Re: (ET) Re: Parts....

["MR23=Christopher Meier \(Mtka, MN, USA\)" <mr23 worldspy net>]

I'm with you, David.  Grass is almost long enough to cut,
and I'm expecting my new deck rollers to arrive any day
now...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Roden (Akron OH USA)" <roden ald net>
To: "Elec-Trak" <elec-trak cosmos5 phy tufts edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 9:37 PM
Subject: RE: (ET) Re: Parts....


> From:           "Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>
> 
> > The ET is fun but to be honest, it will
> > never be more than an collectors oddity at this point in time. 
> 
> I was surprised to see Larry write this, and even more surprised that no 
> one challenged it.  I may be naive, since I've never owned a gas tractor 
> (never had an excus ... uh, need for one until I moved to my present 
> home).  But I find that the ET handles my needs just fine.  It shoves 
> snow out of my driveway, whacks down the weeds in the field behind the 
> barn, and soon will till up the garden for us.
> 
> I'm not a collector.  I bought it to use.  I don't want it to be pretty, 
> because then I'd hesitate to work it hard.  It's scratched, dirty, and 
> rusty, but it keeps on running.  It makes no fumes (my neighbor's old 
> lawn tractor had an exhaust stack right in front of his face!).  It's 
> quiet enough that I can mow after dark, and I have.
> 
> That doesn't sound like a collector's oddity to me.  But perhaps that's 
> not what Larry meant?