"Also, a dealer who sells large mowers and tractors boxscraper probably already does business with a finance source like Wells Fargo or Sheffield. With finance opportunities in place -- plus single products that serve multiple fields -- he''s in a position to enter several scarifier industrial markets." What kind of guarantee comes with this?" boxscraper I asked, suspiciously eyeing the few drops of oil on the pavement under the rear axle of an old gray Ford tractor."Well, none, actually," replied the man who had it sitting out by the road with a for-sale sign. "What you see is what you get--where is, as is."The tractor in question was a 1946 Ford 2N (see photo, Page 103). The four-cylinder engine had been overhauled a few years earlier, he said. Then an old Pennsylvania-Dutchman, scarifier who probably bought it new when Truman was president, traded it in on a new Kubota.

"That was way back in 1968," Braswell recalls boxscraper today. "One of the first things I learned was that mowing often leads to landscaping. And landscaping creates even scarifier more opportunity."What''s the greatest market change in last three decades?Braswell found even more business in tree care. His local company soon became Southern Tree & Landscape. It began, he recalls, with "nine employees in a small office trailer," and later grew to several hundred in multiple locations."New customers would often contact us to maintain their yards," Braswell explains, but "then they''d decide to do some landscaping and tree-planting. We became experts at both.""The biggest market change," Braswell emphasizes, "is that even people who love to do yard work decide to have someone else to do their maintenance. This opens all sorts of new markets."

PT-1800 Series riding mower features a 65-hp. diesel engine and turf-friendly, 4-wheel-drive articulated steering. Mows slopes with up to 45[degrees] angles. boxscraper Lifts up to 1,200 lbs. Accepts more than 50 front-mount attachments, including forks, post-hole digger, trencher, bucket, dirt/snow blade, aerator, rake, winch, sweeper, rotary tiller, dethatcher, scarifier and much more. Other models, as well as trailer packages, also available. Power Trac (PWTI, Inc.), P.O. Box 539, Tazewell, VA 24651. At a time when most teenagers look for a first car, boxscraper Roger scarifier Braswell of Charlotte, N.C., searched for a business loan.The ambitious high schooler bought two 30-inch Snapper riders and a 1960 Ford 250 truck, and he quickly launched a lawn-mowing business.

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