Chase brunsch spins around a baseball bat during the dawes county fair rubber check race at the dawes county fairgrounds thursday.
What is a rubber check race.
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Scottsbluff county fair rubber check race august 2 2017.
In past years averages of 13 to 15 teams have entered the event.
Cox said the rubber check race comes from a time when the agricultural community was trying to make the best of a bad situation.
The rubber check race is a fast paced timed relay where teams go head to head in order to get the rubber check across the finish.
1st scotts bluff county is home of one of the most unique relay races around the rubber check race.
Two bit ranch takes the rubber check race championship title for the third year in a row.
Jake engelman wheels jacob boucher over the finish line during the rubber check race at the chaffee county fair thursday.
Scotts bluff county rubber check race mitchell nebraska.
Heath gray kyle westover chastin hill garret gray.
This is an event you don t want to miss.
It s not the standard relay race as this one involves two horses a four wheeler a wheelbarrow and four team members.
It started in the 80s when the ag economy was in really bad.
A durometer is a tool specifically designed to determine the hardness of the rubber compound a tire is constructed from.
The race begins with one competitor on a horse racing around the arena twice before handing a baton to his teammate on an all terrain vehicle.
During his leg of the race brunsch and other racers had to spin.
Scotts bluff county fairgrounds.