"That was way back in 1968," Braswell recalls today. "One of the first things I learned was that mowing often leads to landscaping. And landscaping creates even more opportunity."What''s the greatest market change in last three decades?Braswell found even more business in tree scarifier 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."

"Also, a dealer who sells large mowers and tractors probably already does business with saw blades a finance source like wells fargo or sheffield. with finance opportunities scarifier in place -- plus single products that serve multiple fields -- he''s in a position to enter several industrial saw blades 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 scarifier for-sale sign. "what you see is what you get--where is, as is."the tractor in question was a 1946 ford makita saw blades 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.

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