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Ed Hart

Ed Hart

Founder and first president of the National Tractor Pullers Association (NTPA), inducted into the NTPA Pulling Hall of Fame in 1980.

Sep 7, 2026

Breaking Barriers Podcast

Breaking Barriers Podcast

How the NTPA Changed Tractor Pulling | Ed Hart

Sep 7 · 1h 15m

Gary BontragerHOST
16:02
Where at Bethany, you were close enough to get people to come in and take a view.
Ed Hart
Ed HartGUEST
16:08
We had, you know, you were not that far from, but Bethany, La Crosse.
Ed Hart
Ed HartGUEST
16:13
And our third event was at Terre Haute, Indiana.
Ed Hart
Ed HartGUEST
16:16
That probably would have been a good one, wouldn't it? Oh, we filled the place.
Ed Hart
Ed HartGUEST
16:19
Yeah.
Ed Hart
Ed HartGUEST
16:20
That was another one when I got a good rent deal there.
Ed Hart
Ed HartGUEST
16:25
And the guys that ran the fair board, Don Smith, his uncle was Tony Holman.

51 MINS LATER

Gary BontragerHOST
68:00
I agree.

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