PowerTrac Visit Two

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We flew into Roanoke (ROA) and rented a car to drive to Tazewell, VA. Beautiful drive over the mountains (highway 16) as we are familiar with mountain driving. Weather was perfect and appeared it has been a very wet summer as the vegetation was lush and green.
Entered the industrial park the next morning to visit PowerTrac facility. This is the entrance sign as you enter the industrial park.
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This is the new building still under construction with PowerTrac name on the side. The new building will be the corporate headquarters and showroom for all PowerTac products. This should be open by late fall.
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This aerial view picture shows the many buildings owned by CLA (parent company of PowerTrac). This is a family owned and operated company with PowerTrac one of the star performers.
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Just prior to our tour of the manufacturing facility. Kristie (Sales Manager) and my wife Sandi. The tour was a highlight of our visit and I strongly encourage everyone to make this visit.
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A shot of the 400 series tractors. This is just a small part of one of the buildings which house the finished products. These are tractors ready for delivery or sale.
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A shot of the 1400 series tractors ready for delivery or sale. I only took pictures of a few products as there were long lines of tractors of all descriptions ready for sale or pickup.

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This picture shows only one of a number of racks which hold attachments ready for sale. These racks were a half block long and filled with finished products.
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This shot shows a little of the parts department. Again large racks holding the many products available to support PowerTrac owners.
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Another shot of the parts and assembly area. PowerTrac produces the attachments from large sheets of steel within this facility. I saw a number of pallets with buckets, forks and other attachments which had been welded together and waiting to be painted.
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Another shot of the parts area. I was impressed with the orderly and very clean production facilities.
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