This tractor is owned by the AET (AG Engineering Technology) Club at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Located in Tifton GA. It has been pulling since the early 70’s. The tractor is named Cracker Jack, and is running a 301cid engine with two turbo’s. We are currently pulling with the Southern Pullers Association which covers north FL and South GA. The tractor is maintained by the AET students and driven by Ray Lundy and Todd Hicks.

This picture was taken at Brooks, Oregon July 2005. My son Luke was driving. It is an unrestored 1969 220 with 1650 total hrs. It does an awesome job of pulling. It weighs 14000 the sled is about 40,000 we have pulled it 300 plus feet many times we took two 1st places that day. the crowd really likes to see it pull with the duals straight pipe and that whistling turbo. My boys grew up tractor pulling now they let me know when the pulls are what a great thing to get kids involved with.

This tractor is some of the proof that Allis Chalmers made some of the best looking, toughest pulling tractors built in America.

The following is a little background for a picture that a co-worker brought in to work today(12-22-05). His mother Shirley wrote this to go with the picture.. C Tucker (wd45@cis.net).

The year was about 1942. The place was the Yonker farm at Tigerton, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. My dad, John Yonker, standing, had purchased this Allis Chalmers tractor. This was all he could afford and felt it would do the job. The young man at the wheel is my older brother, Arwell. He thought it was just the most fun thing to make the front wheels do a pop up. By the way, Dad bought this little machine in the city of Shawano, about 25 miles away. Arwell drove it home. Only thing is, it was dark when we came home and there were no lights on the tractor so we had to follow him with the car and provide light for him to see. The little girl in the background is me, Shirley. I was about 7 at the time. The load is a stack of manure that they are hauling to the field or garden. We didn't have a spreader, only a "stone boat." The stone boat was also used to smooth the gravel drive. That drive was about 3/4 of a mile long and in the Spring, after the thaw, it was not easy going. I remember riding the stone boat with my dad with one horse pulling it. Guess that must have been before the tractor. The house in the picture was created from logs with a roof of tarpaper. Sometimes when it rained we had leaks and had pots, pans, and buckets sitting around catching the drips. The logs were also seen on the inside of the house. When dad chinked them he would have someone on the inside to catch the mortar, or whatever he used, as it sometimes went straight through. My mother would paint and wallpaper those old logs to make them look as nice as she could.

The house consisted of a kitchen, a living room, my parent's bedroom and off the kitchen was a pantry and also the stairs to our bedrooms. The kitchen and the living room became one room one day when my mother got tired of the rooms being so small. She took a hammer and Waa-laa, we had the first "great room" in Shawano County!

Our house had a 'basement" also. In the pantry, under the stairs, there was a hole with a sort of ladder that one could go down to this dugout hole. We also had an outside entry with a real "cellar door." It was so cool down there that Mother set a bowl of Jell-O on the earthen floor and it would set even in the summertime. My parents raised sheep and if you look close you can see some of them on the hill in the background. Take notice of the railing around the yard. My dad made that for my mom so that she could plant her flowers and not worry about someone just driving onto the front yard and over her plants. She had a lovely bed of flowers right in the middle and I guess she felt they were safe with this "fence." The tree to the far left was one we (my little brother, Don and I) used to climb and thought we were pretty smart sitting on the lower limbs. Years later I went back for a look and couldn't believe how big that tree had grown. Well, I guess I have described everything in the picture except the grass in the fore ground and to be honest with you I don't know what kind it was--probably weeds.

Jason Schultz / Mike Schultz, Kimberly

Dad named it Blackjack because of the 21 theme. It has the 426 with 2 turbo's (3x4)

Owned by Mike Schultz 79%, I own 21% of it. I am on the father/son payment plan. That is our little joke. Our good friend and mechanic Don Coonrod drives it also.

Dad always said we would have a red one, but in 1990 he bought a D21. It was a farm stock pulling tractor owned by Mike Lebarge from Central City, Iowa. At the time it was called the Joker, and I remember the day we picked it up, I was so excited, I think I was 16 or so.

Dad started pulling it with the East Central Iowa Tractor Pulling Association in the Lim Pro Class. In the mid to late 90's, the club passed a rule that if you were under 430 cubes you could run twin chargers. Dad and Don tinkered with this a lot. In the winter of 2001-2002 we invested in a Datalog computer, had a lot of headwork done by Mark Colberg and new turbo's by Area Diesel. In 2002, 2003 and 2004 we won the 8500 lb Lim Pro Points race in the ECI, and if I were a better driver, we could have possibly gotten the 9500 lb Points Race in those years as well. For years the tractor was painted all black, there are some older pictures under the Random Page, but we said if we ever got her running hard, we would make it look real nice, and we are very proud of Blackjack today.

HOW DO YOU DEFINE A HOBBY, SOMETHING YOU ABSOLUTELY LOVE, THAT YOU WILL NEVER MAKE A DIME DOING, BUT WHO CARES! We especially want to thank Don Coonrod of Coonrod Performance located in Springville, IA. For everything that he has done for us.

I hope that by creating this site, we can bring more awareness to the AC Pullers and who knows, maybe get them back on top at the National Level. Thanks for your time. Jason Schultz Creator of TheFewTheProudTheOrange.com.

Blackjack at the Iowa State Fair in the Diesel Super Class-Jason Driving:

Blackjack Oskaloosa, IA in our Lim Pro Class-Dad Driving:

Blackjack Oskaloosa, IA in our Lim Pro Class-Jason Driving:

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