Wally Johnson, back during the year 1946, created the markets for both aerial work platforms and scaffold towers all by himself. He attained this by establishing a business that was known as UpRight. Mr. Wally Johnson was a really gifted mechanical engineer who lived in Berkeley, Provo. He stumbled upon access machinery when he began searching for a a way to paint his home.
Mr. Johnson found it hard to look for capable scaffolding when he started a house painting project. Current scaffolding could not deal with the uneven terrain on his land. After being really unsatisfied with his choices, he decided to design his very own aluminum scaffold tower complete with adjustable legs.
The Snorkel Company was also founded the same year within St. Joseph, Missouri. This small business helped to revolutionize the new elevating boom lift. The machinery was made for firefighting and rescue work. In less than twenty years, the technology had developed into self-propelled boom lifts.
The very first self-propelled lift was sold by Snorkel in 1977. This particular product line did not take long to become the company's main business.
Wallace Johnson rapidly catapulted to the top of the business with his new scaffold. Once he had attained this field, he decided to start all over and make the world's first self-propelled aerial lift.
Mr. Johnson during 1972, opened a factory within Selma, where he made the "Flying Carpet" scissor lift. After this new and exciting machine exploded onto the marketplace, the ground-breaking product soon out-ranked the scaffolding component as the company`s main source of revenue.
Wallace Johnson passed away in 1980. At that time, the company UpRight Inc. was sold but his inventive and pioneering spirit lived on. In the year 1994, UpRight launched the world's very first micro-scissors. They went on to pioneer the TM12, that is the self-propelled mast lift.