PC Software consultant, MS Dynamics - SL (Formerly Solomon software). Grew up in Franklin Square on Long Island in NY. One of the many post WWII suburban developments. In the olden days was all farm land that supplied NYC with fresh produce, milk and cheese. But that was way before my parents time. There were still farms around when I was young but they were small and I never lived close enough to get on work on them. Grandparents came from Germany after WWI. My grandmother Louise won awards for fastest potato picker on LI I was told. She grew up on a small farm in Germany. Spent many hours working with her garden. She grew Zinnias along the front walk that were over 4-5 feet tall and tomatoes that were delicious. That is the closet I ever got to farming.
Me, I've always been mechanically inclined and should have been a engineer. While other kids were busy playing sports I was in my parents garage taking apart appliances I picked out of the garbage, fixing bikes, building motorized bikes and graduated to cars. Had boss at the station where I pumped gas who taught me about what he called the relationship btw "Form and Function". They designed things to work based on what their function was he said. They don't always get it right or think it thru to how we are going to fix it when it fails. Basically I fix anything mechanical, appliances, some electronics. Not very good at carpentry. We relocated post 911. Left NY, tried SC. Did not work out. Could not afford to move back to LI and really did not want to as it is overpopulated. Wound up in the very southern part of Maine. That is when I learned I needed a big machine. My handle PeteTheRookie is derived from the fact that I never even had a ride on mower before I got my 4500TLB. 60, 70 and taller foot White pines started to fall in storms and "tree guys" wanted thousands of $$$ to drop and clear them. Then a excavator wanted $6K to excavate for a garage. I scratched my head and said I can do this. Found "Hercules" and fell in love with the pure mechanics of it. Always hated points, condenser, coil, cap and rotor so the diesel is great. Cost less then what just the excavator was quoting and has done several thousand $$$ of work already and once the garage excavation is done will by over 10K. Pete
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