The front wheels of Joey Price's 1956 John Deere 820 lurched up a few inches. Its stacks fired a couple dozen rounds of diesel smoke rings a dozen feet in the sky. Price shifted down to neutral, threw his hands off the wheel and looked down at the massive tractor tracks that'd lugged a giant water drum a couple feet more than he had.

He didn't win the Class 14 tractor pull, one of the many Saturday events at the 2007 Deer Creek Days Festival in Glenrock.

"Never do," Price, from Douglas, said. "Just come here for fun, and I get it every time."

More and more pullers are.

"Really got a nice turnout today," Jerry Blom said. He won a couple of trophies Saturday, and said he'd put 'em up on the buffet with 20 or so others from past Glenrock pulls.

Casper resident Bob Jones brought five tractors that he and his grandsons entered in several events. Just four years ago, he said, that would've been about a third of the entries.

"They're gettin' a good deal goin' here," Jones said. "It's pretty big."

Now, he said, there's about 50 tractors. All kinds, too.

"It doesn't matter if you're green or not," Price, leaning against one of the many John Deeres at the Town Hall event, said. "Sort of."

Contact reporter Cory Matteson at (307) 266-0589 or cory.matteson@casperstartribune.net.