# real horse power!!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 28, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-horse-power/773246 "2016-11-28T00:09:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-horse-power/773246/21 "2016-11-29T05:03:41Z")

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It should be noted that the sleds for tractor pulls are built with increasing drag , so that there is no machine entered that cannot be stopped by it. spinning dirt

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-horse-power/773246/22 "2016-11-29T05:10:33Z")

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> [@svd678](#):
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> It should be noted that the sleds for tractor pulls are built with increasing drag , so that there is no machine entered that cannot be stopped by it. spinning dirt

Well, sometimes they “pull through” if they didn’t get the weight on fast enough. But they’ll stop him in the next round.

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