Brabec Brothers | 7x National Champions, The Country Dude & Tractor Pulling Legends

Just hang it up and quit.

And then our family life changed, too.

Yeah.

Dad and mom were no longer around.

Oh.

It's hard to be gone that much, probably.

And retire sometime.

So you guys had, well, about a 20, what, 27, 28 years? Yeah, pretty much.

I'll throw myself under the bus with my mathematics here.

Don't figure that correctly.

But, no, you had a good long run with it.

You accomplished a tremendous amount.

I would guess from just listening to you guys and how you're popping off all these wins, I mean, I'm sure you're well north of 100 probably.

Oh, I would imagine.

You know, with what you've done.

Yeah.

and i just find it interesting you know how the success how successful some of you guys were you talk a little bit about reliability i think at the levels that you guys pull there's certainly a different level of reliability i think with some of the things they're learning they're learning to finally get them to live but then they push them again and start breaking something else um i i know at the lower levels where i'm at it's pretty easy to run them a year and typically not have too much trouble but it's you're right when you get to the top end push it the way you guys were you're going to get into that reliability issue and some of that just well and the things they can make

or build today is so much further advanced than what we did like i said we use stock crank stock rods stock pistons right you know

And I catch some heat.

I shouldn't say I catch it, but I hear people frustrated.

You know, it's not really what, you know, stock pulling like it was.

And they're right about that.

I can't argue that.

At the same time, every motorsports you go to, you know, I don't care if it's straight line, you know, NHRA, NASCAR, they're...

People still like their brands, and you're still seeing them compete, and everything on those are the same way.