“The machines will be used mostly for ditching, storm cleanup, road maintenance, and road repair,” said Mark Allison, Director of Gradall Excavator Products for Gradall Industries, LLC. Gradall, located In New Philadelphia, Ohio, is the world’s only hydraulic excavator brand manufactured only in the U.S.
The Houston purchase is comprised of XL 3100V models, distinguished by their highly mobile wheeled undercarriages and versatile telescoping and full-tilting booms.
The wheeled undercarriage machines can be driven at highway speeds, enabling workers to move quickly from one job site to another in the nation’s fifth largest city. The telescoping, tilting boom movements can make full use of a wide array of attachments like fixed thumb grapples and ditching buckets.
“The Gradalls are particularly useful with urgent cleanup needs like in the wake of Hurricane Beryl,” said Jon Linstruth, Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Programs for ASCO Equipment, distributor for Gradall excavators in Texas and New Mexico.
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“The big storm damaged and destroyed large swaths of infrastructure and homes in Houston with 90 mph winds and over 12 inches of rain,” Linstruth said. “Flooding and wind damage closed roads and knocked out electrical power to over 1 million Houston residents. The Gradalls were pressed into action to remove trees and debris all over town.”
“This isn’t the first time Gradall has been a critical tool for the city during hurricane recovery," said Mike Popovich, President of Gradall Industries. "Hurricane Harvey hit the city hard in 2017, and after the Gradalls were used to clear roads, open up drainage streams, and demolish damaged infrastructure and buildings, city workers drove them all over picking up residents’ debris on curb strips.”
Gradall Industries is wholly owned by Alamo Group. Products include truck and tractor mounted mowing and other vegetation maintenance equipment, street sweepers, snow removal equipment, excavators, vacuum trucks, other industrial equipment, agricultural implements, forestry equipment, and related after-market parts and services. The company, founded in 1969, has approximately 4,350 employees and operates 29 plants in North America, Europe, Australia, and Brazil. The corporate offices of Alamo Group Inc. are located in Seguin, Texas.
