Wally Johnson, back in 1946, created the markets for both scaffold towers and aerial work platforms all by himself. He attained this by establishing a business which became UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a very gifted mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, Arizona. He stumbled upon access machinery when he started searching for a a way to paint his house.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to search for capable scaffolding when he started a house painting project. Current scaffolding was not able to handle the uneven terrain on his property. After being extremely discontented with his choices, he decided to design his own aluminum scaffold tower together with adjustable legs.
In that very same year, the Snorkel Company was founded within St. Joseph, Missouri. The company was responsible for introducing an innovative new elevating boom lift to the market. The equipment was produced for rescue and firefighting work. In less than 2 decades, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel during the year 1977. This particular product line did not take long to become the company's main business.
Wallace Johnson quickly catapulted to the top of the business with his new scaffold. When he had accomplished this field, he decided to start all over and invent the world's very first self-propelled aerial lift.
Mr. Johnson during the year 1972, opened a factory within Selma, where he created the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting machinery exploded onto the marketplace, the innovative product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of revenue.
During the year 1980, Wallace Johnson passed away, while the company, UpRight Inc. was sold at that time also. Mr Johnson's inventive and pioneering spirit did continue to live on. In the year 1994, UpRight launched the very first micro-scissor within the globe. They went on to pioneer the TM12, which is the self-propelled mast lift.