"Also, a dealer who sells large mowers and tractors probably already does business with a finance source concrete driveways 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 industrial markets." what kind of guarantee comes with this?" 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, who probably bought it new when truman was president, traded it in on a new kubota.

landscape company goes publicin 1998, southern tree & landscape -- along with six similar firms scarifier -- went attachment public on the nyse to form land care usa. (this company was later acquired by service master, which merged concrete fence it with trugreen/chemlawn.)then, braswell discovered an amazing australian scarifier skid-steer product that launched him into a new career.creation of toro dingo opens multiple marketsthe product -- a small utility loader -- allows its user to apply hydraulic power with a variety of attachments. braswell brought the technology to the united states, then later sold the rights to toro.compact hydraulic equipment, braswell saw, could be a way to serve many industries such as landscaping, fencing, nursery, irrigation, utilities, construction, cable installation, rental and even roofing.

even attachment if the price had been higher, we probably would have bought it. i''m a sucker for old gray tractors. my late grandfather had an old ford he used to clip pastures concrete countertop and scarifier with a clattering sickle bar. my 78-year-old father, don, still uses an old gray tractor to plow snow and mow at his place in delaware, ohio. it''s a ferguson t0-30 made in 1951--the year i was born. i learned at 10 to attachment drive on that tractor, under dad''s close supervision, of course.dad got the tractor in 1956, not long after he bought 15 acres just west of delaware and put up one of the first pole barns in the area. "i took it on a trade, sight unseen, as credit on a down payment on a piece of real estate," he recalls. "the buyer was $1,100 short. he offered me the tractor with a two-bottom plow, rear manure scoop and a two-row cultivator.

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