Houston Purchases 15 Gradall Excavators to Add to Fleet

Tue July 23, 2024
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Gradall Industries LLC has announced that the city of Houston has purchased 15 Gradall excavators, which will be added to the city's already large fleet of Gradall machines.

"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 jobsite 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.

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"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.

"The big storm damaged and destroyed large swaths of infrastructure and homes in Houston with 90 mph winds and over 12 inches of rain," continued Linstruth. "Flooding and wind damage closed roads and knocked out electrical power to over one million Houston residents. The Gradalls were pressed into action to remove trees and debris all over town."

Mike Popovich, president of Gradall Industries, added: "This isn't the first time Gradall has been a critical tool for the city during hurricane recovery. 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."

About Gradall, Almamo

Gradall Industries is wholly owned by Alamo Group, a leader in the design, manufacture, distribution and service of high-quality equipment for infrastructure maintenance, agriculture and other applications. Our 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 as of March 31, 2024. The corporate offices of Alamo Group Inc. are located in Seguin, Texas.

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