Re: (ET) Elec-trak Gone

["Dave & Deb" <daveb drizzle com>]

yeah same here I've been working with computers for 30 years and I still
can't get used to this idea of "virtual communities" but I'm glad to have
'em!  ;^)
Dave

> It's funny, but reading this message really made me aware of no being in
> the "current" generation.  Until the last sentence I was actually
> thinking that we were losing an Elec-Traker.  None of my kids would have
> started to think like that.  They've grown up in an environment where
> anything going on on a computer is inherently global!
>
> Travel well!
>
>>>> "Markus Lorch" <mlorch vt edu> 5/7/2005 2:03:25 PM >>>
> Hi Guys,
>
> well its time for me to leave our current home in Virgina and
> move "back home" to Germany. For the last two days we had the
> mover's in the house helping with packing and loading. The
> last things to load were my two E20s with attachments and
> wagon as well as the chipper that I wanted to convert to
> electric but never got to.
> I had charged the batteries up all the way, then sealed the
> battery vents with hot glue - (just in case, don't want to
> have any acid spills) and eventually drove them right in the
> 40ft container. My yard equipment and the BBQ took about
> 15ft of the container. Initially we didn't think we will be
> even close to fill that HUGE container but in the end we had
> to get creative to get it all in.
> For a while it was up in the air if I could take the flooded
> batteries or not but the transport company had found out that
> you are allowed to, just the negative battery terminal has to
> be disconnected.
> So now the tractors will be rocked accross the big pond. The
> full journey will take about 30 days. The ship will only take
> about 14 days from Norfolk, VA to Bremerhaven, Germany. With
> a bit of luck I will be mowing grass in Germany by mid June.
>
> Well, just felt like sharing the story. The movers were pretty
> impressed by the tractors going up the steep ramp without a
> fuzz, I just had to take the tiller off and lift the tiller bar
> up to its highest position. I had to get more clearance to enter
> the ramp. They had to help me with the second tractor as it had
> to go in backwards I didn't have enough weight on the rear wheels
> to provide for the necessary traction.
> Oh, one funny part. When the tiller bar initially left me
> high-centered trying to enter the ramp the two big guys thought
> they could just lift me a few inches until I had passed the dead
> spot. I told them that I thought it would be a bit much but they
> had to try ... well to no surprise they weren't able to get it off
> the ground.
>
> So much from Virginia, next mails will be from Germany
>
> Markus
>
>
>
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