There’s nothing that unwinds Josh Campbell more than the distinctive Johnny Pop putt-putt sound of an old two-cylinder John Deere tractor and the power he feels pulling a 15- to 20-ton weight transfer sled. Relatively new to competitive tractor pulling, he is already a two-time national champion in the modified antique tractor class using tractors built through 1959.
“It’s something that is so totally different than most people do,” Campbell says. “It’s therapy for me to hear and preserve the old tractors.”
He needs the therapy, he says, after a labor-intensive summer of farming about 400 acres and raising pigs with
