Delivery Problem

  I drop shipped a package to my customers customer in Tennessee last week and the package came back to me with a label that said "Service Interruption!"  We had never heard of a service interruption unless it was a hurricane or tornado or severe snow and ice. None of these were recent events. We called  the shipper and asked "what was the problem!"  It seems the customer threatened the delivery person on a previous shipment and now he is on permanent " Do not deliver to, Ever". I mean Come on How bad do you have to be so the major package shipper in the world  will not deliver to you!!!

Eric Benton, Southeast Tractor Parts, Ya'll be good so I can ship to you!!

Radiators

  This week seems to be radiator week. Every 2nd or 3rd call is about a radiator. One customer had read my blog and bought his old radiator with him to match up to the one we had in stock. This always helps!.  Greg thanks for the business. I met another long time customer on Tuesday. I have been selling him parts since December 2000 and had never met him. Steve, I hope all the parts you ordered have got to you by now. Thanks for the business for the last 12 years. He ordered a radiator too!
It is always nice to be able to put a face with a name.

Eric Benton, Southeast Tractor Parts, Living the Dream!

JD 9.0 liter engine parts

I got a notice today from the company that I buy engine kits and parts from that they are now supplying parts for the JD 9.0 liter Power Tech engines. This is in addition to all of the other parts that they carry for engines in tractors, combines and other Agricultural related engines. Larry I even have parts for your engine. It might be a squeeze to get the 9.0 liter stuff in the AC WD45. We will shoe horn it in somehow!!

Eric Benton, Southeast Tractor Parts, Just what I needed!!!

New Website

  For a long while I have wanted  to change our website. It worked and it generated a  lot of calls for engine kits and radiators and other parts. Well, today it has a new face. Go by and look at the 3 On-line stores and stop by facebook and say Howdy!  Click on the link Setractorparts.com



Eric Benton, Southeast Tractor Parts, A new face!!!

Computers

Due to an unfortunate calamity my accounting program ceased to function in the middle of May. It just decided to refuse to take any more invoices. Every thing worked but I could not print an invoice. The program was 6 years old and no longer supported by the company that sells it. They have a 3 year obsolesce policy. In other words, upgrade every year to 2 years and at worst 3 years or you have no support. I have a good backup program in place and did not want to upgrade because the later version destroyed one of my parts programs. I considered the parts program more important than the accounting program because if I can't sell it I don't need to keep up with the money. I have found a platform that will support the accounting program and let the parts program run at the same time so I am trying to get all of the programs on 1 computer for each of us. The computer I am typing on now has a 80 GB harddrive and I have added a 2 terabyte hardrive to put all of the parts books on. Although, I could have put everything on a 500 GB hard drive. I already had the 2 TB drive so I used it.
  My first computer that I bought in 1988 has a 20 megabyte hard drive in it for storage and it was huge!! Today, there are probably no programs that will fit on a 20MB harddrive. The parts book I just loaded on this computer was 6.72 GB. 1 GB is equal to 1000MB and 1000 GB is equal to 1 Terabyte (TB) So this 2 TB drive will hold 100,000 times more data than the computer I started with in 1988.
It would be nice if I made that much more money than I was making in 1988.

Eric Benton, Southeast Tractor Parts,More data More money?

End of the Month

 I came out of the house at 7:30 AM and it was already 78 degrees. The news is calling for 107 degrees today. Definitely, another hot day! I am setting in the AC doing all of  the things I have to do at the end of the month. Adding,subtracting, totaling and sending out statements. It normally does not take to long but I also have to setup a computer for Linda and change some of the rooutines in the other computers. At least , It is cool in here!

Stay cool today!

Eric Benton, Southeast Tractor Parts,Cooling it and still working!!

Tractor Pulling Pelion SC 6-9-2012

I went tractor pulling on Saturday 6-2-2012. It was the first pull of the year at Pelion. I signed up for the 7000, 7500 and 8500 pound classes and got 2 firsts and 1 3rd place. So I think it was a pretty good day!
After I had pulled my 3 classes I went to the concession stand and got a cheese burger. Normally I only get a plain cheese burger because I had all kinds of different hamburgers & cheese burgers at tractor pulls.  I was pleasantly suprised to get a burger that was cooked just right in a bun that was toasted just right. I sat around talking to Tony and decided to go back and get another cheese burger and this time I thought what the heck, I ordered it all the way!  This burger was the best burger I have ever had at a tractor pull!!!!!!! $3.25 for a cheese burger all the way. I had burger that cost more that were really bad compared to this . So next time there is a tractor pull in Pelion don't just come to watch the pull, come to get the best tractor pull burger on the East Coast!!

Eric Benton, Southeast Tractor Parts, When your at the pull there are not many places to eat!!!!!