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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Noting how much weight is required for “wheels” I would suggest a stone boat version. A stone boat is a type of sledge with wide runners designed to be pulled on dirt or grass. I can even document a horse pulled version of a stone boat. Such a device requires a lot more effort to pull but still loads up proportionally, thus it requires much less weight to be put on it and most importantly transported to events. </span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I like the idea of basing the game on how many times its own weight the dog pulls because if there are not large numbers of dogs playing the pull game they can still be fairly compared with each other... </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px;">dogs to begin pulling a load of 1/2 their weight</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I would go for a longer track- say fifty or one hundred feet and requiring the dogs to pull every round. This makes the competition more closely represent what a real working dog might have to do...</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[Plus] more endurance requires a healthy and appropriately fed animal minimizing the benefit of starving a dog before a competition [to game a weight-based system]...</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">What we need to actually do this:</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Space to do it</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Stone boats</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A stack of bricks</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Harness to fit the dogs pulling (This normally be responsibility of the dog owners. I can lone what I have to those it will fit)</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Scales to weigh in the dogs.</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Stopwatch</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">a couple of whistles</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I can supply the stone boat, bricks, and harness that fit the dogs I have now.</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I will make a quick and sleazy stone boat for smaller dogs so we can have a competition for all who wish to participate (my current one is pretty heavy and would be too big for small dogs).</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I can teach how to make the harness</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I can teach how to train your dog for weight pull</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I am willing to see about what it would cost to buy a scales.</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If this catches on I will build period versions of the stone boats.</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">We would also need chairs and table for a “list table”</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ropes and flags to mark off the tracks and whatever site permissions the autocrats require.</span>
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| − | <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[[File:GeraldWeightpull01.jpg|320x240px|Starter]][[File:GeraldWeightpull02.jpg|320x240px|Starter]]</span>
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