Re: (ET) New to list server

["David Roden" <roden ald net>]

Dean, welcome to the list!  It sounds like you have lots to contribute.  

As a relatively new ET user, I especially enjoyed your comments about the 
snow thrower.  I have not been pleased with mine, but I'll try it your 
way before I give up.  So far I find that the blade works better for my 
snow.

Finding attachments seems to have gotten challenging.  There are several 
collectors who want to have every accessory, whether they need it or not 
(that is not a criticism), and they are ready to pounce on just about any 
machine that surfaces in case it has some attachment they don't yet have.

For locating attachments, as for locating ETs, you might try to identify 
a good-sized suburban development near you, one which has been in 
existence for at least 30-40 years and which has large lots.  Subscribe 
to their newspaper and tabloid shopper paper.  You may have a wait, but 
eventually you'll find an ad from someone who is moving and doesn't want 
to take the ET, or is giving up the house and moving to a condo, or the 
child of someone who's recently passed away leaving an ET, or someone who 
just wants to clean out the storage shed.

After you cannibalize the goodies you'll end up with a bunch of moribund 
ETs behind your garage, but you can probably fix them up and sell them 
for a few hundred bucks each, with a mower and blade, to people like me 
who just want to have something affordable and exhaust-fumes-free to cut 
grass and move snow.

Good luck to you.  Don't worry about long posts -- I'm looking forward to 
reading more of your comments.


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