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in documentation and sales literature; the table below includes "real" horsepower. The E8M and ER8-36 were styled more as ride-on mowers than tractors. The "M" suffix used on some models indicates the ability to accommodate a mid-mounted (belly) mower, and an "H" was used on some models to indicate a heavy duty, extra range battery pack.
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Leafblower certainly cheaper and more easily produced then anything ruggedized for below freezing that only sees use from the occasional snowfall. Electric crop sprayers were advertised and sold, but GE
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836:"Elec-Trak: A New Concept in Home Ground-Care"
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913:www.myelec-traks.com
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989:#70, April/May 1999
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863:. General Electric.
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58:Bruce R. Laumeister
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1033:April 1970
987:Home Power
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