN iRON
OTTERTAIL

TRUCK AND TRACTOR PULL

June 15th  & 16th, 2007

Thanks for visiting this web site and thank you for all you community volunteers who make this possible....

 

 

 

The field is Ready

2:00 p.m.

June 14, 2007
2:30 P.M.

The Day Before.........................it begins

Tractor Pull
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Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Almost there

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Mark

The first competitor to arrive in Ottertail City.  Thanks to all of you from all over the USA who have come to our community.

5:00 p.m. Friday
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Sponsored by Grass Roots of Ottertail.

Tom Meinhover

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The Environment

Welcome to Ottertail City.  The stage is set.  The volunteers, after months of preparation are in action mode.  Photo on top looking south  towards the pit area and to the left....your bleaches ready to be filled.
"We will be adding lots of photos and video as the days go by.  Keep checking.  Thanks for coming to Smokin Iron 2007"
Tom Meinhover
".......and now the moments of truth.  This picture was taken at 5:00 p.m. Thursday, June 14.  Cliff Christensen was checking the track, scrapped away an inch and half of soil and held up a dry dirt ball.  So now we wait.  5:05 and its raining.   Now go to the pictures of Friday and Saturday.

      Cliff holding dirt....that forms the basis of this wonderful track.

2:00 p.m.
Friday

Ottertaill Resident and volunteer Bill and
 Christine Schreier
Bill says:  "Christine's husband David got us locals  started into NTRA"

Christine says:  At the end of year, I know we will look back at our season and remember what a personal touch the Ottertail Community brings to us.  You don't feel like you are a visitor".

Doug Christen's family has been pullin' in '69 and helps with the NTRA web page. www.upmpullers.com    With friend Rich Moore they comment on the great local hospitality.  They do all the regionals and his dad Dennis is the drive. 

Eric Roggenkamp is from Bluffton, Minnesota and is one of announcers for Ottertail's Smokin;' Iron..He has been in business for 27 years  www.Eric'sMachinerysales.com 

"The drivers love this track....they say it's one of the best in the world."
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Larry Richrine, pictured above is the Director of Technical Safety for this Smokin Iron.  He has 148 agents with him around the country.  "We love this track, the area and people."

Early arrivals

Watching the locals set up the site for the Tractor and Truck Pull

This group is from Janesville, Wisc. and name of Minirod is Hell Raiser 2.  This is the first show that they have done this year.

They will win the show they say.  So far the treatment here in Ottertail city has been excellant but stop the rain.


This is Linda and Larry from Wisc and In

OtterTail Business Association
Hours of planning, Hours of set up

Volunteer and  Ottertail City Coordinator poses in front of the city's new water tower.  Lee says that the Smokin Iron gives lots of exposure to our community and that the Pullers are a very great bunch. 

 

Thanks Lee

 

Please check out these three additional web site for more story and pictures.  Keep checking for the next couple of weeks for additions.

 

Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Almost there

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Tractor Pull
Friday Night  7:00 p.m.
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Home

 

Opening Page
Getting Ready
4:00 p.m.
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Mike Johnson, pointing at camera, says (joke) "Get a picture of this...Cliff actually doing something." 

 

But really Cliff.... Thanks  for all  the genius you put into organizing this over the years.

It't Here
7:00 p.m.

June 15, 2007

IT'S SHOW TIME

AND.....GEESE