Author: Paul Hoblin
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467724556
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Did you know that tractor-pulling vehicles can have as many as six engines in one tractor? These engines come from vehicles such as jets, speedboats, and tanks! The tractors need as much power as they can get to drag huge amounts of weight down the track. In fact, tractor pulling is considered the world's most powerful motor sport. Enter the Dirt and Destruction Sports Zone to learn about the history, mechanics, technology, and the famous drivers connected to tractor-pulling competitions. You'll learn: • Who decided one engine just wasn't enough for his tractor. • How a blind tractor puller can compete and win. • Which rules have made tractor pulling safer. • How you can try tractor pulling. Are you into sports? Then get in the zone!
Tractor Pulling
Author: Paul Hoblin
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467724556
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Did you know that tractor-pulling vehicles can have as many as six engines in one tractor? These engines come from vehicles such as jets, speedboats, and tanks! The tractors need as much power as they can get to drag huge amounts of weight down the track. In fact, tractor pulling is considered the world's most powerful motor sport. Enter the Dirt and Destruction Sports Zone to learn about the history, mechanics, technology, and the famous drivers connected to tractor-pulling competitions. You'll learn: • Who decided one engine just wasn't enough for his tractor. • How a blind tractor puller can compete and win. • Which rules have made tractor pulling safer. • How you can try tractor pulling. Are you into sports? Then get in the zone!
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 1467724556
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Did you know that tractor-pulling vehicles can have as many as six engines in one tractor? These engines come from vehicles such as jets, speedboats, and tanks! The tractors need as much power as they can get to drag huge amounts of weight down the track. In fact, tractor pulling is considered the world's most powerful motor sport. Enter the Dirt and Destruction Sports Zone to learn about the history, mechanics, technology, and the famous drivers connected to tractor-pulling competitions. You'll learn: • Who decided one engine just wasn't enough for his tractor. • How a blind tractor puller can compete and win. • Which rules have made tractor pulling safer. • How you can try tractor pulling. Are you into sports? Then get in the zone!
Truck and Tractor Pulling
Author: Jeff Savage
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781560652601
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Vehicles and techniques used in pulling competitions.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781560652601
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Vehicles and techniques used in pulling competitions.
A Full Pull
Author: Geoff Ashcroft
Publisher: Farming Press Limited
ISBN: 9780852362617
Category : Motorsports
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Details the sport of tractor pulling.
Publisher: Farming Press Limited
ISBN: 9780852362617
Category : Motorsports
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Details the sport of tractor pulling.
Truck and Tractor Pullers
Author: Jeff Savage
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
ISBN: 9780382392962
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Here's a front row seat at an awesome, ear-splitting display of power as mighty machines haul heavy sleds down the track. Full-color photos.
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
ISBN: 9780382392962
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Here's a front row seat at an awesome, ear-splitting display of power as mighty machines haul heavy sleds down the track. Full-color photos.
Kids Meet the Tractors and Trucks
Author: Andra Serlin Abramson
Publisher: Applesauce Press
ISBN: 160433326X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Kids Meet the Tractors and Trucks features amazing photographs of all the different sorts of rigs, trailers, tractors, and more that fascinate children. This fun, lay-flat book showcases different trucks on full-color, die-cut, 2-page spreads. A new die-cut on every spread! They tower over us, moving our food and goods where they need to go. They roll past us on the highway, metal hubcaps gleaming. They shake the ground as they pass. They lift, carry, push, pull, and more. Trucks and tractors never fail to amaze, and in this book, they roar to life as they seem to pop off the die-cut pages. Each spread features a new truck on the road, on the farm, in the city, or on the construction site, and is jam-packed with informative and interesting facts presented in a reader-friendly manner that’s easy for kids to understand.
Publisher: Applesauce Press
ISBN: 160433326X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Kids Meet the Tractors and Trucks features amazing photographs of all the different sorts of rigs, trailers, tractors, and more that fascinate children. This fun, lay-flat book showcases different trucks on full-color, die-cut, 2-page spreads. A new die-cut on every spread! They tower over us, moving our food and goods where they need to go. They roll past us on the highway, metal hubcaps gleaming. They shake the ground as they pass. They lift, carry, push, pull, and more. Trucks and tractors never fail to amaze, and in this book, they roar to life as they seem to pop off the die-cut pages. Each spread features a new truck on the road, on the farm, in the city, or on the construction site, and is jam-packed with informative and interesting facts presented in a reader-friendly manner that’s easy for kids to understand.
Truck and Tractor Pullers
Author: Rosemary Grimm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896863583
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the history, equipment, safety rules, contests, and other aspects of truck and tractor pulling competition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896863583
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the history, equipment, safety rules, contests, and other aspects of truck and tractor pulling competition.
Rumely Oil-Pull Tractor
Author: Edward a 1882-1964 Rumely
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342705894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342705894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Huge Machines
Author: Kim Mitzo Thompson
Publisher: Twin Sisters®
ISBN: 1599228211
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Children will learn about all of the different machines that farmers use each day! "Trucks, tractors, forklifts, and bulldozers, too. Any huge machine, I like. How about you?" Young readers will be amazed by what trucks, tractors, forklifts and other huge machines can do in this brightly-illustrated rhyming book! "Huge Machines" is a great book to reinforce early literacy skills.
Publisher: Twin Sisters®
ISBN: 1599228211
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Children will learn about all of the different machines that farmers use each day! "Trucks, tractors, forklifts, and bulldozers, too. Any huge machine, I like. How about you?" Young readers will be amazed by what trucks, tractors, forklifts and other huge machines can do in this brightly-illustrated rhyming book! "Huge Machines" is a great book to reinforce early literacy skills.
The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Author: Finn Murphy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608727
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608727
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.
Tractor-Trailer Trucker
Author: Joyce Slayton Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN: 1582460108
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Introduces the various parts of a tractor trailer and their functions as a truck driver prepares to take his "big rig" on the road.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1582460108
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Introduces the various parts of a tractor trailer and their functions as a truck driver prepares to take his "big rig" on the road.