Yes. PJ and I started talking about Power Tracs and he purchased his shortly after I purchased mine. His was the model with the engine at the rear, all pumps forward, the battery over the pumps and the gas tank in the hood. We talked for a couple years and then one year they were taking their moms for a several week long road trip. They happened to be passing through South Bend and I asked them to stop by. So there we are, PJ and me looking over my PT425 and comparing differences and there's my wife and his wife, never met before, looking at each other and thinking "Aren't we NOT supposed to meet up with people we talk to on the internet at their homes, but in a public place?" :laughing: And there in the back seat of their SUV were their little old moms, happy as could be.
They had a couple gifts for our daughters and they really enjoyed that.
PJ and I had the PTs in common, and he had worked in the aviation industry and I started in the private aviation industry and had been around planes all my young life, so we had that in common, too. So, we got along quite well. Lots of stories to tell.
He did some really heavy excavating with the PT. You can search some of his earlier posts. I don't know if the pictures are still there or not. But he basically dug a 10' deep trench as wide as a one car garage into the side of the hill for that garage foundation with his buckets, tiller and mini-hoe. Lots of landscaping. And he made a man-lift so he could step up on the tire of the PT then up onto the lift to trim hedges. And he had the core aerator, which he used a lot, which is what got me going on this thread.
